Witchcraft is a form of superstition whereby the person thinks he can do something and cause something to happen according to his own will. Recently a woman, who says she is a Catholic, went to our house in Texas, that is for sale, and she buried a statue in the flower bed and did some type of prayer to try to make that house sell. This is witchcraft.
Often witchcraft is associated with burning of candles or incense and use of figurines or small dolls.
Of course we asked realtor to remove such from our property, although this woman's idols have no power at all.
The apostle Paul lists "witchcraft" as one of the works of the flesh in Galatians 5, and Paul says: "They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
I see fans at football and basketball games doing hand signals in an attempt to "curse" (cause bad luck to come to) the opposing team. There are football fans who do chants to conjure luck or to jinx the opposition.
Witchcraft is practiced today in many forms.
Unfortunately church people sometimes do these things and are oblivious to that which they are actually trying to do.
Awaken! This Podcast alerts us.
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II Kings 9:22 What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
(Jezebel, the wife of Ahab the king of Israel, was one of the most wicked of all women cited in the Bible.)
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II Kings 33:1-2 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: But did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
6 And he (Manasseh) 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 (God) to anger.
9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
(We expect the world to do these evil things, but to see a person chosen by God do such things is a terrible thing ... and to see them lead others in various witchcrafts and sins is abomination.)
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Micha 5:12-15 God says: And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
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Nahum 3:4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
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Galatians 5:19-21 The apostle Paul says: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 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.
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Antichrist comes through the churches:
II Thessalonians 2:3-4 The apostle Paul says: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
(Church groups would "fall away" from scripture which opened the door for antichrist to come into the church group.)
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
(The following is the fate of all those who love their church groups more than they love the scriptures and therefore they remain in those church groups where scripture has been cast away in part.)
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness
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I John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
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Acts 20:29-30 The apostle Paul speaking to the elders of the church at Ephesis:
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after
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II Peter 3:8-10 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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II Peter 3:8-10 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
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