Teaching #3 – Divination, Witchcraft and Nature Worship - 10/13/2022
Five twelve-minute teachings (60 minutes total) on the dangers of the occult and related subjects:
Here are the Facebook videos:
Teaching #1 – The Dangers of the Occult - 10/11/2022
Teaching #2 – Christians Should Abstain fromHalloween - 10/12/2022
Teaching #3 – Divination, Witchcraft and NatureWorship - 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 #3 – Divination, Witchcraft and Nature Worship
What is divination, or the act of divining? It’s a practice of any varieties that attempt to prognosticate, that is, to either tell the future, or obtain information not otherwise available through one’s natural senses.
A divining rod for example is used to locate a water source underground, sight unseen.
Tarot cards, astrology, necromancy are only three methods among countless others of obtaining information about the future.
All of them seek such knowledge from sources outside of human agencies, much less from the living GOD, the Author of the Holy Bible. He speaks against such practices, warning us to stay away from them. Why is that? Because those outside sources are not benevolent spirits, but dangerous and malevolent demons.
As mentioned previously, any engagement with occult practices is an invitation to demons who are anxiously waiting for an open door/portal/gateway that gives them legal right to influence, even invade a human soul.
When it comes to the future, we can know with absolute certainty what our future holds; psychics and fortune tellers are at best 20% accurate. The Bible declares that if anyone calls upon the name of the LORD, they will be saved (ROM 10:13). Once saved, the soul is on a path of predestination, where they can be assured that their future with the LORD is secure – this is under the provision that the soul is genuinely saved.
Scripture portrays what the future will be like for the redeemed – and it’s far more glorious than can ever be imagined:
1 CORINTHIANS 2:9
But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.
We will be the beneficiaries of the LORD’s grace and generosity in gifting us a world in which ALL THINGS ARE NEW! We may not know what our [immediate] future holds – but we know Who holds our future – in His nail scarred holy hands!
Witchcraft – it predates the tower of Babel, and therefore the faiths of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. For this reason, many witches believes this authenticates this religion: because it’s the oldest!
However, the GOD of the Bible has existed for all eternity and spoke light into existence long before witchcraft found a place in this world.
Many believe that witches worship Satan, but while that is actually the truth of the matter, in name, they worship Gaia (behind that Mother Nature mask you’ll find the devils’ leering grin), and her consort Pan.
Modern witches may not worship Gaia by name, and rather worship nature, the creation instead. Scripture addresses this form of spirituality:
ROMANS 1:25
…who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served [the creation] rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Witches, among other nature worshippers, hold the core doctrine of pantheism, that is the goddess mother birthed creation from herself, making it an integral part of herself. Essentially the Creator and creation are one, thus, to worship creation is to worship goddess. Since we are part of creation, that makes us – in some sense – ‘God’ as well.
This is wholly different than biblical Christianity which believes GOD is transcendent from creation, separate from His created work.
Among witches and most all other practitioners of magick and the occult is, “As Above, So Below” from a work entitled The Emerald Tablet, written somewhere in times of antiquity. Essentially it means bringing spiritual reality down into the present physical reality. By speaking forth incantations and spells representing words of power, the magick user can form their reality.
And if this sounds like something out of Word-Faith movement, it’s because that false religious system is based on this occult practice!
An interesting point is that people of wide varieties of religion that engage in mystical meditation eventually come around to the belief of pantheism! There are even professing Christians who’ve left the faith after devoting themselves to mystical meditation and have become witches – such as Sue Monk Kidd, which you can read about in the late Ray Yungen’s book A Time of Departing.
Check this out from our brother Ray Yungen!
One of the blockbuster films of all time, Avatar by James Cameron (Part Two will be out by this Christmas reportedly) gave a huge boost for pantheism: the natives of Pandora called the Na’vi worship Eywa, the name of the mother spirit that is the planet. Check out the article: AVATAR – The WORLD of PANDORA: It’s Spiritual Dogma.
GOD the Creator of all life gave us two venues by which we may know Him: there is general revelation and special revelation.
General revelation is subdivided into creation and conscience. Nature can tell us some things about our Creator, and so can our conscience. Creation shows us His power, His imaginative creative abilities, His love for beauty, His generous nature in providing abundance for us (PSALM 8). Our conscious shows us His moral code written on our hearts (ROM 2:14).
Then there is special revelation; whereas general revelation is very limited in what it reveals about GOD, His special revelation – the Holy Scriptures are very specific and detailed in their revelation about the LORD GOD Creator.
If nature is “God” and “God” is nature, then plagues, earthquakes, violent tempests, famine, drought are all part of what She/He is, and God would seem to kill indiscriminately. And it would seem that God would have a relatively short life span, (lasting only hundreds of billions of years). Our entire universe is destined for a “heat death” when temperature variants will equal out and no more work can be done. And God – if She/He is creation itself, is subject to space and time just as we are; She/He would therefore not have foreknowledge, nor infinite power nor wisdom.
In order for GOD to be GOD, He would have to possess more power than is contained in the universe, in order to create the universe. He would require more knowledge and presence than the universe can contain. He would then therefore have to exist outside of the universe (outside of space/time/matter-energy continuum).
Any adherence then to witchcraft, or nature worship would be to create forbidden images, wrong ideas, and false concepts of GOD, something Scripture forbids, and it would mean worshiping a god other than the true GOD, something else that Scripture forbids (EXOD 20:3-4). All of these venues are doorways for demons to waltz straight through and dominate of the occult practitioner.
Likewise any participation in divination would circumnavigate around GOD’s Law and seek knowledge for oneself, apart from the knowledge that the LORD is willing to share in the Holy Scriptures!
For more on this, check out THROUGH The BLACK YouTube Channel where Tom Dunn and Collene James interview Michelle, a born again believer and ex-witch that addresses these issues and offers the hope of escape from darkness and redemption in Christ!
Catch more of Michelle's testimonies as she shared them previously on THROUGH The BLACK!
Check out more THROUGH The BLACK with pastor Shawn Carter as he talks about "Witchcraft: A Historical and Biblical View"
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