The Saga Continues: The Further Adventures of Rebecca Brown

by Paul R. Blizard, G. Richard Fisher and M. Kurt Goedelman

What a story: demonic push-pins; spirits warded off by anointing oil; conspirators waiting to poison patrons of fast-food restaurants.

What sounds like bits from a bad horror movie or the delusions of an unbalanced mind are called the absolute truth by Rebecca Brown, who says she discovered them through her experiences and from "a God who speaks to His people today just as He did in the days of the scriptures."

Rebecca Brown, aka Ruth Bailey, is the author of a new book, Becoming a Vessel of Honor In The Master's Service. Brown is already known for her two previous works, Prepare for War and He Came to Set the Captives Free, published by Chick Publications.

The first two books purport to tell the story of Brown's and friend Elaine Moses' (aka Edna Elaine Knost) spiritual battle against Satan, satanists and witches. In the third book, Brown continues to narrate her adventures in demonic warfare.

Brown's real background was revealed in the October-December 1989 issue of Personal Freedom Outreach's The Quarterly Journal ("Drugs, Demons and Delusions -- The Amazing Saga of Rebecca and Elaine"). The article debunked Brown's claims and revealed that she had been addicted to the barbiturate demerol, a drug that can induce hallucinations.

Brown's latest work is published and distributed by Fortress Books of Woodburn, Ore. Fortress appears to be a very small firm. Its official order form lists only three titles. Personal Freedom Outreach has received reports that Jack Chick, head of Chick Publications, had a change of heart about Brown's books and has begun to distance himself from the pair. However, publicly Chick Publications continues to promote the two books by Brown that it published.

It appears that Brown's life has changed since PFO's last report on her. Trouble between Brown and Moses was brewing even before the 1989 expose' that revealed her drug addiction and loss of medical license. The two have since parted company. Elaine reportedly moved to Florida.

In December 1989, Brown married Dr. Daniel Yoder of Phoenix, Ariz. The couple since have moved to Iowa, where they run a ministry called "Wells of Living Grace." The new team continues to travel, lecture and distribute Brown's literature.

Without Chick Publications' distribution capabilities, Brown's new book may get limited exposure. It can be obtained through Spring Arbor Distributors, a national broker of Christian publications.

The Foreword was written by Rev. William W. Woods, Pastor of Deer Valley Church of the Nazarene in Phoenix, Ariz. Woods conducted Brown's and Yoder's wedding. Woods challenges the reader to: "Compare [Brown's book] to what is revealed in God's Word" (pg. 8).

The Personal Freedom Outreach staff set out to do just that. What follows is a sample of its findings.

In the introduction to Vessel, Brown alludes to her struggle to continue her ministry. She says articles on her have prompted "antagonism against me within the Christian community ... I am hated by so many. Newsletters are being printed all over the place supposedly 'exposing me.' Lies and false accusations are flying - especially through the Christian bookstores, by letters and word-of-mouth amongst Christians" (pg. 9).

Brown then contends that she was "framed" by satanists, and that those who wrote about her (namely Personal Freedom Outreach) never contacted her for the truth. She writes on page 37 "none [sic] of the documents submitted in [her] defense are included with the package of accusations."

This last allegation is neither new nor true. Publisher Jack Chick said the same thing in response to PFO's research. PFO has twice cited a key document submitted in Brown's defense to the Indiana Medical Licensing Board. As of this writing neither Chick nor Brown has produced any more documents to be used in Brown's defense.

Brown brushes off all PFO's findings by saying on page 13: "Why should I run around trying to defend myself when I have done nothing wrong? Those who will listen will listen, and those who will gossip will gossip."

She further charges that Christians "rarely" contract her "to see if what is being said is true." Yet when one writes Brown in pursuit of the documents to negate PFO's findings and conclusions, she refuses to provide the documentation claiming, "it is up to God to defend that person and not up to the person himself. The Lord has clearly shown me that He is

my defender and since then I have stopped making any attempts to defend myself. At this point I am unwilling to issue any more copies of documents that I have concerning the whole Medical Licensure [sic] Board set-up."

Something else in the introduction to Vessel puzzled the PFO staff. Brown writes that she has been told by "people in very high positions within Satan's kingdom" that satanists "really do not have to spend much time or effort in trying to destroy the Christians anymore. ... They are so busy stabbing each other in the back and destroying each other that we no longer have to worry about them." If this is true, one wonders how

Brown's latest publication, containing her further "adventures," was even possible. If the satanists' "no longer have to worry" about Christians, how then is Brown able to relate page after page of detailed, intense and bizarre onslaughts by satanists and demons?

This kind of inconsistency is found throughout her book.

The remainder of this evaluation examines three points and some miscellaneous matters.