Mehta said that he’d tuned into Sunday’s sermon because he suspected Locke would be discussing the book burning. “WE WILL NOT TOLERATE THAT!!“ Locke wrote in his email. Locke, who recently held a book burning of Harry Potter novels and other “satanic” works, also said “trouble-makers” in the church had brought the witches to Global Vision to lure church members into adultery. That led to a surge in searches for Bible verses in 2021, according to Christianity Today, and warnings from pastors and Christian celebrities about the spiritual dangers of the pharmaceutical industry.Īn edited clip of Locke’s sermon was posted online by atheist writer Hemant Mehta. In recent months, vaccine skeptics have claimed that pharmaceutical companies were practicing sorcery by creating the vaccines, because of the resonance with pharmakeia. During Sunday’s sermon, he blamed witchcraft for an outbreak of illness in the church. In recent years Locke has used his sermons to attack LGBTQ people, accuse Democratic politicians of child abuse, spread claims about election fraud, denounce vaccines and claim that the COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax. “You so much as cough wrong and I’ll expose in front of everybody under this tent, you stinking spell-casting, pharmakeia devil worshipping and mongrel,” he said, using a Greek word that sometimes describes those who practice witchcraft or sorcery. He then retold the New Testament story of Jesus casting a demon out of a man and into a herd of pigs, turning it into an extended monologue about witches in the church. Two of the witches were in his wife’s Bible study, said Locke, who warned the alleged witches not to make a move during his sermon. The preacher, known for his sensationalist sermons about politics and COVID-19 skepticism - went on to describe the exorcism in detail, quoting a demon with a scruffy voice who accused worshippers at the church of being witches. Locke told the congregation that he’d gotten the names while casting a demon out of a woman who had recently begun coming to Global Vision. And you know what’s strange, three of you are in this room right now.”
“We got first and last names of six witches that are in our church.
13), which was meeting in a packed tent on the church’s property. “To God be the glory, I lie not,” he told the congregation at Global Vision on Sunday (Feb. Those demons, he said, had revealed the names of a group of “full-blown, spell-casting” witches who’d been sent to infiltrate Global Vision, a nondenominational church east of Nashville, Tenn., where Locke is pastor.
Greg Locke began telling his church about his conversations with demons. The offering was over and the worship team at Global Vision Bible Church had just finished singing “Oh How I Love Jesus” when the Rev.
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