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Chapter 10

THE SPIRIT AND THE SPIRIT WORLD

I find it interesting, that in this time of unprecedented es calation of the occult and evil, there has probably never been a time when Christians, as a whole, believed LESS in the reality of the existence of the spirit realm and Satan and his kingdom. It was not necessary for any of the writers of scripture to teach about the reality of the spirit realm because the population as a whole already believed in it and KNEW about the occult. During the time of Moses, for instance, the Lord had no need to define, or describe, occult prac tices because the people generally knew very well what was being spoken about. The Israelites had just spent 400 years living in the Egyptian culture steeped in occultism and demon worship. But, today, few Christians have any idea what a wizard, or necromancer, is or what it means "to divine."

"When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divina tion, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because

Chapter 10 The Spirit and The Spirit World