From our Twilight Unveiled category

Written by Meag M.

Crossposted from her blog “Meag’s blog”

I think it is pretty well known just how popular the Twilight saga has become. Just about everyone has read these books, and if not, they have certainly heard of them. I was one of those people, one of those who became completely obsessed with the series. I absolutely fell in love with these books.

Well, I am a Christian and I really struggled with this issue for awhile. After I read the books the first time, I felt like God was telling me to get rid of them. But I didn’t, I couldn’t, then. I had such an obsession and strong love for them there was no way. I didn’t want to, plain and simple. But He kept pressing. So finally, begrudgingly, I packed them up to sell. That was my first mistake. I should have obeyed God and thrown them out, but my flesh couldn’t, and at the time, it was stronger. Well, because they sat in a bag in my room for weeks, that temptation was still there. Not to mention every single one of my friends read them as well and are just as into them as I am. So eventually I gave back in and got them back out and started reading again.

At first, nothing changed. I loved the books even more and was becoming obsessed all over again. But then, strange things started happening to me…like, every single night I would wake up over and over throughout the night in hot spells, drenched in sweat. Now, this is very abnormal for me, I am only 19! But, I didn’t really think anything of it. Well, after a few days, i began to have other things begin happening to me. Every time I was home alone i would hear voices and other unusual noises. I was completely seized with a spirit of fear and didn’t know what to do. I tried to just forget about it, and continued reading the books. Well, it continued bothering me what was happening so I talked to my mother about it. She told me I needed to choose what I wanted more - God’s way, or mine. I wasn’t spending time every day with God like I should be, so the devil didn’t have to work hard to tempt me. I had caused an open door when I picked up those books and I was the only one who could close it. The devil had legal right to torment me because I had let him in! Ephesians 4:27 says: “Leave no such room or foothold for the devil, give no opportunity to him.”

I really want to share with you some of my main reasons for believing Twilight is much more evil that we are being led to think. Yes, it is nicely packaged - the devil always starts out pretty and leads us deeper into deception. He paints Twilight as a harmless love story, just like Stephenie Meyer does. But it says in 2 Corinthians 11:14-15: “And it is no wonder, for Satan himself masquarades as an angel of light; So it is not surprising if his servants also masquarade as ministers of righteousness. But their end will correspond with their deeds.”

It all started on the night of June 1, 2003 when author Stephenie Meyer had a dream. She is quoted on her website as saying, “I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately.” She has also been quoted, saying, “I may have had some help from at least one “terrifying” spirit guide.”

One of my main problems with this series is that it portrays there can be a “good” side to evil. That is a huge lie from the devil! Edward cannot be good, he is a vampire. In the occult, vampires are physical manifestations of diabolically empowered entities, undead, aka - demons! Edward is described at the end (or near it), to be an incubus. This is a perverted occult concept. According to Satanists, an incubus is believed to be a dark supernatural entity that is able to manifest itself and engage in sexual relations with a woman. Clearly, that is not something God wants his children glorifying. Deuteronomy 18:10-12 says, “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard or a necromancer. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and it is because of these abominable practices that the Lord your God is driving them out before you.”

Well, many characters in these novels posses supernatural abilities, such as:

mind-reading
automatic writing (writing performed without conscious thought or deliberation, typing by means as a medium for spirits or psychic forces)
levitation
lycanthropy (the magical ability to assume the form and characteristics of a wolf)
precognition (knowledge of something in advance of its occurrence, especially by extrasensory perception)
clairvoyance (the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses)
super strength, hearing, and speed

Throughout the books it is known that Edward and his coven (which is literally defined as meaning an assembly of witches, and this word is used throughout all four books to describe various groups of vampires), readily drink the blood of animals (the “non-vegetarian” vampires not stopping with just the blood from animals). But you see, God repeatedly forbids the occult practice of drinking any kind of blood. Genesis 9:4 says, “But you shall not eat flesh with the life of it, which is the blood.” Likewise, Leviticus 17:14 says, “As for the life of all flesh, the blood of it represents the life of it; therefore I said to the Istraelites, You shall partake of the blood of NO KIND of flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats of it shall be cut off.”

You see, there is NO “beautiful side of evil”. Sin is sin, evil is evil. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” - Isaiah 5:20-21

You can’t take an evil being/entity and have him aim to be good. He is cursed! Just like demons try to portray themselves as harmless or “good” dark spirits, so does Meyers in these characters. God specifically warns us against this type of thinking. 1 Timothy 4:1 “But the Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares that in latter times some will turn away from the faith, giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits and doctrines that demons teach.” So Stephenie Meyer paints this beautiful picture in her books of Edward who is an evil being, yet struggling to be good. Well I’m sorry but a demon by any other name is still a demon!

Listen to what she confessed in one interview:

“I actually did have a dream after Twilight was finished of Edward coming to visit me - only I had gotten it wrong and he did drink blood like every other vampire and you couldn’t live on animals the way I’d written it. We had this conversation and he was terrifying.”

I think its obvious what really visited Meyers throughout her dreams. It says in 2 Corinthians 11:3 “But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”

Are you starting to see now why these seemingly harmless books are really very dangerous?

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