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Hello folks. This is Pastor Mike Hoggard
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coming to you from Studio 2012 with another Watchman Video Broadcast.
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Well, I used to really love to read these things. Comic books,
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I had quite a collection of them when I was a young man.
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Ah, this was actually part of my collection, "Son of Satan".
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I went to church and read things like this.
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I remember there was an ad,
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oh let's see here. The X-ray spectacles, I always wanted a pair of those.
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Ah, the, ah, I wanted to have the Charles
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Atlas body. But there was one particular ad in
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comic books that I had, a full page ad, it was called
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the "Magic Power of Witchcraft".
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And for, I don't remember how much it was, maybe a dollar, you could
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send in and get this book. The advertisement read,
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"So simple, a child could do it.", and I am going, that is me!
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I can do witchcraft. I can make magic spells and make things
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happen and things like that. Two problems.
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Two problems into this at a young age. Now remember, I am going to church
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when I want to order this book. Ah, two problems. Number one,
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I never really had a dollar. They were kind of hard to come by.
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Ah, and number two, I never could think of a way
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to order the thing and have it mailed to my house
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without my mom finding out about it.
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She had gotten saved and got us kids
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in church and we were going to this church, actually, a good
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fundamental, Bible-preaching church and
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I knew that Mom would not, if she saw that, there
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was no way in the world she was going to let me have that book because
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I grew up, that witchcraft and the church
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doesn't mix. They are not supposed to go together. You are not supposed
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to practice witchcraft or be a witch or have
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a spirit of witchcraft in your Bible-believing church.
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That is the way I used to think. I still think that way,
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now. So I quit reading Son of Satan comic books
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and watching a lot of movies and things like that. I quit doing
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that, ah, I haven't read, and picked up "The Lord of the Rings"
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since I was in high school. A lot of things that I have walked away from and said
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you know, they are not really, I can't really reconcile this
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with the scriptures and I can't, I can't as a pastor
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condone witchcraft or witchcraft
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style practices or ideas or beliefs or pinciples.
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I cannot incorporate that into the scriptures.
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Ah, and so it amazes me, it shocks me,
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as I am putting this together, it just is amazing
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me, how much witchcraft and I mean like
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the real witchcraft, not just kid stuff out of a magazine,
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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.
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Well, you should, you should believe in it
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because the Bible expressly forbids
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witchcraft and it evens mentions it in Paul's letters.
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Let me show you Galatians, chapter 3, verse 1. "O foolish Galatians,
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who hath bewitched you,
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that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ
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hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?"
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Paul used this phrase, "bewitched you" like somebody
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in that congregation had cast a spell,
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had a witchcraft influence over those people in that church.
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If you don't know really what the whole book of Galatians is all about,
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the Book of Galatians was about people in the church teaching
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other people in the church that you are really not
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totally saved by just grace, alone.
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You have to perform things. You have to do things. You have to have rituals
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done on you, like circumcision and you have to keep the law
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in order to really, really, really be saved. I mean, you might say, yeah Jesus
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come out of my heart. That might be okay down here
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but if you really want to get to the upper levels with God,
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then you have to perform rituals and have things done
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and you have to do things in order to really be saved. And Paul said
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that is witchcraft and these people have
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bewitched you and now you are mingling witchcraft
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into your church services, "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,
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that you should not obey the truth". You see Paul is saying that it
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starts contradiction. I will just use my little comic book here.
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I always like to contrast things. Here is the truth of the Word of God.
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The King James Bible. Here is witchcraft
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and Paul said you believe this (indicating comic book),
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instead of believing this (indicating King James Bible) and they don't belong together.
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Witchcraft does not belong in the church and
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so for years, I have had a fascination, and I will be honest with you,
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partly due to a desire to want to practice witchcraft,
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or wizardry or sorcery of some kind or
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when I saw the kids playing Dungeons and Dragons, I'm going, I'd like to play Dungeons and Dragons.
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God kept me out of a lot of that stuff because
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he knew what was in me and I don't
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want that...I don't want that to take part of my life and so I
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have studied witchcraft over the years, studied sorcery, studied magic
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studied how it works, how it is designed, what it is based on
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and so I have a foundation of knowledge. I don't need to go and
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read 4,000 books on witchcraft in order to really understand
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it. I get it. I know what it is and now
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that I know what the truth is, I know from the scriptures,
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what the source of witchcraft is, what spirit is behind it.
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I am actually, I am actually going to get into this. I am going to read
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to you, something you will find easily on the internet,
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the 13 principles of witchcraft. Now I found out that actually army chaplains have
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this in their manual. So it is like, this is something that they agreed on,
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that this is how the....it is interesting to me, that in Wicca,
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that is what the name of it is called. Wicca, the word "wicca",
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the word "wicca" and the word "wizard", they all,
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they are based upon the same word which is "wist" or "wise".
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The word "wizard" or "wicca" is derived from this
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word wisdom, which means that these people have, supposedly, they have
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a secret knowledge and their eyes have been enlightened to this
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secret power that is in the universe. And we will get into that.
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But I am actually going to look at a little bit later on, some of the 13 principles
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that wiccans all agree to, yeah, that is us, that is
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kind of how we are and what we do. It is interesting that
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Wiccans, really, when they went to formulate these 13 principles they
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kind of had a problem with that because Wiccans
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by their, I am talking about the real wiccans, the real witches,
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its not the kids dressed up in Halloween, kind of witches,
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They really have a problem with
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ah, their religion or principles of their religion, being written down,
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anywhere. In fact, one of the...it is like the unwritten rule of witchcraft
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is, we don't follow rules.
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We don't follow written guidelines. We don't follow
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things that are written on pages that say this is what we are. We
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like to be free and that is interesting because this is
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really what we are seeing in a lot of churches, today. People don't want to follow
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what has been written down and Christianity has turned more into the
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esoteric, which means a secret thing,
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rather than following the written word of God. They
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seem to be following their emotions and feelings and power
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and things like that, that don't come from nor originate
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from the written Word of God. And anytime you don't have....
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this is what Paul warned against, he said, you foolish Galatians, you followed
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something that is not written down, witchcraft
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and you have rejected what is written down. You have rejected the truth.
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So we are going to look at some of the principles that they grudgingly agree
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to and we are going to see just how much witchcraft
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is in the church. I mentioned earlier that now that I know the scriptures,
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I know what spirit this is. Remember the
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thirteen principles. In the Book of Revelation, chapter 17,
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there is a spirit, all throughout, you see her
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all throughout the scriptures, she is called by various names
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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,
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it says, here is the mystery. I love the fact that God's
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Word always reveals mysteries. If there is a
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mystery somewhere, it is going to tell you what it is.
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Witchcraft is like a mystery religion because they don't write all their formulas, they don't write
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everything down, but I want to know what that mystery is so I can
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read it from the scriptures. John says, I am going to give you the mystery
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here, the woman, that is sitting, riding on top of the scarlet colored
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beast. Her name is MYSTERY,
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MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
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AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Now if you count in your King James Bible,
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you look at that verse, it just stands out because it is in all capital letters,
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you'll find 13 words there. That number 13
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means something. The number 13 in the scriptures, it is not always
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a bad number, when you have 12, I don't have 12 fingers,
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when you have 12 disciples, and you have Jesus with them, that is 13.
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When you have the 12 tribes, camped around the Tabernacle,
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and God's presence is there, in the form of the cloud,
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that is 13, that is what you have, the number 13.
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Think of the charity chapter in the Bible, 1 Corinthians, chapter 13.
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The phrase, "love of God",
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occurs 13 times in the Bible, so I kind of think that the number 13
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on God's side represents the pure love of God and you know
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how the Bible defines (I love this) "love"?
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Giving. For God so loved the world that he gave.
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Pure love just gives without expecting anything
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in return. That is pure love. Harlot love,
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you see, she is the opposite of that.
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Harlots don't give love for free.
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They expect something back
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and so think of a salvation now, that is based upon God's pure love,
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that is offered to you free, with nothing in return.
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That is the pure gospel and the pure love of God and the pure
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salvation of God. The Harlot has slipped in our churchs.
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Turn that around a little bit
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and so now the pure love of God has been turned into a Harlot love
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and she teaches a gospel that says, yes God will love you and yes God will do
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things for you, but you have to do something for him and that is why
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Paul called it bewitching them. That is why he called it witchcraft.
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There is a woman in the Bible who epitomizes the spirit of
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MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS. She epitomizes
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the spirit of witchcraft. Her name is Jezebel.
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Now this is interesting because I like to break down words and it is
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interesting that the name Baal or Bel,
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is in her name. That is like her God and where she came from.
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In 2 Kings, chapter 9, verse 22, here is an interesting
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description of what spirit Jezebel
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represents. "And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu
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that he said, is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace,
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so long as" (number one) "the whoredoms
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of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts
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are so many?" And so the Bible is telling you
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here that Jezebel or you know, MYSTERY BABALON, she
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embodies two ideas or two identities and a lot of time you will see them
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mixed together. Number one, she represents whoredom, harlotry,
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fornication, adultery, all things of sort of sexual
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uncleanness, all rolled into one. That is
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MYSTERY BABYLON, that is Jezebel and number two, she is the practitioner of
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witchcraft. In fact, she epitomizes and embodies
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witchcraft and it is something interesting, something that God reveals
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to us in the scriptures, concerning what Jezebel really
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is all about. So number one, we know that she is going to use harlotry. We know that she is
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going to use witchcraft. Let's see how she gets it
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done and let's see what it is that she is doing. We go to 1 Kings, chapter 21,
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there is a story. I am not going to recount the whole story, you read it. But it is
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essentially this. A man by the name of Naboth had a vineyard.
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Think of a vineyard. Think of Jesus said I am the vine,
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you are the branches. Well that would be the vineyard. That would be
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Christ in his church, his people, okay. So the
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vineyard is an inheritance, by the way. You see this land that Naboth had.
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He didn't buy it. He didn't get it off Ebay. He didn't go to a government auction,
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a foreclosure. He inherited it from his father, who inherited
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it from his father, who got it from his father, and from his father, who eventually
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they...it goes all the way back to the time when Joshua and the Israelites
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went into the Promised Land and God says, here is your land. I am going to give it to you.
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Don't sell it. Don't give it away. Pass it down
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to your offspring. And so Naboth was one of
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those who received this inheritance, this
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wonderful gift, Naboth received. And Ahab wanted it.
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It was a vineyard, right next to the palace of Ahab and Ahab is looking at that.
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See, it is covetousness. He is looking at that, saying, boy, I want that piece of land.
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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.
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And he wants it, so he asked Naboth, he said how about
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trading me. I have some real nice land
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over yonder, I will let you have, if you let me have this vineyard. Or, or...
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I will give you some money for it. Think of harlots,
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what do they get out of it. BUt anyway, I'll give you some money for it.
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And Naboth said, Ahab, you know the law. I can't sell
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my vineyard. One of these days I am going to have a son and I am going to pass that down to him
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and it is going to be his. So I am going to work it and I am going to live off of it.
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And I am going to give it to my son so he will have the same thing that I had.
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Maybe he will make it better. Naboth pouted and he cried.
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Oh, I can't have that! Jezebel comes in.
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By the way, I want you to listen to this now. Jezebel hates, she hates the law.