Jesus Christ Is King
December 25 – Christmas. Christians throughout our planet celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ.
The message of Jesus Christ as King can be observed in several verses throughout the Bible. One verse is John 18:37 – “Therefore Pilate said to him, ‘So you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. For this I have been born, for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of truth hears my voice.” Another verse is located in Revelation 19:11 – “On his robe and on his thigh he had this name written: King of Kings and Lord of Lords.”
Christ the King has been used as the name for churches, schools, seminaries, hospitals, and religious institutions. In the liturgical calendar for the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church there is celebrated a Feast of Christ the King. Also celebrating the Feast of Christ the King are the Lutheran, Anglican, Methodists, Nazarene, Reformed and United Protestant churches.
I have always been grounded in the Christian faith. The phrase, “Jesus Christ is King” is a phrase that I had been aware of but never actually verbalized. That abruptly changed some twenty-nine years ago. At that time, those four words came out of my mouth without thinking. I was under extreme duress. Those four words turned out to be my protection against a most ominous approaching spiritual entity.
The Mother Of All Dreams
I was sprawled out on the living room couch late at night. I was watching a college basketball game on tv. As I was very sleepy, using the remote control, I remember turning off the tv. It was one of those situations where I was so very tired that I did not even feel like getting up to go to bed. I thought to myself, I’m just going to rest here for ten minutes and then I’ll head to bed. Of course, I promptly dozed off to a deep sleep.
I almost never remember my dreams after I wake up. Even the dreams that I do remember ultimately fade away. I tried keeping a dream diary a few times but gave up after a while. It was too much work and had to be done immediately upon waking when the last thing I want to do is a lot of writing.. The dream that I had that one night some twenty-nine years ago however, is a dream that is permanently engraved into my memory. There was no need to write it down. I remember every single second of it and every last detail. It was as real as anything that I have ever experienced during my seventy-two years of life.
An Electric Chill Down My Spine
In my dream, I was laying down on the living room couch in exactly the manner in which I had fallen asleep after turning off the television. Everything in the house was quiet. Light from the street lamp outside shined dimly through the living room picture window. In my dream, I was awake on the couch, jut laying on the couch.
Suddenly, an electric chill went straight down my spine. I looked diagonally to the right to the stairs that led to the second level of the house. My eyes saw a grey luminous mist. It had the general outline of a human being but without any real definition or features of any kind except for the face of a man. Not a monster or demon, just the nondescript face of a man.
You can call it an entity or a presence or a spirit or whatever you want but it was there and the evil essence that it gave off was unmistakable. It was midway down the stairs and I intuitively felt it was coming for me. This presence had dark eyes and they were focused directly on me. Telepathically I sensed the thought that it sent out to me – “There is no escape from me.”
Totally Frozen In Fear
Whatever this thing was, I felt it was totally malevolent in nature. It wasn’t coming to kiss me good night. As soon as I saw it on the steps, I felt that I was in dire danger. I completely felt the essence of its complete contempt for me and any ability I had to resist it. My entire body, from head to toe was literally frozen in fear. I couldn’t move. I was paralyzed. It was coming for me and whatever its intent was, I knew it was bad, very bad. It was the type of off-the-chart terror that can cause a heart attack.
Doomed With No Escape
I was on the couch paralyzed and powerless to fend off this malevolent presence. It was the mother of all nightmares. I have had nightmares where when I was about to be killed or captured, I just woke up. Aliens or criminals or some other type of bad guys would be chasing me. I would have one close call escape after another (like in Indiana Jones movies). Then at some point in the dream I would actually have the thought, “Alright, enough of this bullshit, I’m waking up now”. Not this time however. In this dream, there was no escape, no waking up.
Four Words
I was screwed. The thought in my head was “So this is how it all ends”. The malevolent entity was at the bottom of the stairs, in no particular hurry because of its complete control of the situation. At that point, from my most innermost part of my being, came the words out of my mouth, “Jesus Christ is King”. I had absolutely no thought beforehand of saying those words. I did not think “What am I going to do?” The words just came out of me without thinking. Since my vocal cords were partially paralyzed as well, I was barely able to get the words out. I spoke them slowly “Jesus…Christ…Is…King” somewhat in the manner that a stroke victim may struggle to speak after a stroke.
As soon as those words came out of my mouth, the evil presence stopped its advance toward me. Then, immediately, in a more pronounced manner, I spoke those four words again, “Jesus Christ is King”. This caused the entity to shrink backward and begin to lose presence. I followed up with a third, more forceful “Jesus Christ is King”. Intuitively I knew that I was in possession of the sword and shield that it was unable to resist. So it left. After the third pronouncement, It vacated the scene and was gone.
The Unseen World
As soon as the malevolent force departed, I opened my eyes and woke up. It hit me immediately that I was in the exact same position on the couch awake as I was in the dream. I was wearing the exact same clothes. Everything in the living room was exactly the same as the dream. Even the light from the outside street light shining through the picture window was exactly the same. My immediate thought was “What the f*** was that!?” Was I in the Twilight Zone or something? I was shaken by the experience. I turned on a living room lamp and walked to the kitchen to get a glass of water.
As I walked past the stairs, I stopped for a moment, looking at where the entity was. I sat on the couch a short while in the quiet of the night pondering what I had just experienced. At that time a thought came into my head – “We live in two worlds, seen and unseen”. I prayed a short and succinct “Thank You” before going up to the bedroom. I came to a simple yet profound conclusion – the dream was no dream. It was real.
The Return – Twenty Years Later
Flash forward twenty years later to the year 2016. I was now living in another house. It was a one story house. I slept in one bedroom. My oldest son, who lives with me, was sleeping in the other bedroom. I had the habit of keeping a forty watt bulb on in a living room lamp at night. I slept with the bedroom door open. This was for easier access to the hallway bathroom at night as my enlarged prostate was inevitably going to cause a couple of trips there during the course of the night. In the intervening twenty years, I never for a moment forgot my encounter with the evil entity. I even kept a crucifix on the wall above my bed that had been in my mother’s room when she was alive. I was asleep in bed. All of a sudden, in my dream, I was awake, laying in bed. I looked at my bedroom doorway. Standing there in the hallway, just outside the doorway was the same evil entity from twenty years prior. The exact same grey luminescence. You may wonder how I could possibly know since the spirit had no discernable features. I can only respond that I just knew. It was a completely intuitive knowing, no logic, just a knowing.
Same Threat – Different Response
This time however, I had a different reaction than my first encounter twenty years prior. Just as before, it was standing there, observing me with an aura of contempt and malevolence. This time however my memory banks kicked in immediately. No paralysis. I was not frozen in fear as before. I said out loud, “Oh, it’s you again.” Then I followed up with the very same phrase of protection that I had used before – “Jesus Christ is King”. At the sound of those words, it froze. I immediately followed up with a second “Jesus Christ is King”. After that second salvo, it started backing away. I felt it was losing energy. One more time I repeatedly loudly, “Jesus Christ is King”. With that third pronouncement, the malevolent entity was gone. This time I knew from the start that the power of Jesus Christ would protect me.
Freedom From Fear
I was aware of the malevolent nature of this being. This second time however, I was free of fear. In fact, in this second experience, after the departure of the entity, I said aloud to myself, “And that takes care of that”. In my dream, I turned to my side, my back to the hallway and went back to sleep. And then I opened my eyes and woke up. Everything in my bedroom was precisely the same as in my dream. The bed, my position on the bed, the bedsheet and blanket, my bed clothes, the bureau, the wall hangings, the quiet of the house, even the light from the living room lamp. Not one thing was different than in the dream. I then said, “Thank you Lord, now I’m going back to sleep” and proceeded to close my eyes and do just that.
Merry Christmas to all reading this. May you have a wonderful new year of manifesting beautiful things in your life in 2026!
Conceive. Believe. Receive.