ACCURSED OBJECTS and the 'visitor' in the house..
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:.' Isaiah 30:1
‘But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.’ Joshua 7:1
It’s a good thing, that when Nick and I left town to visit my aunt on Thanksgiving, that Andre remained behind to run the B&B and watch the dogs. Fayetteville NY had become a ‘ghost town’. As you are going to see, in more ways than one.
Lately, he goes out to the front door porch when he wants to smoke, rather than the rear porch near the kitchen, since the air can tend to waft into the house from there. This time his front of the house smoking was propitious.
First of all, he reported that - on Thanksgiving - the usually very busy main road in front of our house was deserted. There was not a car in sight. Which made the van with dark windows that drove slowly down Rt 5, stick out like a sore thumb. Our neighbors to the West had left their recycling bins by the street, a sure sign no one was home. But Andre’s presence and smoke, seemed to give the van enough of an alert, that they kept driving by.
But while we were gone, he just told me now, Sunday, he felt an ominous presence in the house – as if someone did come in that didn’t belong there. He described it like a ‘pressure from all sides’, as if he was “walking in the house in a small box.”
Our B&B guests were out visiting family, so except for our dogs (which he was thankful to have around!).. the large house was as empty as the street. The feeling of a presence dogged him all day on Thursday. Nick and I left for Long Island at 12 noon, our guests had already gone out. So he was alone till 10 pm that night – but he felt like he was not alone.
At one point, he went up to his bedroom for something, and his eyes landed on a book. It was a book he had seen in his youth in the Soviet Union, and never forgotten. He thought one day he might find a copy, now that he was in the west. Someone who had visited the United States brought back a large bound volume of ‘Rock & Roll Album Covers’. About a week ago, Andre was at a Salvation Army type of store, and saw a brand new copy of the same book. He bought it for $7. In his bedroom just then, his eyes fell on the book, and he decided to sit and look at it.
Inside the large cocktail table style book, were Album Covers of many groups he’d never heard of, and several that he had.. Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, AC DC, Marylyn Manson, etcetera. What he noticed quickly, was how very dark the book was. He told me it was about 85% dark. The occasional Johnny Cash Album, or James Taylor were like a commercial break in a horror movie. Other than those, the book was turning his stomach, so he brought it out to the street and threw it in the trash.
The presence disappeared.
A few weeks ago, a lovely mom that I’d known from Facebook, was in my area and visited with her 3 boys and her husband. They told me about the frequent temper tantrums that their 3 year old would have. Not just the typical 3 year old stuff, but a rebellious and sometimes snarly attitude he demonstrates towards his parents on a regular basis. I looked at the child, who was over in the corner of my dining room, his head in his dads Cell phone…
I told her right out, ‘Your son’s rebellion is coming from that phone’.
Just like the good senator1 found out, you cannot prevent your child from seeing devils and darkness, if you are going to let them watch television, or use smart phones. It comes when no one expects it.
My reason for writing today is to alert you that devil puts evil images out there for anyone to look at for many reasons... In the first place, he’s leading you to sin.
The prophet David declared,
‘I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes:
I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. Psalm 101:3,4
David learned the hard way, later making this profound confession in Psalm 101, that – that which we rest our eyes on, can lead us to sin, and lead us to have a ‘froward heart’ - like the 3 year old was already developing.
David was even more emphatic though, than just discouraging the sin of the eyes. The sin is much bigger than that.. David made the connection between wicked sights, and wicked people. The things we fix our eyes on, have an effect on ourselves - particularly if we are young impressionable children – FOR A REASON.
That which we SPEAK has power, and that which we SEE has power too. But it can be a diabolical power that is impacting our ‘heart’ out of which are the ‘issues of life’.
Friend, if this were not so, why would the Lord caution so strongly against what we look at saying it would be - ‘..better to pull our eyes OUT and go to heaven, than to go to hell with our eyes intact.’
But there is more to this than that. Objects can carry demons.
That Rock & Roll book full of wicked imagery, was hosting demons of oppression and depression.. They HIT on Andre when Nick and I left. When he was ALONE. Sound familiar?
Have you ever wondered about the suicides of young people? They are at the age we all wish we could go back to. They have life in FRONT of them. A world of things to see and do. Yet some take their own life. Why?
In 2012, when we were living in Virginia, we visited Border’s Books for the last time. They were closing all their stores. I’ll never forget as long as I live, the young people’s section. I know somewhere on one of my old computer hard drives, I still have photos of that area of the store. I wandered through it dumbfounded. EVERY SINGLE BOOK on display was dark.. The topics ranged from warlocks, to death, to suicide, the lusts of the flesh, and needless to say, the book covers told you everything you needed to know. No wonder, I thought at the time, this store is closing.
But what was the cost to the young? This was only one store. These were only books. My son was in high school in Michigan for a short time, and was made to recite - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer’. He was shocked at how utterly depraved some of the imagery was. (I’ll spare you any details) Yet this is considered fodder for the minds of the young and impressionable. And THAT was a ‘Christian’ School.
So Borders closed, but do you think the devil limits his influence with Record Album Covers and Book Jackets? Hell no. He’s got tablets, cell phones, video games, and TELEVISION to provide all the dark imagery he wants - so that the wicked images can lead to associations with wicked ideas, wicked things, and wicked people.
A man of God pointed out once that ‘Television watching is idolatry’. I won’t even explain that. But chew on that. Consider that the late great evangelist David Wilkerson was moved by the holy spirit at the beginnings of what became a huge important ministry, to DITCH HIS TV. The consequence of disobedience in this case, he was told, would have been the loss of his anointing.
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This article could go on and on. I hope that by now you are starting to grasp the fact that the imagery that the devil puts out everywhere for all of us to see, has a purpose.
I’m here to say that if parents eliminated television and tablets in the life of their children, they would grow up HAPPIER, NOT depressed, CLOSER to their parents, and far more able to realize their own potential in creativity and personal development, than they are today with TV and tablets and cell phones hijacking all of their thoughts, mesmerizing their mind, and promoting a darkness that leads to depression, rebellion, and worse.
BUT YOU MOM and DAD have to care enough to do this! YES you may have to spend a bit more time with your own progeny. How often do you sit with them and read them the Gospel stories? Or are you hoping they will ‘read them all someday when they grow up’. Meanwhile the screens their fixating on, are seeing to it that they are learning NOT to read.
Again - objects can carry demons. WE know this from JOSHUA chapter 7 - the record of the Babylonian Garment.
Having it INSIDE of the camp of God’s people, led to the deaths by plague of THOUSANDS. (If you blame the plague, instead of the spiritual root cause - you will never get to the bottom of your own problems). The spirit type on the book that Andre bought, was a spirit of pressure and depression. He had been depressed that day, until he ditched the book and it WENT AWAY! Just like that!
Wicked images, operate the same way that SYMBOLS -rampant in satans world - do. Why do you THINK so many people have tattoos.. skulls on their T-Shirts, snakes on their guitars, and so on. There is a power that is given entrance with these cracks in a man’s armor. (I talk about this in the article ‘THERE ARE NO SYMBOLS in CHRISTIANITY - Link below)
Get with the program saint. Don’t be ignorant. Don’t be foolish. Take control over your life – and your child’s - and remember the commandment of the Lord -
‘GUARD YOUR HEART, FOR OUT OF IT ARE THE ISSUES OF LIFE’. Proverbs 4:23
VJCB
David was ‘forgiven’, but suffered the consequences of the sin of his eyes, for a lifetime.