Do Not Turn to the Occult: A Study of What is Forbidden

The occult is forbidden; however, people submit to it because of desperation.  They feel that they have been rejected of the Lord or they do not think it through or chose the easy way out and side with Satan.  There is always an answer from the Lord.  He may not answer with a "yes" but He may answer with a "no."  If He answers with a "no," you must give it time because you can wait on the Lord (Isaiah 30:18).  The Psalms speak on waiting on God and He shall be our strength.  If God answers "no," you can always pray more and a door will open.   I think it is clear from the Bible that Judas was involved in the occult because Satan possessed him.  The occult has its victims and I personally despise the occult and all it stands for.  Sometimes with occultic abuse there is also immorality and sexual abuse at the hands of the occultic people.  May God smash Satan to pieces and place him under our feet and protect the little children from him.  Amen.

Here are some Bible verses on the occult,

Leviticus 19:31 NASB

‘Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

 Leviticus 20:6 NASB

‘As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

 Leviticus 20:27 NASB

‘Now a man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.’”

 Deuteronomy 18:11 NASB

or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

 1 Samuel 28:7 NASB

Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman who is a medium at En-dor.”

 1 Samuel 28:9 NASB

But the woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who are mediums and spiritists from the land. Why are you then laying a snare for my life to bring about my death?”

 2 Kings 21:6 NASB

He made his son pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord provoking Him to anger.

 2 Kings 23:24 NASB

Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

 1 Chronicles 10:13 NSB

So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the Lord, because of the word of the Lord which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of it,

 2 Chronicles 33:6 NASB

He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

 Isaiah 8:19 NASB

When they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

 Isaiah 19:3 NASB

“Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them; And I will confound their strategy, So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead And to mediums and spiritists.