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MAGIC

forms:

sorcery (influencing events and people by occult means)

practices

♦ casting spells

• Genesis 35:2-4; Isaiah 47:9, 12

♦ wonder working

• Exodus 7:11

♦ amulets/charms

• Isaiah 3:18-23; Ezekiel 13:18,20

♦ examples

• Exodus 7:11; 2 Kings 9:22; 21:6; Micah 5:12; Acts 8:9-10; 13:6-8; 19:19

divination (interpretation of divine messages)

practices

♦ foretelling the future

• Leviticus 19:26; Judges 9:37; Micah 5:11; Acts 16:16

♦ seeking omens

• Genesis 44:5; Leviticus 19:26; Numbers 23:23; 2 Kings 17:17

♦ mediums/spiritism

• Leviticus 19:31; 1 Samuel 28:3, 7-9; Isaiah 8:19

methods

♦ rods

♦ entrails

• Ezekiel 21:21

♦ images

• 2 Kings 23:24

♦ spirits

• 1 Chronicles 10:13; Isaiah 8:19; 19:13; 29:4

♦ examples

• Ezekiel 21:21-22; Daniel 1:20; 5:12, 16; Acts 16:16

prohibitions and penalties:

♦ condemned to death:

• Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 20:27

♦ provokes God's anger:

• 2 Chronicles 33:6

♦ practitioner's final destiny:

• Revelation 21:8; 22:15

magic unnecessary for God's people

♦ His providence

• Exodus 16:13-16

♦ His prophets

• Deuteronomy 18:14-22

foreign magic:

♦ Egyptian:

• Exodus 7:11, 18-19, 22; Ezekiel 13:17-23

♦ Babylonian:

• Isaiah 47:13; Daniel 1:20; 2:2, 20

♦ Ninevite:

• Nahum 3:4-5

♦ Canaanite:

• Numbers 22:7; 24:1

♦ charged of Jesus

• Matthew 12:24; Mark 3:2; Luke 11:5-6; John 7:20; 8:48-52; 10:20-21

related acts:

♦ prostitution:

• Isaiah 57:3; Nahum 3:4

♦ deeds of the flesh:

• Galatians 5:19-21

This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.

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