{"id":26258,"date":"2025-01-29T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=26258"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:23:47","slug":"homeowner-visited-by-apocalyptic-messenger-in-satanic-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/01\/homeowner-visited-by-apocalyptic-messenger-in-satanic-mask","title":{"rendered":"Homeowner Visited By Apocalyptic Messenger in Satanic Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last weekend, a North Texas family saw an unknown and presumed biblical messenger on their doorbell camera. The man was wearing a dark puffer jacket and a red-and-black Baphomet mask carrying a piece of cardboard reading “Revelation 20:1-15.”<\/p>\n

In Western religious traditions, a “Baphomet” is a goat-headed human creature closely associated with Satanism, the Occult, and some Knights Templar pentagrams.<\/p>\n

The nerve-wracking visit was in the North Texas suburb of Carrollton, about 40 minutes north of Dallas. The homeowner, who wanted to remain anonymous, told KTVT 11 CBS News Texas<\/a>, “My husband and I had gone out to dinner, and we had stopped off at the store to pick up a Powerball ticket,” she said. “I was waiting in the car for him, and my Ring notification went off.”<\/p>\n

She later described the “devil at the door” walking through her driveway and briefly into their side yard fence door.<\/p>\n

“The person popped up on the video with that goat mask on, and they were approaching my door,” she said, noting the unidentified white male’s appearance and sign. “It’s about the end of times; it’s about judgment day. I freaked out\u2026I mean, I was\u2026I couldn’t think of anything.”<\/p>\n

Not coincidentally, the loitering individual’s Bible verse reads a story about humanity’s final judgment in the Bible’s final book. The passage notes<\/a> God’s apocalyptic return, in which He rewards believers in right standing with Him and condemns “anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life, who was thrown into a lake of fire.”<\/p>\n

The Christian Post noted that Revelation 20 is considered part of the “pre-tribulation premillennialistic<\/a>” eschatological theory, or the biblical study of the “end times.”<\/p>\n

Although Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins brought the theory to the national forefront with their globally renowned book “Left Behind,” most biblical scholars trace it back to the early 19th-century theologian John Nelson Darby<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the homeowner’s neighbors, Scott Geairn, spoke to WFAA ABC 8<\/a> about the video footage posted on Nextdoor.<\/p>\n

“What I saw that, I was like, uh, what’s the message here? It’s so weird,” he said.<\/p>\n

Another neighbor, Gloria Johns, also commented on the footage, saying, “That’s the kind of stuff you see at Halloween\u2013it must be scary for this family.”<\/p>\n

Although the homeowner filed a police report regarding the disturbing video, Carrollton Police told the media that the mysterious visitor did not commit a crime.<\/p>\n

Under Texas Penal Code 30.05<\/a>, trespassing bypasses a physical barrier after repeating verbal warnings to cease their actions. If the individual stays on the property and ignores requests from a home or property owner, police can charge them with a Class-C misdemeanor crime, punishable by up to a $500 fine.<\/p>\n

A police spokesperson said local authorities are “stepping up patrols in the neighborhood.” Unfortunately, that may not settle the homeowner’s nerves.<\/p>\n

“I’m scared,” the homeowner continued. “I’m scared to leave the house. I’m scared to be at the house.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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