As someone from Akron, Ohio, I grew up with all things Cleveland Indians, a baseball team with a rich, rich history dating back to 1894.
The team's name was unbelievably changed to the Guardians in 2021 (to which Ohioans said, "What the . . . ?!") and is said to "reference the Guardians of Traffic, eight monolithic 1932 Art Deco sculptures by Henry Hering on the city's Hope Memorial Bridge, which is adjacent to Progressive Field."
From Wikipedia: "Ancient Egyptian demons can be divided into two classes: 'guardians' and 'wanderers'. 'Guardians' are tied to a specific place; their demonic activity is topographically defined and their function can be benevolent towards those who have the secret knowledge to face them."
From a blog: "Among the myriad of demons, several stand out as guardians:
1. Pazuzu: The protector against evil spirits
Pazuzu, recognized as a powerful spirit, was often invoked to protect individuals from other malevolent forces. He is typically depicted with a striking appearance, featuring a canine face, talons, and wings.
2. Lamassu: The hybrid beings as guardians of cities and temples
Lamassu are iconic figures, often depicted as winged bulls or lions with human heads. They served as protectors at the entrances of cities and temples, symbolizing strength and vigilance.
The representation of guardian demons in Babylonian art is rich with symbolism. Statues, reliefs, and inscriptions often depict these entities in protective stances, emphasizing their role as guardians. Literature from the time also highlights their importance, often portraying interactions between humans and these powerful beings."
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Here is an old post and will have new article this evening or tomorrow morning at the latest:
Demons come along at the outset as “familiar spirits,” meaning they put up a friendly facade, introducing themselves in a deceptive manner in order to hook humans.
God warns in Leviticus 19, “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.”
“These spirits don't come in like fire-breathing enemies; they get to be friendly with you first,” explains Richard Jordan. “They come in like, ‘Hey, have I got a deal for you!’
“They want you to come and participate with them in what they’re doing so they court you, deceiving you. That's why the Bible calls them a ‘lying spirit.’
“They corrupted the nation Israel away from the truth into a lie program using their supernatural means. You don't do that unless you come in and trick people.
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“In Luke 8, Jesus Christ heals a man so completely riddled with unclean, disembodied spirits, or demons, he's called ‘Legion.’
“The unclean spirit doesn't really like this guy, and you have to understand, demons hate people. They want to torture and destroy.
“Satan, his angels, and the demonic spirits, would destroy every human being if they could. They have a very special hatred for humans that is indescribably bitter.
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“God warns in Leviticus 20:6, “And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.”
“A wizard is always a man, and a witch is a woman, and they are the willing participants and mediums for evil spirits.
“The reference to them going ‘a whoring,’ is not meant in the physical sense of adultery and fornication; it's spiritual. But it will result in the other.
“Jeremiah talks about people committing adultery with the ‘other gods’—spiritual adultery. Israel was married to the Lord; they were to be faithful to Him and when they went after other gods, it was considered they broke their marriage covenant with God; they were adulterers. That's what the Book of Hosea is about.
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“Demons originate with the fallen angels, identified as the ‘sons of God’ in Genesis 6, who ‘intermingle’ with human females in the years preceding the Flood to produce offspring of giants on the earth who ‘became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.’
“These angels, we learn from Jude 6, left their positions as angels in their ‘first estate,’ or the habitation God gave them to live and function in up in heaven, and came down to earth to go ‘after strange flesh,’ thereby corrupting the ‘seed of the woman’ in fulfillment of a Satanic plot.
“From Genesis 3:15, we’re given the first hint of God’s intention to produce a Coming Redeemer through the seed of the woman.
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“With the Flood, some of Satan’s angels were immediately relegated to chains of darkness in hell, but others, according to Psalm 82:7, died like men. These were likely ‘the sons of God,’ or at least their offspring.
“Their bodies are down there in that ‘deep’ at the bottom of the universe (Psalm 136:6, Rev. 20:13), where the lake of fire's going to be, but their spirits are loose today—disembodied.
“They're loose, and have been, and will be until the Second Coming of Christ when they're all bound up and cast into the pit.
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“When the Gospel accounts refer to them as ‘unclean spirits,’ it’s a reference back to Genesis 9 and the corruption, violence and rebellion they instigated in the earth and have been committed to ever since.
“What we know about these disembodied spirits, who seek to reside in animals and humans, is they possess literal personalities, super-human strength, intelligence, emotions and an affinity for fire, water and high places.
“From a passage in Luke 8, we see a demon has the intellectual capacity to recognize who Jesus Christ is and, as a result, becomes fearful, crying and falling down because he knows he’s going to be tormented.
“It’s fascinating that the evil spirit knows what’s going on and has the wisdom to know who Christ is. In the Matthew account, he asks, ‘Have you come to torment us before the time?’
“This shows he knows the dispensational time out there where there’s going to be a war between his side and God’s side—between Satan’s angels and his troops and the Lord and his angels and his troops.
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“Acts 16:16 tells of a ‘certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination,’ showing there’s a demonic ability to tell the future.
“In Acts 19:11, we see the evil spirits weren’t fooled by the exorcists, who were false prophets, showing a capacity for discernment.
“These are not just influences; they are REAL specific, personal beings. It’s not some mystical, ‘woo-woo-woo’ kind of thing. These are real creatures just like you and I are real.
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“From the beginning of Israel’s history the nation has been under Satanic attack. His approach has been to corrupt them spiritually so they can’t be used by God to accomplish His purpose with them in the earth.
“The same attack exists today against the Body of Christ and that’s exactly what Paul warns about in I Timothy 4:1: ‘Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.’
“The way he corrupts is with doctrinal corruption, so that Believers, rather than standing and living in the identity they have in Christ, live like Israel did, or like the Gentiles who lived in the ‘vanity of their minds.’
“That’s what Paul means in II Timothy 2:24 when he says they ‘oppose themselves.’ They've been caught in snare of the devil; drawn away from the truth and what's right with the promise of some physical, delightful, experiential thing.”