Suppose you are asked to enter a decrepit property to help in reclamation. On a structure you encounter a painted pentagram with the goat’s head symbol. Does it spook you? Aside from the possibility that such a symbol might be a marker of criminal activity, does the mere presence of such graffiti make you wary of spiritual powers of Darkness?
If so, you probably have an American mind. A Hebrew mind would not react so. Americans carry a huge burden of superstition about visual symbols. Hebrew minds aren’t visually oriented like that. Rather, a Hebrew mind would think about how silly it was that people imagine there is power in visual representations. Hebrew mind = biblical mind = Christian mind.
Virtually every current symbol for Satan and Satanism derives from recent history. Indeed, the very concept of “Satanism” is quite modern. For the most part, it is simply secularism in disguise. It was built on the desire to mock religion itself by turning everything upside down. Thus, they don’t actually worship at all. They hold rituals as mere mockery, mistaking religious exercise for genuine faith.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of damaged souls who will buy into Satanism as some real spiritual power. Nothing they do can reduce your covenant hedge. There are precautions you might need to learn, but they are rooted not in esoteric knowledge, but simply a biblical lore that has been lost, buried under the rubble of Hellenism. If you embrace biblical mysticism, you will instinctively know that you carry divine power in all situations and fear nothing.
In other words, virtually all of the visual symbols we’ve been told to associate with powers of Darkness are meant to mock faith. That so many fools actually believe that the rituals and symbols mean anything testifies to the idiocy of people in general. Westerners are notorious for superstition, that nagging sense of nameless fear about something they don’t understand. They don’t understand because they ignore the Hebrew lore about the Spiritual Realm (AKA, the Unseen Realm).
At no time in the record of Scripture was Satan granted power through symbols. He was not appointed any symbols. Geometric designs or pagan lore do not empower him. There is no ritual to summon him; that’s all nonsense to deceive fools. Satan has always ruled through proxies because he’s confined to the Abyss. He’s allowed to report to God in person only on certain occasions (see the introduction to Job). He roams the earth, not because he owns any part of the natural world, but because fallen human souls are his turf. In a more clinical sense, he rules over humans whose hearts belong to him. The idea he roams the world is not meant literally.
The ultimate power of Satan in your life is your agreement. You are born under his authority, but the moment you embrace the Covenant, his authority is broken. You are still stuck in his realm, and your mortal flesh still clings to his lies, but he no longer owns you. It’s not a question of spiritual birth, but of your choice to submit to Christ and embrace His Covenant. Spiritual birth only enables it.
Neither the Watchers nor their Nephilim children are interested in manipulating the natural world; they manipulate people. Their sole interest is deceiving humans about what God has provided and promised. At times they have taken advantage of the fundamental flexibility of human reality to give the appearance of great power over natural forces, but the whole point was deceiving humans. The other big lie is to hide that flexibility under the false belief that reality is stable and ultimately knowable by human intellect.
Back to our original scenario: The biggest problem you would face is not some residual power in the symbols, but your own cultural and biblical ignorance paired with a lack of sensitivity to the Holy Spirit’s guidance. There are a lot of people in the world who have yielded to the lies of Satan’s allies, believing all kinds of nonsense, but you don’t have to kneel before such mythology.
Paul said idols — symbols — mean nothing. The only problem with them has always been the captivity of the human heart, never mind to what symbols. It could be the Bronze Serpent, a temple to Cybele, the star of Rompha, etc.; they have no more power than a crucifix that is historically inaccurate. Icons and artifacts have no spiritual power. Your submission to Christ is power.
