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Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Escaping Satanism | Riaan Swiegelaar

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.9663 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Riaan Swiegelaar operated as a practicing witch, a psychic, and latterly the founder and leader of the South African Satanist Church, before an earth-shattering supernatural encounter with Jesus changed everything. Released the week of Halloween, he shares from his very real personal experiences that we shouldn’t treat these things lightly. Get ready to be blown away.

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yWQJCRNXBGo

Stay tuned for a bonus Q&A episode with Riaan tomorrow!

Insta: @riaan_swiegelaar | TikTok: @riaanswiegelaar

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0:00.0

No person that actually gets involved in Satanism knows what they're getting involved in.

0:07.0

And once you initiate it, because that's when things get really, like, real.

0:12.0

They said to me that she got out of Satanism and she wrote a book about it, and she's quite a bit of a threat.

0:18.0

So that Halloween, I got about 8,000 people to RSVP to a curse, to curse her.

0:25.2

And nothing happened.

0:27.4

This is the thing that people need to understand as well.

0:29.7

When we are in righteous standing with the father, people can throw curses at you.

0:35.2

Like, nothing's going to happen.

0:41.2

Welcome. People can throw curses at you. Like, nothing's going to happen. Welcome, everybody.

0:42.4

This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired.

0:44.5

Inspired a few new to us.

0:45.4

It's all about meeting different mates of mine from across the globe who are doing beautiful

0:48.7

stuff.

0:49.2

They've got very different stories.

0:50.9

And this week, I've got no doubt you're going to be blown away because, well,

0:54.0

it's Halloween for a start. And so is, I've got no doubt you're going to be blown away because, well, it's

0:54.1

Halloween for a start. And so is Halloween just having a laugh and getting fancy dressed stuff,

0:59.7

or is there something more sinister? That's why we've got with us the wonderful Rianne Sveigalah.

1:05.1

Hi, Rian. Hello. Thank you for having me. It's so awesome being here.

1:09.2

Great to have you. Well, just very briefly, because I want to crack on with this, Riyan was with the South African Satanic Church, and he founded and started that and has got a very, very dramatic story. And, well, interestingly enough, Rian, I sort of came to deeper faith when I was 18 in the Thro-What was the Thranswell, a place called Vipbank. And I was in the bush there working in a Sutu farm school. And that was the first time I came across witchcraft myself. And for example, my teacher refused to eat with me because he thought that there would be someone, one of us would be poisoning each other, and that people poison or cast spells on each other through food. And straight away for a Western audience, that is so off the charts often.

1:49.0

And yet by your story, as we're going to find out, that's extremely domesticated and tame.

1:54.0

So anyway, listen, I just want to kick you off and say, share your story and just challenge us in our, those of us that have got quite a Western

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