The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

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Pagan to Pythonic Spirit

984. Pagan—A) A term that originally meant “country dweller” and biblically corresponds with the definition of the Amorites, whose heinous demonic practices caused God’s people to be deported from their land. B) A word that identifies the worship rites and religion of Wicca, Druidism, witches, magicians, and sorcerers. The word pagan, being made popular again, speaks to those who practice the occult, black arts, black magic, and sorcery. See Amorites in 2 Kings 21:3–11. The word for “westerner” was given to mountain dwellers whose polytheistic worship was foreign to monotheistic Israel. Such religions were fraught with idolatry and steeped in magic with demonic interaction at the center of their rituals. The most prevalent practice was necromancy. While the typical meaning of the word pagan seems innocuous enough, its origins actually came from the deviant religious practices of ancient peoples’ religions. Pagan, in God’s mind, is synonymous with heathenism and hedonism. The term “westerner,” for example, referred predominantly to the Amorites and those of their diverse clan. Their rituals were repugnant to the Almighty, who forbade Israel from learning their heathen ways as they were sure to turn His covenant peoples away from Him. The most common name for them was Amorite, which came to encompass the entire spectrum of idolatrous practices. Invariably, Amorite (westerner) religion involved nature worship (deification of the creature over the Creator). It was expressive of the religious institution set up by Cain that was passed on to Nimrod, and subsequently to others. Amorite worship forms are what actually earned them the name pagan in the first place; it included every kind of astral, earthly, and terrestrial and subterranean deity’s worship of the time. Astrology, epicureanism, demonism, death rituals, and bestiality dominated. Aside from them every perversity humans can invent was practiced by those mountaineers in the name of religion. The fundamental basis of their religious systems was self-preservation from the elements and life’s cruel hardships, and salvation in the afterlife. Paganism, then, is the equivalent of the adumbration of unclean and familiar spirits. 985. Pains of Prophecy—A) Prophetic burdens. B) Agonizing, but typical, sensations that accompany the nurturing (gestation) of a maturing prophetic