How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

—D EUTERONOMY 18:10–11, KJV

The English word necromancer is supposed to indicate the practice of consulting the dead for the reason of predicting the future. The pagan tribes were very much into worshiping the dead, as was indicated in God’s warnings to the Hebrew people. The Almighty told His chosen not to put any “cuttings in your flesh for the dead” (Lev. 19:28, KJV ); neither should they make any “baldness between your eyes for the dead” (Deut. 14:1, KJV ). The false notion held among some ancients was that once a person’s spirit departed his or her body and entered the next life, that person would be privy to information that was being discussed in the spirit realm, which was not known among those living on the earth. Thus the spirit of the departed was conjured up, and, using the voice of the medium , the spirit would speak through the medium and reveal the future. Kings could know if they would win or lose a war (this is the answer Saul was searching for). The biblical truth is that once a person’s spirit has departed from the body at death, the spirit of the righteous enters the third heaven in a place called paradise , where it waits for the resurrection of the righteous (2 Cor. 12:1–4). If the soul and spirit are from a person who was unrighteous or wicked, when they departed the body, they were carried into a permanent chamber under the earth, where they are separated from God but will be raised to be judged in heaven at the Great White Throne judgment (Rev. 20:11–14).