God intends for the mediums, occult, and spiritists to be put out and reliance put on Jesus Christ

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“Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the spiritists out of the land.” 1 Samuel 28:3

With Samuel being dead, there was a void for a Prophet of God among the Israelites, and guess who decided to step in to fill the void. Saul did, even though God had already rejected him for disobedience to His word. Saul was no Prophet but wanted the people to see him as being a Prophet, so he did something to be seen by the whole Jewish nation. He decided to drive out the mediums and spiritists from the whole land, as required by the laws of the Old Testament.

Saul symbolizes those of today who govern by the thing which forms what people think, feel, do, and say. He desired to set himself up as a Prophet of God in order to rule over the people as the main man of God.

Today, the governing authority desires to set itself up as God in the temple of God (our body) as if it were God, “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 The “man of sin” is here today, and is set up in the temple of God, our body, through the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors. It causes people to be a medium to the image of the beast to live and speak through the masses of people in every city around the world. People have become the humanity of sin and have become one with the thing which lives within their body. We live in a world where the humanity of sin dominates in every city around the world. By what they say and do, they are conformed to their place in life as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

Humanity is following the thing which forms their thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors. That thing gives the anti-Christian humanity a form of Godliness by wearing the clothing of humanism. However, they deny God, rejects what the Lord Jesus did for us on the Cross, and blasphemes the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit says to us through 2 Timothy, “…having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” 2 Timothy 3:5 Saul wanted to portray that image of Godliness while living in disobedience to God.

The laws Saul chose to enforce would bring awareness to every home that Saul was purging evil from the land, and that he intended to enforce the law of God. It was purely political, with Saul having no intention of living by the word of God. He just wanted to exercise control over the Jewish population while setting himself up as their Prophet. Below are the laws in the Old Testament Saul chose to enforce,

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

(Necromancy is the practice of communicating with the dead, especially to predict the future.)

Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 20:27, Deuteronomy 18:10-12

The term, “familiar spirits,” should be very interesting to us today. For example, Samuel was familiar to Saul, and Saul used a medium/necromancer to call Samuel forth. When people go to a seance, or some other form of a medium etc., they expect to hear from someone they are familiar with, a familiar spirit. In today’s world, society routinely walks among conjured up familiar spirits. We constantly see somebody we know being channeled through someone else, and even the words of a familiar person are being channeled through someone else. Even the appearance, tone of voice, character, and spirit of a familiar person are channeled through others. It is done by the thing which has power over physiology and gives life to the image of the beast to live and speak through people by the thing which forms what a person thinks, feels, does, and speaks.

Typical to Saul’s mode of operation and his habitual disobedience to God, he decided to consult a necromancer, within the Israelites, to contact a spirit from among the dead to foretell his future.

There is no name called from the spirits of the dead, no name within the occult, no name among the spiritists, and no other name but the name of Jesus which we can call on for our Salvation. “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 “For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?” Romans 10:13-14

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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