Pulverized Saints
By Pastor Doug Riggs
In my first paper I briefly discussed Isaiah 61:1, Luke 4:18, Acts 10:38 and other passages in relation to the present phenomenon of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in the context of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA). In this second paper I want to present what is biblically described as the heart or spirit that has been crushed or pulverized. The semantic field will include the Hebrew verb and noun forms dakha, dakhah, dokh, dakh, dqq and daq. I want to say at the outset that I am not stating that the Bible is explicitly referring to the phenomenon defined as DID. What I am seeking to communicate is that the biblical language used to describe the oppressed and abused is remarkably revealing in the original language. According to The Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament,Vol. III, pg. 195ff, the Hebrew terms referred to above literally mean to crush, pulverize, to break or dash to pieces, to be ground up fine, to oppress or abuse.
Many of the people God has brought into my life and ministry have reported what they have described as being reduced to dust, fragments, or hundreds of "parts", etc. Those reports have come from people who have a background of multi-generational SRA. As a result of the chronic traumatic abuse in infancy and early childhood, these people have been pulverized, reduced to dust, poly-fragmented in the most unimaginable ways possible. This pulverization occurs in the soul, the mind, the heart, and the human spirit, as a result of the most intense form of demonization in the context of SRA. This abuse in its most insidious form is executed by the demonic, orchestrated by Satan through the instrumentality of the demonized perpetrators.
As we begin to examine the Scriptures and the terminology referred to in this paper, I am aware that in the realm of semantics words that have a literal meaning may be used in a figurative or metaphorical way. For example, Ps. 10:17-18 says, "O Lord, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble; Thou wilt strengthen their heart, Thou wilt incline Thine ear to vindicate the orphan and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may cause terror no more." In verse 17 the "humble" are the 'ani' (Heb.) This denotes the afflicted, poor, wretched, weak and helpless; those overwhelmed by their sense of need and their inability to deal with the situation. This verse goes on to say that God will strengthen their hearts and listen attentively to their prayers. In verse 18 God promises to vindicate the orphan or fatherless.
Many children who have grown up in the context of multi-generational Satanism have fathers and mothers who are DID as a result of their being abused by their parents. These parents, in turn, have been programmed to abuse and incest they’re own children in order to cause the splitting or fragmentation of their personalities.
This phenomenon is described as dissociation. In association with the dissociative process, dense amnesic walls or defensive barriers develop between the dissociated aspects of the personality. This means that the child may grow up with little or no memory of his or her parents' abusing them until later in life when those defensive, amnesic walls begin to break down.
The point I want to make is that children who grew up with parents as the primary abusers are in a real sense 'orphans.' They have biological mothers and fathers, but the real meaning of the terms 'father' and 'mother' from God's point of view, i.e., nourisher, sustainer, protector, are without fulfillment. If parents betray their roles as God's stewards and caregivers, they betray the very meaning and purpose of being a father or mother. Children who grow up in this context of abuse are in a real sense God's orphans. The Word of God is filled with many wonderful promises of God's special care and provision for such people.
In Psalm 10:18 God promises to vindicate the orphans (fatherless) and the oppressed (Heb. daq), i.e., those who have been crushed, pulverized, dashed to pieces. Is it not significant that the Holy Spirit uses terms that appear to anticipate and even literally describe the effects of severe traumatic abuse?
In Exodus 30:36 and Numbers 11:8 the Bible describes the preparation of the incense that was derived from various fragrant substances and ground to powder or fine dust. According to Exodus 32:20 Moses took the golden calf, burnt it and then ground what remained into powder. The same terms are used to describe Josiah's destruction of the idolatrous images of Asherah and the crushing of what was left into dust (II Chron. 15:16). In these passages the Hebrew use of these words is obviously used in the literal sense: to pulverize or crush into fine powder or dust. Yet the Holy Spirit uses this same Hebrew root form to describe those who have a distressed, crushed, broken and contrite heart as a consequence of ones own sin or because of the sins of others perpetrated against the helpless and defenseless (Ps. 38:8; 51:8).
Psalm 34:18 states God is near to the brokenhearted, i.e., those shattered inside; and He delivers those who are crushed (Heb. daka) in spirit. Everyone who is a survivor of any form of severe trauma, including SRA, will be crushed or pulverized in spirit! This is clinically defined as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) according to D.S.M. IV. Regardless of the clinical terminology, God promises to rescue, deliver and save such people. God's name is on the line, pulverized saints of God!!! How He will do this, when He will do this, how long it will take, I cannot say; but God has promised to deliver those who are crushed, pulverized, poly-fragmented in spirit, heart and mind!
My experience is that God uses these very people to be instruments or vessels of His love and healing. Such instruments must be, first and foremost, sensitive to the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit. It is God alone who is perfect in knowledge, love and power, who must be the origin and source of all that we do as instruments in His hand for the deliverance of those taken captive by Satan. As Christians and counselors, we must become "strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might" in order to be proficient in the whole realm of exorcism, deliverance, etc. As God's vessels to those who are bound, we must also be diligent to acquire a basic understanding of the dissociative disorders, and especially cult-generated DID as a strategic component in leading people to healing and wholeness in Christ.
As of the writing of this paper, the author is not aware of any written literature which adequately delineates in a comprehensive and definitive manner the spiritual and clinical protocols required to bring a complex DID/SRA victim to resolution. Those of us who have been working with this population have various levels of proficiency and knowledge. My present state of knowledge is growing exponentially as I continue to work with these people whom God has brought into my life. I am gratified to see God's victory and deliverance progressively being realized in these pulverized saints. I believe these pulverized saints of God are destined to be His primary means of crushing Satan under the feet of His people, the Church (Rom. 16:20 w/Is. 26:5-6 w/ Micah 4:6-7).
Many survivors often ask, "Where was God when I was being abused, crushed, terrorized, humiliated, etc.?"
I would like to address that very important question, knowing that only God Himself is able to give an adequate answer to each individual. Isaiah 63:9 states, “in all our affliction He (God Himself) was afflicted." In Ezekiel 6:9 reveals that God was shattered and broken because of the adulterous hearts of His people who had turned away from Him. The suffering of God's people throughout the ages has always been a great enigma, i.e., Job and many of the Psalmist's experiences. The sufferings of the Israelites under the cruel yoke of slavery in Egypt is another example of this question of suffering. Chapters two and three of Exodus reveal in a remarkable way God's intimate knowledge of His suffering people. "Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God. So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them" (Ex. 2:23-25). Notice verse 25. The Hebrew says "God saw the children of Israel and God knew"(Heb. yada). This means He was intimately aware of their sufferings and misery. In Exodus 3:7b God says, "I have seen the affliction of my people and I have given heed to my peoples' cry... for I fully know and am intimate (yada) with their sufferings and sorrows." Verse 8 says, "So I have come down to deliver them..." Verse 10, "So I will send you Moses", a man through whom God brings deliverance. Today God's appointed means of deliverance is a Man called Jesus (Jn. 9:11) who works through His Body, the Church, to bring deliverance to the afflicted and needy. But the question must be addressed, "How can a loving and caring God allow little children to be pulverized, broken and shattered like those who have come from multi-generational SRA?”
I will seek to answer that difficult question by asking an even more profound question: "How could a loving and caring God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, allow HIM to be wounded for our rebellious acts and crushed or pulverized (Heb. daka) for our iniquities?" Is. 53:5,10.
An even more astonishing question would be: "How could this same loving and caring God be pleased to crush (Heb. daka, piel intensive stem) His uniquely begotten Son, putting Him to grief?" Do you know why God was so pleased to crush and pulverize Jesus Christ in our place as our substitute? Because GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD of lost sinners, dead in trespasses and sins, that He did something about it! He gave all that He had - His uniquely begotten Son, as our sin-bearing substitute on a despised Roman cross, so that "whosoever believes in Him should not perish" (Jn. 3:16) but have the quality of life God has in Himself, eternal life!
To everyone who knows what it means to be pulverized, shattered, fragmented and crushed God the Father and God the Son know the full implications of what it means as well! All because of our sins, or in reality because of God's great love that DID something about our sins, including the sins of those who are the abusers! God placed the sins of the whole human race on Jesus Christ and judged Him in our place (Is. 53:6b)!
Now I want to show you a most profound phenomenon about our amazing and wonderful God. Look at Isaiah 57:14-15-. "And it shall be said, 'build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstacle out of the way of My people.' For thus says the high and exalted One who lives forever and whose name is Holy, 'I dwell on a high and holy place, and also with the contrite and lowly of spirit, in order to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite."' In verse 15 God states that He is the high and exalted One who lives, dwells or inhabits eternity. God is from everlasting to everlasting (Ps. 90:2), exalted above all time and space because He is the transcendent One who is before all time, above all time and beyond all time. The verse says He is HOLY. He is completely unique in all of His attributes, perfect in His character. This means He is to be respected, revered, honored and worshiped as the One and only God. His name or His character is HOLY. He lives in a high and holy place, the very highest of heaven, and the heaven of the heavens. And now notice, all those who have been pulverized, crushed and broken: God also dwells with the contrite and lowly of spirit! 'Contrite' is the Hebrew adjective 'dakha', which means to be crushed, pulverized, thoroughly bruised and broken of spirit. Just think of this, the transcendent holy God who lives in eternity above all time also dwells with the crushed of spirit!! The lowly are those of us who have been humbled, those who have learned that without God we are nothing, helpless and hopeless, but with God we have a hope and a future. The perfect, sinless humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ knew that apart from God the Father He could do absolutely nothing! See John 5:19 and 30. He was the humble, lowly and innocent lamb of God that took away the sins of the world (Jn. 1:29).
Verse 15 of Isaiah 57 continues by saying that God dwells with the broken and humble of spirit in order to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the crushed, or thoroughly bruised and broken. The word 'revive' means to give or impart life. Dissociation is a form of death. Traumatized minds, hearts and spirits are often occupied by demons who bring death, perpetuate the original trauma, and maintain and enforce the dissociation or separateness within the alter systems. Jesus Christ is the Life.
He must be allowed entrance into every part of the heart/mind/spirit that has been fragmented, in order that He might dwell there.
His presence brings revival because Jesus Christ is the Life of God in the soul of the believer, in the Person of the Holy Spirit. The enemy has come to steal, kill and destroy, but Jesus came that we might have LIFE, and having that Life, we might come to enjoy that Life in ALL its fullness. Jesus Christ is God's full and complete Answer to the worst that both Satan and man has perpetrated against the innocent, the helpless and the pulverized!
"Lord, I pray for every one who has experienced devastating trauma resulting in a crushed or broken spirit, that You would manifest and impart the Life that raised Jesus Christ from the dead into every aspect of their mind, will, emotions, spirit, soul and body, with the result that each pulverized saint would become whole, complete, and lacking in nothing (Jms. 1:4)."
"Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He will also bring it to pass." I Thess. 5:23-24
(All quotations from the Bible are New American Standard Version).
Douglas W. Riggs
Pastor, Morning Star Testimony Church November, 1994
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