Occult Practices in the Churches

Occult Practices in the Churches How the occult has been fully integrated into many Christian lives and fellowships by Sandy Simpson This DVD is a message based on this article: http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/occultpracticesinthechurches.html The Bible is quite clear about occult practices.Neither Israel nor the Church is to have anything to do with the way the world tries to gain secret knowledge.The Gnostics were and are known for promoting new revelation that is either loosely tied to Scripture taken out ofcontext or not at all.The Israelites seeking information from the dead or in omens were judged harshly by the Lord who had warned them numerous times to stay away from that stuff. Yet due to the influences of heretical teachers in the New Apostolic Reformation, Word of Faith, Emergent Church, and the New Age many have been successful in getting lots of churches and denominations into occult practices that have been thinly disguised as “Christian”.Many of those who follow these people, I’m sure, have no idea how far they have strayed into the occult. First I want to give the dictionary definitions and then Biblical warnings against these practices.Then I will give examples in the churches taken mainly from the ElijahList e-newsletter. List of Practices Detestable To God Deuteronomy 18:9-12 “When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God will drive them out before you. Isaiah 8:19When they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a peopleconsult their God?Should theyconsultthe dead on behalf of the living? Using the above list from Deuteronomy and Isaiah, let’s take a look at each individual practice. You can get this DVD here: http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/occultDVD.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have been blessed by the free videos we have provided on the ACT TV Youtube Channel, please consider helping us with a donation. You can donate on PayPal by clicking on the following link: http://paypal.me/ssipson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologetics Coordination Team FAIR USE DISCLAIMER This video is for educational purposes. In the Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a doctrine in the United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as for commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or scholarship. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author’s work under a four-factor balancing test. The term “fair use” originated in the United States. A similar principle, fair dealing, exists in some other common law jurisdictions. Civil law jurisdictions have other limitations and exceptions to copyright. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use) The U.S. Copyright Office “Fair Use” definition can be found here: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html Fair Use Notice Section 107 of the US Copyright Law This video contains some copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in (processed as of May 13, 2006) section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/.... If you wish to use copyrighted material from this video for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------