The Occult Part 3: What In the World Is A Necromancer?

# 375 - Today's Du-votional comes from: 1Sa 28:3b, “And Saul had put the mediums and the spiritists out of the land. (1 Sam 28:3b) Saul, sought to follow Levitical law in removing mediums and spiritists from the land. In Dt 18:10-14 we read, “There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or daughter for an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or a charmer or a medium or a wizard or a necromancer, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord and because of these abominations, the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortunetellers and diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.” I know what you're thinking right now. “What in the world is a necromancer?” A necromancer is someone who seeks to conjure up the spirits of the dead in order to reveal the future or to influence the course of events. There are plenty of these charlatans around today and obviously have been with us even in biblical times. The necromancer joins all the others on this list who practice abominable things. These are all things that God specifically hates! They are things that He just will not allow His people to participate in. It was these practices and the practice of child sacrifice that caused God to uproot the Canaanites from the land and give it to the offspring of Abraham. This was the iniquity spoken of in Ge 15:16 "But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete." This iniquity reached a point to where God judged the Amorites as unredeemable and commanded the Israelites to utterly destroy them. For our part, it would be wise to search the Scriptures for all things that God hates and if we are engaging in them, confess them as sin, receive His forgiveness, and then seek to turn from them, lest our hearts be completely hardened to the work of the Holy Spirit and we, like the Amorites, are judged as unredeemable. Here's a prayer that God will gladly hear and grant, “Father, may Your Holy Spirit grant me godly sorrow over my sins, forgive me, and keep me pliable in Your hands.