It Is Not Difficult
The truth is that Christ paid the penalty for sin that we owed, all that is necessary for that debt to be counted to our account is to place our faith in Him. Then Christ will come into us and seal us with His Holy Spirit, change us into a new creation, and keep us until He comes for us while continuing to cleanse us.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Future Telling is Divination
I attended a "prophesy session", years ago. I was invited by a neighborhood friend.
Not realizing what a prophesy session was, I thought we were going to learn prophesy from the Bible, instead what I found was devilish silliness perpetrated by a seer, claiming to be a prophet.
As the so called prophet was acting foolishly telling jokes and entertaining the congregation, he would point into the audience to choose people to prophesy about their lives.
I began shaking my head in disgust, he then pointed at me to come forward to tell me what will happen next in my life. I said no, he then proceeded to prophesy that my son was going to commit suicide, my son was sitting next to me.
My son never did commit suicide, interestingly enough we were the only people in the place who got a negative or dangerous prophesy, everyone else was told wonderful things about their future.
The seer in the pulpit was a devil, and the foolish people in the pews were lining up to have their future told by this man who claimed to be a prophet of God.
I couldn't believe my eyesm that so many in the small town of 7000 were mesmerized by this wicked man. Since that time I have seen more and more of this foolishness on the internet.
Those who are not acquainted with their Bibles are being deceived by these masters of manipulation.
God forbade the telling of futures, it is called divination.
Galatians 5:19-21
"19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,
20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,
21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Not realizing what a prophesy session was, I thought we were going to learn prophesy from the Bible, instead what I found was devilish silliness perpetrated by a seer, claiming to be a prophet.
As the so called prophet was acting foolishly telling jokes and entertaining the congregation, he would point into the audience to choose people to prophesy about their lives.
I began shaking my head in disgust, he then pointed at me to come forward to tell me what will happen next in my life. I said no, he then proceeded to prophesy that my son was going to commit suicide, my son was sitting next to me.
My son never did commit suicide, interestingly enough we were the only people in the place who got a negative or dangerous prophesy, everyone else was told wonderful things about their future.
The seer in the pulpit was a devil, and the foolish people in the pews were lining up to have their future told by this man who claimed to be a prophet of God.
I couldn't believe my eyesm that so many in the small town of 7000 were mesmerized by this wicked man. Since that time I have seen more and more of this foolishness on the internet.
Those who are not acquainted with their Bibles are being deceived by these masters of manipulation.
God forbade the telling of futures, it is called divination.
Galatians 5:19-21
"19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,
20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,
21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Who Claims to be a Prophet of God?
Beware of those who claim to be Prophets of God! Anyone who says they "have a word from the Lord for you", tell them not to speak. If God wants to tell us something He will tell it directly to us.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 “anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, 12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord.”
Jeremiah 27:9-10 “So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.”
Jeremiah 14:14-16 “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.”
Deuteronomy 18:20-22
“a prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.”
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 “anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, 12 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord.”
Jeremiah 27:9-10 “So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.”
Jeremiah 14:14-16 “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.”
Deuteronomy 18:20-22
“a prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.”
What Prosperity Preachers Have In Common With Israel of Ezekiel's Time
What Prosperity Preachers Have In Common With Israel of Ezekiel's Time
Does this sound a little like the modern day televangelist and prosperity preachers?
Ezekiel 13:3-9
"3 Thus says the Lord God, “Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing.
4 O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins.
5 You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the Lord.
6 They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.
7 Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said, ‘The Lord declares,’ but it is not I who have spoken?”’”
8 Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you,” declares the Lord God.
9 “So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the Lord God."
Does this sound a little like the modern day televangelist and prosperity preachers?
Ezekiel 13:3-9
"3 Thus says the Lord God, “Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing.
4 O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins.
5 You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the Lord.
6 They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.
7 Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said, ‘The Lord declares,’ but it is not I who have spoken?”’”
8 Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you,” declares the Lord God.
9 “So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the Lord God."
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