Scriptures for Prayer use Against Divination & Sorcery
Scriptures for Prayer use Against Divination & Sorcery:
For World Meeting of Freemasonry in Jerusalem
May 7-11, 2023
“Thus says The LORD, your Redeemer, and He Who formed you from the womb: I am The LORD, Who made all things, Who alone stretched out the heavens, Who spread out the earth by Myself [who was with Me]?
[I am The LORD] Who frustrates the signs and confounds the omens [upon which the false prophets’ forecasts of the future are based] of the [boasting] liars and makes fools of diviners, Who turns the wise backward and makes their knowledge foolishness,” Isaiah 44:24-25
“When you come into the land which The LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of these nations.
There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
For all who do these things are an abomination to The LORD, and it is because of these abominable practices that The LORD your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless [and absolutely true] to The LORD your God.
For these nations whom you shall dispossess listen to soothsayers and diviners. But as for you, The LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.” Deuteronomy 18:9-14
“You shall not allow a woman to live who practices sorcery.” Exodus 22:18
“For meri (rebellion) is as the chattat (sin) of kesem (witchcraft, soothsaying, divination), and stubbornness is as heathenish iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the Devar Hashem, He hath also rejected thee from being Melech. [king]” 1 Samuel 15:23
“When Joram saw Jehu, he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, How can peace exist as long as the fornications of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?…
….. Jehu lifted up his face to the window and said, Who is on my side? Who? And two or three eunuchs looked out at him. And he said, Throw her down! So they threw her down, and some of her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses, and he drove over her.
When he came in, he ate and drank, and said, See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter. They went to bury her, but they found nothing left of her except the skull, feet, and palms of her hands.
They came again and told Jehu. He said, This is The Word of The LORD which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel.
The corpse of Jezebel shall be like dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.” 2 Kings 9:22, 32-37
“So do not listen to your [false] prophets, your diviners, your dreamers [and your dreams, whether your own or others’], your soothsayers, your sorcerers, who say to you, You shall not serve the king of Babylon. For they prophesy a lie to you which will cause you to be removed far from your land; and I will drive you out, and you will perish.” Jeremiah 27:9-10
“For thus says The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your [false] prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you; pay no attention and attach no significance to your dreams which you dream or to theirs, for they prophesy falsely to you in My name. I have not sent them, says The LORD.” Jeremiah 29:8-9
Diviners : qacam (Kaw-som’) to distribute ie determine by lot or magical scroll; by implication, to divine, prudent, soothsayer, (use divination)
“Then the king commanded to call the magicians, the enchanters or soothsayers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans [diviners], to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king…
….. If you will not make known to me the dream, there is but one sentence for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me [hoping to delay your execution] until the time is changed. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can tell me the interpretation of it.
The Chaldeans [diviners] answered before the king and said, There is not a man on earth who can show the king this matter, for no king, lord, or ruler has [ever] asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.
A rare and weighty thing indeed the king requires! None except the gods can reveal it to the king, and their dwelling is not with [human] flesh. For this cause the king was angry and very furious and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
So the decree went forth that the wise men were to be killed, and [the officers] sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
Then Daniel returned an answer which was full of prudence and wisdom to Arioch the captain or executioner of the king’s guard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon.
He said to Arioch, the king’s captain, Why is the decree so urgent and hasty from the king? Then Arioch explained the matter to Daniel. And Daniel went in and desired of the king that he would set a date and give him time, and he would show the king the interpretation.
Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, so that they would desire and request mercy of the God of heaven concerning this secret, that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night, and Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever! For wisdom and might are His!
He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding!
He reveals the deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him!” Daniel 2:2,9-22
“The Word of The LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw [through divine revelation] concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Hear, all you people; listen closely, O earth and all that is in it, and let The LORD God be witness among you and against you, The LORD from His holy temple. For behold, The LORD comes forth out of His place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall melt under Him and the valleys shall be cleft like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.
All this is because of the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not [the idol worship of] Samaria? And what are the high places [of idolatry] in Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?
Therefore I [The LORD] will make Samaria a [a]heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down into the ravine her stones and lay bare her foundations.
And all her carved images shall be broken in pieces, and all her hires [all that man would gain from desertion of God] shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will be laid waste; for from the hire of [one] harlot she gathered them, and to the hire of [another] harlot they shall return.
Therefore I [Micah] will lament and wail; I will go stripped and [virtually] naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals and a lamentation like the ostriches.
For [Samaria’s] wounds are incurable and they come even to Judah; He [The LORD] has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem. In Gath [a city in Philistia] announce it not; in [b]Acco weep not at all, [betraying your grief to foreigners; but among your own people] in Beth-le-aphrah [house of dust] roll yourself in the dust.
Pass on your way [into exile], dwellers of Shaphir, in shameful nakedness. The dwellers of Zaanan dare not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel takes away from you the place on which it stands.
For the inhabitant of Maroth [bitterness] writhes in pain [at its losses] and waits anxiously for good, because evil comes down from The LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.” Micah 1:1-12
“And I will cut off witchcrafts and sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers. Your carved images also I will cut off and your statues or pillars out of your midst, and you shall no more worship the work of your hands. And I will root out your Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah] and I will destroy your cities [the seats of false worship].
And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance upon the nations which would not obey [vengeance such as they have not heard of before].” Micah 5:12-15
“Woe to the bloody city! It is full of lies and booty and [there is] no end to the plunder!…
….. All because of the multitude of the harlotries [of Nineveh], the well-favored harlot, the mistress of deadly charms who betrays and sells nations through her whoredoms [idolatry] and peoples through her enchantments.
Behold, I am against you, says The LORD of hosts, and I will lift up your skirts over your face, and I will let the nations look on your nakedness [O Nineveh] and the kingdoms on your shame.” Nahum 3:1, 4-5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and who turn aside the temporary resident from his right and fear not Me, says The LORD of hosts.
For I am The LORD, I do not change; that is why you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
Even from the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says The LORD of hosts. But you say, How shall we return?” Malachi 3:5-7
“But there was a man named Simon, who had formerly practiced magic arts in the city to the utter amazement of the Samaritan nation, claiming that he himself was an extraordinary and distinguished person. They all paid earnest attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is that exhibition of the power of God which is called great (intense).
And they were attentive and made much of him, because for a long time he had amazed and bewildered and dazzled them with his skill in magic arts.
But when they believed the good news (the Gospel) about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ (the Messiah) as Philip preached it, they were baptized, both men and women.
Even Simon himself believed [he adhered to, trusted in, and relied on the teaching of Philip], and after being baptized, devoted himself constantly to him. And seeing signs and miracles of great power which were being performed, he was utterly amazed.” Acts 8:9-11
“But Elymas the wise man — for that is the translation of his name [which he had given himself] — opposed them, seeking to keep the proconsul from accepting the faith.
But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit, looked steadily at [Elymas] and said, You master in every form of deception and recklessness, unscrupulousness, and wickedness, you son of the devil, you enemy of everything that is upright and good, will you never stop perverting and making crooked the straight paths of The LORD and plotting against His saving purposes?
And now, behold, the hand of The LORD is upon you, and you will be blind, [so blind that you will be] unable to see the sun for a time. Instantly there fell upon him a mist and a darkness, and he groped about seeking persons who would lead him by the hand.” Acts 13:8-11
“O you poor and silly and thoughtless and unreflecting and senseless Galatians! Who has fascinated or bewitched or cast a spell over you, unto whom—right before your very eyes—Jesus Christ (the Messiah) was openly and graphically set forth and portrayed as crucified?” Galatians 3:1
“Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies),” Galatians 5:19-20
“But as for the cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and faithless, and as for the depraved and defiled with abominations, and as for murderers and the lewd and adulterous and the practicers of magic arts and the idolaters (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth by word or deed) — [all of these shall have] their part in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.” Revelation 21:8
“Blessed (happy and to be envied) are those who cleanse their garments, that they may have the authority and right to [approach] the tree of life and to enter through the gates into the city.
[But] without are the dogs and those who practice sorceries (magic arts) and impurity [the lewd, adulterers] and the murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and deals in falsehood (untruth, error, deception, cheating).” Revelation 22:14-15
Definitions
Divination — 1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by the aid of superior beings, or of supernatural means. These nations hearkened to diviners. Deuteronomy 18:14. 2. One who guesses; a conjecturer.
An Enchanter — One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; one who has spirits or demons at his command; one who practices enchantment, or pretends to perform surprising things by the agency of demons.
Augury — 1. The art or practice of foretelling events by the flight or chattering of birds. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication.
Sorcerer — From the Latin sortiarius, one who casts lots, or one who tells the lot of others. (See DIVINATION.) In Daniel 2:2 it is the rendering of the Hebrew mekhashphim, i.e., mutterers, men who professed to have power with evil spirits. The practice of sorcery exposed to severest punishment (Malachi 3:5; Revelation 21:8; 22:15).
Charmer — One who practises serpent-charming (Psalms 58:5; Jeremiah 8:17; Ecclesiastes 10:11). It was an early & universal opinion that the most venomous reptiles could be made harmless by certain charms or by sweet sounds. It is well known that there are jugglers in India & in other Eastern lands who practise this art at the present day. { Author notes: Chaldeans (Iraq) were known to be skilled in witchcraft arts – from Zondervan Bible Encyclopedia}
In Isaiah 19:3 the word “charmers” is the rendering of the Hebrew ‘ittim, meaning, properly, necromancers (R.V. marg., “whisperers”). In Deuteronomy 18:11 the word “charmer” means a dealer in spells, especially one who, by binding certain knots, was supposed thereby to bind a curse or a blessing on its object. In Isaiah 3:3 the words “eloquent orator” should be, as in the Revised Version, “skillful enchanter.”
Necromancer –– Divination – 1. The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead. This imposture is prohibited. Deuteronomy 18:1. 2. Enchantment; conjuration. someone who consults with a familiar spirit
Wizard — A pretender to supernatural knowledge & power, “a knowing one,” as the original Hebrew word signifies. Such an one was forbidden on pain of death to practise his deceptions (Leviticus 19:31; 20:6, 27; 1 Samuel 28:3; Isaiah 8:19; 19:3).
Definitions from: ©King James Bible Dictionary
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