Listen to Him

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Deuteronomy 18:18 NIV – I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.

The above words were spoken by the LORD to Moses when the Israelites were gathered at Mount Sinai to receive God’s law, roughly two months after their deliverance from Egypt. It foretells the coming of Christ many years later from the lineage of King David. The baby Jesus, who was born in Bethlehem and who grew up to become the Saviour of mankind. He was Immanuel – a Hebrew name that means God is with us. Just that in the case of Jesus, He was literally with us in the natural, although He was a spiritual being. He was born a human like you and I, except that He was without sin having been conceived in virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit.

In Deuteronomy 18:9-12 NIV, the LORD our God warned the Israelites of engaging in occultic practices of the pagan nations surrounding the Promised Land:

Occult Practices
9 When you enter the land, the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. 12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices, the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.

Just listen to Jesus and the Holy Spirit and not one else. Do not consult anyone who practices divination or sorcery, who interprets omens, engages in witchcraft or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist who consults the dead. All these are detestable things. In some versions, the word used was an abomination to the LORD. That is the uncrossable red line for us, the children of the Kingdom. It can not be for fun or out of curiosity as these are things that will bring us to destruction. Totally detestable to God. There is no need to have our palms or fortunes read as our lives are in the hands of God, whom we put our whole trust and faith on, here on earth and thereafter!