Thessalonians part 74

This revelation can be hidden or covered over as reflected in the source of defilement in Leviticus 19 and 20. First 19 and verse 31, which states this, “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.” Next chapter 20 where in verse 6 and 27 we find this, “The soul that turns 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.......A man also or woman that has a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.”


Then there is the abominable as seen in Deuteronomy 18, beginning where spiritism is forbidden at verse 9 through the end of verse 14 and this statement, “When you are come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses 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 to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you. You shall be perfect with the LORD your God. For these nations, which you shall possess, hearkened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not suffered you to do these things.” (look closely at 2Corinthians 6:11-7:3)


In Isaiah 8 we find this as being a vain thing beginning at verse 11 through verse 22, “The LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say not, with confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear with their fear, nor be afraid. But Sanctify the LORD of Hosts Himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread. And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples. And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him. Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.

When they shall say, to seek them that have familiar spirits, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.”


This is in rather strange language, but here goes looking for selfish and greedy things, our next topic.