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Title: Divination


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Divination
  • Blurring the Prophetic

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Blurring the Prophetic
  • Divination is the act of obtaining secret
    knowledge, especially that which relates to the
    future,

A Power in man which forsees and explains those
signs which the gods throw in his way.
Cicero
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Two types of Divination
  • Artificial and inspiration
  • Artificial divination depends on the skill of the
    agent in reading and in interpreting certain
    signs called omens.
  • inspirational or natural divination the agent is
    professedly under the immediate influence of some
    spirit or god who enables the diviner to see the
    future,

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Different types of Divination
  • Astrology, or astromancy, is but one form of
    divination and it rests upon the ultimate belief
    that the heavenly bodies are deities controlling
    the destinies of men and revealing the future to
    those who have eyes to see.
  • hepatoscopy, or divining from the liver
  • Necromancy Speaking with the dead

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Other forms of Divination
  • Lot a way of choosing
  • Hydromancy, or divination by water
  • Rhabdomancy, or the use of the divining rod,
  • Teraphim Household Gods or stautes
  • Divination through the sacrifice of children by
    Fire (Molech, Kronos, Saturn)

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Astrology Different types
  • dividers of the heavens divided into four parts,
    each part is significant
  • Star-Gazers, or Seers of the Constellations each
    constellation tells a story
  • Monthly forecasters, or Men Who Knew the Omens of
    the New Moon

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The Idolatry of Israel
  • Worship of Foreign Bodies Chiun, the Planet
    Saturn
  • Am 525,26 "Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and
    offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house
    of Israel? Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of
    your king (the King James Version Moloch) and the
    shrine of (the King James Version Chiun) your
    images, the star of your god, which ye made to
    yourselves.
  • Stephen in his defense, "And they made a calf in
    those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the
    idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
    But God turned, and gave them up to serve the
    host of heaven as it is written in the book of
    the prophets,

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Golden Calf Molech or Saturn
  • Moloch the king, the idol of the Ammonites and
    Phoenicians, was intimately connected both with
    the solar bull and the planet Saturn
  • his statue was of brass, with a human body but
    the head of an ox
  • Among the Carthaginians there was a brazen statue
    of Saturn putting forth the palms of his hands
    bending in such a manner toward the earth, as
    that the boy who was laid upon them, in order to
    be sacrificed, should slip off, and so fall down
    headlong into a deep fiery furnace
  • Moloch was the sun as king

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False Glory
  • The Israelites professed to be carrying the
    tabernacle of Yahweh upon which rested the
    Shekinah glory but in spirit they were carrying
    the tabernacle of the cruelest and most malignant
    of all the deities of the heathen, and the light
    in which they were rejoicing was the star of the
    planet assigned to that deity.

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The ten tribes did the same thing
  • "They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh
    their God, and made them molten images, even two
    calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all
    the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they
    caused their sons and their daughters to pass
    through the fire, and used divination and
    enchantments" (2 Ki 1716,17).
  • Saturn's Day--became the Sabbath, the Day of
    Rest, because Saturn was the planet of ill-omen
    and it was then unlucky to undertake any work

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Alexander brought astrology to the greeks
  • In Babylonia the stars had been consulted for the
    benefit of the king as representing the state
    amongst the Greeks, with their strong
    individualistic tendency, the fortunes of the
    individual became the most frequent subject of
    inquiry
  • Of the converts at Ephesus it is written, "Not a
    few of them that practiced magical arts brought
    their books together and burned them in the sight
    of all and they counted the price of them, and
    found it 50,000 pieces of silver." it is likely
    that the almanacs, tables and formulas, essential
    to the astrologer for the exercise of his art,
    were also in the number.

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Divination and Prophecy
  • Inspirational divination and Old Testament
    prophecy have much in common. Both imply the
    following conditions (1) secret knowledge,
    especially that relating to the future (2) the
    belief that such knowledge is given to certain
    spiritual beings who are willing on certain terms
    to impart it (3) such secret knowledge is
    imparted generally to special classes of men and
    women called diviners or (Bab) seers and prophets

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O.T. Prophets and Greek Mantis
  • The Old Testament prophet believes in a personal
    God whose spokesman he considers himself to be.
    When he spoke or wrote it was because he was, at
    least professedly, inspired and informed by
    Yahweh.
  • The Greek and Roman mantis, on the other hand,
    worked himself up to the necessary ecstatic state
    by music, drugs (intoxicants, etc.), sacrificial
    smoke and the like.
  • The mantis practiced his art as an occupation,
    charging high fees for Prophecy and refusing in
    most cases to give without financial compensation

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True Prophetic Gift
  • Comes only from the Father to the son, through
    the spirit
  • Given by Holy Spirit all can Prophesy
  • Simple prophecy encouraging, comfort
  • Freely given never a charge
  • Never looks at signs but comes through Holy
    Spirit inspiration

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Biblical Prophets
  • Not New Age Diviners.
  • They are a Gift from Christ to the Church
  • They are the gift, but work with the Holy Spirit
    in Word of Knowledge, Word of Wisdom, and
    Prophecy.
  • Character and holy Spirit anointing is the
    foundation of ministry

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Three types of Prophets
  • Inspiration or motivation they have a
    breakthrough anointing like Haggai
  • Revelation They Hear, see, and feel, from the
    Holy Spirit. They recieve Visions like Ezekiel or
    Jeremiah
  • Strategic The see how to build and work in the
    building process like Apostles Isaiah, Nathan

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