{"id":87473,"date":"2026-10-16T09:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87473"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:56:04","slug":"when-american-idol-star-realized-satan-was-real-he-left-the-occult-and-followed-jesus-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/when-american-idol-star-realized-satan-was-real-he-left-the-occult-and-followed-jesus-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"When American Idol Star &#8216;Realized Satan Was Real&#8217;, He Left the Occult and Followed Jesus Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>CBN<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cbn.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/480x270_16_9\/public\/media\/slider\/images\/jimmylevy_hdv.jpg.png?itok=paCn2u3e\" alt=\"jimmylevy_hdv.jpg\" width=\"318\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Jewish Gospel singer faced intense spiritual warfare in the entertainment industry, which eventually led him to give his life to Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Levy found fame after appearing on American Idol in 2020.\u00a0 The 25-year-old said he witnessed many musicians dabbling in the occult and witchcraft. Levy said he felt pressured to participate.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;I put a stupid tattoo on my hand of the devil,&#8221; Levy said, showing the image on his hand. &#8220;I started hanging out around people that would proclaim themselves as worshipers of the devil. And I just \u2014 I didn&#8217;t understand what I was getting myself into,&#8221; he admitted.\u00a0The Miami native said he did not believe in Satan, at first, but then he began to experience occult activity and looking back feels like God was showing him &#8220;how real the spiritual war was and how real the devil in the industry was.&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;That&#8217;s when I started getting tormented at night by demons. T<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBN: A Jewish Gospel singer faced intense spiritual warfare in the entertainment industry, which eventually led him to give.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87474,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473\/revisions\/87474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}