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Hello folks. This is Pastor Mike Hoggard

coming to you from Studio 2012 with another Watchman Video Broadcast.

Well, I used to really love to read these things. Comic books,

I had quite a collection of them when I was a young man.

Ah, this was actually part of my collection, "Son of Satan".

I went to church and read things like this.

I remember there was an ad,

oh let's see here. The X-ray spectacles, I always wanted a pair of those.

Ah, the, ah, I wanted to have the Charles

Atlas body. But there was one particular ad in

comic books that I had, a full page ad, it was called

the "Magic Power of Witchcraft".

And for, I don't remember how much it was, maybe a dollar, you could

send in and get this book. The advertisement read,

"So simple, a child could do it.", and I am going, that is me!

I can do witchcraft. I can make magic spells and make things

happen and things like that. Two problems.

Two problems into this at a young age. Now remember, I am going to church

when I want to order this book. Ah, two problems. Number one,

I never really had a dollar. They were kind of hard to come by.

Ah, and number two, I never could think of a way

to order the thing and have it mailed to my house

without my mom finding out about it.

She had gotten saved and got us kids

in church and we were going to this church, actually, a good

fundamental, Bible-preaching church and

I knew that Mom would not, if she saw that, there

was no way in the world she was going to let me have that book because

I grew up, that witchcraft and the church

doesn't mix. They are not supposed to go together. You are not supposed

to practice witchcraft or be a witch or have

a spirit of witchcraft in your Bible-believing church.

That is the way I used to think. I still think that way,

now. So I quit reading Son of Satan comic books

and watching a lot of movies and things like that. I quit doing

that, ah, I haven't read, and picked up "The Lord of the Rings"

since I was in high school. A lot of things that I have walked away from and said

you know, they are not really, I can't really reconcile this

with the scriptures and I can't, I can't as a pastor

condone witchcraft or witchcraft

style practices or ideas or beliefs or pinciples.

I cannot incorporate that into the scriptures.

Ah, and so it amazes me, it shocks me,

as I am putting this together, it just is amazing

me, how much witchcraft and I mean like

the real witchcraft, not just kid stuff out of a magazine,

I mean the real witchcraft. You say, I don't believe in that. That is like TV shows and kid shows and stuff like that.

Well, you should, you should believe in it

because the Bible expressly forbids

witchcraft and it evens mentions it in Paul's letters.

Let me show you Galatians, chapter 3, verse 1. "O foolish Galatians,

who hath bewitched you,

that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ

hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?"

Paul used this phrase, "bewitched you" like somebody

in that congregation had cast a spell,

had a witchcraft influence over those people in that church.

If you don't know really what the whole book of Galatians is all about,

the Book of Galatians was about people in the church teaching

other people in the church that you are really not

totally saved by just grace, alone.

You have to perform things. You have to do things. You have to have rituals

done on you, like circumcision and you have to keep the law

in order to really, really, really be saved. I mean, you might say, yeah Jesus

come out of my heart. That might be okay down here

but if you really want to get to the upper levels with God,

then you have to perform rituals and have things done

and you have to do things in order to really be saved. And Paul said

that is witchcraft and these people have

bewitched you and now you are mingling witchcraft

into your church services, "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,

that you should not obey the truth". You see Paul is saying that it

starts contradiction. I will just use my little comic book here.

I always like to contrast things. Here is the truth of the Word of God.

The King James Bible. Here is witchcraft

and Paul said you believe this (indicating comic book),

instead of believing this (indicating King James Bible) and they don't belong together.

Witchcraft does not belong in the church and

so for years, I have had a fascination, and I will be honest with you,

partly due to a desire to want to practice witchcraft,

or wizardry or sorcery of some kind or

when I saw the kids playing Dungeons and Dragons, I'm going, I'd like to play Dungeons and Dragons.

God kept me out of a lot of that stuff because

he knew what was in me and I don't

want that...I don't want that to take part of my life and so I

have studied witchcraft over the years, studied sorcery, studied magic

studied how it works, how it is designed, what it is based on

and so I have a foundation of knowledge. I don't need to go and

read 4,000 books on witchcraft in order to really understand

it. I get it. I know what it is and now

that I know what the truth is, I know from the scriptures,

what the source of witchcraft is, what spirit is behind it.

I am actually, I am actually going to get into this. I am going to read

to you, something you will find easily on the internet,

the 13 principles of witchcraft. Now I found out that actually army chaplains have

this in their manual. So it is like, this is something that they agreed on,

that this is how the....it is interesting to me, that in Wicca,

that is what the name of it is called. Wicca, the word "wicca",

the word "wicca" and the word "wizard", they all,

they are based upon the same word which is "wist" or "wise".

The word "wizard" or "wicca" is derived from this

word wisdom, which means that these people have, supposedly, they have

a secret knowledge and their eyes have been enlightened to this

secret power that is in the universe. And we will get into that.

But I am actually going to look at a little bit later on, some of the 13 principles

that wiccans all agree to, yeah, that is us, that is

kind of how we are and what we do. It is interesting that

Wiccans, really, when they went to formulate these 13 principles they

kind of had a problem with that because Wiccans

by their, I am talking about the real wiccans, the real witches,

its not the kids dressed up in Halloween, kind of witches,

They really have a problem with

ah, their religion or principles of their religion, being written down,

anywhere. In fact, one of the...it is like the unwritten rule of witchcraft

is, we don't follow rules.

We don't follow written guidelines. We don't follow

things that are written on pages that say this is what we are. We

like to be free and that is interesting because this is

really what we are seeing in a lot of churches, today. People don't want to follow

what has been written down and Christianity has turned more into the

esoteric, which means a secret thing,

rather than following the written word of God. They

seem to be following their emotions and feelings and power

and things like that, that don't come from nor originate

from the written Word of God. And anytime you don't have....

this is what Paul warned against, he said, you foolish Galatians, you followed

something that is not written down, witchcraft

and you have rejected what is written down. You have rejected the truth.

So we are going to look at some of the principles that they grudgingly agree

to and we are going to see just how much witchcraft

is in the church. I mentioned earlier that now that I know the scriptures,

I know what spirit this is. Remember the

thirteen principles. In the Book of Revelation, chapter 17,

there is a spirit, all throughout, you see her

all throughout the scriptures, she is called by various names

in the Bible and I will tell you one of those names she is called by in a minute, but in the Book of Revelation,

it says, here is the mystery. I love the fact that God's

Word always reveals mysteries. If there is a

mystery somewhere, it is going to tell you what it is.

Witchcraft is like a mystery religion because they don't write all their formulas, they don't write

everything down, but I want to know what that mystery is so I can

read it from the scriptures. John says, I am going to give you the mystery

here, the woman, that is sitting, riding on top of the scarlet colored

beast. Her name is MYSTERY,

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS

AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Now if you count in your King James Bible,

you look at that verse, it just stands out because it is in all capital letters,

you'll find 13 words there. That number 13

means something. The number 13 in the scriptures, it is not always

a bad number, when you have 12, I don't have 12 fingers,

when you have 12 disciples, and you have Jesus with them, that is 13.

When you have the 12 tribes, camped around the Tabernacle,

and God's presence is there, in the form of the cloud,

that is 13, that is what you have, the number 13.

Think of the charity chapter in the Bible, 1 Corinthians, chapter 13.

The phrase, "love of God",

occurs 13 times in the Bible, so I kind of think that the number 13

on God's side represents the pure love of God and you know

how the Bible defines (I love this) "love"?

Giving. For God so loved the world that he gave.

Pure love just gives without expecting anything

in return. That is pure love. Harlot love,

you see, she is the opposite of that.

Harlots don't give love for free.

They expect something back

and so think of a salvation now, that is based upon God's pure love,

that is offered to you free, with nothing in return.

That is the pure gospel and the pure love of God and the pure

salvation of God. The Harlot has slipped in our churchs.

Turn that around a little bit

and so now the pure love of God has been turned into a Harlot love

and she teaches a gospel that says, yes God will love you and yes God will do

things for you, but you have to do something for him and that is why

Paul called it bewitching them. That is why he called it witchcraft.

There is a woman in the Bible who epitomizes the spirit of

MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS. She epitomizes

the spirit of witchcraft. Her name is Jezebel.

Now this is interesting because I like to break down words and it is

interesting that the name Baal or Bel,

is in her name. That is like her God and where she came from.

In 2 Kings, chapter 9, verse 22, here is an interesting

description of what spirit Jezebel

represents. "And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu

that he said, is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace,

so long as" (number one) "the whoredoms

of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts

are so many?" And so the Bible is telling you

here that Jezebel or you know, MYSTERY BABALON, she

embodies two ideas or two identities and a lot of time you will see them

mixed together. Number one, she represents whoredom, harlotry,

fornication, adultery, all things of sort of sexual

uncleanness, all rolled into one. That is

MYSTERY BABYLON, that is Jezebel and number two, she is the practitioner of

witchcraft. In fact, she epitomizes and embodies

witchcraft and it is something interesting, something that God reveals

to us in the scriptures, concerning what Jezebel really

is all about. So number one, we know that she is going to use harlotry. We know that she is

going to use witchcraft. Let's see how she gets it

done and let's see what it is that she is doing. We go to 1 Kings, chapter 21,

there is a story. I am not going to recount the whole story, you read it. But it is

essentially this. A man by the name of Naboth had a vineyard.

Think of a vineyard. Think of Jesus said I am the vine,

you are the branches. Well that would be the vineyard. That would be

Christ in his church, his people, okay. So the

vineyard is an inheritance, by the way. You see this land that Naboth had.

He didn't buy it. He didn't get it off Ebay. He didn't go to a government auction,

a foreclosure. He inherited it from his father, who inherited

it from his father, who got it from his father, and from his father, who eventually

they...it goes all the way back to the time when Joshua and the Israelites

went into the Promised Land and God says, here is your land. I am going to give it to you.

Don't sell it. Don't give it away. Pass it down

to your offspring. And so Naboth was one of

those who received this inheritance, this

wonderful gift, Naboth received. And Ahab wanted it.

It was a vineyard, right next to the palace of Ahab and Ahab is looking at that.

See, it is covetousness. He is looking at that, saying, boy, I want that piece of land.

It looks nice. I am going to do this...I am going to put some landscaping there. I am going to make it real nice.

And he wants it, so he asked Naboth, he said how about

trading me. I have some real nice land

over yonder, I will let you have, if you let me have this vineyard. Or, or...

I will give you some money for it. Think of harlots,

what do they get out of it. BUt anyway, I'll give you some money for it.

And Naboth said, Ahab, you know the law. I can't sell

my vineyard. One of these days I am going to have a son and I am going to pass that down to him

and it is going to be his. So I am going to work it and I am going to live off of it.

And I am going to give it to my son so he will have the same thing that I had.

Maybe he will make it better. Naboth pouted and he cried.