Is acupuncture demonic? Is it a harmless practice or is it well intentional witchcraft? It has
medical benefits, so therefore it must be good, right? What is its history? Have there been people
who actually got demons by practicing acupuncture? Or had there been people who actually renounced
acupuncture, and experienced healings that they couldn't experience before using acupuncture?
What does the Bible say about that? I want you to stay till the end of this video. I have a
special testimony to share with you of somebody who actually received a very interesting miracle
in their life by renouncing acupuncture. Now hopkinsmedicine.org says:
Myoclinic.com says:
Now according to the
World Health Organization, acupuncture is used in 103 out of 129 countries that report data. In the
United States there has been a 50% increase in the number of acupuncture users, from 2002
to 2012. And now there's been a study done on 6376 participants who had painful conditions,
like back pain, neck pain, headaches. And they showed beneficial effects of acupuncture that
continued for a year after the end of a treatment for all conditions, except neck pain. So we may
look at that and say, well seems like medical world, even though there is not conclusive or
verified yet studies. A lot of this is still in a lot of trial and it seems like there is
a lot of just testimonies of people saying how it has impacted them. And in our culture
that is also extremely open to a lot of other practices, like yoga and many other things.
They're looking for other ways to cure pain than traditional medicine. And also because we don't
look to God for healing and we don't believe in that anymore in our culture, we have to look for
other spiritual means to experience healing. Now what about the history of acupuncture? Acupuncture
existed for over 2500 years. It's a traditional Chinese treatment using needles to stimulate the
flow of chi, life energy in the body. It started with a popular Chinese religion called Daoism,
that promotes living in harmony with Dau. Dau is the way, the stream of the universe,
the power, the energy behind the natural order. So it's pretty religious stuff,
okay. This is not science, this is spiritual. That there is a force behind everything that
happens. The power, the energy. Not like a person but a force, in-personal force, and
you want to live in the harmony with this Dau. According to Daoism sickness is caused
by disruption of the balance system, ying and yang. Yin and yang are opposite powers. Elements
that complement each other. Light and darkness. Life and death. Positive and negative. That's
according to this religion of China. They believe that through the body flows energy or chi, and
this energy is free, not bound. It flows through the 12 invisible energy lines. They are connected
to our organs and functions in the body. They are not visible but spiritual. When the flow of
chi is blocked, acupuncture helps to restore that flow to maintain the proper balance in the body.
Acupuncturists claim that they can cure everything, from migraine headaches to
depression. The traditional acupuncture text is inspired largely by occultic religious concepts
of their day. Even the acupuncture today website says, in oriental medicine, the acupuncture needle
is often seen as the instrument of containing the spirit, because of the needles are inserted into
discrete acupuncture points. Each of which is said to control specific functions in the body,
down to your cellular level. Indeed what we might think as a spirit of the body.
That's pretty spiritual, okay. This, this goes beyond medical and scientific realm,
into pretty spiritual. A needle is a spirit that fixes stuff down to your cellular level?
That's pretty crazy. One doctor who is working in Switzerland, I believe he's a Christian doctor,
and he made the following statement. He said that treatment with needles, later termed acupuncture.
Which come from the Latin "acus" needle and "puncus" point. So treatment with needles, later
termed acupuncture in the West, goes back to the earliest doctors. Probably spiritistic shamans.
They performed rituals similar to those found in today's voodoo cults, that attempted to expel evil
spirits by sticking needles into the body of the sick. Later scholars abandoned the demonic model
and integrated the use of needles into their astrological theories. Now not only we see
a lot of Christians on one side of the spectrum saying, "This is demonic, run from it." There are
others on the other side of the spectrum that's saying, "Hey, as long as you're not subscribing
to the demonic religion of Daoism and you're not believing in this energy, then you're fine."
What is the correct way? I'm going to present to you one more testimony. This testimony comes from
personal hero of mine, Derek Prince, in his book called "They Shall Expel Demons." Pages 135-136.
He mentions a doctor who sends him a testimony, who was having an acupuncture business practice
actually. Had doctors and nurses, and was curing people. He gets convicted at a retreat
in Singapore, how acupuncture is dangerous because of its link to the occult. Especially how it has
an inseparable origin with traditional Chinese religion. He immediately renounced the practice
of acupuncture. A skill that he learned in Hong Kong and practiced successfully for five years.
As soon as he came home he announced to his whole staff, which they freaked out, and the nurses and
the patients, that the acupuncture is dangerous. He renounced it, will not practice that anymore.
He took all of his machines, all of his needles, books, diplomas, charts, and threw it into a fire.
Lost about fifteen thousand dollars and that's like around the time that the book was written.
So maybe right now it's like a hundred thousand dollars. He said something happened after that.
His wife who suffered from chronic migraine and had acupuncture many times done by her husband,
the doctor, was immediately healed without the practice of acupuncture or even medical treatment.
He also knows that he had unexplainable fear of darkness that immediately vanished.
He mentioned that his medical practice, though suffering loss in the beginning, received a
double-fold increase in blessings. Dr Derek Prince also mentions a testimony when he was ministering
in Malaysia, and a lady came forward for prayer for one of her problems with her joints.
And then the Lord showed to Dr Derek Prince that this lady has submitted herself to acupuncture
treatment, and that she needs to renounce it. The moment she start to renounce the acupuncture
treatment, she started screaming in severe pain. After she was delivered, they asked her,
"What was happening to you?" And she said this. That every time she tried to renounce it, she felt
demons were poking her in exactly the same spots where she was receiving the acupuncture treatment
prior to this, and then she was delivered. Now I understand hearing these testimonies and specially
for those of you who don't know, I'm a Pastor and I minister in the area of deliverance. So
I look at these stories seriously. Especially if practices bring "supernatural" results, that are
not you know medical results. But these things are not through the use of medicine but through these
practices that have deep roots in the occult, and the philosophy of the occult originated
these things. And a lot of practitioners, though not all, subscribe to this demonic religion of
life force, life energy and all of that. And it's extremely popular in America today, because it has
replaced the relationship with Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. And so it makes me
extremely concerned for Christians who have very much open mind to things, and are very curious,
and sometimes step in the territory that is demonic. My opinion is that if you are practising
acupuncture and you are subscribing to the belief of the energy flowing through your body, and the
acupuncture helps to unblock this energy, and it helps you to be connected with this life force.
You are vulnerable and probably already opening yourself to a demonic spirits. It is true that
some of these aspects of acupuncture could have an effect on nervous system and there could be some
benefits from it. But as a Christian, I would encourage you to abstain from it because of so
much occult and Pagan theory that is behind those practices. Now you may say, "But Vlad what about,
I mean people are getting healed. Like isn't that a good thing?" You must understand one
thing about the enemy is that the Bible even says, "The pleasures of sin are temporary."
So to simply judge a practice based on its instant results, is not something that we should do. It
will be the same thing as to say, "Look a drug dealer has a lot of money. So therefore what he
does must be justifiable." We have to look at the practice. We have to look at its origin. We have
to look at its philosophy. We have to look at its core beliefs that drive this practice. It is true,
there was a spirit of divination in the New Testament. A lady was declaring things that
were coming true, but the source of where it was coming from was demonic. And when Paul cast out
a demon of python or the demon of divination, this girl was delivered from that. Satan can also offer
kingdoms but we have to consider the source. When the devil heals through his means of witchcraft
that's disguised as energy, and source, and connecting one with the universe
and all of that. All of that is demonic doctrine that's just packaged for our culture that's naive
and spiritually not discerning. What the enemy will do is he will give with the right hand, and
like Prophet TB Joshua used to say, and he will take what your life depends on with the left hand.
I have heard a testimony who was taken to a shaman or to a native doctor, who practiced all kinds of
spiritual power in producing a healing to a kid, and he healed him of paralysis. And then later on,
everything was fine, but later on his body started to be swollen. And this kid, who now is an adult,
he told me. I met him here in the States, and he said that he saw when his swollen body had this
pus coming out, and then he was paralyzed again, except from a different problem. And then he had
to be taken to a deliverance minister where he was being delivered, and then he was permanently
healed. And so we have to be careful not to go for healing to the wrong sources, especially in the
United States where this is becoming more common. Where a lot of Eastern religion is penetrating its
way into our culture, with Eastern, Buddhist, Hindu meditation, with connecting with the universe,
worship of nature. And when we reject God, we will be left with a vacuum,
and hunger for the supernatural is still going to be there. Except we're going to try to fill it
with the counter supernatural, with the fake one. With the one that's packaged as real but it's not,
and so I would encourage you to look to Jesus for healing. He is the way, the truth and the
life. By His stripes we are healed. And then go to your family doctor, seek medical help for
things. Be very careful not to rush into things that promise speedy recovery by connecting to
some kind of a spiritual force to bring health to your body. Thank you for watching this video.
Let me know in the comments below, what do you think? Do you think the acupuncture is harmless
practice or do you think it's a well-intentional, well-packaged, potential witchcraft? Have you
ever done it? If you have, how's your life now? If you have maybe repented from it, could you
share your testimony? We would be interested to know. Thank you. Until the next video.