10/31/2021 Sunday PM Service
Scripture Text: Isaiah 8:19-21
A. 1 Israel Wound Up Communicating
With Dead Just Like Saul
2. "According To This Word" - There Is No Light In Them
3. Pass Through It Hardly - Distressed
4. They Shall Be Hungry
5. They Shall Fret Themselves
6. They Shall Curse Their king and their God (They will blame God)
7. They Shall Look Unto the Earth
8. They Shall Find Behold Trouble And Darkness, Dimness Of Anguish
9. They Shall Be Driven To Darkness
10. The Darkness Refers To Demon Spirits
B. Scripture Text: Deut. 18: 9
Practices Forbidden By Scripture
1. Enchantments -- practice of magical arts
(Ex. 7:11,22; 8:7,18; Lev. 19:26; Dt. 18:10; 2Chr. 33:6; 2Ki. 17:17; 21:6; Isa. 47:9,12; Jer. 27:9; Dan. 1:20)
2. Witchcraft -- practice of dealing with evil spirits
(Ex. 22:18; Dt. 18:10; 1Sam. 15:23; 2Chr. 33:6; 2Ki. 9:22; Mic. 5:12; Nah. 3:4; Gal. 5:19-21)
3. Sorcery -- same as witchcraft
(Ex. 7:11; Isa. 47:9,12; 57:3; Jer. 27:9; Dan. 2:2; Mal. 3:5; Acts 8:9-11; 13:6-8; Rev. 9:21; 18:23; 21:8; 22:15)
4. Soothsaying -- same as witchcraft
(Isa. 2:6; Dan. 2:27; 4:7; 5:7,11; Mic. 5:12)
5. Divination -- the art of mystic insight or fortunetelling
(Num. 22:7; 23:23; Dt. 18:10-14; 2Ki. 17:17; 1Sam. 6:2; Jer. 14:14; 27:9; 29:8;
Ezek. 12:24; 13:6-7,23; 21:22-29; 22:28; Mic. 3:7; Zech. 10:2; Acts 16:16)
6. Wizardry -- same as witchcraft. A wizard is a male and a witch is a female who practices witchcraft.
Both were to be destroyed in Israel
(Ex. 22:18; Lev. 19:31; 20:6,27; Dt. 18:11; 1Sam. 28:3,9; 2Ki. 21:6; 23:24; 2Chr. 33:6; Isa. 19:3)
7. Necromancy -- divination by means of pretended communication with the dead
(Dt. 18:11; Isa. 8:19; 1Sam. 28; 1Chr. 10:13)
8. Magic -- any pretended supernatural art or practice
(Gen. 41:8,24; Ex. 7:11,22; 8:7,18-19; 9:11; Dan. 1:20; 2:2,10,27; 4:7,9; 5:11; Acts 19:19)
9. Charm -- to put a spell upon (same as enchantment)
(Dt. 18:11; Isa. 19:3)
10. Prognostication -- to foretell bindications, omens, signs, etc. (Isa. 47:13)
11. Observing times -- same a prognostication
(Lev. 19:26; Dt. 18:10; 2Ki. 21:6; 2Chr. 33:6)
12. Astrology and star gazing -- divination by stars
(Isa. 47:13; Jer. 10:2; Dan. 1:20; 2:2,10; 4:7; 5:7-15)
All the above practices were and still are carried on in connection with demons,
called familiar spirits. All who forsook God and sought help from these demons were tto be destroyed
C. Sorcerers or necromancers, who professed to call up the dead to answer questions,
were said to have a “familiar spirit”
(Deuteronomy 18:11; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Leviticus 19:31; 20:6;
Isaiah 8:19; 29:4).
Such a person was called by the Hebrews an 'ob,
which properly means a leather bottle; for sorcerers were regarded as vessels containing the inspiring demon.
This Hebrew word was equivalent to the pytho of the Greeks,
and was used to denote both the person and the spirit which possessed him
(Leviticus 20:27; 1 Samuel 28:8; compare Acts 16:16).
The word “familiar” is from the Latin familiaris, meaning a “household servant,” and
was intended to express the idea that sorcerers had spirits as their servants,
ready to obey their commands.
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