How Demons Claim the Legal Right over your Soul
When Darkness Claims a Doorway and the Advocate Answers
Symbols matter in the spiritual world.
They are languages.
They are invitations.
They are doorways.
For thousands of years, the five-pointed star called the pentagram has stood at the center of that conversation.
In its upright form, many early Christians and ancient believers used it as a picture of completeness.
The five senses.
The five wounds of Christ.
The fullness of creation under divine order.
But when that star is inverted, the meaning changes.
The order collapses.
What was once aligned under heaven becomes twisted toward earth.
What once pointed toward God now sinks into rebellion.
People who turn that symbol upside down… whether they know what they are doing or not…
They are making a legal claim.
They are declaring a spiritual right of access.
They are acting out in public what demons whisper in the dark.
They are inviting what Scripture calls the Accuser to step across the threshold and gain access to your life… your thoughts, your words, your actions, your influence and ultimately… your soul.
This article will walk you through that progression.
The five points.
The distortion.
The idea of legal right that demons and satanic worshipers talk about.
Then the great answers the Bible gives to these defeated claims… and what to do about it…
We will also examine: The Advocate who rises… The courtroom where the gavel falls… And the verdict of real justice purchased by the blood of Jesus.
All of this is rooted in the truth of First John chapter two, where Jesus stands as our Advocate in the real courtroom of heaven.
Here’s the pattern Hell uses to claim a soul and the pattern heaven uses to save it.
1. THE INVERTED STAR: A PROGRESSION OF CORRUPTION
The five points of the inverted pentagram are not random.
They echo the same pattern of seduction the serpent used in Eden.
Take what God made good.
Twist it.
Corrupt it.
Weaponize it.
Then use it as evidence against the person before God.
That has always been the strategy.
Here is the progression many in occult circles teach, and it fits what Scripture reveals about sin and spiritual bondage.
Point One: Rebellion against Divine Order
In the upright star, spirit sits at the top.
Inversion puts matter above spirit.
Desire above holiness.
The created thing above the Creator.
The first doorway is simple.
It is the lie whispered to Eve.
The lie was not mainly about fruit.
The lie was about God.
Satan did not begin by attacking Adam and Eve.
He began by attacking the character and sovereignty of God.
He implied that God was withholding something good.
That God was restricting them.
That God was afraid of their potential.
He planted this thought in the human heart:
God is not really for you.
He is holding you back.
He is using His authority to limit you.
That is always Satan’s first move.
If he can distort your view of God, he can distort your aim.
If he can get you to believe that God is against you, you will aim away from Him.
If he can make you see God as a rival instead of a Father, you will try to become your own god.
Rebellion does not start with shouting at heaven.
Rebellion begins with believing a lie about the goodness of God.
The moment a person agrees with that lie, the enemy gains his first foothold.
Point Two: Desecration of the Body
The body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.
It carries the image of God.
Once rebellion opens the door, the next attack is often physical.
Addiction.
Violence.
Self harm.
Cutting.
Starving.
Binge and purge cycles.
Substance abuse.
Anything that vandalizes the temple.
The enemy pushes a person to treat their own body as worthless, dirty, disposable, or purely instrumental.
He tells them their body is either trash or a toy.
In either case, it is no longer holy.
He lies about worth.
He lies about design.
He lies about ownership.
With every act of self destruction or self abuse, he presses his claim.
He says, Look what they do with what You gave them.
They agree with me, not with You.
Point Three: Corruption of Desire
Desire is God’s idea. Desire is good and holy and meant as a blessing… a real gift from God to us to enjoy life here are earth.
But Satan has another strategy… it’s when Desire becomes dangerous when it indulges and bows to self instead of bowing to Righteousness.
At this point, something shifts inside.
What is good begins to feel boring.
What is evil begins to feel exciting.
The appetite moves from gratitude to grasping.
This is the seed of obsession.
Desire stops serving the person and starts ruling them.
Hunger becomes a master.
Craving begins to feel like identity.
The enemy knows if he can corrupt desire, he can pull the whole soul out of alignment.
He takes natural longings and twists them into counterfeit comforts of overindulgence… of blatant abuse of what’s good and holy… what was once pure and enjoyable becomes poison to our bodies and our souls… this is true of everything in life… from food to sex… from oxygen to water… The enemy always uses excess and careless overindulgence to destroy us.
He offers pain relief that always deepens the wound.
Point Four: Idolatry and Self Worship
Satan does not create worship.
He redirects it.
He convinces a person to bend the knee inward.
Pride becomes a theology.
Autonomy becomes a gospel.
The self becomes a small, ruthless god.
This is the quiet religion of our age.
The altar of preference.
The cult of self.
You hear its sermons everywhere.
Follow your heart.
Follow your truth.
You owe it to yourself.
You are enough.
The Bible does not tell us to follow our heart.
It tells us to guard it.
It tells us to surrender.
It tells us to die to ourselves and live to God.
When a person enthrones their own feelings over God’s Word, the pattern of Lucifer repeats.
I will ascend.
I will decide.
I will be like the Most High.
I always coach others that there is no real thing as Low Self-Esteem… Only High Self-Focus. When it becomes all about me… I begin the process of real suffering, misery, and a decent into a hellish life.
This is the very misaim that Satan himself fell for. He made it all about him.
Point Five: Perversion
The final point is perversion.
Sexual or otherwise.
Perversion takes what God made good and turns it into something profane.
It treats bodies as objects.
It treats covenant as disposable.
It treats pleasure as a god.
This is the world of pornography, affairs, secret messages, grooming, and fantasy life.
It is also the world of isolated, compulsive sexual behaviors that seem harmless on the surface but are really an altar of self worship.
In the ancient world, Baal worship included temple prostitution and ritual sex.
Today the same spirit works through the pornography industry, hookup culture, and hidden sexual patterns that seem “private” but tear the soul apart.
The temple is digital now.
The altar is the screen.
The sacrifice is the human soul.
The worshiper is the self.
Perversion becomes the final lock on the prison door.
It destroys trust.
It distorts identity.
It whispers the oldest lie again and again.
God is against you.
You are too dirty.
There is no way back.
At this point, the enemy claims legal right to torment, oppress, and accuse.
This is why the inverted star has become a symbol and a doorway.
It pictures a progression.
A road map of corruption.
A public declaration that a soul is aligning with hell’s pattern.
But Scripture does not leave us there.
The story does not end with accusation.
It moves into a courtroom.
2. LEGAL RIGHT AND THE ACCUSATIONS OF SATAN
In deliverance circles, you hear language about demons claiming “legal right” to a person’s life.
That phrase is not magic, but it reflects a real biblical pattern.
The Bible describes a true courtroom in heaven.
God is the Judge.
Satan is the accuser, the prosecuting attorney.
Jesus Christ is the Advocate.
You see glimpses of this in Job, in Zechariah chapter three, and in Revelation chapter twelve.
The enemy accuses day and night.
He points to real sin.
He quotes real law.
He uses God’s own Word as evidence.
Satan’s strategy is simple and cruel.
He tempts.
Then he accuses.
He lures into rebellion.
Then he uses that rebellion as proof.
He lures into desecration, corruption, and perversion.
Then he stacks those sins like exhibits in a legal case.
He does not only accuse you to God.
He also accuses God to you.
He whispers:
God is tired of you.
God is disappointed in you.
God is against you.
God has turned His face away.
If you believe that, accusation takes root like concrete in your soul.
Shame ceases to be a feeling and starts to become an identity.
This is how darkness presses its “legal right.”
Not only through what you did, but through what you now believe about God because of what you did.
The good news is that you do not stand alone in that courtroom.
3. JESUS THE ADVOCATE IN THE COURTROOM OF HEAVEN
OK… want the good news? Let’s be real… it’s GREAT NEWS!
First John chapter two opens with these words:
“We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins.”
Picture the scene.
The Judge sits in perfect holiness.
The law stands in perfect righteousness.
The Accuser reads his charges.
Every charge is accurate.
Every sin listed.
Every hidden act dragged into the light.
Every thought.
Every rebellion.
Every moment of mis aim.
Then Jesus stands.
He does not say, This never happened.
He does not say, They are actually a good person.
He does not say, Let us pretend this is fine.
He agrees with the facts.
Then He challenges the sentence.
He says:
It is true.
They sinned.
They rebelled.
They mis aimed.
They deserve death.
But I already took that death.
I carried this case to the cross.
My blood has satisfied the law.
The penalty has been paid in full.
To punish them again would be injustice.
To condemn them now would be double jeopardy.
This sin has already been tried and sentenced in My body.
Then the gavel falls.
Not guilty.
Forgiven.
Covered.
Free.
Not because the charges were false.
Because the payment was complete.
Nothing shatters the legal claim of darkness like the blood of Jesus, applied by the Advocate in the courtroom of heaven.
4. CHRISTMAS AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY
This is why Christmas is not sentimental fluff.
It is a legal and spiritual invasion.
The baby in the manger is the Advocate entering human history.
The Judge steps onto the scene, wrapped in flesh, so He can stand between you and your Accuser.
Christ was born so He could take your case.
Christ took your case so He could pay your debt.
Christ paid your debt so He could silence your Accuser forever.
No demon can overrule that verdict.
No satanic ritual can erase that blood.
No pentagram can outrun that cross.
5. SIN AS MIS AIMING YOUR LIFE
The New Testament word for sin carries the idea of missing the mark, missing the aim.
Sin is not only breaking a rule.
Sin is aiming your life at the wrong target.
You were made to aim at God.
At His glory.
At His will.
At His kingdom.
At His goodness.
When you believe the serpent’s lie that God is against you, you will aim away from Him.
You will aim at comfort instead of calling.
You will aim at escape instead of transformation.
You will aim at instant gratification instead of eternal glory.
You will aim at self worship instead of the worship of God.
That mis aim shows up in very practical ways.
You reach for pornography instead of reaching for God in pain.
You reach for masturbation instead of bringing your body and your desires under the Lordship of Christ.
You reach for alcohol, food, screens, shopping, or endless distraction to silence the ache that was meant to drive you to prayer.
The enemy then uses those very choices to accuse you.
He tells you that you are the sum of your worst moments.
He tells you the cross no longer applies to you.
He tells you the Word of God is weaker than the word of your failure.
The more you agree, the more your aim drifts.
The more your aim drifts, the more you feel lost.
The more lost you feel, the more you indulge.
The more you indulge, the more he accuses.
This is the loop that keeps people stuck in obsession, oppression, and despair.
The way out begins with a different aim.
6. THE UPRIGHT STAR: FIVE HOLY POINTS OF A LIFE AIMED AT GOD
If the inverted star pictures collapse, the upright star can picture alignment.
God is not interested in empty symbolism.
He is interested in reordered lives.
He is interested in people whose whole being aims at Him.
You can think of a life aimed at God in five simple points.
1. Holiness of Mind
Romans 12 verse 2 says to be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
What you meditate on, you move toward.
Thoughts are not harmless.
They are directions.
You begin to reclaim ground when you refuse to entertain lies about God, about yourself, and about others.
You let the Word of God define reality.
2. Purity of Body
First Corinthians 6 verses 19 and 20 say your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and you are not your own, you were bought with a price.
What you do with your body is never neutral.
Every act is an act of worship.
Either toward God or toward self.
Either toward freedom or toward bondage.
Purity of body is not prudishness.
It is agreement with God’s design and ownership.
3. Integrity of Desire
Psalm 37 verse 4 promises that when you delight yourself in the Lord, He will give you the desires of your heart.
God does not only forgive desire.
He reshapes it.
He can take your capacity for longing and direct it toward things that bring life.
Desire grows healthy when it is continually brought back under His rule.
4. Surrendered Will
Luke 9 verse 23 calls every follower of Jesus to deny themselves, take up their cross daily, and follow Him.
The will is the center of allegiance.
You either live by “my will be done” or “Your will be done.”
A surrendered will is not passive.
It is the active choice to aim at God’s way when your flesh wants its own way.
5. Covenant Faithfulness
Micah 6 verse 8 calls us to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with our God.
Faithfulness is not flashy.
It is simply keeping covenant, day after day.
Showing up.
Telling the truth.
Honoring commitments.
Repenting when you fail.
Continuing when you feel nothing.
Faithfulness builds thick walls of protection around a soul.
It shuts the doors the enemy once walked through.
These five “points” are not a cute image.
They are a pattern for aiming your life upward instead of downward.
7. A SCRIPTURE CHECKLIST FOR REALIGNING YOUR AIM
Here is a simple checklist you can use as a spiritual compass.
Read these verses.
Pray them.
Turn them into action.
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Eyes – Psalm 101:3
“I will set no worthless thing before my eyes.” -
Thoughts – 2 Corinthians 10:5
“Take every thought captive to obey Christ.” -
Body – Romans 6:13
“Present your members as instruments of righteousness to God.” -
Time – Ephesians 5:15–16
“Look carefully then how you walk… making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.” -
Relationships – James 5:16
“Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.” -
Purpose – Colossians 3:2
“Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” -
Worship – Matthew 22:37
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
These verses are not decorations.
They are directions.
They aim the soul.
8. PRACTICAL STEPS TO CLOSE DOORS AND WALK FREE
Knowledge alone will not change you.
Your aim must become a set of habits.
Here are concrete steps any person can take.
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Read Scripture out loud every day.
Speak truth to your mind and to the accusations that circle your life. -
Do a daily thought check.
Before you look at your phone, identify one lie you are believing.
Replace it with a verse.
Say it aloud. -
Clean your digital environment.
Remove apps, accounts, and websites that feed lust, envy, rage, or fear.
Put filters in place.
Tell a trusted believer what you did. -
Fast one appetite each week.
Food, sugar, social media, streaming, shopping, porn, alcohol.
Pick one.
Say no for twenty four hours.
Use the hunger to drive you to prayer. -
Make one act of surrender daily.
Start the day with “Not my will, Your will.”
Then live it in a specific way.
Forgive.
Apologize.
Serve.
Give.
Obey. -
Rebuild faithfulness through small commitments.
Show up on time.
Keep your word.
Follow through on one thing you promised yourself and God you would do. -
Seek community and accountability.
Find at least one person you can be honest with.
Confess struggles.
Pray together.
Ask direct questions of each other. -
Review your aim weekly.
Sit with God and ask:
Where did I aim at You this week.
Where did I aim away from You.
What will I change tomorrow. -
Establish a morning and evening rhythm.
Morning: Scripture, short prayer of surrender, clear aim for the day.
Evening: review, thanksgiving, confession, and a simple request for strength. -
Pray to close doors and renounce the lie.
Pray something like this:
“Father, in the name of Jesus, I renounce every lie I have believed about You. I renounce the belief that You are against me and holding out on me. I renounce every mis aimed thought, desire, choice, and habit. I ask You to close every door I opened to darkness, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Break every accusation and every claimed legal right of the enemy. Jesus, be my Advocate. Apply Your blood to my case. Aim my life at You.”
Prayed in faith, with a surrendered heart, this is not superstition.
It is alignment with the finished work of Christ.
9. A FINAL INVITATION
At the beginning of the story in Genesis, the serpent attacked the character of God.
He questioned God’s goodness.
He questioned God’s motives.
He suggested that God was against the humans He had made.
He still does this today.
If he can convince you that God is against you, you will turn away from the only One who can save you.
The cross answers that lie forever.
God is not against you.
He is against the sin that destroys you.
He is against the darkness that accuses you.
He is against everything that deforms the image He placed in you.
He is so deeply for you that He stepped into the courtroom Himself.
He came as Advocate.
He took your case.
He carried your penalty.
He broke the power of accusation.
You may feel like your life has followed the five points of the inverted star.
You may feel that your mind, your body, your desires, your will, and your relationships have all been mis aimed and misused.
You are not beyond His reach.
You cannot change your past.
You can choose your aim.
You can choose who you trust.
You can choose who you believe about God.
The Accuser says God is against you.
The Advocate says God is for you in Christ.
Today, you can say:
“I turn away from the lie. I turn away from self-worship. I turn away from mis aim. I turn to You, Lord Jesus. Be my Advocate. Be my King. Aim my life at the heart of God.”
That is where freedom begins.
That is where legal rights break.
That is where the real story of your soul starts to be rewritten.
Choose your aim.
Choose your allegiance.
Choose your King.