Core Issues: Idolatry
A foundational study in idolatry by a fully-integrated mind-control
survivor.
In this post, Sally
Dove shares an essential revelation
that fueled her integration process as well as a guide for
repentance related to idolatry.
I
have been pursuing knowing the Lord Jesus Christ steadily for 20 years. Ever
since coming back to the Lord at age 25, the Lord had impressed upon me the
fact that at my heart and core self was idolatry.
For
the first 5 years of misery and pain, I cried out wondering why the Lord used
such severe methods to discipline me. It appeared that others were not going
the same path as I. Ten years ago, the Lord began to reveal the extent of the
idolatry, the entanglement of DID and SRA. At the very center of myself has
been a heart of idolatry, generational and personal. The verses are some of
those that may help others shorten their journey. I have had to own and accept
responsibility of the idolatry, asking the Lord to have mercy upon me,
repenting, turning my whole heart to Him. As I do, He is so ever faithful to
run towards me with open arms and accept me into His presence.
These
comments may sound judgmental however, I have had to be very hard on myself and
agree with God’s Word about myself. This is not to heap piles of condemnation
on someone who is desperately coming out of this background. I know only too
well what that is like. It is only to allow exposure to the Word of God
to bring about a true heart, spirit, and soul conviction in order to be clean
before our Lord and Savior. Hopefully, this will help shorten your journey. It
has taken me 20 years of pursuit of the Lord Jesus Christ in order for me to be
able to sit here and write this. The idolatry has been so entrenched and
entwined deep within my core personality. God has so lovingly extended his
grace, mercy and time towards me so that I can fully repent. There will come a
day when His grace and mercy have been exhausted and time has run out. He,
then, will judge His people, because they have not fully agreed with Him and
His word about their own condition. It is painful, but God is well worth the
process. He will have his Church complete whole and spotless, now is the time
to repent, in the day of grace and mercy, or He will take action!
It
may be helpful to look up each scripture and make your own notes to your own
reactions.
Exodus 20:3: God is jealous, visiting
iniquity to the 3rd and 4th generation of those that hate Him. As we
take responsibility for our own personal hatred and generational hatred towards
God, He comes in and cleanses us. Sometimes we feel that God hates us. It is
His jealousy over us because of the idolatry. Confess and forsake our own
hatred of Him. Then we will know of His love for us.
Ex. 23: 13: We have worshiped other gods
and have delighted in their names. We are not to acknowledge them by name.
Confess and renounce all worshipping of their names. And acknowledge the names
of our God.
Lev. 19:4: make no images. Lev. 26:1 make no idles or images or
God will abhor us. We are made in the image of God. All idolatry focuses on
displacing God’s image out from our hearts and placing the image of the idol
instead. When we focus on any other image other than God, it is an idol and
we become like it. Then we experience the feelings that God abhors us. We
dissociate “God” away from our heart. Confess idolatry of hiding the image
of the idol in our hearts, ask God to come in and connect with God’s image and
our own identity. If a pervasive feeling exits that God abhors you, ask Him to
reveal any idolatry in your hearts. (I had to fight the constant feeling that
God abhorred me.) It may be a symptom of our condition of heart.
Deut. 27:15: We are cursed if we make any
image and hide it in a secret place (ie: our human spirit). This is the essence of DID, the secret place is in
the human spirit where we have
become one with the ruling spirit that governs us. Renounce all hiding of
images in our spirit and repent, turn away from the image, confess it as sin
and ask God to show you His image that He created you to be. All idolatry hides God’s image. We are
created in His image, and Satan wants to deface that.
1 Sam. 15:23: Stubbornness, rebellion is
found within our hearts. It is as witchcraft. Repent of all stubbornness
and rebellion. Sin is the rejection of the Lord. Each time we rejected the Lord
through deception that He did not rescue us, we sinned as children. As adults,
we must take responsibility for our actions, confess and forsake it.
Hos. 10:2: Divided hearts are found in
idolatry. God will execute judgment and “spoil their images” Either we repent
now agreeing with God about our condition, or he will execute judgment. A
divided heart is usually found in the person with DID.
Ps. 115:4: Idols do not see or speak. At
the essence of my core, I did not see or speak. We become like the idols we
worship. The core person in idolatry usually is mute and blind. Connect with
that core person and own the extent of idolatry. Do not keep dissociating away
the core person that existed for idolatry. Own it. God will cleanse our hearts
and we can see Him and speak for Him!
Acts 7:41: Rejoicing in the works our
hands without giving praise and honor to God is idolatry. Give glory to God for
His work in our lives. Repentance will issue forth in forgiveness and a joyful
heart and identity.
1 Cor. 10:7ff: Craving evil things is
idolatry. We are to flee from idolatry. Confess all our evil cravings and ask
God to cleanse us from all conditioning that has occurred through the extensive
programming. How many of us have come out of drug abuse, immorality, eating
disorder, etc. We have craved evil things. All Satanic rituals are centered
in evil cravings.
Eph. 5:5-12: Idolatry is immorality and
covetousness. We will loose our inheritance in Christ unless we repent. Any
fears we may have had about loss of full reward may stem from entanglement with
idolatry. Forsake all forms of idolatry so that we will not loose our
inheritance in Christ. God has a wonderful plan for all of us if we accept it
and forsake the satanic agenda that we were entangled with. The book of
Ephesians explains God’s wonderful plan for us. T.A. Sparks’s books also
give God’s plan for us and His children. We can never know it unless we come
100% clean from idolatry.
1 Cor. 5:11: Idolatry is immorality,
coveting. All ritual activity involves immorality. Connect those aspects
of selves that have been involved. Do not dissociate it away, but own it,
connect with it. God already knows. Do not be ashamed of the selves that had to
do the abominable things. God is standing at the door knocking and waiting for
us to run into Him as His children so that He can cleanse us experientially. We
are positionally; He is waiting for ALL of our hearts to intimately know Him. We cannot without owning idolatry,
forsaking it and running to Him.
Acts 17: 16: Paul was provoked because the
city was full of idols. He was provoked in his spirit because others were
involved in idolatry. A Godly person will be provoked when around idolatry. Do
not be dismayed if those around you are provoked by your presence. Ask God to
show you your idolatry and run to Him for His forgiveness and the joy He has
for you!
Gal. 5:20: Deeds of flesh, soul, is
idolatry. No inheritance for those who are after the flesh and not the spirit.
Connect with all idolaters inside, own it, and do not dissociate it away. God
will cleanse your heart only after you have owned it.
Col. 3:5-6: The wrath of God is on these
deeds: idolatry, immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed. 3:10; the new man is made in God’s
image, not in the image of idolatry. All idolatry displaces God’s rightful
place with the image of the one that we worship. WE cannot find that true image without first owning and
connecting with the idolatrous image. We are created to worship God. We
become like the one we worship, whether God or Satan. If we feel God’s wrath
upon us, repent of idolatry in the core person, connect with that person by
owning the idolatry, becoming the idolatry, and God will welcome you home!
Ps. 106:36: Idols are a snare. Satan
knows this! All who are SRA/DID are snared by idolatry. It is shameful, but do
not hide it. Bring it out into the light. God knows all that has been done in
darkness.
Ps. 115:8: WE become like the idols. The
core person is like the one we have worshipped. (Actually, at the very heart is
usually a heart to know the true God but was not given opportunity. That is why
the “Christian” person is so repelled by the “idolatrous ones”. It is really
ALL you, so own it ALL, God is waiting for you with open arms. So why should we
not be like Him and embrace all of ourselves and offer it to Him. God loves you
with outstretched arms.)
Ps. 135:18: Those who trust in idols will
be like them. If we find it difficult to trust God, look for the one who has
put his/her trust in idols. The infant aspects first learn trust. We learned to
trust idols/demons as infants. Connect with all aspects of selves that first
trusted in demons for our very life. God will welcome you with open arms.
Acts 15:29: Abstain from things
contaminated by idols. Our very food as infants, children, adults, have been
contaminated by idols. The gods have blessed them and the food is sacrificed to
idols. Hence many SRA/DID persons will have an eating disorder to
varying degrees of severity related to the extent of the idolatry and food
eaten that was for idols. Some parts that experience anorexia cannot eat unless
it is contaminated food. That is all that is known. All parts must embrace
these ones and accept the atrocities associated with “intimacy of eating,
fellowship with demons” and renounce and expel all demons associated with
this activity. I believe that the root of the eating disorders is centered in
idolatry. Warfare can help the person connect to the true self, the core person
that is surrounded in the idolatry. Repentance of all activity associated with
feeding spirits is of necessity. It is essential to begin to make choices to
feed, nourish and cherish the body with healthily foods that God inhabits as
His temple. Also to make healthy lifestyle choices is essential ie: getting
proper sleep, stop smoking and abusing His temple. These are all choices that a
person must begin to develop in order to become healthy spiritually, cubically
and bodily. Our bodies have been through a holocaust, so now we are given the
opportunity to learn how to take care of the temple that God inhabits. All
abuse of the body is centered in idolatry and satanic hatred for us as human
beings. Repent of all hatred of the body that God has given you and begin to
make choices to glorify God in it.
Eph. 2:11: God takes idolaters into his
home and makes them new. We become a new
temple for the living God and not a temple of death. Vs. 20ff we are one in spirit with the Almighty God and His temple
founded on the Apostles. Renounce all counterfeits that have come in to make
your body the temple of Satan.
2 Cor. 6:14: Temple of idols in our body
vs. the temple of God. We must choose before our Lord and Savior what we want
to be; it is one or the other. Renounce being a temple of Satan. We are
commanded to come out and be separate. Not dissociate from it inside, but
connect with all aspects of us. Only then can we be separate outside from those
who would drag us back into idolatry.
1 Thes. 1: 9-10: Remnant characteristics.
Those who have come from idolatrous backgrounds have remnant characteristics.
This is why Satan has targeted us and so polluted us with his demons is to mar
the remnant so that God would not have a pure bride to return to. There is hope
if we turn to God with all our heart, mind, will, emotions, spirit, soul and
body.
1 John 5:21: Idolatry prevents us from
fellowship with God and His people. If we find ourselves isolated and
difficulty connecting to His people, look for idolatry. 1 John starts out with fellowship and intimacy with God, and ends
with warning about idolatry. Idolatry will mar all intimacy with God and His
people.
Rev. 2:14-20: To eat things sacrificed to
idols. God warns about this that it is displeasing to Him. Eating with others
represents fellowship. Eating food sacrificed to idols mars all fellowship with
Himself and His people. It is fellowshipping with demons. Of interest, 1 and 2 Corinthians have 16 mentions of
the word idolatry. All other references in the New Testament are 13 times
total.
Old Testament Scriptures:
Lev. 19:4: Make no molten images
2 Kings 21:11: Others are affected by
idolatry Idols=non-existent things. They have the sentence of death. We become
like death. Idolatry brings in death. God = life
1 Chron 16:26
Isa 2:18ff: Idols will cease. God give us
time to repent before He brings in His judgment. Arrogance is idolatry.
Isa.45:19: Seek God while in a dark
place and He will bring deliverance. All idolatry brings darkness. When we
repent, He hears and will bring us out. Do not wait until you think you are in
a “good place”. God’s word commands us to seek Him now, when we are in a dark
place. It is His job to bring us out.
Isa. 46:1. Idolatry is a burden. Jesus
says to take His yoke it is easy and light.
Isa. 57: Marital bed is defiled on a
high mountain. All idolatry will seek to enter the most intimate place that is
for God and man and wife. It interfaces with all intimacy and destroys
marriages and fellowship. Connect to the inner most core of self that has know
the “intimacy” or marriage with idols (highest ranking demon). Confess all
idolatry of spiritual adultery and connect with the self that has been
involved.
Isa. 57:11: God is silent while we are in
our idolatry. We may have trouble hearing from God.
Jeremiah 50: 2: Bel and Marduk will be
shattered and put to shame. Confess all links with these two.
Ezek. 6:5ff: God will judge His people for
the corporate idolatry of the Church. He will leave a remnant. Pray and ask
to be a part of the remnant and judge everything now so that we will be
ready for that Day when He will judge His church.
Ezek. 14:3: If we have idols in our heart,
set idols before our face then ask of the Lord, God is displeased. God is
against us if we do not repent, we have gone to rituals then try to ask of the
Lord. We must repent first, acknowledge our sin, connect to the idolatry, then
we can hear from the Lord and He will speak to us.
16:36. God will judge us using the
idols we are ensnared with.
20:7 Cast away idols of Egypt
before we can have fellowship with Him. The wilderness journey is to get idolatry
out of us. 23:30 We are guilty by
association with national idolatry. Confess all national idolatry of parents,
etc.
30:16 Renounce all idolatry with
Peleisuim and Noph (Memphis), Thebes.
36:25-26.
God will give us new heart. He has promised.
Hosea 8:4: Idols of gold and silver.
Some people have a fascination with jewelry. This could be liked with idolatry.
Zech. 10:2: Renounce all worship of
teraphim (disgraceful things).
13:2: All idols will be cut off one
day. God is giving us an opportunity now to cut them off ourselves. It will go
well with us if we do. He is very merciful and full of loving-kindness. Like
the prodigal son, come back to God. He will heal all our apostasy, and
idolatry. Do not be afraid or ashamed to come to Him. He has deliverance if we
will only turn to Him with our whole heart.
Deut. 30:2-3 commands us to come to Him
and obey Him with all our heart and soul according to all that I command us
today, then the Lord your God will restore us from captivity, and have
compassion on you, and will gather us again from all the people where the Lord
our God has scattered us. Idolatry scatters us, only by coming to Him as we
are, now, admit the idolatry, then He can heal. DID is a spiritual disorder, idolatry is at the root of this
spiritual disorder.
Watchman
Nee explains in “The Spiritual Man” how demonization can occur through
passivity. Idolatry in our spirit
renders our will passive and we become a passive receptacle of demons.
Through actively taking ownership of our part, our involvement, and our entwinement
with idolatry (ie: demonization) God, will do His part. Only God can restore through repentance, through loving support by His people, and teaching
how to act as He created Man to be.