DAY 54 Read Leviticus 19 through 21.
Today's reading: Among other solemn instructions, God issues a warning against dabbling with the occult.
Memory gem: "Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy" (Leviticus 19:2).
Thought for today:
Through human mediums, and even through the priesthood of certain pagan religions, demon powers have made contact with men, in order to take the very place of God in the lives of fallen humanity.
All contact with these unseen demon spirits was forbidden in ancient Israel. Later on, in his desperation when God had forsaken him, King Saul sought contact with the dead Samuel through the intervention of such spirits.
But Saul was punished for his sin, as we read in 1 Chronicles 10:13: "So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it."
The "familiar spirit" attempted to palm itself off as the spirit of the prophet Samuel. To this very day these spirits often imitate the dead friends of those who seek their advice. Sometimes they claim to be the spirits or souls of eminent people of past ages. The prophet Isaiah warns against consulting with such familiar spirits claiming to be the spirits of the dead: "When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God?" (Isaiah 8:19).
Today's reading: Among other solemn instructions, God issues a warning against dabbling with the occult.
Memory gem: "Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy" (Leviticus 19:2).
Thought for today:
Through human mediums, and even through the priesthood of certain pagan religions, demon powers have made contact with men, in order to take the very place of God in the lives of fallen humanity.
All contact with these unseen demon spirits was forbidden in ancient Israel. Later on, in his desperation when God had forsaken him, King Saul sought contact with the dead Samuel through the intervention of such spirits.
But Saul was punished for his sin, as we read in 1 Chronicles 10:13: "So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it."
The "familiar spirit" attempted to palm itself off as the spirit of the prophet Samuel. To this very day these spirits often imitate the dead friends of those who seek their advice. Sometimes they claim to be the spirits or souls of eminent people of past ages. The prophet Isaiah warns against consulting with such familiar spirits claiming to be the spirits of the dead: "When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God?" (Isaiah 8:19).
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