As mentioned above, Witches were accused of worshiping the Devil and of parodying Christianity. To add to the confusion on this issue, when the Christian chroniclers were recording the proceedings of the witchcraft trials, when a defendant would refer to his or her God, the recorder would auto...
The medium could tell him so much details about his past experiences and pointed out incidents where people wanted to harm him and even mentioned that one such person tried to poison him during a barbeque dinner. All these I believe are his vain imaginations and the medium simply confirmed the...
Most of the Old Testament prophets foresaw both the first and second advents of Jesus simultaneously. The mountains of prophecy look like they are on top of each other, so it’s very common for the prophets to see events of both advents happening simultaneously. So Micah sees both the ...
Possibly devil-worship emerged independently in separate cultures. Satan, a human-like character, appears in the biblical Old Testament, sometimes disguised as a talking snake. “Witchcraft” had some standing in Europe in the Middle Ages, and was celebrated on Halloween. In the 20th Century, Luc...
We are now at the end of the similarities. It’s time to conclude. Well….not exactly…there is one more concept that we need to consider. As I mentioned above, why did Nike’s slogan “Just Do It” hit home? Why was it successful? There are a few reasons. (1) The slogan was...
It is and always was in the Old Testament. Luckily, some of us read carefully and pick up on these “mysteries.” Ask your preacher why he never brought this up at your next ecumenical “gathering.” Note: depending on the version of your Bible, you will find these passages in either ...
but that the Old Testament was almost completely uninformed about him. The first reference to Satan is not even until 548 pages into the Old Testament. Satan is first mentioned only 3 pages into the New Testament. The total number of times Satan is ...
p. 464), and is mentioned several times in the New Testament. Satan rules over an entire host of angels (Martyrdom of Isaiah, ii. 2; Vita Adæ et Evæ, xvi.). Mastema, who induced God to test Abraham through the sacrifice of Isaac, is identical with Satan in both name and natu...
Praying to the Lord Jesus Christ to turn the hearts and minds of the lost of this World is what is required. Pray they turn from their evil ways is what is needed. Trying to make links from bad guy to bad guy isn’t going to cut it. I replied to you Jon as you mentioned ...
There is no proper name for “Lucifer” mentioned in this Isaiah 14:12 in the original Hebrew. The context of the whole passage of Isaiah 14 is not about a condemnation against a fallen angel, but about a condemnation against the fallen Babylonian king who had persecuted the people of ...