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Rebecca Julia Brown is the name of a child actress who starred in the film School of Rock.
Rebecca Brown, M.D. (born Ruth Irene Bailey in Shelbyville, Indiana on May 21, 1948) is a controversial Christian doctor best known for her claims of having helped people escape the occult in California and elsewhere throughout the world. Brown later had her medical license revoked for improper diagnosis and over medication of patients. She is known among some Fundamentalist Christians for her promoting a campaign against Satanism. According to Brown there are the existence of Satanic recruitment camps throughout the world which train future Satanists and Witches. Brown married Daniel Michael Yoder December 10, 1989.
An important associate of Brown's is a reputed ex-Satanist known as Elaine (born Edna Elaine Knost), who is described in Brown's book, He Came to Set the Captives Free, as having left Satanism and converted to Christianity. Elaine's surname is not mentioned in any of Rebecca Brown's books. Elaine is also the source of many of Rebecca Brown's claims. Among the two women's claims are that Yoga is Satanic, Roman Catholicism is Witchcraft, that Satanists work very closely with the Freemasons and the Roman Catholic Church, that Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games are Satanic, and speaking in tongues and divine healing cannot always be trusted. Elaine has also claimed to have been a Satanic High Priestess and to have been involved in a marriage ceremony with Satan.
Elaine and Rebecca were roommates at the time her first two books were published. They have since gone their separate ways. Elaine died in 2006 and Rebecca Brown is now married.
Rebecca Brown and Elaine decided to come forward with what they had experienced to Jack Chick, owner of Chick Publications, who published their claims in two cassette tapes Closet Witches 1 and Closet Witches 2 and in two books He Came To Set The Captives Free (1986) and Prepare for War (1987). Rebecca Brown's stories were the basis for the Chick tract The Poor Little Witch, which portrayed witches recruiting school children into Satanism and infiltrating Christian churches in order to buy off ministers with bribes.
Chick and Brown later decided to end their business relationship. Brown's books were reprinted by Whitaker House in 1992. Jack Chick still defends Rebecca Brown and believes her books are truthful. Many Christians have claimed to have been helped by these books although there are also some who doubt the validity of them.
Her other books are Standing On The Rock, Unbroken Curses and Becoming A Vessel of Honor. Rebecca Brown currently leads a Christian group called Harvest Warriors with her husband Rev. Daniel Yoder. Brown has written a handful of books based on her experiences. Two noteworthy ones are Prepare for War and He Came to Set the Captives Free.
Perhaps the biggest controversy surrounding Rebecca Brown's books are the existence of large, Satanic covens in America performing various evil works, rituals and sacrifices and the teaching in her books that born-again Christians can be inhabited (not possessed) by demons.
In 1984, Brown's medical license was revoked by the issuing state of Indiana. The licensing board ruled that on numerous occasions she had "knowingly and intentionally misdiagnosed her patients", blaming their illnesses on "demons, devils, and evil spirits"; a secular board-appointed psychiatrist diagnosed her as suffering from "acute personality disorders including demonic delusions and/or paranoid schizophrenia". The board also found that she had over-medicated her patients, failed to properly document their treatment.
The 1984 medical board findings from the state of Indiana identified Elaine as Edna Elaine Moses (aka Elaine Moses, aka Elaine Bailey), one of Brown's patients, and charged that Brown had misdiagnosed her with leukaemia and inappropriately treated her with large doses of Demerol and Phenobarbital. The findings also reported that Elaine had to be hospitalized for detoxification of the controlled substances Bailey had given her.
Brown's husband, Daniel Yoder, was arrested on July 29, 1991 in Phoenix, Arizona and extradited to Iowa. Yoder was charged with falsifying motor vehicle registrations and driver’s licenses, and falsifying social security records, allegedly using the social security number of a dead man. During the court proceedings the prosecution amended court documents to include the defendant’s true and correct name as William Joseph Stewart. After initially pleading not guilty, Yoder eventually agreed to a plea bargain in which he plead guilty and was fined $1,976.92, plus a surcharge of $593.08 and court costs.
According to the book "Unbroken Curses" written by Rebecca Brown, during the above mentioned period of persecution, Rebecca "went to God" with a ten point petition concerning their position and the persecution they were experiencing. At this time they lost everything and had to resort to living with another "servant of God". It is said that shortly after God answered Rebecca's petition, through Daniel, her husband, (he did not know that Rebecca approached Jesus Christ with this petition) according to the ten points that Rebecca mentioned before God and in the same order. According to Ms. Brown, God said that "judgement was in their favour", whatever that means. In less than a month everything was restored back to them; a house, a vehicle and everything that was taken from them, were restored to them in abundance - all of the sudden the accusations against them were withdrawn and legal action against them stopped.
According to the book, Yoder's former wife became pregnant shortly before she died in spite of the fact that she had had a hysterectomy when she was young. According to Yoder, she became pregnant because, he believes, it was the only way he could have come to accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour. At the time they were married, they both belogned to a world wide cult. According to that cult's requirements Yoder had to marry this woman. For many years they hated one another, but they remained together, because they would lose all their wealth if they were to get a divorce. It is said that Yoder's wife came to Christ one day, and "fell in love with Christ" and subsequently became a born-again Christian. This was met with strong disapproval from Yoder's family and other cult members. Throughout this time, she tried to persuade Yoder to "turn to Christ", but he refused. It is said that Yoder's wife became pregnant as a result of praying to God that He would grant her a child. Because of her newly found faith in Christ, Yoder's family, who are financially very strong, began persecuting her, however to their surprise Yoder defended and stood by his wife. Both Yoder and his wife fled, but were subsequently kidnapped by hired agents. These hired agents killed Yoder's wife in front of his eyes by torturing her to death in a failed attempt to force her to deny and renounce her faith in Jesus Christ which she never did. The story goes that after she died Yoder was released by these hired agents and was told he was free to go. Yoder then fled to live in seclusion for approximately 3 years. During this time Yoder studied the copy of the Bible which belonged to his now dead wife and subsequently he "found Jesus Christ" as the Son of God and his personal saviour. Not long after this period of seclusion Yoder met Rebecca Brown and they were married soon after. After Yoder left that cult he lost all his earthly wealth. His family rejected him, but today he is said to be a servant of the living God "setting the captives free"
