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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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Family Part 2

It is interesting that this word is not found in the Old Testament. It is in the New testament 20 times.
Matthew 10:21, Mark 13:12 (Jesus) And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Luke 2:27, 2:41 refers to Joseph and Mary.
Luke 8:56 Parents of maiden who had died were astonished when Jesus raised her from death.
Luke 18:29, 21:16 Jesus teaching about following Him.
John 9:2,3,18,20,22,23 Jesus heals blind man, and his Parents reaction.
The Apostle Paul teaches concerning parents:
Romans 1:30 …. disobedient to parents,
2 Corinthians 1:14 … children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: …
2 Timothy 3:2 … disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, …
In all of the Scriptures mentioned, PARENTS meant one Father (Male) and one mother (Female).

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Family Part 3

Father(s) is found in Scripture 852 times, 541 times in the Old Testament and 311 times in the New Testament. Many times, it refers to God the Father.

In Ephesians the Apostle Paul mentions the Father. 8 times it refers to God the Father. But 3 times he refers to an earthly father:

Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

In each case he mentions father he is referring to a Man.

Philippians 2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1 Timothy 5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

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Family Part 4

Mother(s) is found 225 times in the Scripture. 148 times in the Old Testament and 87 times in the New Testament. The first time Mother is used is in
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Her God establishes the FAMILY: a father (male) and a mother (female) and a son.
The next reference (Genesis 3:20) is to Eve where Adam says: “because she was the mother of all living.” All the rest of the Old Testament references are to a woman (female) who is a mother.

Many of the references to mother in the Gospels, 63, are about Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus. And all the others are to a female who was a mother.

The Apostle Paul refers to Mother 9 times: (8 times is a woman)
Romans 16:13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1 Timothy 5:2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
2 Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Hebrews 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

And once is an allegory:
Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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Family Part 5

**Children’s day – the second Sunday in June**

God created to sexes (male & Female) they were to reproduce after their kind.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Child – Children appears in Scripture 1708 times. 1502 times in the Old Testament and 206 times in the new. In the Old Testament it always refers to one produced but a father (male) and a mother (female).
Children are of God:
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
As the Psalmist wrote:
Psalm 127:3-4 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Children (a child) comes about the way God intended, by the union of a man and a woman. Science today can use the sperm (of a male) and the egg (of a female) and a petri dish, but after fertilization the egg has to be put back into a woman to grow. Today when a husband and wife find out they have a child coming, if they don’t like the sex, they abort it. Or after it is born attempt to change its sex.
Isn’t God’s way much better. One male, one female and you have a family. After all, there are only two sexes, man (male) and woman (female). Happy is the family that knows this and loves the Lord God.

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Family Part 6

**International Day of Families — May 15th**

Family is found 76 times in the Scripture, 75 times in the Old Testament and 1 times in the New Testament, Families is used 164 times in the Old Testament. Most of the time it is simply the plural of family.

Most of the Old Testament references refer not just to a Father and Mother and their children but to their children’s children and sometimes for several generations.
i.e. Numbers 26:44-45 Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
The Apostle Paul uses family to refer to all the saved.
Ephesians 3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

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Time Part 2

TIME FOR SALVATION

ACTS 26 The apostle Paul was to appear before King Agrippa,
(he was obeying the Lord – and so should we).
Agrippa was a Jew, the King of Israel under the Romans.
Paul begins by telling Agrippa who Paul was: A Jew, A religious Jew, A pharisee.
He believed in God, but not the Son of God. Not the precious blood of Jesus.
Saul hated Christians. He persecuted them, punished them, even had them put to death. Saul hated them so much that he got a letter from the Chief Pharisee so he could chase them to other cities.

But God loved Saul (and God loves you, even though you are guilty of sin). At midday, on the road to Damascus, a bright light shown (brighter than the Sun) so bright it forced Saul to the ground. And then Saul heard a voice — it was the Lord Jesus, God’s Son! The Lord spoke to Saul, and told him what he wanted him to do. Saul decided to obey the Lord and follow Him. When he made that decision, Saul received eternal life, saved from his sin. Since that day Saul, who would later be called Paul, he has put the Lord Jesus first in his life.

Upon hearing Paul’s testimony, King Agrippa said, “Almost thou hath persuaded me to be a Christian”.
The Bible doesn’t tell us if King Agrippa ever got saved or not. But Paul was found innocent of the charges the Jews had accused him of and he was sent to Rome where he would tell Caesar Austus how to be saved.

How about you?

2 Corinthians 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

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TIME TO STUDY GOD’S WORD

God wants everyone to know His word.
There was a time when the scripture was Lost. 2 Chronicles 34:14-18

An 8 year old boy had become King. Some wicked men had killed his father. The boy’s name was Josiah. When he became King, the whole country was wicked and evil. Hey worshipped false gods, including Balaam. God’s house, the Temple was not used and nobody knew where the Scripture was.

Josiah was different from his people. He believed in God. As he grew older he ordered his people to quit worshipping false gods. He ordered them to clean and fix God’s house, the Temple. They were to bring their offerings and the priests were to collect it and pay the men who fixed up the Temple. And while this was going on, HILKIAH a priest found the Scripture…It was the word of God, (The Pentateuch, 1st 5 books of the Bible).

HILKIAH was very excited and took it to the King. Oh, the King was happy.
Now he could find out more about the Lord God. So, the King ordered the book to be read out loud, for the people.
The book told about God’s Love…
It told about a coming Saviour…
It told about God’s Laws ….
It told about how sinful man is….
It told about how God must punish sin …..

The King was very sad, for he found out how evil his people were ant that they must be punished for their sin … He was very sad, even rent his clothing.

God want us to know his word. His word helps keep us from sinning and tells us about God’s forgiveness. Then we don’t have to be sad or punished.

King Josiah decided then to obey God’s word, keep His Law. God sent a message to the King thru a prophetess who said that all the days of the King’s life, God would not sent the punishments upon Israel.

Only when we know God’s word and obey it can we be truly happy.

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Some questions for you to ponder….
What are false god’s?
How often should one read God’s Word?
How old do you have to be to believe in God?
What’s the first 5 books of the Bible called?
What are the two parts of the Bible?
How many Books in the Bible?
How many Books in each part?

Time Part 4

TIME TO PRAY

ACTS 12, John 16:24 Believers should always Pray!

The assemble in Jerusalem was growing, more and more were believing that Jesus was the Messiah.
The Jewish leaders were getting angry!
King Herod (Jewish King of Israel under Rome) had James, the brother of John, an apostle killed.
This made them happy. So, he planned to have Peter arrested and killed. But it was time for the Passover. So Peter was held in prison and killed later.
The Jewish believers started praying. They had an all night prayer session at someone’s house.

In prison Peter was taken to an inner cell. There, two guards were chained to him. Outside the first door were two more guards and outside the second door were two more guards. He was NOT to escape.

As Peter slept, and the believers prayed, God sent an Angel to free him. The guards slept, the chains were removed and Peter followed the Angel right through the locked doors and past all the guards to freedom. Even as Peter stood on the street, he thought he was dreaming. Finally, he knew it was real, he was free. He went to the house (God led him) where the believers were praying.

Believers should always pray! God will answer according to His will.

When Peter knocked on the door, Rhoda answered, but didn’t believe it was Peter. Neither did anyone else when she told them. Finally, they let Peter into the house and they rejoiced that God had answered their Prayers and Peter was safe.

We should pray always, whether we are in trouble or not.

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TIME TO WORSHIP

1 Samuel 3:1-10, 1 Corinthians 6:19 The boy who worshipped God.

(When we worship God, He will guide us).

Samuel’s parents didn’t have any children.
His mother went to the temple and promised God her son would be given to Him to serve Him.
When Samuel (the son God gave her) was about 6 years old his mother took him to the temple and gave him to the high Priest.
Samuel lived in the Temple and served God. Eli the Priest was getting old, his sons who served in the Temple did bad and wicked things. God didn’t speak with they because they were so evil.

(When we worship God, He will guide us).

One night as Samuel was in bed sleeping the Lord God called to Samuel.
Samuel awoke and ran to Eli and said “Here I am”. Eli told him to return to bed.
Again, Samuel heard the Lord God call to him and Samuel ran to Eli and said “Here I am”. Eli told him to return to bed.
For a third time Samuel heard the Lord God call to him Samuel ran to Eli and said “Here I am”.
This time Eli knew what was happening, so he told Samuel to go back to bed, but this time when he heard his name being called, to answer “Speak, for thy servant heareth”.

Yes, when we worship God, He will guide us. Oh, not verbally but we will know.

Samuel did what Eli told him to do and God gave Samuel instructions for the Nation of Israel. From that time, Samuel was a Prophet and Priest, serving the Living God.

Yes, believers today serve a Living GOD.

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