Warnings against consulting Mediums, Familiar Spirits, Necromancers, Tarot, Etc.

This is likely going to rub some people the wrong way, possibly even family members. But I really feel that it needs to be addressed. I am not sure if it will make any changes in behaviour in anyone who uses these types of "services" or not, but it is heavy on my heart just the same, and I believe that if the Lord is impressing it on my heart, it must be meant for someone.


Lev 20:6 ¶
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.


So if we break this down and look at it in the Hebrew, the word soul is translated: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion, the living man. The word for turneth should be quite obvious, it means to turn, to look to, to consult. Familiar spirits translates ghost, spirit of a dead one. This can be done via card readings, through mediums, many ways, and in any way the scripture says that it is wrong. It says that God will set his face against the person who does this.


Lev 19:31 ¶
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

God tells us here that we aren't to regard, or look to them that have or consult familiar spirits. That by doing so we make ourselves unclean or defile ourselves.


Deu 18:10
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,

Deu 18:11
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Deu 18:12
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.

Deu 18:13
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God

Again, we can see that God considers these things an abomination, and that HE will turn his face from you. He actually also says that HE will drive those that practice this, or consult those who practice this out of the Nation of Israel. There are several other places in the Old Testament where God condemns these practices, but before anyone can say, that is Old Testament Law, let's look at some Scripture in the New Testament where the same things are addressed. 

Act 16:16-19  16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. 18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. 19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew [them] into the marketplace unto the rulers,

So here we see that the Apostle Paul cast spirits of Diviniation (Fortune Telling) out of a woman. This woman brought her masters much gain (riches) by soothsaying, (again, telling the future). When her masters saw what Paul and Silas had done, they caught them and took them into the marketplace unto the rulers, presumably to stand trial.

Our next section that we are looking at we can see that the scripture tells us that we are not to believe every spirit. That we are test the spirits, whether they are of God. This would seem to imply that spirits do have the ability to communicate, but that there are spirits that have information that our loved ones may have had, but can be evil spirits. God does not reveal things to us by spirits of our deceased. He may send an angel in the guise of a loved one, that may comfort us, it is important to remember that this is a comforting angel, and is not the same as a spirit that you would consult at a medium. The test as to whether a spirit is of God, or of evil is that spirits that are not of God cannot confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.

1Jo 4:1-3 KJV 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

So here you can see several instances both from the Old and New Testaments with warnings about consulting Mediums, Familiar Spirits, Necromancers (those who talk to the dead), Fortune Telling of any kind. As Christians we are not to do these things. We are to cut ourselves off from them as God does, and keep them out of our homes. When we do not do this, we are inviting those spirits into our houses, and into our lives to influence us. Is it any wonder that we live in such chaos when we bring these things into our homes and lives? Brothers and Sisters, cleanse your house of these things if you have them. Like the idols of old, using these things is serving satan, worshiping satan, there is no such thing as a good witch, or a white witch. Any power derived from witchcraft and these other types of things can only come from one source, satan.

Peace to you all  in the name of Jesus the Christ.

-Michael