Spiritualism, Sorcery, and Witchcraft (Did you know what the Bible Says?) 1. Do you know that God commanded Israel that those who practise sorcery or witchcraft should not be permitted to live? Exodus 22 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. ==================================================== 2. Do you know that to seek to communicate with spirits or with the dead is to become defiled and unfit to appear before God to worship Him? Leviticus 19 31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God. ==================================================== 3. Do you know that God cuts off from among His people ALL who turn to mediums for help? Leviticus 20 6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. ==================================================== 4. Do you know that capital punishment by stoning was God's sentence on any man or woman who calls up spirits? Leviticus 20 27 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them. ==================================================== 5. Do you know that witchcraft, fortune-telling, crystal reading necromancy, and palmistry are related to spiritism and are strongly condemned by God? Deuteronomy 18 10 There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. ==================================================== 6. Do you know that it was because of their black magic and related practices that God destroyed the Canaanites? Deuteronomy 18 12 For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. ==================================================== 7. Do you know that Samuel's most effective way of impressing upon Saul the enormity of the sin of disobedience was by likening it to witchcraft? 1 Samuel 15 23 For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king. ==================================================== 8. Do you know that King Saul of Israel, when he was faithful to God, cleared all the spiritistic mediums out of the land? 1 Samuel 28 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. ==================================================== 9. Do you know that when King Saul later consulted a medium, it was only after his sins had made communication with God impossible? 1 Samuel 28 6 And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. 7. Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, [there is] a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor. ==================================================== 10. Do you know that Saul's loss of his crown and his untimely death were the direct judgment of God on him for his dealings in spiritism? 1 Chronicles 10 13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it]; ==================================================== 11. Do you know that the list of wicked King Manasseh's sins includes consulting with spirit-mediums, fortune-tellers, and sorcerers? 2 Chronicles 33 6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. ==================================================== 12. Do you know that one of the reasons God rejected Israel was because they practised magic and communicated with evil spirits? Isaiah 2 6. Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. ==================================================== 13. Do you know that it is insulting to God to consult the dead when you can inquire of Him? Isaiah 8 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? ==================================================== 14. Did you know that a fortune-teller may be demon-possessed, like the girl in Philippi out of whom Paul cast an unclean spirit in the name of Jesus? Acts 16 16. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. 18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. ==================================================== 15. Do you know that true Christians, like those at Ephesus, have nothing to do with black magic and its related practices? Acts 19 19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all [men]: and they counted the price of them, and found [it] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver. ==================================================== 16. Did you know that sorcery is included in the works of the flesh listed in the Bible, and that those who practice it cannot enter the kingdom of God? Galatians 5 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ==================================================== 17. Do you know that the teaching of spiritism are doctrines of demons? 1 Timothy 4 1. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; ==================================================== 18. Do you know that demons are subject to God's greater power and tremble before Him? James 2 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. ==================================================== 19. Do you know that those who engage in sorcery will be shut out of Heaven and banished forever from God? Revelation 21 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 22 15 For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. ***************************************************************** The Gospel Standard The Peoples Gospel Hour Box 1660, Halifax, N.S., Canada B3J 3A1 Box 500, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. 02102 ***************************************************************** Why be deceived by the devil with the occult? Why not turn to God through the Lord Jesus Christ? HERE'S HOW! The simple plan of Biblical Salvation REPENTANCE is necessary: 'Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, for he will abundantly pardon.' Isaiah 55:7 'Repent ye therefore, and be converted that your sins may be blotted out...' Acts 3:19 ALL HAVE SINNED: 'For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.' Romans 3:23 SIN HAS A PENALTY: 'The soul that sinneth, it shall die...' Ezekiel 18:20 '....except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.' Luke 13:3 THE LORD JESUS PAID THE PENALTY: 'But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.' Rom 5:8 YOU MUST RECEIVE THE LORD JESUS: 'But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.' John 1:12 SINNERS PRAYER Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner. I ask You to come into my life to forgive and save me. I now receive You as my Saviour (trusting in You ALONE to save me) and my Lord (making You my Master and committing my life to You). AMEN!