Bible Lessons: The Occult

Bible Lesson: Occult:
Last Day Signs, increase of the occult:

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Metaphysical Healing-Levitation-Automatic Writing-Sooth Sayer-Yoga-Channeling-Clairvoyant-Spiritualism-Crystals-Amulets-Charms-Tea Leaves-Fortune Telling-Table Tappings-Halloween-Witches-Palm Reading- Casting Spells-Paganism-Astral Projection-Demonic Possession-UFO Cults-Occult Rock Music-Vampierism-Occult Movies- -etc...etc...etc.....

The Occult is alive and well in our world today!
American Heritage Dictionary definition of occult.

Occults: Dealing with Supernatural influences, agencies, or phenomena, and attempting to bring them under human control.

If you heard a knocking at your front door at one o'clock in the morning, and some unknown voice asked admission to your home, would you open the door?
Of course not! Yet millions of people do exactly that every day, and they do it by practicing things relating to the occult.

If someone outside your door at one o'clock in the morning claimed to be the leader of our country, would you open the door and let him in?
Of course not, because you can't see through the door, and you know very well the chance that it is the leader of your country, is one chance in one hundred million.
Why then do individuals become so gullible in regards to Unseen Spiritual things?
Channeling....Ouija Boards etc...etc...

They answer: “Why do we know it's true, because the spirit told us so!”
Really, well what spirit was it? Do you know? ......
Of course not! Did you see him or her and did you have enough time to check their credentials?

Some have the mistaken idea, that if the smallest amount of information is given, or if some kind of unseen power is realized, its got to be real, and.......good.
But that is faulty reasoning! Without a doubt there is a Spiritual Realm and in it there are good and evil forces!
One is of God and His Kingdom of good and the other is Satan, the enemy of our souls and evil.

Are there deceiving spirits out to trick us?

Matthew 24:23-26 KJV
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

Judges 2:11-13 KJV (Serving False gods.)
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

Judges 10:6 KJV (False gods.)
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not Him.

I Samuel 7:3-4 KJV (Putting away false, deceiving gods.)
3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve Him only: and He will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.

I Timothy 4:1 KJV
“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;”

The Word of God, strongly condemns any involvement in the occult!

Deuteronomy 18:9-12 KJV
9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
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.

Dabbling into the things of the occult opens a door to the evil Spiritual Realm, a door that is not easily shut!
Our Bible warns time and time again against such practices.

Galatians 5:19-21 NIV
19 The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that
those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Occult practices “...are an abomination unto the Lord.”
Those who perform such things....

Revelation 21:8 KJV
”...shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.”

We have a spiritual enemy...Satan!

I Peter 5:8 KJV
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”

Satan is an arch deceiver:

II Corinthians 11:13-15 KJV
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

This enemy, when given an “Open Door,” brings with him, torment, oppression, dread, depression, delusions, perversions, anxieties, nervousness, neurotic behavior, compulsions, lying, stealing, gambling, obsessions, fear, thoughts of suicide and murder, apparitions, hearing voices, poltergeist phenomena etc..etc..etc....
What must one do, if one has been involved with the occult?

First:
One must renounce Satan and everything that belongs to him. Rid your home of anything to do with the occult!
James 4:7 KJV
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

Second:
Repent of your sins and receive the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart.
John 1:12 KJV
“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:”

Third:
Read the Word of God daily!
Psalm 111:19 KJV
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”

Fourth:
Attend a Bible believing, Spirit filled church, one that believes in the Great Commission of our Lord.
Mark 16:17,18 KJV
[17] “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
[18] (deadly things)... shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

Fifth:
Warn others not to become entangled with the occult!

Ephesians 6:10-18 KJV
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;