Familiar Objects
"Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it." — Deuteronomy 7:26
What a Familiar Object Is
Familiar objects are objects to which demons cling.
Anything used in the worship or service of darkness is legal ground for demons. In plain terms, they have a right to attach to and operate through such objects.
This is not superstition. It is stated repeatedly in Scripture.
"The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing." (Deuteronomy 7:25–26)
"But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." (1 Corinthians 10:20)
The idols represent demons. God's command was not merely that Israel should disapprove of them, but that they should be destroyed — because the influence exerted through them would eventually draw the people into worshiping what the objects represented.
The Warning of Achan
Read Joshua 7 again with this in mind.
God commanded Israel to take no spoils from Jericho. The entire city was given over to the service of darkness. One man took some articles and hid them.
"Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff." (Joshua 7:11)
The result: the entire army of Israel was defeated in its next battle.
This is a solemn warning. If we have not cleaned out our homes as well as our lives, we will be defeated every time we try to fight.
The Kinds of Things Meant
The list is nearly endless, but common categories include:
Objects used in the practice of occult arts of any kind. Music, recordings, posters, and clothing tied to explicitly occult content. Materials from occultic role-playing fantasy games. Artifacts and figures of the gods of other religions — including souvenirs bought while traveling. Objects used ritually in religious systems that are not biblical Christianity. Anything connected with lodge or fraternal ritual. Literature and recordings on the occult and pagan religions. Subliminal-suggestion recordings.
All such materials must be destroyed — not sold, not donated, not stored.
The believers at Ephesus set the pattern:
"Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver." (Acts 19:19)
They burned an enormous fortune rather than recoup it. And the very next verse records that "so mightily grew the word of God and prevailed."
Point to Ponder
If your house is not cleaned out as well as your life, you will be defeated every time you try to fight.
Verse to Remember
"Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it." — Deuteronomy 7:26
Question to Consider
What is in my house whose origin and purpose I have never once asked about?
Today's Practice
Search your house. Properly, not casually. Set aside an evening at minimum.
Pray first, asking the Holy Spirit to show you what your natural eye will pass over. Do it with your spouse or a believing friend if you can.
Then look everywhere. Shelves, walls, display cabinets. Attic, basement, garage, storage. The boxes you have not opened since the last move. Jewelry — examine every pendant, ring, and charm for symbols you have never identified. Books and media. Games. Clothing with symbols on it. Inherited items. Souvenirs from travel. Gifts from people whose spiritual standing you do not know.
Then act. Destroy what was made for another master — burn what will burn, break what will not. Do not sell it. Do not give it away. Do not pass the problem to someone else.
As each item goes, say: "In the name of Jesus Christ, I renounce this and everything it represents. I break every curse attached to it and command every spirit associated with it to leave my home and my family now and never return."
Prayer
Father, I have furnished my home by taste and never once by discernment. I bought what was beautiful and I never asked what it was.
Open my eyes as I go through my own house. Slow me down where I am moving too fast. Do not let me excuse anything because it was expensive, because it was a gift, or because I am fond of it.
In the name of Jesus Christ I break every curse attached to anything in this house, and I command every spirit that has had any right to be here through any object to leave now and never return.
Give me the resolve of the believers at Ephesus, who burned a fortune in public rather than recover it — and give me what followed, when Your word grew mightily and prevailed.
This house is Yours. Let there be nothing in it that grieves You. Amen.
They burned a fortune rather than recoup it. The very next verse says the word of God grew mightily.