Monitoring Spirits real or not?

                   Monitoring spirits, real or make believe?. If you consider yourself a religious person then the chances are that you are affiliated with the concept of a monitoring spirit. Monitoring spirits can be sent by another demon, a witch, or anyone with the spiritual know-how. These spirits monitor what you do, how you do it, what you say, and who your friends are. Their purpose is to gather information to facilitate spiritual attacks, steal blessings, infect you with sicknesses, sabotage or block your success, and generally wreak havoc in the life of their victim.

A monitoring spirits tools of choice might include mirrors, brooms, tarot cards, and crystal balls. Supposedly, monitoring spirits can possess or take the form of animals such as cats, dogs, black birds, rats, wolves, and insects. These spirits are said to have the ability to manipulate the dreams of their victims, causing reoccurring sensations of: eating, engaging in sexual activities, being hunted by an animal, looking in a mirror, combing one’s hair, seeing one’s shadow, or seeing the moon.

The question, as always, is whether there is biblical support for the idea of monitoring spirits. The most obvious answer is, no, there is not. The Bible teaches the reality of the spiritual world, both angelic and demonic, and we can assume that both angels and demons can see us and do “watch” us to a certain extent. But to assume a whole category of demons and assign to them the role of “monitoring” goes far beyond what the Bible teaches.

There are many other “types” of demons, according to some imaginative religious people: python spirits, Delilah spirits, Jezebel spirits, marine spirits, Leviathans, Kundalini, Ahab's. etc. None of these spiritual entities are mentioned in the Scripture, and we should avoid those who insist on promulgating an invented menagerie of spiritual enemies. The Bible says that evil is indeed at work in this world and that believers are involved in a battle “against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12). But the convoluted demonological mythologies put forward by some Charismatics are unhelpful and have more to do with fantasy and magic than with the Word of God or do they?

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