The Time of Sorrows

Casting Out Demons
Living on the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary campus between 1969-1974, for the first time, my wife and I encountered people who were severely oppressed by demons. One of our best friends, who worked in administration of the seminary, became totally despondent one day and locked himself in his house, threatening to commit suicide. God used me to cast out the demons from this man and he was totally healed.

Needless to say, the seminary leadership was not very happy over this, despite that one of their own staff workers had been totally healed from what they thought was a “mental break down.” Since the seminary leadership totally rejected the baptism of the Holy Spirit, they also had to reject the thought of Christians being oppressed by demons. As far as I understood, the seminary leadership would rather have sent their staff worker to a mental hospital where he could have been drugged and then managed. (Luke 13:10-17)

I did not particularly enjoy casting out demons, but since Jesus came to set the captives free (Luke 4:17-21) and very few preachers knew anything about it, God began to use my wife and me in this kind of ministry, in addition to preaching salvation. Then the Lord expanded our ministry to also pray for the sick, and we saw many wonderful healings.

What I am trying to tell you is this, instead of being a “normal minister” and just doing what everyone else was doing, God used me in breaking new ground (really going back to the early church as recorded in the book of Acts), and I found myself isolated and much criticized by organized clergy.

EXPOSING THE FREEMASONS
Then came the next marching order from God. “Expose the occult, which has moved into the churches.” If I had problems before, this went over like a “lead balloon.” As I began to expose the Satanic teaching of Freemasonry, and pointed out that BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS could not hold membership in Free Masonic lodges, I could not believe the wrath coming against me from pastors, elders and deacons who were deeply entrenched in the Satanic clutches of these secret societies.

Not only was I preaching and exposing the Freemasons in the United States, but also in Sweden and Finland. The momentum against the Masons gained nationwide attention in Sweden, and the counterattack came very fast. The most well known poet in Sweden, Bo Setterlind, himself a very high Freemason, wrote a book in defense of the Masons, called THE CASE OF FREEMASONRY, published in 1985. In this book, Mr. Setterlind attacked me violently and wrote me off as a “sulfur hell preaching pastor” who did not know any true facts about the Masons.

EXPOSING THE WORLD GOVERNMENT
In the early 1970’s, I was teaching about the coming Antichrist and his system, but I could not figure out how this related to the time in which I was living. I was flabbergasted over the war in Vietnam. How could it be, that American soldiers were fighting the communists in Vietnam and taking heavy losses, while England and France were shipping weapons and supplies to the Communists?

Why did the U.S. Government not order the British and the French to stop? After all, they where supposed to be allies? While fighting the commies in Vietnam and boycotting Cuba, the United States sold military hardware to the Soviets and the Chinese. It just did not make sense to me.

Then, when my wife and I were on an evangelistic tour in Idaho, in 1975, I received a total shock to my system. We were staying in the home of a Christian family and they asked me if I had ever heard of the Illuminati? I told them I was totally ignorant on the subject. They then gave me some three hours of audio recordings by Myron Fagon, who had done research on the subject and shared his findings. Here was the missing link.

Now I knew that a World Government existed and was forcing the nations to act against their own national interests. For the next four years I was busy researching the subject, and the search led me to the Talmud, then to the Cabala, then to the World Jewish Congress.

It took me several years to come to grips with all this new information about a world which I had never known existed. Then the truth hit me hard, the antichrist system to be was already here, but not yet in full power. And it was a Jewish system, built upon the Zionist movement and modern Israel.

In order to validate my research, it had to be validated from Jewish sources. We joined a number of Jewish organizations in order to receive their material and to know what they were planning and doing. We subscribed to a number of very prestigious Jewish publications (we were able to get on the mailing lists for Jewish books) which gentiles never see or hear about.

I was able to verify every point in my research, but how would I release this information and who would believe me? All of us know that the moment Gentiles begin to discuss the Jewish people, the nation of Israel and what the Jews are doing, the ax is going to fall. The cry would be, John Torell is anti-Semitic. Even if I showed my Jewish sources, people would become hysterical, not looking at the facts, and cry “neo-Nazi.”

When I went to prayer on the subject, the Holy Spirit showed me that I was to write on the subject, and back up all my writings with Scripture references and list all my sources. Being obedient to God, the first book was written, “THE RISE OF ANTICHRIST- PART ONE. ” A good pastor friend of mine wrote some chapters in the book, but he was too frightened to have his name used, so we did not put his name on the book.

This book was printed in 1981 and sold out quickly. We could not keep it in stock. At the same time, I set out to translate this book into Swedish, and the Swedish version was printed in 1982. In this version I had put in all my research and the book was thick, around 200 pages. Thousands of them were printed, shipped via boat to Sweden, and sold during our revival meetings in 1982 throughout Sweden and Finland. The firestorm it created took us completely by surprise.

The Israeli intelligence service, the MOSSAD, swung into action, and between 1983 to1985 all pastors and people working with us in the Scandinavian countries were contacted and threatened with being taken to court for anti-Semitism. Others were told that if they did not stop working with John Torell, they would be killed. Our work in the Scandinavian countries came to a halt. Some people became so terrified, they died; others told me in private that they knew I stood for truth, but they could not sacrifice their families, so they caved in and lied.

When the Swedish prime minister, Olof Palme, was shot to death on a street in Stockholm, Sweden in 1986, the Swedish Intelligence Service, “SAPO” swung into action and accused me of master minding this murder. The Swedish Government requested from the American Government that the FBI work with SAPO and investigate me.

The result was several visits by FBI agents and a SAPO agent, in which they asked me questions. Since I had nothing to do with this murder, (I was not even in Sweden when it happened) it all came to nothing. But, I was warned that if I would ever again come to Sweden, there would be an arrest. The Swedish law is different from the law in the USA. In Sweden a person can be held for up to one year as a suspect without trial. Needless to say, I have not been back to Sweden since 1982.

In the meantime we have been publishing our magazine, The Dove, and much information has been released.