Victor Marx, a nonprofit ministry leader and the Republican Party's gubernatorial nominee in Colorado, claimed to have encountered Satan personally during an episode of "spiritual warfare," according to resurfaced audio. "Hey, I've met the devil. I've met Satan in person, through a person," Marx said during a two-part episode of his podcast in 2020. "And guess what? He's a bully and a coward and he's the father of lies." Marx, a U.S.
Marine veteran who founded the Colorado Springs-based All Things Possible Ministry, went on to claim that he witnessed a 15-year-old girl named Kristi exhibit signs of possession when he was leading a Bible study at a maximum-security youth prison in Texas. "In fact, we were doing a Bible study first, and this girl started manifesting a demon.
It was so real that all the other locked-up girls, all the other gang members, they all kind of huddled in a corner. And then the guards were like, 'Do something, man,'" he said.
When he accompanied the girl back to her cell as she was manifesting, Marx said he was "nervous" about the situation because he had "never really dealt with something that intense." Marx said when he ultimately commanded the demon "in the authority of Jesus Christ" to offer his name, the spirit identified himself as Satan. He joked that it could have been one of Satan's "little workers" assuming the name because he was insecure.
"Long story longer, that girl did get delivered," he said, adding that her father had been a satanist and that she had gotten pregnant at 13. "Pray for Kristi. She gave her life to the Lord, and she's got a lot of struggles, wouldn't you think? She has PTSD from her past trauma, but Jesus is never going to give up on her,"