The Occult and False Religions
The Occult and False Religions
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Q. Where does it say in the Bible that
God is against tarot card readings? I have a friend who may want to have this
done, and I want to steer my friend away from it.
A. I would look
at the book of Isaiah, particularly where it talks about the ’spirits that peep
and mutter.’ You can look in the book of Deuteronomy and Leviticus,
particularly, and you can see the prohibitions against witchcraft and sorcery.
Tarot cards are part of the sorcerer’s tools. God said, ‘Should not a people
turn to the Living God and not to these spirits that peep and mutter?’ There is
a prohibition against those who engage in witchcraft. As a matter of fact, in
the Old Testament, they were stoned to death. It is wrong. It was executable by
stoning in the Old Testament regimes, so this is not exactly something that God
approves of.
All these — the Chaldeans, the magicians, the astrologers, the
soothsayers — they are all part and parcel of the same thing. They are
demonically oriented.
Q. Pat, I just
wanted to know if astrology and reading your horoscope is wrong. My friends and
I started reading them just for fun. I don’t want to do anything against God. Is
it wrong if we just read them for fun?
A.
Get a concordance and look up astrologer, soothsaying, necromancy, caldeans and
some of those other terms. Yes, it’s wrong. It’s like saying, “Well, I have a
lion, and I wonder if it’s okay to go into his cage and pet him from time to
time.” Well, he might be a friendly lion. On the other hand, he might be hungry,
and you’d become dinner. Those things are deadly, and once you open the door
into the occult, it’s one crack, and then the next and the next and the next. Of
course, you shouldn’t be involved in horoscopes and that kind of activity. It’s
unbiblical, and it’s wrong.
Q. My stepdaughter is fascinated with vampires and other occult
practices. Her bedroom is draped in black and has an altar with candles,
incense, and a pentagram. I tell my wife that even though I am not our
daughter’s biological dad, I am still responsible before God for my household.
My wife tells me to mind my own business. What do you believe is my
responsibility before God concerning her behavior in our home?
A. First of all, according to the Bible, you are
the head of your household. That includes your wife and your daughter. If she
[your wife] got married in a Christian marriage, she is supposed to submit to
the authority of her husband in matters of spiritual activity.
You do not
wish to invite Satan to come into your home. The pentagram, the candles, the
occult incantations — they are all prayers to Satan and to demons to enter your
home and to do damage to your home and to your family. As the high priest of
your household, you have an absolute right to say, ‘No, this is my home and I am
paying the bills. You get that junk out of here!’
Don’t think that because
you are not involved in it that you are going to escape. …
Q. I
heard a “minister” on TV say that Allah and God were the same. What are your
thoughts, and what are the distinctions if they are not the same?
A. Under no circumstances is Jehovah, the God of
the Bible, and Allah, of the Koran, the same. First of all, the God of the Bible
is a God of love and redemption, who sent His Son into the world to die for our
sins. Allah tells people to die for him in order to get salvation, but there is
no understanding of salvation. Allah was the moon god from Mecca. That is why
Islam has the crescent moon. The flag of Turkey has a crescent moon with a star
in it. Well, the crescent moon is because Allah was the moon god, and that is
the deal. But we don’t serve a moon god. We serve the God of creation, the
Creator of everything.
They are not the same. To translate Allah as God is
wrong. When you see something in there and it says Allah, you translate it
Allah. Don’t call it God because it is different. God is Elohim. He is the
Creator, the Jehovah God, Yahweh. Yahweh of the Old Testament was the Father who
brought forth Jesus into the world
Q. I’m confused about the
difference between someone who is a psychic and someone who is a prophet. Is a
prophet the spiritual equivalent of a psychic?
A. Absolutely not. The word psychic comes from the
Greek word psuke, which means soul. These are people who have soulish impulses
that come primarily from demon spirits. That’s where all this comes from. There
are some people who have a natural psychic feeling, but a prophet is hearing
from the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God touches the spirit of man, whereas
demonic forces do not touch your spirit. What they do is touch your soul. The
apostle Paul said the psuke man cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God.
