Becoming a Vessel of Honor by Rebecca Brown

Author:Rebecca Brown [Brown, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 1992-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

THE SPIRIT AND

THE SPIRIT WORLD

I find it interesting that in this time of unprecedented escalation of the occult and evil, there has probably never been a time when Christians, as a whole, believed LESS in the reality of the existence of the spirit realm and Satan and his kingdom.

It was not necessary for any of the writers of Scripture to teach about the reality of the spirit realm because the population as a whole already believed in it and KNEW about the occult. During the time of Moses, for instance, the Lord had no need to define, or describe, occult practices because the people generally knew very well what was being spoken about. The Israelites had just spent four hundred years living in the Egyptian culture steeped in occultism and demon worship. But, today, few Christians have any idea what a wizard, or necromancer, is or what it means “to divine.”

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. 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. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 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. (Deuteronomy 18:9–12)

The Lord did not have to define the terms given in these verses because the people KNEW what He was talking about. Just as in the times of Jesus and the writing of the New Testament, knowledge about the occult and demons was widespread.

In fact, it was widespread knowledge that demons could do all sorts of things.

“So general at the time of our Lord was the belief in demons, and in the power of employing them, that even Josephus (Ant. viii. 2,5) contended that the power of conjuring up, and driving out demons, and of magical cures had been derived from King Hezekiah, to whom God had given it. Josephus declares himself to have been an eyewitness of such a wonderful cure by the repetition of a magical formula. This illustrates the contention of the Scribes that the miraculous cures of our Lord were due to demoniac agency.” (The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, by Alfred Edersheim, Vol. II, Eerdmans Pub. Co., ©1947, p. 762)

“We must here bear in mind that the practice of magic was strictly prohibited to Israelites, and that—as a matter of principle at least—witchcraft, or magic, was supposed to have no power over Israel, if they owned and served their God (Chull. 7b: Nedar. 32a). But in this matter also—as will presently appear—theory and practice did not accord. Thus, under certain circumstances, the repetition of magical formulas was declared lawful even on the Sabbath (Sanh. 101a). Egypt was regarded as the home of magic (Kidd.

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