The world of mediums, seances, and fortune-tellers. Saul participated in a seance to call a spirit from the dead.

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The whole chapter of 1 Samuel 28 is all about Saul using a medium to bring forth a spirit from the dead. The Holy Spirit also has words to speak to us through Ezekiel on the subject of mediums. This post is an introduction from Ezekiel 13 before we go into 1 Samuel 28.

When we think of spiritists, we correctly think of fortune-tellers with their crystal ball, cards, and mystic look. We also think of seances, where a medium intends to call forth the spirit of a person from the dead. In 1 Samuel 28, Saul consulted with a medium to have a seance to summons a spirit from the dead about nine hundred and fifty years before the birth of Jesus Christ. In Ezekiel 13, the Israelites were engaging in spiritists activities corresponding to those who read palms, do card readings, and use a crystal ball in more modern of times. That was taking place about six hundred years before the birth of Jesus Christ.

Before we go into Saul’s experience in a seance, below is a description of the crystal ball type of spiritist as written about in Ezekiel 13:17-19.

“Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive? And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies?”

1. The spiritists prophesied from their own heart meaning what they had to say had nothing to do with the message God has to tell us through Jesus Christ. Their words were not the Gospel of Christ.
2. They sewed “magic charms” on their sleeves, which were add-ons to make their appearance look mystic and authoritative in those times, like the fortune tellers of modern times who wear mystic clothing and use a crystal ball etc.
3. They “made veils for the heads of every people of every height to hunt souls.” Those veils were to increase the confidence of the clients whom the “fortune-tellers” were speaking to. It would be like the modern fortune-tellers whose influence come from grabbing the confidence of their clients. It also relates to the old adage that the “fortune-tellers” always made it their practice to predict something good within their fortune-telling. Or similar to a fortune cookie. Their confidence building was to draw their clients away from belief in God and motivated the clients to hunt down souls to pull others away from belief in God.
4. The fortune tellers lead people away from the word of God and give life to themselves by making people dependent more on their fortune telling and less on the word of God. In essence, they bring death to God but give life to spiritual wickedness.
5. For just a little bit of barley and bread, they profaned the Holy name of God to make their false prophecies habit forming. It’s like the modern-day fortune-tellers, with their crystal ball etc., who had very affordable prices for their services. The more people depend on the false prophecy of fortune-tellers, the more they die to the word of God and Jesus Christ. But the fortune-tellers keep themselves alive by keeping the esteem and confidence alive of those who come to them.

With the picture below, put a veil over her face and that is a lot like the women spoken about in Ezekiel 13.

Isaiah describes the voice of a traditional stereotype of a medium/necromancer in Isaiah 29:4, as being low, like a whisper, and coming from the earth, as quoted, “You shall be brought down, you shall speak out of the ground; your speech shall be low, out of the dust; Your voice shall be like a medium’s, out of the ground and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.”

Today, the present governing system has no belief in an afterlife, ghosts, spirits, psychic abilities etc. They trust 100% in human rationale and zero % in supernatural or Divine intervention. We live in a world where humanism is the fig leaf worn by those empowered by the beast which gives them what to speak, feel, think, and do. Humanism is “…an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.” They are their own society of psychics and mediums as the thing with power over physiology empowers people with uncanny knowledge to know things about the past, present, and future. It empowers people with a heightened sense of intuition etc. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people, and by what they say and do they come across as having amazing psychic abilities. By what they say and do, they are conformed to their place in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

Those who live and govern for the “democratic” society prefer people to dabble in seances, fortune-telling, and other such “silliness” rather than to be drawn to God through Jesus Christ. That’s because it brings people closer to the thing which forms what they feel, think, say, and do while pulling people farther away from the Gospel of Christ. Mediums, seances, fortune-telling, etc. are truly spiritual wickedness of Satan and part of the world of the occult. We live in a world where people are mediums of the image of the beast to let it live and speak through them by the thing which forms what they think, feel, do, and say. They are the modern era of sophisticated occultists, and their society of mediums dominate every city around the world.

In the coming posts, we will see what the scriptures say about Saul’s experience when engaging in a seance.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1