The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

389. Divination by False Prophets—False prophets divine for pay and emphasize money before prophecy as a rule. Their messages are characteristic of psychic fortune-telling and they are rarely able to go beyond the material wealth and human-interest sphere of revelatory information. Sophisticated false prophets (those like Balaam) who genuinely defect from the Lord Jesus Christ, infiltrate their messages with typical occult genre. False prophets redesign ancient divinatory arts to disguise them, but close study shows they are the same practices the false prophets of Scriptures resorted to. These include necromancy, consulting images, astrology, geomancy, exorcism of bad spirits by perceivably good ones, declaring and interpreting dreams that are dichotomous to the Scriptures, and telling fortunes that if lived out would definitely take people away from Christ and the church. Prophetic encounters that need to know birth dates, handle objects of clothing, or other possessions are certainly divinatory. See False Prophets. 390. Divinatory Arts—A phrase commonly used to identify the spectrum of fortune-telling and fate-casting methods used by witches, shamans, false prophets, and diviners. They include sorcery (lot casting), tarot reading, dowsing, geomancy (earth reading), augury, dream and omen interpretation, palmistry, and magic as the main ones. See Divination, Mancy, New Age, and Spiritism. 391. Divinatory Objects—Objects used by psychics, wizards, necromancers, and fortune-tellers to read the future, conjure omens, or produce a pseudo prophecy. Birds, tea leaves, crystal balls, tarot cards, and slaughtered animal entrails and organs are all examples of divinatory objects. In ancient times amulets, charms, pillows, veils, and water glasses were also used in divinatory prophetics. These items seek to elicit a response to an inquiry from any spiritual being that happens to be in the vicinity irrespective of whether or not the response is true or from the true and living God. They use objects to obtain a divinatory prophecy. Ezekiel 21:21–22. 392. Divinatory Prophetics—Prophetics inspired by external forces. Prophets enter a frenzied state, traditionally induced by intoxication, to deliver them. The frenzy was expected as a witness that the god was actually possessing and speaking to, as well as through, the messenger. Psychic or occultic predictions are based on these premises. Also the practice entails delivery of soulish prophecies stemming from personal impressions or opinions, or theological conditioning. Prejudice, bias, or the interpretation of special (familiar) traits and features of the subject or object of the prophecy can likewise be inspired by