Author: Jim

Witchcraft


Witches, Wizards, Witchcraft, Sorcerers, Sorceries, Magicians, Enchanters, Enchantments, Diviners, Divinations, Dreams, Dreamers, Seers, Soothsayer, Astrologers, Stargazers, Prognosticators, Charmer, Necromancer:  
All are mentioned and dealt with in the Scriptures.  

The Pharaoh of Joseph’s time relied on Magicians… Genesis 41:8,24
The Pharaoh of Moses’ time relied on Sorcerers, Magicians, Enchantments…
Exodus 7:11,22 8:7,18,19 9:11
The Law condemned Witches to death…
Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
The Lord God warned against wizards, familiar spirits…
Leviticus 19:31 20:6 20:27
Balaam tried to use Divinations and Enchantments against Israel….
Numbers 22:7 23:23
Moses warns Israel against (false) Prophets, Dreamers, Diviners, Enchanters, Witches, Wizards, Charmers and Necromancers, as they go into the promise land… Deuteronomy 13:1-5 18:10-11,14
Israel deals with Balaam Joshua 13:22.
Philistines ask diviners for advice 1 Samuel 6:2
Because of Witchcraft Saul rejected as King. 1 Samuel 15:23
Saul expels wizards and those that had familiar spirits. 1 Samuel 28:3
Saul and the woman (witch) that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
1 Samuel 28:7-25
Jezebel and her witchcrafts 2 Kings 9:22
Israel and Judah do evil turning from the Lord 2 Kings 17:13 21:6 23:24
Manasseh did evil before the Lord 2 Chronicles 33:6 33:18-19
The Psalmist warned against Charmers…
Psalm 58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Isaiah warned Israel about Soothsayers, Familiar Spirits, Wizards, Seers, Diviners, Sorcerers, Enchantments, Astrologers, Stargazers, and Prognosticators… Isaiah 2:6 8:19 19:3 29:10 30:10 44:25 47:12-13
Jeremiah warned Israel about Diviners, Dreamers, Enchanters, Sorcerers…
Jeremiah 14:14 27:9 29:8
Ezekiel warned Israel about Diviners, Divinations….
Ezekiel 12:24 13:6-7 13:23 21:21-23
Daniel, in his service to Babylonian Kings came up against Magicians, Astrologers, Sorcerers, Soothsayers…. Daniel 1:20 2:2 2:10 2:27 4:7 4:9 Daniel 5:7 5:11 5:15
Micah warned of Seers, Diviners, Witchcraft, and Soothsayers… Micah 3:7 5:12
Nahum speaks of Witchcrafts… Nahum 3:4
Zechariah warns of Diviners, False Dreams…. Zechariah 10:2
Malachi mentions Sorcerers… Malachi 3:5

Even the Apostle Peter had to deal with Sorcery… Acts 8:9-11
The Apostle Paul dealt with Barjesus, Sorcerer, false prophet, a Jew…Acts 13:6-8
Again, with a certain damsel with a spirit of divination, soothsaying…Acts 16:16
Jude warns of Dreamers… Jude 1:8
Revelation speaks of Sorcerers and Sorceries….
Revelation 9:21 18:23 21:8 22:15

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Love in Romans

Mentioned 14 times
As the lord Jesus stated in John 3:16, Paul states the LOVE of God is put into the heart of all believers.
Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
A restatement of John 3:16:
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
We need to trust God in all things, He loves us.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
We are HIS forever:
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Don’t live defeated lives:
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Is this “Once saved always Saved”?
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It’s impossible for God to hate, but those who don’t believe will be punished!
Romans 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Don’t hide your love, exercise it.
Romans 12:9-10 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Paul concludes concerning the LAW “ therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”
Romans 13:8-10Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
The Apostles Paul’s final words to the Romans should also be ours to each other:
Romans 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

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Grave

A place of burial. A study of the word GRAVE as recorded in the New Testament proves to be very interesting.
Reading of Christ’s crucifixion in Matthew 27 many times causes some confusion:
Matthew 27:52-23 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
At 1st reading it looks like the graves opened and people arose on the day.
But reread vs 23; This happened AFTER HIS RESSURECTION
The Lord Jesus speaking to the religious leaders:
Luke 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
The Lord Jesus speaking to Jews who sought to kill him:
John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
The Lord Jesus Raises Lazarus from the dead John 11.
John 11:17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
John 11:31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
John 11:38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
John 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
The people started to believe Him:
John 12:17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
The Apostle Paul quotes Isaiah 5:8
1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
Although Paul does not use the word Grave, He does talk about the dead rising (from their graves) when Christ returns in the air, at the time of the Rapture. Read: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
The Apostle John writes about the two witnesses during the first half of the Tribulation:
Revelation 11:9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

Fear not the Grave! True believers go to be with the Lord when they die
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
OR are Raptured.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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Prophecy

⇨ 144,000 Called of God
⇨ AntiChrist – 666
⇨ AntiChrist – The Last Days
⇨ Great White Throne (Final Judgement)
⇨ Last Days
⇨ Millennium (World Peace – 1000 Years)
⇨ Prophecies Concerning the Messiah
⇨ Prophecy in the Psalm
⇨ Rapture Comparison
⇨ The Future
⇨ The Great White Throne
⇨ The Last Days
⇨ The New Future
⇨ The Rapture
⇨ TRIBULATION – Questions about
⇨ Tribulation (Judgment)
⇨ Tribulation (Revelation)

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Worship  

A Defination: The ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is expressed.
The Apostle Paul includes worship in His Epistles:

The problem with Religion :
Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Colossians 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Colossians 2:23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
2 Thessalonians 2:4 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.

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Redemption

A definition: The act of redeeming or the condition of having been redeemed.

The Apostle Paul writes much of the redemption that all believers have experienced the day they were saved.
Romans 3:24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 8:23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
1 Corinthians 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Ephesians 1:7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Ephesians 1:14Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 4:30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Colossians 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

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Redeemed

A definition: To buy back, repurchase, or recover something that was yours.

Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

The HYMN says it best:
Redeemed—how I love to proclaim it!
Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb;
Redeemed through His infinite mercy,
His child, and forever, I am.

Redeemed, redeemed,
Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb;
Redeemed, redeemed,
   His child, and forever, I am.

Redeemed and so happy in Jesus,
No language my rapture can tell;
I know that the light of His presence
With me doth continually dwell.

(Chorus)

I think of my blessed Redeemer,
I think of Him all the day long;
I sing, for I cannot be silent;
His love is the theme of my song.

(Chorus)

I know I shall see in His beauty
The King in whose way I delight;
Who lovingly guardeth my footsteps,
And giveth me songs in the night.

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Redeeming

A definition: To make up for; make amends for.

The Apostle Paul challenges us:
Ephesians 5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Among his challenges is:
Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

And again in Colossians.
Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

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