Witchcraft?
Isaiah 47
“’Come down
and sit in the dust, you virgin daughter of Babylon!
Sit on the
ground, not on a throne, daughter of the Kasdim!
No longer
are you called dainty and delicate.
Take the
millstones and grind meal; take off your veil, strip off your skirt, uncover
your legs, wade through the streams.
Your private
parts will be exposed; yes, your shame will be seen.
I Am going
to take vengeance, and no one will stand in My way.’
Our
Redeemer! ADONAI-TZVA’OT is His Name, The Holy One of Isra’el!
‘Sit there
speechless, go into the darkness, you daughter of the Kasdim!
For you will
no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.
I was angry
with My People, I desecrated My Own Possession and gave them over to you.
But you
showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy, even upon the aged.
You said, “I
will be mistress forever,” so you didn’t consider these things ot think about
the consequences.
Now hear
this, you lover of luxuries, lolling at ease and saying to yourself, “I am
important, and no one else!
I will never
be a widow or know loss of children.”
But both
will come over you in an instant, in a single day loss of children and
widowhood; the will utterly destroy you, despite your may occult practices and
powerful spells to prevent it.’
You were at
ease in your wickedness, you thought, “No one sees me.”
Your “wisdom”
and “knowledge” perverted you, as you thought to yourself, “I am important, and
no one else.”
Yet disaster
will befall you, and you won’t know how to charm it away; calamity will come
upon you, and you won’t be able to turn it aside; ruin will overcome you,
suddenly, before you know it.
So for now,
keep on with your powerful spells and your many occult practices; from childhood you have been working at them;
maybe they will do you some good, maybe you will inspire terror!
You are worn
out with all your consultations – so let the astrologers and stargazers, the monthly
horoscope-makers, come forward now and save you from the things that will come
upon you!
Look, they
will be like straw!
The fire
will consume them.
They will
not save even themselves from the power of the flame.
It will not
be coals for warming oneself, not a fire to sit beside!
So much for
your [wizards], with whom you have worked all your life!
Each will
wander off in his own direction, and nobody will save you.’”
This word
was for Babylon, but it is also to everyone, every group and every government
that uses any form of witchcraft; there is no help for those who trust in
witchcraft, only eternal judgment in The Lake of Fire.
Seek GOD
First!
