This Week--Angels and Demons

[Tim Weisberg]

This week, we'll talk about the angelic and the demonic with two of TAPS' most respected authorities...angelologist Renee Smith and demonologist Keith Johnson.

Any questions or thoughts you might have on the subject, please feel free to post them here and we'll try to use them on the show!

[aneaglesangel]

Aaaawesome!! Keith is so nice!! I'm sure I'll love the show!!! Hmm, I'm sure I'll have a million questions by tonight!!!

[Matt Costa]

Fell Free to post any questions for Keith or Rennee I'm ready and waitin'

[dajones1315]

Hi To Kieth and Renee from Denice Jones Would listen to show but can not seem to locate live broadcast button, lol
still trying

[emilyvd]

I bet this is the best show ever! I can't wait until I can download it from itunes.... Have a millions questions for Keith, but don't want to risk being repetitive (not knowing what's already been asked).

[dajones1315]

A Happy 15th Wedding Anniversary to Keith and Sandra Johnson. No luck to hear the show sorry
will have to figure this out as I keep missing so many GREAT shows.

[dajones1315]

hmmm I got it Well I will download it as soon as I can guys! Takes me awhile. lol

[Matt Costa]

sorry you can't get it in we're trying to get the show live streaming if you would like us to live stream be sure to e-mail WBSM at there website to get them to put us up.......by the way Keith and Sandra say hello and thanks for the Anniversary congrats.

[aneaglesangel]

Oh awesome! I'll make sure I e-mail wbsm for you guys!! The show was awesome! Brought me to thinking of a lot of things!! One thing they made me think of was my faith. I'm very different from most people and I don't really have a religious background. My mother was actually an atheist when I was growing up and my father, being an electrical engineer, well, if he couldn't make it add up, it just didn't exist. Now you can see why I had noone to talk to when I was a child, LOL! The thing is, I look at God very differently. To me, god isn't something that we as humans can really understand, it's just too much for our poor little human brains. Angels aren't really beings to me, they are higher life forms, they don't really look like humans either if you ask me. Same thing for deimons, they don't resemble humans and even they have forms we could never understand. But even so, I still think my faith is very strong. I believe each and every person is part of something that is so much greater than themselves. I think sometimes we can even feel that part of things, but I don't think we'll ever understand. As close as I can come is to understanding that good things work ont he side of love, and bad things work on the side of hate. I believe when I defeated the negative energy feeder, I was working on the love side of things. I do believe I had help from out there, but I don't know if I could ever put it into words.

Last night they spoke of many different religions, but I find, I don't fit into any of them. Since I believe that god is something a human could never understand, I've stopped trying. I just let love be my guide. Maybe it sounds strange, but it works for me, LOL! Ya see, I think a part of god resides in each of us and if we need to, we can reach out and touch the part of ourselves that is connected to god and use it for good. Of course someone with bad intentions could also reach out and use the power of hate, too. That's what I've come to believe, the forces of good and evil, or hate and love, are the most powerful forces that exist. Of course I hope that I never have to fight a demon again, but if I do, I believe the power I'm connected to, the love, will be there for me to use again. I'm wondering what Keith and Renee's thoughts are on this, sorry I didn't post last night! The show was so good, I just listened totally caught up in the show!! But some people wouldn't believe that I could defeat this demon, for you see, I didn't call on God or Jesus Christ, I only called on the love inside myself, and reached out for the power of the golden light that kept me safe when I was in a coma. Of course it was very hard not to be afraid of this thing when it came time for me to banish it, but the image of the golden light I think protected me. I simply held onto that and told it to go. I won't say exactly how it happened, for one, I don't want everyone to think they don't need help with these things, they do, and well, it's going to be in my book and I don't want to spoil it lol!

But no matter how hard it tried that night, it couldn't even get close enough to touch me. Yes, it shook the bed in anger, hoping to scare the golden light and love out of my heart, but I wouldn't allow it. So even though I do believe in god in my own way, and very strongly, some probably wouldnt' agree that this could be done without calling on Jesus, or reading passages out of the Bible. I'm proof that it can work, but you still need faith, and you still need the love of God, no matter what your god is to you, personally.

To me, the Bible has always been a book of stories that were meant to teach us lessons on how to live on this earth. I've never been all that sure that the bible is the word of god, well just because the hand of man has touched it and made it to be the way he saw fit. It's a guideline of morals, values and proper behavior. I feel the bible was meant to be a guideline, and what each person takes from it, is a personal learning experience. I dont' know the bible all that well, but what I do know of it, gave me a sense of right and wrong, and that's what I think it's ultimate purpose really is. The way I see it, I could have been raised by devil worshipping cultists, but as long as I learned the lessons of good, I'd still be the same person I am today. As long as I remember that my soul is a tiny piece of something much greater than myself, I'll always be able to draw on the power of love, and the golden light, I'll always be much more pwerful than just my soul alone. Does this make any sense to anyone??

Oh, and I do believe very strongly in angels! I think it was an angel that showed me the light of god when I was in a coma, and I think that angel was the one who told me to lay down and sleep, that I'd be ok. I also saw one in the sky one day. I know, sounds strange, but let me explain. Both sons of mine inherited bi-polar disorder. My oldest was in the hospital and they had called because he was having a really bad day. They wanted me to come and help calm him. (If noone knows what bi-polar is, they used to call it "manic-depression" and it's devastating in children, it usually hits when they enter puberty.) As I drove, I was crying and thinking that this was too much for me to handle. He'd tried to commit suicide so many times, I had to hospitalize him for his own safety, and his little brother's. I really didn't think I could handle all this alone, and my heart felt as if it was broken in a million pieces. But then as I drove, tears streaming down my face, I looked up to the western sky. And there she was, in all her glory. My heart stopped as I stared at the fiery angel in the sky!!! She was made of a great big cloud, and her hair, gown and wings streamed out behind her in the wind. She had two little feet poking out from the bottom of her gown. Her two hands reached out in front of her and she held a golden bowl in them. The rays of the setting sun shone in such a way that they beamed out from the bowl she held. You don't know how much I'd had my cam at the time, but it was in the days before I had one to carry with me faithfully as I do now. But somehow, I knew, if I felt alone, if I felt as if I didn't have the strength, all I had to do was ask, and god would give me the strength I needed. I stopped crying and I went and faced my son's illness. I've never forgotten that angel in the sky, and I don't think I ever can!! True to her vision, I found the strength to raise these two boys. One had made it, he's 18 now and doing well! The other one is on his way, and does very well in school!! So, I guess the angel was right, I could do it, as long as I remembered the strength of god, that was mine, if only I reached out for it.

Any thoughts, I'd love to hear 'em!!! Sorry so long, but ya know how these topics get me to thinking!!! Great show!! I loved every minute of it!!!

[karlsaves]

i just got back from organ on a vacation( i know why dose any one vacation in organ...i know its sad) but i just listen to the podcast i loved the Show. it was the best one yet. i learned a lot. and how do i get my silent assassin t shirt???