The Spiritual Realm is Real and Active - Demonic Attachments to Objects
You may have noticed that I tend to refer to previous articles that I have written as I begin to write a new article. This is simply because as I write, I develop a train of thought that will sometimes include other topics that I should touch on, even as I'm working on whatever I am writing at the time. My referral back to the earlier article is so that, if you are interested, you can look back and get background on what I am about to talk about. Well, this article is another example of that.
Previously I have written pretty extensively about what I understand about the spiritual realm; there are too many articles for me to link them here, but you can find them on my home page; the titles almost all start with the words "The Spiritual Realm is Real and Active".
This knowledge is not complete nor all-encompassing, but I think that I have learned a lot over the years and I want to share that knowledge with you and hopefully encourage you and teach you how to take authority of your dominion in the spiritual realm. In my last article, I just touched on the fact that there are things that should be known about spiritual attachments to items; I used the phrase "accursed things". I have discussed releasing spiritual attachments from people and I have also discussed how to clear your home and property of unwanted spiritual beings and how to protect against them re-entering, but this is still another aspect of spiritual warfare that people should be aware of.
This information is based on a situation that I had to deal with maybe a year ago. I may have told this story before, but it is the best example that I have to offer in description of the information that I want to share.
Our church, or maybe more specifically a certain gentleman in our church, decided that he wanted to show the latest Kendrick Brothers' movie, "The Forge", as a men's movie night. If you are unfamiliar with this movie or the Kendrick Brothers in general, this is a good movie, as are all of the movies that the brothers produce; full of Christian content and morality lessons. Some of the early films are a little cheesy and low budget, but they are still good and the production quality and acting have come a long way.
Anyway, in this movie there is a scene that involves a sword. The main character is enveloped into a Christian men's group and there comes a time when he is gifted a sword that comes with an object lesson. The gentleman in my church liked this idea so much that he wanted to re-enact it at the men's movie night.
He began the night with a short devotional that included a part of the same object lesson using a sword that he had owned for many years. When he asked for a volunteer to help him, the men practised our usual quickness to volunteer for something that we don't understand. That is to say that nobody stepped forward right away. Now I had seen this movie before and I knew what this gentleman wanted to do, so I waited a few beats, but stepped forward to volunteer when it was evident that nobody else was going to do so without prodding.
We completed the first part of the planned object lesson and then we watched the movie. After the movie was done, the gentleman called me up again and completed the object lesson, finishing by offering the sword to me to keep.
If you knew me, you would likely know that I have wanted a sword for many years, because swords are just cool. This desire actually goes back at least to my honeymoon and the cabin that my wife and I stayed at where there was a sword mounted on the wall. It looked, to my untrained eye, to be a military style of sword possibly from the era of the American Civil War. I had absolutely no option but to take it down, pull it from it's scabbard and play with it. It was absolutely necessary; every man knows this to be true. If you are a woman reading this, go ahead and ask any man and they will verify this as a non-negotiable fact. But as much and as long as I have wanted to have a sword, there was something that was causing me hesitate about accepting this particular sword offered to me on this particular night, and I didn't know what it was.
The evening continued like all good church functions do, with food and fellowship to be shared afterwards. During this time the gentleman and I got to talking and he told what he knew about the history of the sword. I don't recall now if it was a brother, a brother-in-law or a friend who worked in either the theatre or prop business, but this sword had been made to be used as a prop in some type of production. The sword itself was about three to three and a half feet long with a straight, dulled (for safety purposes) double-edged blade. It had a classic two-pronged guard immediately above the grip and the pommel of the grip consisted of a white wolf's head with red eyes. For those not familiar with the anatomy of a sword, the guard is above the hand and is designed to stop an opponent's blade from sliding down your own blade and cutting your hand and the pommel is the end piece of the sword that is closest to the wielder of the sword when it is held outstretched.
This wolf's head was somewhat disconcerting to me in its appearance, but I didn't think that was what was making me uneasy about accepting the sword. At the least I figured that I could paint the eyes black or brown myself, which I thought would improve the appearance of the wolf. I even considered the possibility of replacing the pommel with something completely different. I think the gentleman sensed my apprehension about accepting the sword and asked me about it. Since I didn't have a good reason to decline the offer, I finally accepted the sword and at the end of the night, I placed it on the floor in the backseat of my truck and headed for home.
I still felt an uneasiness and I knew that it was related to that sword. It was almost like I could sense the sword right behind me. I began praying about it as I was driving and I got the distinct feeling like I did not want to keep that sword, and I definitely did not want to bring it into my house. The Lord did not tell me why this was, but the feeling was unmistakable. So even before I got home I had decided that the sword was going to stay as far away from my house as possible, but since I intended to return the sword to the gentleman, I didn't want to leave it out in the elements until I was going to be seeing him again.
I pulled onto my yard, drove to an outbuilding, and hung the sword on a nail on the wall in the building. Then I went inside and told my family about my evening and the sword.
It was a couple of days before I was going to see the gentleman again, so the sword hung in that building over those two days. In the meantime, somebody that I know who has the gift of spiritual sight was at our house and asked me about that outbuilding, because apparently there were some angels standing guard around it, facing the building with swords drawn! They concurred with me that the sword needed to go!
That sealed the decision for me; that sword was leaving! It was Sunday morning when we went to church that the sword left my property. I still wasn't sure exactly how I was going to explain to the gentleman why it was that I was returning the sword, but I was intent on limiting my possession of it to the very minimal possible. When I got to church, I found the gentleman and asked him to come outside with me, because I was not about to bring a cursed sword into the church. I led him to my truck and returned the sword to him. I told him that I believed that there was something demonic attached to the sword and that I was not interested in keeping it.
I went on to recommend to him that he cut that sword into pieces and discard of it as soon as possible. I believe I also told him that if it was mine, I would find a way to melt it down to make sure that it was as destroyed as possible. He accepted the sword with a look of confusion on his face, but asked no further questions.
Recently my wife and I were visiting with another couple from the church, and the lady recounted to my wife that they had recently heard about this incident from the gentleman and his wife as those two couples visited together. Our friends had asked the gentleman if he had indeed destroyed the sword as per my recommendation, and he replied that he had not. I think the reason for this is that this gentleman believes that he is "a better Christian" than I am and he therefore discounts anything that I have to say. This is not a Godly attitude to have, but he has stated to my face that he does not trust me in regards to some certain aspects.
I don't know if he still has the sword.
To this day, I do not know what was attached to that sword. I have no idea how it became attached or why. I don't know if the attachment was intentional or incidental. These things are not my concern. I also don't know if God would have granted me the authority to rid that sword of whatever it was that was attached had I felt that I was allowed to keep it. I just know that I had a strong feeling that the sword was to be destroyed and that I was not the one to do so. This importance to destroy the sword infers to me that whatever was attached either could not have been removed, or that God wanted that spirit to be "homeless" for some reason.
This gentleman is older than me; well into retirement age. When he eventually passes, unless I have reason to ask before then, I intend to ask his widow if the sword still exists, and if so, I will ask her for permission to destroy it myself. I cannot stand by while that sword potentially goes to the home of someone else who will have no knowledge of what will come with the sword. This gentleman knows that there is an attachment on that sword and it is now his duty to deal with it. One way or another, I will try to make sure that the sword no longer exists if the gentleman fails in his God-given task.
As I began looking for an image to attach to this article, I decided to search for a sword with a white wolf's head as the pommel. I thought that if it was used in a theatre production, it was possible that the craftsman posted a picture of his finished work. When I saw the image that I pasted at the top of this article, I was weirded out at the similarities with the sword that I refer to in this article; the similarities as so striking that I wonder if the prop sword pommel was designed after this one. This could literally be a design drawing for the sword pommel that I had. As it turns out, this drawing is at least inspired by a named sword from the T.V. show Game of Thrones; a show which no true Believer should ever allow to, quite literally, darken their devices. Is there any wonder that there was an attachment?
I don't really know why I felt compelled to share this story. There is not much of a lesson to learn from it except that we need to be aware that objects can have demonic attachments, that those attachments may not be able to be removed, and that sometimes the object will need to be destroyed. I encourage all of you to remain subtle to the leadings of the Holy Spirit. My gifting is not necessarily the detection or identification of spiritual beings, but the Spirit led me to understand that there was a problem with that sword, that I was supposed to keep it out of my home. Then He also sent me someone with the special gifting to tell me important information that supported the feelings and instructions that I was receiving.
That is the testimony of two witnesses as Jesus talks about in John 8:17, which is in reference to Deuteronomy 19:15b, where it says, "on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed." It is important for us to strive to reach a place in our walk with God that we will not require the affirmation of another Believer to know and understand what is right and what we are supposed to do. God granted me the benefit of outside confirmation in this case, but He does want us to be so close to Him that we can sense His heart on any issue, and that closeness can save us from bad decisions and bad directions in this life. It is my desire that all of God's children will attain to that level of closeness with Him.
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