Lest Steve Jobs grow smug, it's worth noting that it's not just iPhones that are good for performing exorcisms and driving out demons which cause sickness, according Silvoso. As he told top leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation at a May 2010 conference in Cedar Hills, Texas, other technological gadgets that will work just as well as iPhones for demon-casting include normal cellphones, fax machines, and Blackberries.

It gets odder.

Ed Silvoso theologically justified the casting out of demons with iPhones and Blackberries by referring to a passage of the New Testament's Book of Acts in which the Apostle Paul is casting out demons and healing the sick, and Paul is apparently so imbued with divine virtue that some of it seeps into his handkerchief, imbuing it and making it holy so Paul's handkerchief can cast out demons and heal the sick too!

As I describe in my report Transforming Hawaii [part one, part 2], Duke Aiona is closely tied to Ed Silvoso's International Transformation Network ministry. Aiona's participation in Silvoso's ITN has included:

1) starring in an ad plugging a 2005 Silvoso conference in Hawaii, 2) leading an elaborate December 2004 ceremony for Silvoso's people in which Aiona dedicated Hawaii's public schools to Jesus, 3) writing a chapter for a book describing how Silvoso's movement is "transforming" Hawaii, 4) and accepting over $7,000 in gift money (in apparent violation of Hawaii's state ethics rules) paying for Aiona and his wife to travel to Argentina in 2006 to attend one of Silvoso's conferences.

As an interesting addendum, Duke Aiona is proudly Catholic but the movement Ed Silvoso has helped found is virulently anti-Catholic and Ed Silvoso himself has endorsed burning statues of Catholic saints according to Silvoso's colleague C. Peter Wagner, who wrote in his book Hard-Core Idolatry - Facing the Facts (1999, published by the Wagner Institute of Practical Ministry) the following:

On pages 38 and 39 Peter Wagner describes how the Holy Spirit came to Cindy Jacobs and "told her that told her that in [the Argentinian city of] Resistencia they must burn the idols, like the magicians did in Ephesus. Ed Silvoso, Cindy Jacobs and the Resistencia pastors agreed." What sort of items were on the "burn list" ?

"...the kinds of material things that might be bringing honor to the spirits of darkness: pictures, statues, Catholic saints, Books of Mormon, pictures of former lovers, pornographic material, fetishes, drugs, Ouija boards, zodiac charms, good luck symbols, crystals for healing, amulets, talismans, tarot cards, witch dolls, voodoo items, love potions, books of magic, totem poles, certain pieces of jewelry, objects of Freemasonry, horoscopes, gargoyles, native art, foreign souvenirs, and what have you."

As Ed Silvoso told Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, and other leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation at the Convergence 2010 conference, ""It doesn't matter if the Republican or the Democratic candidate wins the governorship [of Hawaii]. Either one is already in the kingdom." There's considerable evidence to suggest that the Democrat Silvoso was referring to was Mufi Hannemann, and that would be notable given that Ed Silvoso, Cindy Jacobs, and Peter Wagner could be found, according to Wagner, in Argentina in the late 1980's trying to burn Books of Mormon.