The Occult

The Occult

The Occult

Of all the sins man may commit, none is as rigorously condemned in the Bible as involvement in anything of an occult nature.

The word “occult” is derived from the Latin word occultus which means "hidden." It refers to the pursuit of hidden things, hidden knowledge, hidden power, hidden supernatural.

There are TWO sources of supernatural power: God, and Satan.
Satan will always have a counterfeit for everything of God.

God has made available to us an immense amount of knowledge, incorporated in the books of the Bible. He has revealed what he wants us to know about himself, his purposes, what he wants of us, what it’s all about. In his Word, we are commanded NOT to delve into supernatural things beyond what HE has made available to us.

"The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: 
but those things which are revealed 
belong unto us and to our children for ever, 
that we may do all the words of this law."
Deuteronomy 29:29

Principle: Whatever God has and whatever God does, Satan will counterfeit it.

For every gift or calling that God gives his people, Satan produces a counterfeit. Are there prophets? Then there will also be false prophets. In pursuing occult experiences, one is not only going beyond the bounds of what is allowed to us, but in being involved in occult things one is actually delving into the kingdom of Satan, and committing, in God's eyes, harlotry, or "spiritual adultery." Turning to occult sources for information, knowledge, or power is "spiritual adultery. It's a slap in the face to God.

One can’t help but notice when reading through the Bible, that this particular offense is the one that angers God the most, and that’s because it’s spiritual adultery. God wants usto look to him alone for our needs, to look to him alone for anything of a supernatural nature, and to shun all occult activities because they are of Satanic origin.

What Are Occult Activities?

"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, (one who supposedly predicts the future)
or one who interprets omens,
or a sorcerer,
or one who conjures spells,
or a medium,
or a spiritist, (a channeler, or one who gets guidance from a “higher” spirit)
or one who calls up the dead.
For all who do these things are an abomination to theLord…”
Deuteronomy 18:10-12

So occult activity is anything having to do with fortune telling, magic, witchcraft, contacting the dead, etc. Ouija boards, tarot cards, tea leaf reading, palm reading, “psychic” predictions, astrology and horoscopes, and so forth. In short, every attempt to gain supernatural knowledge or power outside of the Bible is occultism, and the Lord calls it spiritual adultery, and the individuals who do those things are “an abomination” to God.

Results Of Dabbling In The Occult

“Without exception, those who have become involved in any kind of occultism will eventually suffer Satanic oppression in some manner.” For many it's mental illness or premature death, and the curse can go down to the 3rd and 4th generation.

Principle:
One does NOT have to be doing this knowingly. Any form of occultism, even in ignorance, will open those doors and oppression is inevitable.

Based on research among men of God in the “deliverance” ministry, i.e. those who cast out evil spirits, the notable results of any dabbling in the occult are:

1. Mental illness
2. Deep depression
3. Premature death, especially among the children of those who have dabbled in the occult
4. Suicide
5. Repeated heavy-duty trauma such as houses burning down, car accidents. These things can happen to anyone and not be related to the occult, but when you see repeatedinstances of trauma in a family, occult involvement should be strongly suspected.

The Judgment Usually Spans Generations

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me…”
Exodus 20:3-5

“…but he by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourthgeneration…”
Numbers 14:18

"…you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourthgenerations of those who hate me…”
Deuteronomy 5:9

Don't absolve yourself saying that you don't hate him.
HE said "If you love me, keep my commandments." 
John 14:15

Render Unto Ceasar.

“Render to Caesar”. I actually hear professing christians tell me I’m supposed to pay taxes because Jesus said to render unto Caesar. For the hundredth time, Jesus was NOT telling us to pay taxes. Just the opposite, in fact.

  The Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus. They asked if it was lawful to pay taxes to Caesar. Not by Caesar’s law, which was a no brainer, but by God’s law.

 In the crowd were Sanhedrin priests and Roman soldiers. If Jesus answered yes, he would be in trouble with the Sanhedrin. If he said no, the Roman soldiers had him.

 Jesus used the Jewish technique of meeting a question with a question.

 He asked for a coin and showed it to the crowd. Then he asked the Pharisees, “whose image is on this coin?”.

 The Pharisees answered “Caesar’s”.

 With that answer, the Roman soldiers began to lose interest. They knew nothing of God’s law, and didn’t care. Jesus’s next answer satisfied them “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, render unto God that which is God’s “. 

  The Roman soldiers may have walked away. Jesus had satisfied their curiosity. 

  But the Pharisees knew better. When Jesus referred to “image”, they knew he was referring to the second commandment, which said they were NOT to bow down or serve any image of any kind for any reason”.

 Jesus had answered them correctly, and they knew it. No, they were NOT to pay taxes to Caesar. It was NOT lawful. 

 They didn’t disagree, because any disagreement would put them in the same hot water they tried to boil for Jesus. They held their silence as he walked away.

 By that same token today, we bow and serve Federal Reserve notes, which are nothing more than images on paper. We create the value because we bow down and seve images that are designed to make the rich even richer. 

  We even fight and die for these worthless images because they say “In God we trust”.

  SCOTUS has ruled that this statement means nothing. It’s a kind of ritual decoration. We don’t really trust in God. We trust in worthless pieces of paper with images of dead presidents, controlled by a banking cartel designed for the rich.

 Christianity bows and serves this bullcrap😡