Click on the following for earlier articles in the series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 and Part 10.
“Haitians may be 95% Christian (mostly Catholic), but they are 100% Voodoo.” (John Hoet, Belgian Catholic missionary)
Many years ago, I prophesied to a young dark-skinned college coed. “Because of your mother’s faithfulness and prayers, you will walk in a powerful prophetic anointing that will set many captives free,” I said to her.
After the service, the young coed approached me. “Do you know that I’m Haitian?” she asked.
“No, I had no clue,” I said, wondering where the conversation was heading.
She nodded. “My mom used to pray and do spiritual warfare almost every night against the Voodoo religious spirits in our neighborhood. She would pray in tongues and proclamations so loud that neighbors would surround our house to see if she would be killed by the Voodoo spirits. Jesus protected her,” she said.
How many of us American Christians understand that type of spiritual warfare? I certainly don’t; and not many others do either.
There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord…(Deuteronomy 18: 10 -12)
This is not written to judge the efforts of my Haitian Christian brothers and sisters who are enmeshed in daily spiritual warfare battles. I do not presume to know the answers for them nor am I an expert on Voodoo or Haiti. Instead, it is written solely to investigate the remarks made by Pat Robertson.
So, can some of Haiti’s problems be described as curses in light of Old Testament scriptures because of Voodoo?
Poverty (Deuteronomy 28: 17). 80% of Haitians live in poverty on less than $2/day. It is the poorest country in the Americas. The lowest literacy rate (52.9%) in the Western Hemisphere. 1% of the people own half of the nation’s wealth.
Children Suffering (Deuteronomy 28:17) 7% of babies are aborted (mostly by Voodoo practitioners). 300,000 children are virtual slaves under the Restavek System, many are sexually abused. At age 17, the Restavak children join street gangs or become prostitutes. 200,ooo children have lost parents because of AIDS. One in four children are malnourished.
HIV/AIDS (Deuteronomy 28: 22). 2.2% of the total population, or 140,000 people, have HIV/Aids. This is the highest rate in the Western Hemisphere.
Corrupt Government Leaders (Ezekiel 20:25) Haiti’s government is rated one of the most corrupt in the world. And this rating came after Papa Doc Duvalier, his son – Baby Doc Duvalier, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide had plundered Haiti for decades. (Interestingly enough, the two Duvaliers and Aristide were Voodoo practitioners.)
Therefore, with this and the earlier articles, why all the outrage to Pat Robertson’s remarks about Haiti?
(Continued in Part 12)
Larry Who 
Today…God in a very strange way has allowed my heart to be deeply stirred by different articles I have read over the internet. And as you know, I am following this series to the end. As I told you…I know God wants me to get something much more deeper in your teaching than you have purposed in explaining Pat’s remarks. Keep writing and the Lord is speaking into my heart.
In case, I will point out this one ‘HAND OUTS’ that is part of a curse the Lord spoke to me about 2 years ago.
Blessings
gladwell,
Thanks. That’s interesting about the word, “handouts”. I’m always amazed how the Lord speaks to each of us.
Q:Who is raging out against Pat Robertson?
A:Those who hate Christians/right wing conservatives and search for ways to discredit.
When I first heard that he said what he said, all I could say was “poor timing, really poor timing” only because I knew the attacks would be relentless and target all of us.
He speaks truth as far as I can tell, and I can tell you I haven’t tuned into his broadcast for years, so take that for what it’s worth. He is a spokesman for all of us in the eyes of the critics.
If 60% or more of CHRISTIANS! BORN AGAIN BAPTIZED CHRISTIANS! don’t believe God is a 21st century God of miracles, how do we expect the world who hates us to acknowledge the existence of spiritual warfare or even the existence of spirits when we don’t believe or teach it?
All the critics are doing is criticizing for criticizing’s sake for the sole purpose of making Christianity look foolish and ineffectual.
This will die down although it will stay in the records.
Next…….?
jane,
Thanks. I generally agree with you, except many of the critics have also been Christian bloggers and writers.
Those would be the ones who don’t believe in miracles, spirits, and warfare with same??
jane,
Probably so.
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