The Number Three
and the Danger of Exorcisms

Doing this work can and always will be very dangerous for all of us that get involved. You never know what to expect from an exorcism as far as outward manifestations or activity. John Zaffis and Debbie and Larry Elward had three cases that were very intense and required immediate attention. John's case involved a woman dabbling with Santeria and was to the point that an exorcism was definitely needed. At the same time, the Elwards had two cases that dealt with voodoo and a woman whose husband had a curse put on her from Haiti. All three women were suffering in similar ways.

In April 2004, Debbie and Larry got a call from John Zaffis filling them in on his case and we filled him in on ours we decided we were going to set the cases up as soon as possible. They where all were wrestling with demonic onslaught. We decided to do all three cases within a week of each other. The first exorcism was very calm, and not a lot of activity occurred at all, but she did was go under possession and had heavy breathing at one point. The second exorcism the woman was under but not outward manifestations at all. In the third exorcism, the woman had some activity but no outward things happened whatsoever.

John and Larry were outside packing things into the car and John turn and look at Larry and said, "I don't like this, Larry. Something is not right with the three last exorcisms. No outward activity occurred at all. Something is just not right." Larry looked at John and said, "John did you ever think that it will change its tactics so you can't always figure it out. I think its trying to confuse you and you will not think these people need help." The following morning, John went to work and something was just not right. He could not put his finger on it, but something was not right. John kept calling the Elwards all day. Nobody answered the phone, and he must have called twenty times that day.

That evening when John got home, the phone was ringing as soon as he walked in the door. John picked it up and it was Debbie, "My daughter said I had to call you right away to let you know what happened to us. We were almost killed by a car. Larry was run over three times, John, and I was run over two times. Larry is in critical condition and we do not know if he will make it." All John could say at the time was, "Debbie you two are in my prayers and I will be up as soon as I can." A few days had gone by and John went up to see Larry. Larry looked up at John and said, "Well John, I guess he did change his tactics but this was not what I expected." John was speechless and upset at the time. Larry looked back at John and said, "I can't die now. I have a lot of work to do, John. People need help and God willing, I will be back to help them." Today, Larry and Debbie are back out there helping people.

The following is from Debbie's accounts of that day and their recovery

Sometimes when you have things all figured out and life seems to be good things have a way of changing. A few days after we prayed with the woman with the curse from Haiti we had gone to morning mass for lent. One of our friends was having surgery that morning and we walked with her over to her son's truck to wish her well. We had only stopped there a few seconds when we all heard a car revive up its engine. This was almost as if the driver was disturbed that we were standing there. We don't really remember too much of what happened after we heard the engine. We do remember flying through the air and landing 15 feet from where we had just a moment ago stood. Debbie was lying on the ground with the woman next to her unconscious, meanwhile Larry was caught under the car and was dragged 50 feet as the car ran over him three times. Everyone was severely hurt and were all rushed to the hospital.

Once there all were evaluated and either released or hospitalized, the most critical was Larry, whom the doctor's did not expect to live. Thanks to God he did live and made remarkable recovery and all of us are doing very well today after almost two months. At first we thought it was a freak accident but we soon found out what this accident had to do with our previous three cases. John had called and was telling us that the woman that had the Santeria curse put on her the night before our accident dreamed that Larry was in a terrible car accident and injured badly. She also dreamed about the second woman, whom she did not know or did not know we were praying with her, either.

Two researchers from another states also had dreams and had called John Zaffis about this we had not talk to them and John never had a chance to tell them about the accident he was not at all surprised at these events at all. they where telling him about Larry being in an accident on school property. There is in fact the church's school right across the street from where we were hit. These two individuals believe that this was an attack by the devil. That could explain why Larry was run over three times as an insult to the Holy Trinity.

Since this accident many have asked us if we are going to continue to work in this deliverance ministry and we can say yes we will. We do believe that yes this was an attack by demonic forces, but God saved us from death, so we believe that we must be doing the work that God wants us to, so we will continue. Today we all feel that something was at work trying to stop Larry and Debbie from being able to help and Johns feeling is as always he keeps his guard up always when it come to exorcism its nothing to play with.

Story by Debbie Elward and John Zaffis