Tag: Signs vs Superstitions

Proverbs 20:1 “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.” In most cultures both in the west and the east drinking has become a social compulsion. Drinks and drugs have become a must to be socially accepted. Teetotalers are ostracized and are treated as...

Act 8:9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. Simon of Samaria was a magician who tricked people with his sorcery. They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery (Acts 8:11). Black magic is a...

Deuteronomy 18:10-14 Don’t try to learn what will happen in the future by talking to a fortuneteller or by going to a magician, a witch, or a sorcerer. Don’t let anyone try to put magic spells on other people. Don’t let any of your people become a medium or a wizard. And no one should...

Exodus 23:19b “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.” Cooking a young goat in its mother’s milk sounds brutally cruel. The Lord God specifically included this as a forbidden act in the Mosaic law as this was a pagan magical practice. Boiling a kid in its mother’s milk was a common Canaanite...

2 Kings 21:20-21 He (Amon) did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done. He followed completely the ways of his father, worshiping the idols his father had worshiped, and bowing down to them. Amon was the son of the wicked king Manasseh. “Children learn more from what you ARE than...

2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan). The Israelites carried the bronze snake that saved the repentant...