He Came to Set the Captives Free (Paperback)

by Rebecca Brown (Author) "From the first moment she crossed through the doorway into that building, she sensed that there was something different about the place..." (more)
Key Phrases: wer beasts, wer animals, demonic infestation, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, The Brotherhood (more...)

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For seventeen years, Elaine served her master, Satan, with total commitment. Then she met Dr. Rebecca Brown, who served her master, Jesus Christ, with equal commitment. Elaine, one of the top witches in the U.S., clashed with Dr. Brown, who stood against her alone. In the titanic life-and-death struggle that followed, Dr. Brown nearly lost her life. Elaine, finding a power and love greater than anything Satan could give her, left Satan and totally committed her life to Jesus Christ. In this honest, in-depth account of Satan's activities today, you'll see how to recognize and combat the many satanists who regularly infiltrate and destroy Christian churches; recognize and combat satanic attacks; and recognize those serving Satan, and bring them to Jesus Christ.

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For seventeen years, Elaine served her master, Satan, with total commitment. Then she met Dr. Rebecca Brown, who served her master, Jesus Christ, with equal commitment. Elaine, one of the top witches in the U.S., clashed with Dr. Brown, who stood against her alone. In the titanic life-and-death struggle that followed, Dr. Brown nearly lost her life. Elaine, finding a power and love greater than anything Satan could give her, left Satan and totally committed her life to Jesus Christ.

This is an honest, in-depth account of Satan's activities today. You'll see how to:

*Recognize and combat the many satanists who regularly infiltrate and destroy Christian churches. *Recognize and combat satanic attacks. *Recognize those serving Satan, and bring them to Jesus Christ.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Whitaker House (December 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883683237
• ISBN-13: 978-0883683231
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (232 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #16,018 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Captivating, April 14, 1999

By A Customer

He Came to Set the Captives Free, and Ruth Irene Bailey (alias Rebecca Brown) came to captivate. So mesmerized was my mother by this book, that she immediately began what would be fifteen years as a Prayer Warrior, a woman that, by her supreme faith in God and "Rebecca Brown" would spend up to four hours a day "standing in the gap" and binding the forces of darkness.

One expectation of being "in the gap" is that one's physical health may go through the warfare that one's spirit body battles...

"You know you are, or have been, in the gap only when the Lord reveals it to you, or by the various problems in your physical body, which the Lord will confirm to you is from what has happened to your spirit body in the gap." (He Came to Set the Captives Free p. 180)

This alone would have prompted my mother to give a five star review of the book for its telling accuracy. My mother is unable to write a review because one month ago she died of neglected breast cancer that had spread throughout the bones of her entire body. She refused medical treatment, fearing it would interfere with her prayer time, and because, like "Rebecca Brown", she did not trust physicians, family, or friends.

"Rebecca Brown" was my mother's mentor. My mother did not die a martyr for her faith in God, she died a human being for her faith in another human being's disillusioned interpretation of Christianity.

47 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Setting Captives Free through Distorting the Bible?? , July 31, 2005

By	A. Daniels Jr. "artscholar" (Los Altos, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

To provide background to my review I feel it is important to make clear that I am a devoted Christian who has walked with the Lord for over 20 years now. I've studied the Bible seriously for over 15 of those 20 years, and I have learned New Testament Greek and studied some Hebrew, as these are the original languages of the Bible and are important to the correct understanding of the Bible. I have been in the ministry of apologetics (defending the faith) for about 15 years, and I can say without fear of credible contradiction that by God's grace I can discern truth from error with a decent level of proficiency.

The reason I prefaced my review like this is because what I am about to say regarding Ms Brown's book will seem shocking to the many Christians who have a favorable view of the book. It is a sad day in Christian history when a good number of us in society, including some pastors and ministers of the Gospel, apparently cannot tell when writers like Ms. Brown are teaching false doctrine. If anything, despite what other reviewers might think, satan DOES want you to read this book and be deceived. Now I know some people are wondering how in the world I can say this. That's easy. Have we forgotten so quickly the words of 2 Corinthians 11:13-15:

"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness..."

So please begin to think with me here, as I seek to demonstrate that Ms. Brown may well be a TOOL of satan, not some deliverer who is teaching solid, Biblical truth.

In all the reviews of this book I've seen so far, none of them addresses the key problem with Ms. Brown and her thesis. And that key problem is that she does NOT know the Bible well. But you don't pick this up unless you yourself know the Bible thoroughly. It's not that everything Ms. Brown says is untrue. That is part of the deception, since we know that the best way to pull off a deception is not to tell a whole lie, but to tell a half-truth. Let me try to briefly demonstrate my point.

Although Ms. Brown does correctly tell us to "Seek the Lord's confirmation and guidance before you trust anyone" (p. 270), and "Don't accept anything anyone else tells you without checking it out with the scriptures and asking the Lord about it" (p. 271), the problem is when you do this with a sincere heart and accurate and extensive knowledge of the Bible, you find that Ms. Brown herself is teaching unbiblical heresy.

The foundational heresy Ms. Brown teaches is that Christians can be demon possessed and need "deliverance." Please see my review of the book "Demon Possession and the Christian: A New Perspective" by C. Fred Dickason for more information on the fallacies of this teaching.

After reading and studying God's Word and prayerfully considering Ms. Brown's statements in her book, I was able to determined that out of the 17 main Scriptures she used to support her views, ALL OF THEM were taken out of context and/or misinterpreted in some way. We cannot fall into the trap of thinking that just because someone can quote a few Bible verses while making a point that this must mean they know the Bible and that their view is Biblical. Jehovah's Witnesses quote the Bible. The devil in Matthew 4:5,6 quoted the Bible. But both the JWs and satan are notorious for quoting Scripture out of context. And we must understand that quoting the Bible out of context is not of God, and therefore any teaching based on verses taken out of context cannot be true.

Since space is limited, let me give 5 examples of why Christians should not trust the teachings of Ms. Brown or other "deliverance" ministries.

1. On pages 123-127, Ms. Brown relates how she talked with a being she perceived to be an angel from God. Interestingly enough, he had "blue eyes" and "golden hair," which is seen nowhere in the Bible. She related how she stopped his conversation and began to "test" him to see if he was truly an angel from God the Father. When the alleged angel said "I am your guardian angel," she did not immediately believe him. She went on to ask, "Who is your master? Whom do you serve?" She still didn't like the response from the alleged angel. Finally, the alleged angel tells her what she apparently wants to hear. After this answer she accepts the alleged angel as one sent from God, and then concludes from this answer that "I knew no demon would make such a declaration, Satan would tare him to shreds on the spot if he did" (p. 124).

Notice here that Ms. Brown forgets a fundamental truth of Scripture. In the Bible, demons are routinely shown to speak the TRUTH about Jesus and spiritual things. They said to Jesus in Matthew 8:29: "What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God?" We see the same thing in Luke 4:34, 41 and Acts 16:17. Over and over again, the verdict is the same: demons know the truth and can tell it. So how is it that Ms. Brown seems to think that satan would "tare" a demon to "shreds" for telling the truth? That is not a Biblical view. They can and will tell the truth as long as you get fooled.

2. On pages 125-127 Ms. Brown, fooled by this demon in disguise, relates an almost 2 hour conversation where she is told by this alleged angel that she needs to put on the armor of God, and that this armor goes on her "spirit body." He then tells her that she needs to "search your scriptures further on this." Ms. Brown says she found 1 Corinthians 15:44 the following day. Now it is true that this passage says that "there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body," but the very disturbing problem is that this alleged angel's reference that Ms. Brown found is not talking about a "spirit body" in the sense Ms. Brown thinks. This verse is talking about, in context, the difference between the mortal, physical body and the new body believers will get in the resurrection of the body from the dead (please read 1 Corin. 15 entirely).

But for the sake of making the point quickly in this forum, perhaps the alleged angel should have corrected Ms. Brown and told her not to misquote the verse out of context and to read verses 35, 42, 51-54. I will only quote one of these: "So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption" (42). 1 Corinthians 15 is about the fact that believers will inherit an incorruptible, resurrection BODY just like the glorious body of Jesus. It is not about a "spirit body" that we must put an armor on. So are we to believe that an angel of God gave Ms. Brown false information and made reference to the Bible out of context? I don't think so.

3. Foundational to Ms. Brown's theology is the idea that we need to separate our soul from our spirit. On page 165, she misreads Hebrews 4:12 to mean that we must separate the soul from the spirit, when the fact of the matter is that the passage says no such thing. It says that God's word is so powerful that it CAN accomplish this, but it does not tell us to go around doing it, or that it is "necessary" for this to be done to stop satan from taking advantage of us learning to use our "spirit bodies" (pp. 165-177). This idea, once again, is not taught in the Bible. It is read into the Bible by a woman who simply does not know how to properly interpret the Bible.

4. Ms. Brown wants us to believe that there are "wer beasts" (something like werwolves?) that truly exist in the world and that the Bible supports this view. She quotes Leviticus 26:6, 22. Verse 6 in the King James Version uses the words "evil beasts," while verse 22 of the same Version has "wild beasts." She then falsely assumes that there is a distinction between the two and asserts that "there are numerous references to wild beasts belonging to the Lord, but never to evil beasts belonging to Him" (p. 225). From this she argues that "wer beasts" are these "evil beasts" produced by demons that make humans take on "animal-like" shapes. Problem.

First, the KJV does not accurately represent the original Hebrew of the Leviticus passages she quotes. All she had to do was check other versions, like the Amplified Bible, to see this. Second, she assumes, based on a faulty English version, that there is a distinction when there isn't one in the Hebrew. Finally, in the context of Leviticus 26, it should be clear that the "beasts" in both verses refer to the same kinds of animals, not demonically changed humans. Once again we have eisegesis, not exegesis in the theories of Ms. Brown.

5. And finally, Ms. Brown tries to argue on page 184 that, "...many scriptures show that the human physical body can still live when the spirit is separated from it. This is not true of the soul. Once the soul leaves the physical body, the body dies." But our brother James has a problem with that, for he said in James 2:26: "For as the body without the SPIRIT is dead, so faith without works is dead also." This is a clear passage. This means that Ms. Brown has once again misinterpreted the Bible (perhaps 1 Corin. 5:1-4) to come up with false teaching.

Now there is much more I could go into, but neither time nor space will permit me to elaborate. For those seeking a more comprehensive response to Ms. Brown, I would recommend visiting this website: http://www.geocities.com/adaniels700/GospelAnswers.html.

I only hope that this review has helped people, especially Christians, to realize that Ms. Brown, despite perhaps any good intentions, has been cleverly deceived and is deceiving others. Despite any good points in the book, the overriding thesis is so wrong and thoroughly against the Bible that I cannot recommend it, especially to new believers who are not mature and knowledgeable enough to recognize the sophistry of books like this.

There is a spiritual battle going on and Christians do need to fight the good fight of faith. But "Dr." Brown is not the one to lead us in this battle. I recommend "A Holy Rebellion: Strategy for Spiritual Warfare" by Thomas Ice and Robert Dean, Jr. These guys know the Bible and do not distort it while attempting to teach us how to fight spiritual battles.

42 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Skeptic's Changed View, May 7, 2000

By A Customer

I have read the book, and all of the "reviews". I wish to say that I am an American evangelical Christian who used to believe that "all that demonic stuff" in the Gospels and NT happened a long time ago, or on foreign mission fields today. Until I met a person who had been Satanically ritually abused, that is. Many of the things Rebecca describes in the book are eerily the same as the experiences I have had over the past 8 months. I am trying to understand and follow Jesus Christ throughout this trial. My experience resonates with so many of the readers' comments, particularly anointing my home after repeated demonic harrassment and declaring in the name of Jesus Christ null and void all curses and incantations coming against me.

I find the writing style hard to wade through, and some of the Biblical interpretation weak. However, I have a convinced mind that much of what Rebecca writes is the truth. One thing I find notable is her repeated admonitions to test what she writes by asking our heavenly Father to confirm or refute it.

Once you have witnessed first-hand the attacks that she describes, your "worldview" is never the same. I have not seen everything she describes, but I am certain of these things: demonization of believers and non-believers , child sacrifice, and astral projection.

The two things I've learned which have helped me the most are: 1) Satan is a liar, and always seeks to deceive -- I was one of his victims for awhile (please read the "anti" reviews with that in mind;) and 2) Jesus is LORD! There is victory in Jesus. The only weapon Satan has is FEAR, but brothers and sisters, focus on JESUS. He will come to you as you seek Him! I have never rejoiced more that OUR GOD REIGNS!