Friday, September 1, 2017

Sorcerers the Practice of Magic Arts






According to the following Biblical scriptures sorcerers are those that practice magic arts.  They stand in opposition to the will of God and the practice has the worse consequence associated with those acts.

Babylon...By your magic spell all the nations were led astray 
- Revelation 18:23

...the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts (sorcerers), the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death
- Revelation 21:8 

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts (sorcerers), the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood 
- Revelation 22:14-15

From my understanding the biblical definition of a sorcerer or person engaged in the practice of magic art is one who seeks and channels supernatural force outside of the name and will of Jesus Christ.  Magic is the opposite of prayer.  Prayer transfers the will and power of Christ Jesus from heaven to earth.  Conversely magic is the transfer of the will and power of the kingdom of darkness to the sorcerers of the earth.   

A spell, charm or hex is a set of words, spoken or unspoken, which are considered by its user to invoke some magical effect

A curse tablet or binding spell is a type of curse found throughout the Greco-Roman world, in which someone would ask the gods, place spirits, or the deceased to perform an action on a person or object, or otherwise compel the subject of the curse.

The Hellenistic period (roughly the last three centuries BCE) is characterized by an avid interest in magic, though this may simply be because from this period a greater abundance of texts, both literary and some from actual practitioners, in Greek and in Latin remains. In fact many of the magical papyri that are extant were written in the 1st centuries of the Current Era, but their concepts, formulas and rituals reflect the earlier Hellenistic period, that is, a time when the systematization of magic in the Greco-Roman world seems to have taken place—particularly in the ‘melting pot’ of varying cultures that was Egypt under the Ptolemies and under Rome.[original research?]

Acts 19:18-20 New International Version (NIV)

18 Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done. 19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. 20 In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.

According to Revelation 18:23 Babylon The Great, anti-Holy Spirit, speaks magic spells that lead all the nations astray.  One prayer, John's Prayer, breaks her curse  When spoken it provides immunity from all evil spoke against us and aligns us with the divine purposes of God.  

The is the John's Prayer otherwise know as the Lord's Prayer:

Scripture Mix from 
Matthew 5:1-2; Luke 11:1-4; Matthew 6:5-15;

Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down to pray in a certain place.  When he finished his disciples came to him, and one of them said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” he began to teach them.

“This, then, is how you should pray:

“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
    on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
    as we also have forgiven our debtors.
 And lead us not into temptation,
    but deliver us from the evil one.

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