The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

accounted to humans to die once and then enter into the judgment of God on their departed lives. The dead cannot prophesy because their information comes from eternity’s after-the-fact release of God’s inscribed events. 1401. Sophim—Another name for a prophet-judge. 1402. Sorcerer—A) A word that comes from the word sort, as in to sort lots and fortunes. B) One who practices sorcery. C) A wizard, magician, conjurer, diviner, enchanter. D) One who casts or tells the lots of others’ lives by professed covenantal powers with evil spirits. Acts 8 records the career and post conversion antics of Simon the sorcerer. He was converted by the miracle ministry of Philip the evangelist (Acts 8:13), but when he saw the apostle’s power to impart the Holy Ghost he wanted to buy the gift and add it to his portfolio of supernatural powers and abilities. When Peter was approached by Simon to buy their gift of impartation with money, he answered the sorcerer according to his vocation. Peter declared to this sorcerer that he had no part nor lot in their apostolic matter. His use of the phrase “neither part nor lot in this matter” (verse 21) is significant since the apostle wisely spoke to one who sorted fates and fortunes by lot and greedily sought to transfer to his calling in God. Peter let Simon know that his partnership and lot sorting were useless in the work of the living God. Impressively, Peter attacked Simon’s offer at its root and isolated the man’s true motives. Simon intends to prosper from his pagan past using his familiar spirits to impart a counterfeit of the gift of God. 1403. Sorcery—A) To sort out by lot the fates and destinies of others through commanding the powers of evil spirits. B) Magic, necromancy, witchcraft, enchantment. C) Using supra-human powers over others and objects with the aid of unclean spirits. D) Practicing witchcraft, spell-casting, magic, or conjuring. E) The practice of manipulating creation, humans, or events to provoke manifestations of what is desired by the occultist. Aside from the righteousness of the Creator, sorcerers use potions and intoxication to cause to appear by any number of means, real and illusionary, the objects of their desire. F) Witchcraft or magic in the New Testament identified as pharmakeia for its frequent application of potions and libations to its incantations and spells. Galatians 5:20. 1404. Sosthenes—A) Savior, safe strength. B) Chief of the synagogue in Corinth. 1405. Soul—The immaterial part of a person where the emotions, intellect,