From: Patrick Leight To: All Msg #155, 24-Nov-89 22:30edt Subject: Wicca "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Exodus 22:18 Witchcraft/Wicca/Neopaganism/Druidism -- What does the Bible say? THE TRUTH OF THE HOLY BIBLE The existence of witches goes back into antiquity just as has also God's warnings about them (Exodus 22:18). Witches have "familiar spirits" and are associated with those who practice magick (derived from Maji, the Persian Zorasters) such as wizards. The children of God are warned not to associate with them as they will defile the righteous (Leviticus 20:31). We are told directly that there will be no one who practices divination, astrology, enchantments, or witchcraft among the people of the True God (Deuteronomy 18:10). Those who practice witchcraft are said, by God, to be rebellious and that they reject the Word of the Lord and reject Christ (1st Samuel 15:23). The Word of God clearly indicates that there is no peace in the land which practices witchcraft (2nd Kings 8:22) and that those who practice witchcraft are allied with them who sacrifice their children to the gods, with astrologers, with enchanters, with those who deal with familiar spirits, and with wizards (2nd Chronicles 33:6). The evil done by these allied groups have and will provoke the Lord God to anger (2nd Chronicles 33:6). In judgment on the land that practices witchcraft, the Lord will "cut off" witches and the soothsayers/psychics (Micah 5:12). The judgment against the land which practices witchcraft is assisted by the fact that witchcraft is traitorous to both the nation and the family of the practioner in which it occurs (Nahum 3:4). A nation practicing witchcraft will be conquered by its enemies as a result of sedition/betrayal from within. Those who practice witchcraft use sorcery to "bewitch" persons, even whole nations (Acts 8:9, 11); moreover, witchcraft/sorcery is especially interested in leading away Christians from Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:1). The character of those who practice witchcraft is outlined in the Word of God (Galatians 5:20). According to the Word of God, Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal and king of the Zidonians, was a witch (1st Kings 16:31). The god of the witches is identified as Baal (1st Kings 16:31) or Bel. Beltane is a holy day of witches and is celebrated in May of each year. Those who practice witchcraft are clearly and unmistakably against Christians and have persecuted the people of the True God in times past (1st Kings 18:4). Witches have killed prophets of the True God, Jehovah, (1st Kings 18:13) just as the prophets of God have also killed witches (1st Kings 18:19; 19:1). This historic enmity between the people of Jehovah and the people of Baal is typified by Jezebel (1st Kings 19:2). In Jezebel, we see manipulation and sedition of kings whereby the aims of witchcraft are forwarded (1st Kings 21:5, 7, 11, 14, 15) in the persecution of the people of God. Of Jezebel, speaks God, "The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel" (1st Kings 21:23). Witchcraft will stir up wickedness in the land and will cause men to sell themselves to it (1st Kings 21:25). These men, so sold unto her, have killed the the prophets of God in times past (2nd Kings 9:7) even as the prophets of God have warned them of the results of practicing witchcraft (2nd Kings 9:10, 22, 30, 36, 37), i.e., the judgment of the nation by war. Still, though warned of the judgments on the nation to come, those who practice witchcraft and doing evil in the sight of the Lord through sedition, refused and still refuse to see the Truth. Witchcraft/Wicca/Neopaganism/Druidism -- What does the Bible say? THE TRUTH OF THE HOLY BIBLE "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Exodus 22:18 Jezebel was the the daughter of the King of Zidon, in what was later called Phoenicia, and the area of what is now, today, known as Lebanon and Syria. Even during the Bronze Age, the people of God and the people of Baal were enemies and wars between them occurred in the area (Joshua 11:8; 19:28; Judges 1:31). At other times the people of God whored after Baal and Ishtar (Judges 10:6) only to then be oppressed by the people of Baal and Ishtar and, once again, rescued from that oppression by God (Judges 10:12). At still other times, the people of God attacked these people (Judges 18:7, 28) even as the Zidonians used seduction and betrayal to bring down the people of God. King Solomon, considered to be the wisest man in the ancient world and ruler of the Israelites in Jerusalem, was seduced by those who practiced witchcraft and worshiped Ishtar/Inanna (1st Kings 11:1, 5) which resulted in the judgment of God against both him and the nation of Israel (1st Kings 11:33). In yet another of these seductions, King Ahab of Judah, married Jezebel (1st Kings 16:31), whereupon he began to worship Baal and killed his own people. These seditions of the people of God were finally, once again, removed (2nd Kings 23:13) but the war goes on even unto this very day. Significantly, the Zidonians, the peoples of witchcraft, originated from Canaan, son of Ham, the son of Noah (1st Chronicles 1:13) whom Noah cursed. In an interesting test of commitment of the witches to their gods, using a grant from King Cyrus of Persia, the Israelites paid the Zidonians and the surrounding peoples who worshiped in groves of trees to cut them down and deliver them to Jerusalem. This they did and these trees, cedars, were used in construction of the great temple of Solomon (1st Chronicles 22:4; Ezra 3:7). The seditious nature of those who worship Baal and Ishtar, i.e., witchcraft practitioners, is revealed in history as they willingly cut down their own sacred groves and sold them to their mortal enemy when the price was right. Anyone care to have a witch in our government?? There are now "chaplins" in the U.S. military for witches. Behold -- the dreamer awaketh. --- QuickBBS v2.04/O (Beta-6) * Origin: The 8th Sea (1:104/610) From: Patrick Leight To: Ravenna Michelle Msg #218, 26-Nov-89 13:30edt Subject: Re: Wicca I do not judge you as we see One will: "And before himshall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth HIS sheep from the goats:" Matthew 25:32 "For the Father judgeth no man, but hat committed all judgment unto the Son:" John 5:22 "And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that is is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead." Acts 10:42 "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel." Romans 2:16 "But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ." 1 Corinthians 4:5 "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom." 2 Timothy 4:1 You may choose to be judged by your works if you like, however: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." "Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." Jude 14-15 However, I would think you would prefer to be judged as one saved by the grace of God through Jesus Christ as: "There is now, therfore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus." Think about it. Who offers freedom? --- QuickBBS v2.04/O (Beta-6) * Origin: The 8th Sea (1:104/610)