TWELVE FORBIDDEN PRACTICES -- UNMASKING THE SPIRITUAL DARK-SIDE --Occult Practices Exposed

Deuteronomy 18

Spiritism Forbidden

9 “When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God will drive them out before you.
13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.
14 For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

1 Samuel 15

Disobedience

22 Samuel said, “Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.

23 “For rebellion is as the sin of divination,

And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

He has also rejected you from being king.”

Ephesians 6

The Armor of God

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.

11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.

12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.

14 Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

19 and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,

20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

JOSIAH--  THE KID / KING WHO OBEYS THE SCRIPTURES
2 Kings 22
¹¹ When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law,^(N) he tore his robes. ¹² He gave these orders to Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam^(O) son of Shaphan, Akbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king’s attendant:^{(P) 13} “Go and inquire^(Q) of the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the Lord’s anger^(R) that burns against us because those who have gone before us have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us.”

2 Kings 23:24
⁴ Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists,^(A) the household gods,^(B) the idols and all the other detestable^(C) things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the Lord.



1. ENCHANTMENTS: The act of influencing by charms and incantations the practice of magic arts.

Definition of ENCHANTMENT (Webster’s)
1 a : the act or art of

enchanting

b : the quality or state of being

enchanted 2 : something that
enchants

Synonyms: abracadabra, bewitchment, charm, conjuration, spell, glamour (also glamor), hex, incantation, invocation, whammy
Other Occult Termsaugury, censor, invocation, lucidity, metempsychosis, mojo, numinous, preternatural, weird, wraith



• Deuteronomy 18:10
• Exodus 7:11, 22 8-7
• Numbers 23:23, 34:1
• Leviticus 19:26
• 2 Kings 17:17, 21:6
• 2 Chronicles 33:6
• Ecclesiastes 10:11
• Isaiah 47:9, 12
• Jeremiah 27:9

ENCHANTERS: Sorcerer, magician, one who uses the human voice or music to bring another person under psychic control.

Definition of ENCHANTER (Webster’s)
: one that enchants; especially : sorcerer
Related to ENCHANTER
Synonyms:
charmer, conjurer (or conjuror), magician, mage, Magian, magus, necromancer, sorcerer, voodoo, voodooist, witch, wizard

 

• Leviticus 19:26
• Deuteronomy 18:10-12
• 1 Samuel 15:23
• 2 Chronicles 33:6
• 2 Kings 17:17
• Isaiah 47:8-11
• Jeremiah 27:9
• Daniel 1:20

2. WITCHCRAFT: The practice of dealing with evil spirits, the use of sorcery or magic.

Definition of WITCHCRAFT (Webster’s)

1 a : the use of sorcery or magic

b : communication with the devil or with a familiar

2 : an irresistible influence or fascination 

wicca Synonyms:
bewitchery, bewitchment, conjuring, devilry (or deviltry), diablerie, enchantment, ensorcellment, mojo, necromancy, sorcery, thaumaturgy, voodooism, magic, witchery, wizardry
Related Words:
abracadabra, amulet, charm, fetish (also fetich), mascot, periapt, phylactery, talisman; conjuration, glamour (also glamor), incantation, spell; curse, hex, jinx; augury, crystal gazing, divination, divining, forecasting, foreknowing, foreseeing, foretelling, fortune-telling, predicting, presaging, prognosticating, prophesying, soothsaying, sortilege; hexerei, hoodoo, occultism, spiritualism; augur, omen; exorcism; alchemy
Other Occult Termsaugury, censor, invocation, lucidity, metempsychosis, mojo, numinous, preternatural, weird, wraith

• Exodus 22:18
• Deuteronomy 18:10-12
• 1 Samuel 15:23
• 2 Kings 9:22, 2
• 2 Chronicles 33:6
• Micah 5:12
• Nahum 3:4
• Galatians 5:19-22

3. SORCERY (PHARMAIKA) : The use of power gained from the assistance or control of evil spirits, especially for divining.

PHARMAKIA –Use of medicine and drugs used not for medicinal purposes , used in spells and religious rituals and ceremonies or for ones own pleasure.
The Greek word “pharmakia” literally means “drugs”, and appears five times in the New Testament:

• Galatians 5:20
• Revelations 9:21, 18:23, 21:8, 22:15
• Exodus 7:11
• Isaiah 47:9, 57:3
• Jeremiah 27:9
• Daniel 2:2
• Malachi 3:5

4. DIVINATION: Fortune-telling

Definition of DIVINATION (Webster’s)
1 : the art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers
2 : unusual insight : intuitive perception

Divination Concise Encyclopedia
Practice of discerning the hidden significance of events and foretelling the future. Divination is found in all societies, ancient and modern, though methods vary. In the West, psychics claim innate ability to predict the future, and horoscopes, palm reading, and tarot cards are popular methods of divination. Other methods involve or have involved interpreting dreams, discovering omens in natural events, reading the entrails of animals, casting lots, and consulting oracles. Divination has long been viewed as the province of specially gifted persons, such as prophets, shamans, and magicians. See also astrology.

Synonyms:

augury

Related Words:

astrology, crystal gazing, geomancy, hydromancy, oneiromancy, pyromancy, rhabdomancy

 Other Occult Termsaugury, censor, invocation, lucidity, metempsychosis, mojo, numinous, preternatural, weird, wraith

• Numbers 22:7
• Jeremiah 27:8-9, 29-8-9
• Acts 16:16-18

5. WIZARDRY: The art of practices of a wizard; sorcery.

Definition of WIZARDRY (Webster’s)
1 : the art or practices of a
wizard : sorcery 2 a : a seemingly magical transforming power or influence <electronic wizardry>
b : great skill or cleverness in an activity <showed real wizardry in legal maneuvering>

Synonyms:
bewitchery, bewitchment, conjuring, devilry (or deviltry), diablerie, enchantment, ensorcellment, mojo, necromancy, sorcery, thaumaturgy, voodooism, witchcraft, witchery, magic

Related Words:
abracadabra, amulet, charm, fetish (also fetich), mascot, periapt, phylactery, talisman; conjuration, glamour (also glamor), incantation, spell; curse, hex, jinx; augury, crystal gazing, divination, divining, forecasting, foreknowing, foreseeing, foretelling, fortune-telling, predicting, presaging, prognosticating, prophesying, soothsaying, sortilege; hexerei, hoodoo, occultism, spiritualism; augur, omen; exorcism; alchemy

WIZARD: One skilled in magic, sorcerer; male witch.

Definition of WIZARD (Webster's)

1 : archaic : a wise man :

sage 2 : one skilled in magic :
sorcerer 3 : a very clever or skillful person <computer wizards>

Synonyms:
charmer, conjurer (or conjuror), enchanter, mage, Magian, magus, necromancer, sorcerer, voodoo, voodooist, witch, magician

Related Words:
enchantress, hag, hex, sorceress; warlock; occultist; thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, wonder-worker; medicine man, shaman, shamanist, witch doctor; crystal gazer, diviner, foreseer, fortune-teller, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, seer, soothsayer; medium; exorciser, exorcist

Other Occult Terms
augury, censor, invocation, lucidity, metempsychosis, mojo, numinous, preternatural, weird, wraith

• Exodus 22:18
• Leviticus 19:31, 20:6, 27
• Deuteronomy 18:11
• 2 Kings 17:17, 21:6, 23:24
• 2 Chronicles 33:6
• Isaiah 8:19, 19:3

6. NECROMANCY: Communication with the dead; conjuration of the spirits of the dead for purpose of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events.

Definition of NECROMANCY (Webster’s)
1 : conjuration of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events
2 : magic, sorcery — nec·ro·man·cer \-sər\ noun

Synonyms:
bewitchery, bewitchment, conjuring, devilry (or deviltry), diablerie, enchantment, ensorcellment, mojo, magic, sorcery, thaumaturgy, voodooism, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry

Related Words:
abracadabra, amulet, charm, fetish (also fetich), mascot, periapt, phylactery, talisman; conjuration, glamour (also glamor), incantation, spell; curse, hex, jinx; augury, crystal gazing, divination, divining, forecasting, foreknowing, foreseeing, foretelling, fortune-telling, predicting, presaging, prognosticating, prophesying, soothsaying, sortilege; hexerei, hoodoo, occultism, spiritualism; augur, omen; exorcism; alchemy

Other Occult Termsaugury, censor, invocation, lucidity, metempsychosis, mojo, numinous, preternatural, weird, wraith

• Deuteronomy 18:11
• 1 Samuel 28:1-25
• Isaiah 8:19
• 1 Chronicles 10:13-14

7. CHARM: Put a spell upon someone; to affect by magic.

Definition of CHARM (Webster’s)
1 a : the chanting or reciting of a magic spell :
incantation b : a practice or expression believed to have magic power
2 : something worn about the person to ward off evil or ensure good fortune :
amulet 3 a : a trait that fascinates, allures, or delights
b : a physical grace or attraction —used in plural <her feminine charms>
c : compelling attractiveness <the island possessed great charm>

Synonyms:
amulet, fetish (also fetich), mascot, mojo, periapt, phylactery, talisman

Related Words:
gris-gris (also grigri), juju, philter, toadstone; emblem, #

Antonyms:
curse, hex, spell

 

• Deuteronomy 18:11
• Isaiah 19:3

8. STAR-GAZING / ASTROLOGY: The divination of the supposed influence of the stars upon human affairs and terrestrial events by their positions and aspects.

Definition of STARGAZING (Webster’s)

1 : the act or practice of a

stargazer
Definition of STARGAZER (Webster’s)
1 : one who gazes at the
stars: as a :
astrologer b :
astronomer

Definition of ASTROLOGER (Webster’s)
: a person who practices
astrology

Definition of ASTROLOGY (Webster’s)
1: archaic : astronomy
2 : the divination of the supposed influences of the stars and planets on human affairs and terrestrial events by their positions and aspects

Astrology noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
Divination that consists of interpreting the influence of stars and planets on earthly affairs and human destinies. In ancient times it was inseparable from astronomy. It originated in Mesopotamia (c. 3rd millennium BC) and spread to India, but it developed its Western form in Greek civilization during the Hellenistic period. Astrology entered Islamic culture as part of the Greek tradition and was returned to European culture through Arabic learning during the Middle Ages. According to the Greek tradition, the heavens are divided according to the 12 constellations of the zodiac, and the bright stars that rise at intervals cast a spiritual influence over human affairs. Astrology was also important in ancient China, and in imperial times it became standard practice to have a horoscope cast for each newborn child and at all decisive junctures of life. Though the Copernican system shattered the geocentric worldview that astrology requires, interest in astrology has continued into modern times and astrological signs are still widely believed to influence personality.

Other Occult Terms
augury, censor, invocation, lucidity, metempsychosis, mojo, numinous, preternatural, weird, wraith

Definition of ASTRONOMY: (Webster’s)
the study of objects and matter outside the earth's atmosphere and of their physical and chemical properties

Astronomy noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
Science dealing with the origin, evolution, composition, distance, and motion of all bodies and scattered matter in the universe. The most ancient of the sciences, it has existed since the dawn of recorded civilization. Much of the earliest knowledge of celestial bodies is often credited to the Babylonians. The ancient Greeks introduced influential cosmological ideas, including theories about the Earth in relation to the rest of the universe. Ptolemy's model of an Earth-centred universe (2nd century AD) influenced astronomical thought for over 1,300 years. In the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus assigned the central position to the Sun (see Copernican system), ushering in the age of modern astronomy. The 17th century saw several momentous developments: Johannes Kepler's discovery of the principles of planetary motion, Galileo's application of the telescope to astronomical observation, and Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of motion and gravitation. In the 19th century, spectroscopy and photography made it possible to study the physical properties of planets, stars, and nebulae, leading to the development of astrophysics. In 1927 Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe, hitherto thought static, was expanding (see expanding universe). In 1937 the first radio telescope was built. The first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was launched in 1957, inaugurating the age of space exploration; spacecraft that could escape Earth's gravitational pull and return data about the solar system were launched beginning in 1959 (see Luna; Pioneer). See also big bang; cosmology; gamma-ray astronomy; infrared astronomy; radio and radar astronomy; ultraviolet astronomy; X-ray astronomy.

Other Astronomy Terms
gibbous, nadir, nebulous, penumbra, retrograde, sidereal, syzygy, wane, wax, zenith

• Isaiah 47:12-15
• Jeremiah 10:2
• Daniel 1:18-20, 4:1-37, 5:7-15

9. SOOTHSAYING: The act of foretelling events; prophesying by a spirit other than the Holy Spirit.

Definition of SOOTHSAYING (Webster’s)
1 : the act of foretelling events
2 :prediction, prophecy
Synonyms:
auguring, augury, bodement, cast, forecast, forecasting, foretelling, predicting, presaging, prognosis, prognostic, prognosticating, prognostication, prophecy (also prophesy), prediction, vaticination
Related Words:
foreboding, harbinger, omen, portent, prevision, prospectus, sign; anticipation, foreknowledge; foresight; conjecture, guess, surmise

 

• Joshua 12:22
• Micah 5:12-15
• Acts 16:16-18

10. PROGNOSTICATION: To foretell from signs or symptoms; prophesying without the Holy Spirit. Soothsaying.

Definition of PROGNOSTICATION (Webster’s)

1 : an indication in advance :

foretoken 2 a : an act, the fact, or the power of
prognosticating : forecast b :
foreboding

Synonyms:
auguring, augury, bodement, cast, forecast, forecasting, foretelling, predicting, presaging, prognosis, prognostic, prognosticating, prediction, prophecy (also prophesy), soothsaying, vaticination

 

• Isaiah 47:12-15
• Joshua 13:22
• Micah 5:12-15
• Acts 16:16-18

11. OBSERVING TIMES: Astrology

• Leviticus 19:26
• Deuteronomy 18:10-14
• 2 Kings 21:6
• 2 Chronicles 33:6

12. MAGIC: Witchcraft

Definition of MAGIC (Webster’s)

1 a : the use of means (as charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces b : magic rites or incantations

2 a : an extraordinary power or influence seemingly from a supernatural source

b : something that seems to cast a spell :

enchantment 3 : the art of producing illusions by sleight of hand
Magic noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
Use of means (such as charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces. It constitutes the core of many religious systems and plays a central social role in many nonliterate cultures. Magic is often distinguished from religion as being more impersonal and mechanical and emphasizing technique. Its techniques are usually regarded as means to specific ends (an enemy’s defeat, rainfall, etc.), although another view ascribes a more symbolic, expressive character to such activity. Thus, a rainmaking ritual may both elicit rainfall and stress the symbolic importance of rain and the agricultural activities associated with it. Both the magician and the magical rite are typically surrounded by taboos, purification procedures, and other activities that draw the participants into the magical sphere. Strains of magic in Western tradition, formerly associated with heretics, alchemists, witches, and sorcerers, persist in modern times in the activities of satanists and others. The art of entertaining by performing apparently magical feats (sometimes called conjuring) relies on the use of sleight of hand and other means. See also shaman, vodun, witchcraft and sorcery.
Synonyms:
bewitchery, bewitchment, conjuring, devilry (or deviltry), diablerie, enchantment, ensorcellment, mojo, necromancy, sorcery, thaumaturgy, voodooism, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry

Related Words:
abracadabra, amulet, charm, fetish (also fetich), mascot, periapt, phylactery, talisman; conjuration, glamour (also glamor), incantation, spell; curse, hex, jinx; augury, crystal gazing, divination, divining, forecasting, foreknowing, foreseeing, foretelling, fortune-telling, predicting, presaging, prognosticating, prophesying, soothsaying, sortilege; hexerei, hoodoo, occultism, spiritualism; augur, omen; exorcism; alchemy

Other Occult Terms
augury, censor, invocation, lucidity, metempsychosis, mojo, numinous, preternatural, weird, wraith

• Deuteronomy 18:10-12
• 2 Chronicles 33:6
• 1 Samuel 15:23

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THE MANUFACTURER'S HANDBOOK

HAS MUCH MORE TO SAY ABOUT

THE DARK SIDE AND HOW BELIEVERS CAN STAND AGAINST EVIL AND RESIST SATAN

Heavenly Father,

I come to you though the precious shed blood of Christ my Savior

I ask your wisdom of discernment be upon each person who studies this teaching.

Your holy word says in James 4:7

"Submit therefore to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you."

I ask that strength be given to believers in Jesus so that they can resist deception and go forth in your word and ways to defeat the enemies lies and powers as they put on the whole armor mentioned in Ephesians 6.

In Jesus name I pray,

AMEN

　

ADDITIONAL STUDIES

2 Peter 2:1

2 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers ⁽among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the ⁽Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

² Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

2 Thessalonians 2:9
 ⁹ The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie,
¹⁰ and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
¹¹ For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie
 ¹² and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Mark 16: 15-17
¹⁴ Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen.
¹⁵ And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
¹⁶ He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
¹⁷ These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;
¹⁸ they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Acts 19: 11-16
¹¹ God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,
¹² so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out.
¹³ But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” ¹⁴ Seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
¹⁵ And the evil spirit answered and said to them, “I recognize Jesus, and I know about Paul, but who are you?”
¹⁶ And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaped on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Matthew 12: 45　　
⁴³ “Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.
⁴⁴ Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.
 ⁴⁵ Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”
　
1 John 4:1-3
Testing the Spirits

4 ⁾Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

² By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

 ³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.

1 Timothy 4:1
Apostasy

4 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,

JOSIAH
A YOUNG KID / KING WHO DARED TO
READ THE SCRIPTURE AND ACT ON IT FOR THE GOOD OF ALL
2 Kings chapters 22 & 23　
　

　
　

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