Chapters:
1. Television Destroys us Physically2. Television Destroys us Mentally
3. Television Destroys us Spiritually
4. Image of the Beast: Motion Picture
5. What I Saw I Cannot Unsee: the spirit of abomination
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Television Destroys Us Physically
Studies show that watching television increases the viewers risk of death from all causes.[1] Television causes more health risks than all other sedentary activities.[2] In particular obesity is on the rise in the world and has more than tripled in the past few decades.[3] Looking at old photographs from the 50’s before widespread TV, it is rare to see overweight individuals. Television has taken over our leisure time. Rather than go outside for a walk or exercise, the path of least resistance is to sit back and veg out. As opposed to participation in sports as an active member, which would benifit our health, we prefer to passively watch the professionals battle it out on television while we lay back collecting calories.
Avarice-inspired advertisements assault us with a steady stream of the unhealthiest of nourishments, bombarding our brain until after hundreds of views, we subconsciously began to crave their crap that is offered to us. Like the Babylonian butler offering to Daniel the devil’s delicacies, television subtly steals our natural desire to eat what will edify us, replacing it with a perilous platter of processed carbs and calories. We may think these ads have no effect on us, but they obviously do. Why else would the corporations spends billions on televised ads anually except that they work? Unfortunately, children are the victims being the most succeptible group to junk food advertisement
Television usage is one of the main causes of type 2 diabetes. The excess of food intake, lack of sleep, and lack of exercise all combine to cause an diabetes epidemic. Unbelievably this disease has actually quadrupled since 1980, leading to over 400 million sufferers presently (according to a study performed by the W.H.O.).[4] This disease is not something to take lightly, given all the long-term health effects it brings. Diabetes is the fifth most common cause of death in the world and reduces a person's lifespan by an average of 10 years.[5]
Proverbs 19:24, “24 A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.”
Like the “slothful sluggard” of Proverbs, we bury our hand in our bag of potatoes chips…. it is like a laboursome activity to bring the junk food to our mouth. To lift the remote control only ads to the burden. The mere act of rising from our slothful state prostrate on the sofa we imagine to be a herculean feat.
In addition to the previously mentioned ailments, as if they were not bad enough we must now add the indignity of impotence to the list. Recent research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has shown that watching 20 or more hours of television cuts down a man’s sperm count by half.[6] It appears that just as television impairs our ability to reproduce disciples of Christ spiritually, our natural reproduction weakens to reflect it in a sense.
The average person in the modern world only attain 6.5 hours of sleep per day. At the same time, 4hrs is the average daily television a modern adult takes in. We could just knock off 90mins of TV each day and we would have a healthy 8hrs of sleep, but instead, television is given the pre-eminence in our lives.
Our sleep is one of the important areas of life we can get cheated out of by not watching our time. Watching television before bed will also result in a less restful sleep due to the 'blue light' the screen releases. Blue light from electronics tricks the brain into thinking it is still daytime and throws off our natural cycle. This impairs our ability to transition to 'deep sleep' which is the most restful phase of sleeping.
Psalm 127:2, “It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.”
Sleep is spoken of as a 'gift of God.' We stay up late and even pull “all-nighters” to watch our movie marathons. Rather than simply enjoy the blessing of sleep, we are like the men of Job 24:13-17, “They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof… For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death.”
The ancients considered the physical body to be a reflection of the soul from the principle of “as above, so below.” Many of the great Greek philosophers considered physical exercise equal in importance to spiritual activity. In other words if our physical body is unhealthy it will drag down our soul’s health also. This has been confirmed by modern science in that physical and mental/emotional health are strongly linked. Excercise tends to help those struggling with depression and is often one of the first things prescribed to those affected. Biblically our body is considered to be spiritual, in the sense that it is a temple of God’s Spirit:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20, “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
All things considered, it cannot be denied the destruction TV has caused mankind in the physical and bodily realm. Obesity, diabetes, impotence, slothfulness. The combination of sitting for long periods, snacking, hundreds of advertisements of unhealthy foods, and less hours of sleep all combine to our bodily detriment. Is it worth it to keep watching when we see all these effects on our health and lifespan? Will we look back later on in life with appreciation or regret for these hours spent?
Television Destroys Us Mentally
Lowers IQ and attention span.
Turns us into sheep(le).
Watching television from a young age causes the brain’s physical structure to alter and change shape for the worse. Each extra hour spent in front of television also directly corresponds to reduced verbal IQ scores.[1] Attention span is also destroyed by TV watching.[2] Even the ‘Baby Einstein’ series was discovered to be a fraud. Despite its educational goal, it was discovered that it was actually dumbing down the youngsters who watched, resulting in a smaller vocabulary. Disney was forced to offer full refunds to any parent who had purchased these. [3]
The problems go beyond just children however.
Orienting Reflex and Attention Span
A secret trick in television programming is the manipulation of the “orienting reflex” to retain viewer attention. The orienting reflex is a part of human biology and kicks in when bizarre changes in surroundings occur. The viewer becomes transfixed as their brain tries to comprehend the rapid frame cuts, and the constant zooming in and out of the scene angles. This causes a hypnotic effect where it is hard to break away from the activity going on on the screen.Average film scene lengths are decreasing to take advantage of this. In the 1930’s the average shot lasted 12 seconds. Many movies included long scenes of dialogue without switching filming angles or location of characters. The modern average scene however, last only 2.5 seconds.[4] With such a short frame rate, our psychology results in a fixation to the screen.
It is often quoted that the attention span of the modern human is now lower than that of a goldfish. Television has much to do with this change. “Real life” does not feature rapid scene changes, flashing colors, constant goofy characters. Normal life moves at a far slower pace than on television. Events taking months in a story are compressed into 90minutes for TV. It is not a surprise, watching this rapid pace of programming since childhood, we have trouble holding attention in real life, which becomes simply dull by comparison. Attention span was never considered to be a problem in the pre-electronic era. In former times it was normal for people to gather and listen to a speech or sermon for hours. Nowadays, there are many popular Youtube channels offering “one minute lessons” on various subjects. Obviously not much can be learned in one minute, no perspective of both sides of an issue can be shown, no details or depth, but we have learned to lack the patience to sit and listen to someone talk while retaining information.
TV News is just as bad as other programming
Some people believe watching news on TV is better than viewing other programs. This is a dangerous mindset however. TV news tends to be very politically biased is favour of left wing social issues. They also promote unimportant issues such as sports and actors/actresses relationships and ignore the trends which are actually meaningful. Alternate views besides the mainstream are left out from programming.
An excellent example of the danger of relying on TV news is the gulf war coverage. This was the first fully televised war. People who watched news programs about the gulf war were less informed about the conflict than those who abstained from watching.
“Researchers found that heavy TV watchers were more likely to support the war. They were also less likely to be well informed about its causes and consequences.” It goes to show the usefulness of TV news when people rely on it to be informed and come out less informed. We can also see a danger in the propaganda-like effects TV news has, in that the continuous viewing of these news programs ended up influencing many to support war and ignore the government and military’s poor decisions. For instance, prior to the war the US communicated to the Iraqis that America would not become involved in a war with Kuwait.
“What our study revealed, in fact, is that TV news seems to confuse more than it clarifies. Even after controlling for all other variables, we discovered that the correlation between TV watching and knowledge was actually quite often a negative one.
Our respondents were divided into three groups based upon how much television per day they reported watching -- light viewers (less than 1.5 hrs), medium viewers (1.5 to 3 hrs), and heavy viewers (more than 3 hrs). Using these divisions we found that overall, the more TV people watched, the less they knew.
For example, light viewers were more than twice as likely than heavy viewers to know that in the pre-invasion discussions between Iraq and the U.S., the American position had been to indicate that no action would be taken against Hussein should he invade Kuwait. Conversely, 70% of heavy viewers versus 59% of light viewers thought that the U.S. had informed Iraq that they would protect Kuwait with the use of force. Concerning past U.S. relations with Iraq, heavy viewers were less likely than light viewers (46% to 67%) to know that the U.S. had supported Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war. On the issue of the political structure of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, heavy viewers were more than twice as likely to wrongly identify them as democracies than light viewers. In regards to the question of other occupations, 40% of light viewers versus 23% of heavy viewers were able to identify Israel's occupation of other lands in the Middle East. Light viewers were twice as likely to know about the Palestinian uprising on the West Bank (the Intifada) than heavy viewers. Overall these results are a sad indictment of television's priorities regarding the conveying of relevant information at a time of national crisis.
Our own monitoring of the coverage suggests that the problem here is one of proportion. All the facts that we asked people about have, at one time or another, been reported. Their overall presence in the news coverage is,
nevertheless, very low. When compared to the presence of information about the mechanics of war or the Administration's view of the situation, it is clear that information gets lost. Whatever else this signifies, it is not good journalism.
Television's tendency to present a one-sided view is compounded by the economic imperatives of a system funded by advertising. The upbeat tone of the coverage was seen as necessary to retain advertisers, since nobody wants their product surrounded by images of death, pain and destruction. The problem, from the point of view of journalistic objectivity, is that this upbeat tone has played into the hands of the Bush Administration's attempt to sell the public the war policy.
One of our most striking findings concerned the perception of how much damage the intense bombing of Iraq and Iraqi troops had caused. When we asked people to estimate the number of Iraqi deaths thus far, light viewers gave a mean estimate of 9,848 deaths (by February 4, 1991), while heavy viewers gave a mean figure of 789 (8% of the light viewers' estimate). The question here is not about accuracy but about relative perceptions -- clearly heavy viewers were more inclined than light viewers to buy into the idea that the war was being fought cleanly and efficiently with "smart" bombs that were only damaging buildings. The lack of visual pictures of actual dead people no doubt helps to cultivate this image of cleanliness.” [5]
SOURCE: The Gulf War: A Study of the Media, Public Opinion, and Public KnowledgeDisplacement of Creativity:
Just as ‘junk food’ may not be toxic in and of itself, but poisons through displacement of nutritious foods, even seemingly ‘good’ television shows operate in the same way be using up the time we would otherwise spend on creative hobbies. Many businesses and entrepreneurial activities began with someone becoming skilled by means of their hobby activity. Doing something creative with our recreation time exercises the mind.
We can see a metaphor from the farm. Farmers have mentioned how sometime out of sympathy certain of them will try to help a baby chick that is struggling to hatch from its egg. This does more harm that good however, because it needs to struggle for its life to break free from the egg in order to exercise its limbs and gain its strength.
Television coddles us in the same way in that it offers passive entertainment without requiring any exercise of creativity on our part. Like the assisted baby chick, rather than struggle against boredom by using our creative faculties, we are assisted with this dead activity, causing our creative energy within to die.
Even video games can be mentally healthy in comparison to the television, as long as there is discipline and moderation in time spent. A computer game can be like a puzzle, in that it requires our creative input and exercising our problem-solving ability. If you are wanting to give up the TV watching but want a similar recreational activity for times of feeling tired and not wanting to do much physically, you must want to look at gaming as one activity. Many jobs today also require screens or hand-eye coordination. It wouldn’t hurt for everyone to game a little, especially if it helps displace TV-watching time. Obviously all screen time needs to be in moderation however, because many of the negative aspects of television will still apply although gaming is not as mentally passive.
Displacement of Literacy: Priesthood of all believers
We also have to consider how the pastime of reading fiction for entertainment has become less and less popular. Fiction exercises our imagination. We have to imagine each scene read about and go into another world in our mind. It is an exercise compared to television but far more of a joy. Television feeds us images rather than making us imagine them in our own mind. It kills our imagination ability to rely on this so much. I believe everyone should read fiction once and a while for this reason. Fiction also helps us with vocabulary just as much as realistic non-fiction so it is not a waste of time by any means.
It is a major struggle to get literacy rates up despite massive funding for public education. This is largely due to television displacing reading in leisure time. Suppression of literacy is historically one of the main means of control over the human race. It is well known that slaves in America were forbidden to read or write, as their masters understood it would cause them to realize there is more to life. The protestant reformation was successful largely due to the invention of the printing press and the ability to bypass the established Roman Catholic church system and communicate truth directly to the masses. One of the reformation's great objectives was to teach people that rather than relying on someone else to be a priest, each of us is created to be a priest in our relationship with God
Literacy is a function of the priesthood. Historically, in all cultures it was the priests that would be learned in reading and writing. Priesthood of all believers means literacy is an important skill for all followers of Christ. We are all meant to be a priest with access to God.
Television destroys us mentally. It lowers IQ and attention span, causes our creativity to wither, distracts us with unworthy and biased 'news'... last but not least it destroys our literacy which is a foundation of us being a community of priests.
Television Destroys Us Spiritually
Compromise of faith
Television shows cause us to compromise the faith. As we grow older, it is normal to believe we are “mature” and can watch higher rated films. The truth is the opposite, as we grow more mature, God’s standard he expects from us increases correspondingly. It is common sense that we should be holding ourselves to a higher standard with greater age and maturity, rather than lowering our standards. This is the opposite of the modern day television “ratings” however, where the most debauched shows are rated “M” for “mature audiences.” This is a subtle challenge to our pride, implying immaturity or weakness if you do not wish to watch this category. Ever since youth, people will brag about which violent movie or horror show they were bold enough to watch. Instead, it is important to realize our inner spirit is sensitive. We should be trying to protect our spirit just as if it were a child....
We gradually pick up on the terrible social and family attitudes by being exposed to it so much. Becoming desensitized to filth like the frog that is slowly heated in the water, the frog gradually desensitizes to the heat and does not even feel the need to jump out of the pan when the boiling point is reached. One does not want to cut off a show that they have already invested many episodes in, once it begins to show terrible values and perversion.
Early Safeguard: “The Hays Code”
Early on the danger of the television was obvious. It showed amazing success when used in propaganda by both allied and axis powers during the second world war. It was generally believed that a guard of some sort would be necessary, a restraint on television, to prevent the nation from losing its moral foundation. The idea was, since television had been proven to have such a powerful ability to conform the mind in wartime propaganda, the same effects would work powerfully to corrupt the values of the general population.
The “Hays code” was established as this guard. It banned sex related talk, successful revenge in the plot, crime succeeding, or dirty language. The was encoded as law in the United States until 1967, and all filmmakers were required to conform to it when designing films.
What we can take away from this, is that a “normal” show today would have been considered pornographic when television was first invented. Perhaps the Hays code may have been extreme, but what we can learn from it is that our standards have been slipping to an unreal amount. We have lost the concern the original pioneers of television had for the possibility of mass shifting of cultural values by this mode of entertainment. It is obvious how television empowers lust. In addition, many young women are pressured to conform to a unrealistic body image and are shown as objects of lust. Men also gain unrealistic sexualized expectations for what a woman should have to look like to be considered beautiful.
Conformed to whose image?
The problem with television goes beyond simply the “bad” or “perverted” shows and scenes. Even without counting those, there is an overall “worldliness” pervasive throughout tv programming. This is most clear in regards to family values. Father’s are consistently portrayed to be passive and stupid, not at all interested in decision making, and leaving the wife to take the leadership role in the house. Children are always shown as having no respect to elders. Teenagers are always shown to be rebellious, as if it is a ‘given’ that they have to rebel… When we soak ourselves in the viewing of these attitudes, behaviours, and mindsets day in a day out for years and years, we find that we have as Christians, become unquestionable conformed to the image of the world, and do not see Christ reflected through us.
Matthew 5:29-30, “If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.”
We can think of our television as an “eye” in the sense that it is the gateway of light and of our vision. “Light” has the power to transform what it contacts. Think of a laser etching stonework. Spiritually we are transformed into what we behold….
2 Corinthians 3:18, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
We can be transformed into God’s image by beholding the Word and through worship. On the other hand, we are conformed to the world’s image by beholding the worldly attitudes, mindsets, and behaviours which are displayed on television. It is a battle of the Word vs. the World for whose image we will become. We cannot keep sitting on the fence of compromise, trying to serve both Christ and ‘self’ simultaneously. A sacrifice must be made.
As a youngster I used to love the sport of bowling…. My bowling coach used to always say one thing: “keep your eye on the middle arrow.” By keeping one’s gaze on the middle arrow of the bowling lane, it would subconsciously affect the way a person releases the ball, so that it was more likely to land on top of that arrow and hit the middle section of bowling pins. The idea being that what we behold becomes our destination and aim. When training a new driver, they are taught not to keep looking off the side of the road in fear or at the lines at the edge…. rather, they are instructed to “keep your gaze where you intend to drive toward.” What we look at and what we behold becomes our destination. Spending so much time with our gaze toward the television will cause us to descend to its moral and spiritual level, and our behaviour will begin to conform to it. It will become our destination.
This principle has been at the core of many powerful ministers of God.
Recently I was reading a book called “Rees Howells: Intercessor” about a powerful man of God in the early half of the 20th century. It mentions his lack of participation in worldly amusements:
“Even the normal pleasures of the world had no attraction for him. He would walk miles to hear someone preach and bring him “under the influence of God,” but he “wouldn’t cross the road to hear a concert.” Only once did he even attend a football match. As the crowd were “shouting and bawling” around him, he felt it was not the place for him, and vowed that, when he got his feet out of it, he would never go to such a place again. He never did.”
These people understood that to operate in the power of God, it is necessary to take care in the type of amusement that is allowed in one’s life. What we spend time looking at, we become conformed to in our nature.
Romans 12:2, “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Ephesians 5:11-12 “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.”
1 John 2:15-16, “Do not love the world nor the things in the world If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.”
Christian television??
Some will say that television can be “either a force for great good or for great evil.” I beg to disagree. It is a stretch to find even minor good from this technology. There is potential for mass evil however. It is proposed that Christian TV channels can be a great source of evangelism and preaching. This is dubious. Most people I have talked to, are turned off from TV evangelists and get a worse view of our faith. TV-evangelists claim to had led millions to Christ. It is equally true, however, that they have turned off millions. These people tend to preach a rose-colored-glasses get-rich-quick gospel of “how to get blessed” “God’s principles to help you become wealthy” “God is going to come through for you.” They rarely preach uncomfortable messages on repentance from sin and from what is displeasing to God. It is a human-centric soothsaying for itching ears, not the real God-centered anointed preaching that feeds a person’s spirit.
Christian TV channels tend to worship the nation of Israel and the Jews. An unreal amount of programming time is spent on this. It is almost as if these channels are catered to the religion of Judaism. Christian TV preachers also always give a blank cheque of unquestioning support to the Republican Party, mainly because of their mutual political views regarding abortion and homosexual marriage. They fail to hold the republican’s feet to the fire however, or to preach against the greed, elitism, lack of concern for the poor and general stubborn mindset, the sins at the core of that party and its members. The republicans will never change if they know they will always get a blank cheque of support from Christians no matter what….
The TV host always agrees with guest on Christian channels. You will never see a disagreement or dispute on these channels. They preplan everything where the host and guest take turns praising each other and exchanging positive compliments. It is painful to try to watch this for more than a few minutes…. Watching a secular interview is always more satisfying, where the host will actually challenge the guest with some hard or critical questions, questions of substance. Overall, watching Christian television is no better than secular programming, it is best to unsubscribe from cable altogether. Just like (1 Samual 15) Saul tried to spare king Agag and his favorites of the spoils of war, we all have a few favorite channels we would like to spare. In the end, it is better to get rid of the wasteful expense of cable entirely rather than let a few favorite channels hold you back.
Meditation
In times of old when night fell and man was no longer able to perform work in the darkness, there was a certain amount of leisure time even in the most hardworking societies. The time of peace in the evening could be spent daydreaming, meditating, thinking, and wondering about the true questions in the universe. There is a certain beauty in “doing nothing” because we are actually doing something when spending time apart from the stress and distraction of our world.
In place of this, with our modern invention of artificial lighting, we always feel pressured to do something. We work late into the night, and then entertain ourselves with the television. In place of communion with our own thought, with God’s thoughts, and conversation with others around us, we have replaced these by our colorful and flashy box of entertainment. There is always a movie to watch, especially with streaming services now. We always have something good we want to see at the click of a button. This has removed the time for one’s thoughts with one’s own self. We don’t step out of our trap in the cycle of life long enough to wonder why we do the things we do, why we spend time on the activities we do. We are like the biblical Martha who was so focused on all the things we have to distract us, she did not see the importance of stepping away and spending time with the One of true value.
Image of the Beast
motion picture
Image of the Beast
In the book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible, chapter 13 we find an powerful prophecy for the end times. This has to do with the “beast” which leads astray the human race. Interestingly, many of the verses have parallels and fit the pattern of the television closely.
Television continually shows blasphemy against God, “his name” (the Lord’s name taken in vain countless times), “his tabernacle” (refers to how the church and Christians in general are so badly portrayed on television and news).
Television has two “rabbit ear” antennae ("two horns like a lamb") and its content is to deceive and corrupt us ("spake as a dragon").
Television is referred to as a “motion picture.” The “life” being given to the “image” is the sense that it becomes a moving picture. The Greek word for “worship” means to prostrate oneself before, i.e. lay in front of the tv.
There is an idolatry to television. We stage our furniture around it and put it at the center, the focal point of our living room in place of God. It sits on its pedestal as if an altar. On our couches we lay down before it, as if to Baal. TV is the ultimate idol.
Mixture of Light and Darkness:
Revelation 13:1, “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea”
Job 41:31-32, “He [Leviathan] maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary[white].”
When first turning on the television, the screen is “static noise” black and white dots. The black and white noise symbolizes chaos and the sea the beast rises from. It can also represent ‘foam.’ One of the common signs of demonic possession is to foam at the mouth. The ancients believed the sea represented chaos, in contrast to the stability of the land. Most ancient creation stories have to do with a deity battling a chaos monster. In the biblical case, leviathan corresponds to the chaos monster. Just as leviathan emerges from the sea in Revelation 13, the deception of television programming emerges from the black and white sea of “static noise” chaos.
Going further, the sea of black and white dots symbolizes the mixture of light and darkness. It is a symbol of spiritual compromise, as our soul becomes the cauldron where the enlightenment of Christ becomes contaminated by mixing with the darkness of wicked television shows.
2 Corinthians 6:14-17, “….for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?.... Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,”
The size of one's TV can be one factor determining the size of the demonic portal and what level of demonic activity is able to gain access. Black mirrors are commonly used by occultists for divination with demonic spirits. Television is a "black mirror" and can allow demonic access as a portal. Large idols are built in a region to empower principalities and demigods over that area. Ancient temples always have very large double doors to allow high ranking spirits to pass through. It is the same way with television where a 60-inch screen allows high ranking spirits through compared to a 32 inch. The massive image created in the book of Daniel is an example of this principle as is the tower of babel. The Babylonians created the largest structures of idolatry possible in an attempt to contact the maximum demonic power.
Matthew 23:5, “they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,”
A phylactery is a black cube filled with Torah scripture, worn by Jews as amulets (Speaking of black cubes.... is that not exactly what the TV looks like on a larger scale?). The Pharisees, Christ’s main opponents, loved to increase the size of these phylacteries. They essentially used them as personal idols to the Torah, as they began to worship the Torah instead of its creator. Anytime a demonic spirit tries to get a greater presence in a person's life, it requires some kind of increased sinful behavior, sacrifice to it, or larger idol.
The “mouth” in this case, refers to the portal which is an entrance or gateway to the demonic realm, aka. hell. It is time to ask the question, has television become an idol in my life? Am I allowing an open gateway by the type or amount of content being viewed? Would it be better to get rid of television altogether?
What I Saw I Cannot Unsee
the spirit of abomination
Backstory
February of 2018 this year. I had already got rid of the scam of cable television, but still owned Netflix as well as my large screen television at this time. Having finished my power engineer exams and having free time, I became bored and decided to look around for an interesting tv show to begin to watch. I found one series (the name of which will remain unmentioned) that was newly released related to crime. It was rated ‘M,’ but I assumed this would be mostly because of violence and did not bother to read an actual review of its content….
Watched By a Presence
Going to sleep at night, I began to have an uneasy feeling of being “watched.” It felt as if there were no walls or ceilings to my house, but as if it was open to the outside. It felt like the presence looking down from outside watching was not necessarily good or evil but more like an impartial judge. I began to notice this every time I was about to go to sleep.
New Film Series
Watching this show, several episodes in, it began to include a large amount of random perverted dialogue and comments toward a main female character, and other things. In other words, I should have known better and have exited the series already. I continued because of being baited in by the plot. After all, who likes to cut off a story with an interesting plot without knowing how it ends? There came a point where in the middle of an episode, Netflix kicked back to the main menu unexpectedly in the middle of an episode. The thought immediately came to mind “perhaps this is God trying to protect you.” I ignored it. Bad mistake. Later on within that same episode, a disgusting sexual scene came on. I reached for the remote to fast-forward, but already felt a powerful demonic presence come into the room. I literally jumped up out of the chair and began to rebuke it and repented to God for watching that show.
Vision of the Abomination
Within the same minute of repenting and rebuking the demon in Jesus name, I had a visionary experience where I was able to see behind the television spiritually, which spirit was behind that show:
1. I saw a cone-shaped demon with eyes and a mischievous/sadistic grin
2. Surrounding the cone-shaped demon there was a labyrinth maze
3. I saw like an unfinished drawbridge coming out of where it was, being built towards the television.
4. I knew immediately that if I had finished that tv show season, the spirit would have gained access not only to me, but also to everything I am accountable for or have authority over spiritually. This was a horrifying thought.
Second Vision
The next few days I felt sickened and traumatized by what had happened and knew it would be a long time if ever, before I could watch anything rated more than “G.” I was curious, however, about what I had seen. How in the world is there a cone-shaped demon?? It was quite confusing and I spent some time in prayer for greater clarity of what had happened. I then received some vision-scenes and had understanding downloaded to my mind about it.
In the scene, I saw a great abyss. It was a spiritual pit and the walls were all like some kind of black glass, slopping steeply downward. I knew inside that it was a spiritual black-hole. It felt like this place was at the very bottom of the universe, like there was no possibility of going any lower. At the bottom of this abyss there was a labyrinth with bleached-pale walls. The walls had sharp 90 degree turns although the outside was a circle overall. I saw overtop of this labyrinth. The entire floor was slanted downward towards the center like a funnel, but at a more shallow angle.
In the center there was the most disgusting thing you can possibly imagine. I saw what the cone-shaped demon actually was. It was a ‘pile’ of red feces which was lit on fire. It’s eyes were made out of fire and it had a mouth full of fang-like teeth which was like a shark. It had a prideful look, as if its was proud of its filth. To me, it seemed like this ‘thing’ was more evil than the devil and that this place was the worst place possible in the universe.
666 The Reprobate Mind:
A black hole has a point in its gravity field known as the “event horizon.” This is the point at which even light cannot escape from being sucked in. Symbolically, this represents the reprobate mind. Once a person is so intent on resisting their conscience and choosing darkness, filth, self-righteousness, pride, sexual perversion, these can begin to combine to block out a person’s ability to see their sin and repent. They receive the ‘mark of the beast’ on their forehead (mind) and can no longer even feel the need to repent.
Romans 1:26-28, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;”
A black hole is a place in the universe, where the gravity is so powerful, it even causes light itself to warp. Trapping even light symbolizes that even the elect could be deceived if those days (end-times) were not shortened.
Matthew 24:24, “if it were possible, they [antichrists] shall deceive the very elect.”
When Jesus and Paul spoke against the Pharisees being like “whitewashed walls” it is a reference to this maze. It looked bleached white as if made of bone. Christ had warned the Pharisees they were crossing the line to the unforgivable sin when they claimed the the source of Christ's miracle power was satan instead of the Holy Spirit. The Pharisees refused to listen, and thus Christ and Paul’s later term for them is “whitewashed walls” signifying the Pharisees had entered the reprobate mind and lost the ability to see their need for repentance.
Matthew 12:31, “Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men”
Matthew 23:27, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness”
Acts 23:3, “Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall”
More Symbolism:
The cone-shaped demon I saw is the equivalent to what is mentioned in Daniel as the “little horn.” It could be called the spirit of antichrist, or spirit of abomination, both are equivalent.
Daniel 7:8, “I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them…. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous [prideful] words”
This place I saw is like a drain that receives and concentrates the spiritual filth of sin into one place. Many industrial floor drains have a labarynth design on them. A black hole is a funnel vortex like that of a toilet being flushed, collecting the sin and spiritual filth of the universe. It is also similar to the black wrapping of a garbage bag, the black sides of the abyss sloping steeply downwards. I do not understand all of this in depth, but it is unquestionably related to these waste-disposal symbols.
Reject Sexual Perversion at All Cost
Summing everything up, television shows are getting to the point where the directors no longer show any restraint. Some of the most popular shows such as Game of Thrones, are equivalent in content to pornography. Do you know what spirit you may be entertaining and opening access to by watching some of these films? As we saw in the 3rd article of this series, people used to believe in the necessity of a strict law safeguarding television content. We have now come to the opposite point where all restraint has been cast off of content creation and everyone does what is right in their own eyes.
Internet and television are what has allowed abomination to spread in the end times, far more than has ever occurred in history, due to pornography and perverted TV shows. The collective weight of this sin and filth from now billions of participants, has dragged down the earth (Enoch 83) to the level where this spirit will soon be able to gain access. It is building its bridge-projection toward our world now in these end times, just like it tried to build a bridge into my life from watching that show. Once it has access, people will be watching perversion on television or internet and find themselves converted almost instantly to a reprobated mind making it impossible for them to even desire repentance because that spirit will have complete control over their mind, body, and soul. This will be one of the major spirits that empowers the end-times antichrist. This is one demon you would rather not be connected to!
It is not at all my business what you do after reading this.
As for me, I cannot unsee what I have seen!