FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN MARRIAGE: DEMONIC CHILDREN 1
Welcome to Year 2024. It shall be a productive and prosperous year for you all in the name of Jesus Christ. In the previous editions of the Singles’ World, I dealt with the foundational issues that affect marriages and families. I focused on spoilt brats as one of the very serious challenges affecting homes today. In this edition, I will discuss another very important foundational problem confronting many families today. As said in the previous editions, the purpose of this discussion is for you to note that individuals with these foundational challenges are not good materials for marriage. Those who choose them as partners will find their marriages tempestuous and turbulent and the stress that it engenders will be irrecoverable.
- Demonic Children: This life is full of mysteries, and our perceptions are limited because we are human beings. Just as the physical world is real, the spiritual world is also real. It is not every person you see on the street that is a human being. If the Lord should open your eyes, you will see that we live in a weird world inhabited by both human and the unseen forces. It is not all babies that are given birth to are real babies.
Of course, they will be conceived naturally and be born like the way other babies are born, but what shows up later will determine who is who. In the past and even now, waiting mothers or barren women often resort to the traditional ways of conception by visiting the diviners or babalawo for intervention. Some consult Olokun who is believed by the traditional worshippers to possess the ability to give children to the barren. Some consult Obatala that is believed to be the divinity vested with the power of creativity by Olodumare.
Even though neither the devil nor his agents can create or make a child because the work of creation is the exclusive prerogative of God, the devil with his agents can manipulate the creative process and concoct a demonic baby. When a barren woman visits an herbalist or babalawo for spiritual intervention, some traditional medicines are prepared for her, backed with appropriate incantations to make them very potent. These traditional medicines are charged with demonic powers. Whoever uses the medicines will be under the influence of the demons together with the unborn baby.
Besides, covenants are made between the barren woman and the idol consulted which must be fulfilled or else the baby may suffer severely for it in future. Some barren women go to the iroko tree and ask for babies. You remember the popular Yoruba folktale Oluronbi. We are told that some years ago in a village, there were many barren women who went to iroko tree and prayed to the spirit inside the tree to give them children. The spirit asked them to make promises, and they promised to pay with their wares because they were mostly market and business women. Some promised goats, pigeons, chickens, etc.
A woman called Oluronbi, an industrious trader, went to the same iroko spirit and prayed to the tree for a baby. She then promised to give her child back to the iroko treet. Soon after, Oluronbi conceived and gave birth to her child, and the iroko spirit asked Oluronbi to fulfil her promise, but Oluronbi refused and pleaded with the spirit to accept something else, but the iroko tree refused until the spirit took Oluronbi’s child away forcefully without having anybody to inherit her wares.
There are babies that are got through this same medium, and if their parents fail to fulfil their promises, the babies can die anytime. Even if they fulfil the promise, that child, both now and in the future, will be in perpetual bondage. The child is directly a child of iroko tree. If the child grows up to be a woman, and you are married to her, you are married to the daughter of iroko tree. If it is a boy, and he grows up to be a man, and you are married to him, you are married to the son of iroko tree. Your mother-in-law is a demon that lives inside iroko tree. That is very scary.
Some go to Olokun, the river goddesses to ask for babies. Osun Osogbo, a river goddess of fertility is one of the deities that people approach annually by barren women and other people. Its priestesses offer it sacrifices, while the people accompany the Arugba, a virgin whose face will be covered with a crimson cloth sewn with shells. The couple can even be asked to have a special bath at the river side under the close watch of Osun.
Children obtained from this river goddess are many in our midst today. When you get married to them, your mother-in-law is a river goddess. You and your partner have to worship this goddess regularly and give her whatever she asks for. If you don’t do it, you will see the anger of goddess, and if you obey, you are already into idolatry that the Bible forbids. Exodus 20:3 says “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” When you give yourself to idolatry, you bring yourself under a terrible curse- Deut. 28:15-50. It means the marriage is cursed too, and nothing good can ever come out of it except you repent, and give your life to Jesus Christ.
So, you see now that this is a serious foundational issue that could be avoided if you guide your life with discretion.
By the grace of God, we will continue from here next month. Please do not forget to send me your comments and testimonies. If you are not born again, please surrender your life to Jesus Christ today. Tomorrow may be too late. Until then, God bless you. Amen.
Pastor Jide Ajidahun
