Widely respected exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger (Archdiocese of Denver) recently joined podcaster Shawn Ryan for a four-hour interview that has attained almost 2.5 million views in just six days.
Shawn Ryan, a former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, was raised Catholic but spent a long time away from the Christian faith. Within the past few years, however, he has talked about his journey back to Christ. Ryan has previously interviewed Fr. Dan Reehill and Fr. Stephen Gadberry.
Fr. Ripperger and Ryan held an incredibly in-depth conversation on the supernatural, covering topics ranging from aliens, the Epstein files, what really happens in an exorcism session, families with occult heritages going back centuries, freemasonry, and more.
Aliens
On the topic of aliens, Fr. Ripperger was quite clear that some UFO sightings are likely just “governmental experiments,” but when you look at individual cases of alleged alien abductions and similar stories, it’s demonic. In many reviewed cases, if the victim happened to cry out to Jesus for help, the “abduction” experience would end. Fr. Ripperger also addressed the speculation that when craft appear to move in ways that violate the laws of physics, it might be a “diabolic mirage.” These events are “extraordinarily rare because God doesn’t usually permit it,” Fr. Ripperger said, but “that can actually happen.”
Epstein files
Fr. Ripperger said he has followed the news about the Epstein files “at a distance,” and he agreed with Ryan that there are definitely satanic, ritualistic elements implicated. “Just the layout of the island gives an indication that it was heavily involved in the occult,” he said.
In the context of contending with distractions from the Epstein files, Fr. Ripperger talked about the diversionary tactics of demons. “So you’ve got this situation where the Epstein stuff starts to kind of come to the surface and then all of a sudden there’s this diversionary tactic that you use to get everybody, because now, virtually nobody’s talking about Epstein,” he said. Many have publicly speculated that the Iranian war is meant to serve as a distraction to the Epstein files.
Occultists
Fr. Ripperger stated that there are varying levels of involvement or graduation into the occult, and some people are “trained in this stuff from the very beginning” of their lives while others are “groomed” through things like secret societies. Some, however, are part of families steeped in the occult since the 1500-1600s. These families are “proficient” in knowledge of the occult.
When Ryan asked why these families would want to train their children in this occult practice, or why subsequent generations would acquiesce to it, Fr. Ripperger explained that they often know they are going to hell, but they believe they will be granted some level of power in hell if they carry out evil things on earth.
Attack on the Family
Ryan presented Fr. Ripperger with a question from an audience member: “From your work in deliverance and exorcism, what are the main areas or institutions – family, education, media, politics, etc. – where evil seems to be gaining the most ground in America today without people realizing it’s demonic influence at work?
The answer: the family, according to Fr. Ripperger:
“Obviously…on the grand scale, like in politics…we’re seeing the diabolic stuff pretty clearly. But the place that they’re ‘making the biggest headway’ is the family. “We’re talking about a shift that we started noticing about two to three years ago where the demons used to not attack and now they’re doing a full-blown attack on good families. Families that historically led good lives, were doing, you know, raising their kids properly, very often very religious, doing the things that they’re supposed to do. Now they’re attacking them, which gives us an indicator that they’re emboldened.”
“It’s either a sign of one of two things,” he said. “They’re emboldened because as the world gets more evil, they get more power. And so they can actually attack fortresses that they used to not be able to attack or that they would never attack in the past. And so we’re seeing that it’s specifically an attack on the family.” The other possibility is that these attacks are
“an indicator that they know their time is short.”
“They know that God will only tolerate this level of evil that we’re seeing in the world for only a certain amount of time,” Fr. Ripperger stated.
The Antichrist
The Antichrist will not rule through governance, but through economies. That would effectively give him control of governments, even though he won’t be a government figure per se. When the Antichrist appears, however, there would have to be “a unification of the worldwide economy” according to Fr. Ripperger.
He also said that the Antichrist “will be so charismatic and it will be that unless a person has specific graces from God, you’re going to easily get sucked into…what he teaches and what he professes, which of course is going to be a rejection of Christ and he will set himself up as the Messiah.” Before the rise of the Antichrist, however, the prophets Elijah and Enoch will return to preach against him. Fr. Ripperger says “it’ll be clear who they are.”
The full episode can be watched here.
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