Five twelve-minute teachings (60 minutes total) on the dangers of the occult and related subjects in these Facebook videos:
Teaching #1 – The Dangers of the Occult - 10/11/2022
Teaching #2 – Christians Should Abstain from Halloween - 10/12/2022
Teaching #3 – Divination, Witchcraft and Nature Worship - 10/13/2022
Teaching #4 – Demonic Influences on Sinners and Saints - 10/14/2022
Teaching #5 – Spiritual Warfare in the 21st Century - 10/15/2022
Teaching #1 – The Dangers of the Occult
The word “occult” means hidden, that is, a secret. This divides people into two groups: those who know the secret and those who don’t.
This secret knowledge began in the human race when Adam and Eve partook of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Later this knowledge grew at the Tower of Babel. “Babel” means, “gateway to the gods”. It wasn’t a tower, but more likely a ziggurat (a pyramid like structure), that wasn’t intended to reach up into the clouds like some of our highest skyscraper buildings, but to make contact with those in the heavenlies (fallen angels that were believed to be gods, which they were no doubt promised by Satan – just as he promised Adam and Eve: “you shall be as gods” (GEN 3:5).
The angels (before the rebellion) were around to witness the creation of the physical universe (JOB 38:4-7). These incredibly intelligent beings were likely able to see “how GOD did it”; seeing how He created the laws of nature and physics, the molecular, even the sub-atomic, and quantum realm and the cellular (DNA information). This resulted in certain abilities that they employ when interacting with our physical universe.
GOD’s abilities are supernatural – He can circumnavigate around the natural law and suspend them in order to do what only He can.
Man’s abilities are natural; we employ the use of our intellect and our knowledge of the physical universe to accomplish things that impress humanity – but not GOD.
I believe the angels have abilities that are less than supernatural, but more than natural; they have preternatural abilities, that is that which is above and beyond the natural.
I believe at the Tower of Babel, the fallen angels imparted some of this knowledge, and along with no small amount of deception and demonic influence, esoteric, mystical knowledge began to be accumulated by fallen man, codified in secret societies and esoteric brotherhoods.
But GOD saw that “the people were one” and if left alone, nothing would be impossible for them (GEN 11:6-8). So He scattered them by confusing their languages. People grouped together and established geo-political regions that developed into nations. Within each of them, there were core groups of priests who were the keepers of esoteric knowledge.
Whatever the occult discipline – whether you’re talking about astrology, astral projection, Brujeria, Celtic and pagan traditional nature worship, Druidism, Eastern Mysticism, Goddess Worship, New Age/Spirituality belief system, Psychic Phenomenon, Satanism, Santeria, Shamanism, Transcendental meditation, Theosophy, UFOlogy, Voodoo or Witchcraft – they all come with the promise of empowerment, the so-called ‘gift of godhood’, a sense of purpose and destiny that contradicts the will of GOD!
As it once was said about sin itself, so too with the occult:
“[It] will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay”. It doesn’t start out that way however. When one understands that the occult has real power, and senses these spiritual forces working in and through one, it’s like a drug: it’s euphoric.
Henry Kissinger once said of power, that “it’s the ultimate aphrodisiac.” This is especially true of occult power because the spirit that works in us, comes in unity with us and eventually overwhelms us, dominates us, but then enslaves.
Satan’s pattern in preying upon people is always in this order: “firstly, deceive, secondly, use, thirdly, trash”
It’s a tragic irony that people who seek after, even lust after occult power, find power, but eventually rather than controlling that power, that power controls the practitioner – again, not overnight, but eventually, even if it takes the course of an entire life time. Satan is a patient spiritual sniper.
Here in the West we’ve come under the delusion that psychic/spiritual/occult powers are inherent within the human person, they are a part of us that has fallen into disuse.
In other nations, many of them Third World nations, they’ve always understood that if they ever acquire spiritual power, it’s because they are “blessed” with a spirit.
I believe the latter perspective is the truth.
This is why GOD forbids us from seeking after such power, because whatever occult discipline you’re interested in, it all comes from the same source: Satan.
It’s like, whether you’re talking about ham, bacon, pork chops, pork sausage, rump roast – it all comes from the same pig!
Despite what practitioners of magick may believe about Satan, or Lucifer, or “the Great Architect of the Universe” he loves no one but himself and has a decided interest, even a passion for the perversion, the ruination, the destruction of humanity, because we were created in the image of GOD, and his hatred for his Creator is so all-consuming that while he knows he can’t defeat GOD (though perhaps he is so psychotic, that he’s deluded himself into thinking he actually can win a war against GOD, even after the death, burial, resurrection and ascension into heaven, and seated with all power at the right hand of the Father, being LORD of heaven AND earth (MATT 28:18)) he can hurt those GOD loves: us!.
As any psychedelic drug is dangerous due to its addictive nature and will consume the user until there’s nothing left to consume, so will any sin, including the occult – it will breed paranoia, fear, anxiety, violence, hostility, an inability to enjoy life, and most importantly, if nothing else, a terrible pride along with desperate blindness to the light of GOD’s truth.
LEVITICUS 17:7,10-14 speaks of the eating of blood; this is a relatively common practice among practitioners of the occult. “The life is in the blood” and we are not to eat blood because we aren’t to partake of the life-force of other creatures.
Vampiric entities are demonic, and because these spiritual beings, as well as fallen angels are rejected by GOD the Author of life, I believe they’re suffering a spiritual deadness that they can only partially slack through the life force – the blood of others.
DEUTERONOMY 18:9-14
9 "When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10 "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 "or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 "For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. 13 "You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. 14 "For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.
I’m sure ancient Canaan had their own esoteric priesthoods, their inner circle of iniquity, and secret societies just as any of the nations that were scattered at the tower of Babel, and all of the practices mentioned in the above verses include demonic influences and dominations. Occult power and demonic influences are inseparable; they are two sides of the very same coin. You can’t acquire psychic power and divest the demonic from them.
Other verses that forbid or at least mentions these practices: DEUT 4:19; 17:2-5; 2 KINGS 21:3,5; JER 8:1-2; 10:2; 27:9-10; DAN 2:1-4; 4:7; 5:7-9; ZEPH 1:5; also ACTS 16:16; 19:19.
Any who practice such things are considered detestable to the LORD – because we are interacting with His enemy, the one who rebelled against His holy and sovereign rule, and the LORD has far, far better to offer that brings blessing, not bane, that brings life not death:
EXOD 7:11; LEV 20:27; DEUT 18:10-12; 2 KINGS 21:6; ISAIAH 47:12; EZEK 13:18,20; MICAH 5:12; ACTS 8:11-24; REV 9:21; 22:15.
The occult promises power, and you’ll get it, but then the power will get you; demonic enslavement and perdition and ultimately condemnation to eternal torment due to unrepentant sin – which all unrepentant sinners will suffer, not just occultists!
REVELATION 21:8
"But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
Those involved in the occult may believe that these powers are positive, good, gifts from GOD because after all, don’t psychics help Police find missing children; psychic healers cure people that modern medicine can’t touch (Johanna Michaelson’s book The Beautiful Side of Evil documents this perfectly).
Satan knows he will attract people better with honey than with vinegar, so of course he’ll put himself and the power he offers in the best light possible, but it’s a false light! And it’s all spiritually sugar coated arsenic!
It’s a sad irony that in seeking power, people will settle for second best, when real power comes through Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, the Creator of all things, the LORD of Heaven and Earth! (including Lucifer, the once holy cherub)!
KINGDOM of the OCCULT By Walter Martin and
OCCULT INVASION by Dave Hunt.
"But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
Those involved in the occult may believe that these powers are positive, good, gifts from GOD because after all, don’t psychics help Police find missing children; psychic healers cure people that modern medicine can’t touch (Johanna Michaelson’s book The Beautiful Side of Evil documents this perfectly).
Satan knows he will attract people better with honey than with vinegar, so of course he’ll put himself and the power he offers in the best light possible, but it’s a false light! And it’s all spiritually sugar coated arsenic!
It’s a sad irony that in seeking power, people will settle for second best, when real power comes through Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, the Creator of all things, the LORD of Heaven and Earth! (including Lucifer, the once holy cherub)!
KINGDOM of the OCCULT By Walter Martin and
OCCULT INVASION by Dave Hunt.
And here are all the subsequent RED PILL teachings on this subject matter:
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