May 23, 2022 - Gail Yap's Blog | Isaiah 42 Ωω

Glurge and cringe boys, glurge and cringe --- I DO NOT DRESS IT UP. I JUST FUCKING REPORT. THAT IS WHAT I DO. I FUCKING HATE THIS CITY ALSO. IF IT WEREN’T FOR **AM-AM**, I WOULD BE GONE. man i really do need to study DNID. 3 years. maybe they’ll have an online degree track or something. i could live away from my parents in this city like an apartment. ## It’s my parents’ story. It’s probably Audrey and Mike’s story. It’s Iris and Jezreel’s story. It’s my sister and Johann’s future. It’s Stanley and Joslyn’s story. It’s Tina and that dude from church’s story. [beautiful girl] [rich guy] arguably Mike may feel not rich? I wouldn’t know. he’s just like my dad, cheap. literally doesn’t buy shoes. Oh wait, let me tweak it a little. [guy] [chooses] [girl] [he wants] I’m somehow unable to evoke dopamine in anyone whether that is through appearance or social graces so I don’t fucking care anymore. Lord what do you want me to do with this cursed knowledge. If I wasn’t a Christian and a girl I would’ve joined the NPA and got myself killed like Chad Booc(?). Actually I don’t know if he is NPA. I thought he was just teaching some kids. why is my fucking computer doing that air sound. OH i gotta do the notion brain zettel and get rid of the thousand tabs. fuck i just can’t be controlled. — reread older entries. some entries where you thought you were “emotionally stable” lol. you let yourself get carried by events that happen to you. you will not allow events to carry you to hell. nothing can take away your salvation. they can take away your dreams. they can feed you the crumbs. they can never take God away from you. i mean you could just live quietly like what audrey is doing. and what mike is miming. — really can’t tell Lord what you want me to do. on one hand i don’t want to come at the end of my life and have you tell me that i didn’t use my talents right because i buried it. i am completely ready to bury the parapsychology. i literally couldn’t care less about opening that future gateway to visions. it’s just so dopaminergic and probably what Satan uses anyway to distract me from what’s really important. “In the last days the people will all fall for a delusion” the nature of which is kinda pointing to what i started. and what the other people helped. idk. i mean for fuck’s sake there is literally a beerus from the mouth of Bis in ALL_GO. wtf. it’s Satanic. It’s witchcraft. I don’t want to be part of godless idolatry. i can’t tell if this is all just me sourgraping because i didn’t make it in actual science STEM like Math and Physics and Compsci. Like I’m a special snowflake because this is something potentially new and “can change what we know about reality as we know it” lol such BS. You know, Saul literally consulted a witch. There you go. to talk to Samuel. you can’t. you have to get rid of it. wow okay clarity stop competing. like possibly why. lucifer tried to compete with God and look what happened to him. harder to do than say. contentment is relly relly hard. everybody wants to be on top. i mean i want to be on top. i can’t tell what is the healthy amount of ambition. # — to be completely objective: magic is only witchcraft if you want to control it to bend reality to your whims like God. Merriam-Webster def: **witchcraft** **noun** ## **Definition of _witchcraft_** **1a:** the use of sorcery or magic **b:** communication with the devil or with a familiar **2:** an irresistible influence or fascination **3a:** rituals and practices that incorporate belief in magic and that are associated especially with neo-pagan traditions and religions (such as [Wicca](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Wicca))Practitioners of Wicca … use the tools … such as the broom (a purifying symbol), the wand, candles, crystals and the knife …. They refer to their practices as _witchcraft_ …— Lesley Wright**b**_or less commonly_ **Witchcraft** **:** a tradition or religion that involves the practice of witchcraftFeminist _witchcraft_ sees women's oppression and environmental abuse, which they argue are intimately linked, as firmly rooted in patriarchal religions.— Wendy GriffinWicca, which emerged in the 1940s in England, is the original form of modern Pagan _Witchcraft_.— Meg Yardley — Satan masks as an angel of light. He is not stupid. He is ancient. He is smarter than Tesla, Einstein, Da Vinci, Newton, Bernoulli, Euler, etc. etc. etc. He will control you if you do not stay vigilant. Especially you. I have a feeling he is controlling me. I really do not want to be the agent the Bible talks about. I could be telling the truth and still be acting under his orders. I am really scared. Maybe I need a dopamine detox. He will use all the treasures of the world to tempt you just like Jesus was tempted in the wilderness or somewhere. 40 days he fasted. Bread. Get away. Be ruthless. Maybe Jesus really is coming back in this lifetime. — wiki **Witchcraft** traditionally means the use of [magic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_$supernatural$) or supernatural powers to harm others.[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-Thomas519-1)[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-Hutton_2017_intro-2) A practitioner is a **witch**. In [medieval](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages) and [early modern Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_Europe), where the term originated, accused witches were usually women who were believed to have attacked their own community, and often to have communed with evil beings. It was thought witchcraft could be thwarted by [protective magic or counter-magic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotropaic_magic), which could be provided by [cunning folk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunning_folk) or [folk healers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_healer). Suspected witches were also intimidated, banished, attacked or killed. Often they would be formally prosecuted and punished, if found guilty or simply believed to be guilty. European [witch-hunts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt) and [witch trials in the early modern period](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_the_early_modern_period) led to tens of thousands of executions. Although some folk healers were accused of witchcraft, they made up a minority of those accused. European belief in witchcraft gradually dwindled during and after the [Age of Enlightenment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment). Contemporary cultures that believe in magic and the supernatural often believe in witchcraft.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-Russell-3)[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-:5-4) Anthropologists have applied the term _witchcraft_to similar beliefs and [occult](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occult) practices described by many non-European cultures, and cultures that have adopted the English language will often call these practices "witchcraft", as well.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-:5-4)[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-Thomas-5)[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-Wilby-6)[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-PerroneStockel1993-7) As with the cunning-folk in Europe, [Indigenous](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples) communities that believe in the existence of witchcraft define witches as the opposite of their healers and [medicine people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_man), who are sought out for protection against witches and witchcraft.[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-tosenberger-8)[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-Demetrio-9)[[10]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-tan-10) [Modern witch-hunting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_witch-hunts) is found in parts of Africa and Asia. A theory that witchcraft was a survival of a European pagan religion (the [witch-cult hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-cult_hypothesis)) gained popularity in the early 20th century, but has since been discredited. In [contemporary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_history) [Western culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture), most notably since the growth of [Wicca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca) from the 1950s, some [Modern Pagans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Paganism) identify as witches, and use the term _witchcraft_ for their [self-help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help), healing and [divination](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination) rituals.[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-Huson-11)[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-Clifton-12)[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-tosenberger-8)[[13]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft#cite_note-DJBaC-13) — trauma capitalism + competing with others + hornbook???????????????????????????? wtf was that WTF _**A Hornbook for Witches: Poems of Fantasy**_ is a collection of poems by [Leah Bodine Drake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Bodine_Drake). It was released in [1950](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_in_literature), and was the author's first book and her only collection published by [Arkham House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_House). It was released in an edition of 553 copies, of which 300 were given to the author, making this one of the rarest books published by Arkham House. The jacket was the work of [Frank Utpatel](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Utpatel&action=edit&redlink=1). The volume is dedicated to Drake's ancestor [Jean Bodin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bodin) "who also concerned himself with witches." According to Sheldon Jaffery's _The Arkham House Companion_, "the story goes that Ms Drake approached Derleth and requested that a book of her poetry be published by Arkham House, one that would contain a great many more poems than were contained in the 1947 anthology [_Dark of the Moon_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_of_the_Moon:_Poems_of_Fantasy_and_the_Macabre). Derleth refused except on the condition that she bear the cost, to which she agreed. After publication of _A Hornbook for Witches_, Drake received back about 300 copies as her share of the enterprise. Thus, the rarity of the book is explained, as only 253 were available for distribution by Arkham House directly to its dealers and subscribers. It's uncertain what became of Drake's 300 copies, although many may have been given or sold to her friends and neighbors. [Lin Carter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Carter) once told me that he was, some years ago, in a small midwestern city and saw Drake toting a shopping bag overflowing with copies of _Hornbook_, which she was autographing and selling for $1.50 per copy. The story has the ring of truth since Leah Bodine Drake, at the time the book was published, worked for the Evansville, Indiana _Courier_. Carter, lacking the foresight that we all acquire through hindsight, failed to buy any copies. He later spent $450.00 for one in less than perfect condition, as it was the last book needed to complete his Arkham House collection."[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hornbook_for_Witches#cite_note-1) [_The New York Times_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times) reviewer [Orville Prescott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Prescott) described Drake as "a poet who writes in conventional rhyme schemes about very unconventional subjects" and noted that "for the most part Miss Drake goes her own original and fanciful way. Her poems may not be contributions to the great art of poetry, but they are rather fun in a grisly fashion."[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hornbook_for_Witches#cite_note-2) [Boucher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Boucher) and [McComas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Francis_McComas) wrote that the collection would appeal "to devotees of supernatural verse (or of attractive book-making)."[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hornbook_for_Witches#cite_note-3) An audiobook by the same name was released in 1976, read by [Vincent Price](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Price). It contains four poems by Drake ("A Hornbook for Witches", "Witches on the Heath", "'All Saints Eve", and "The Ballad of the Jabberwock") as well as other material. The audio was originally released as both LP and on cassette (by Caedmon TC-1497) but can now be sourced on the internet as a CD recording. --- --- OK so i have literally just said “satan masks himself as angel of light minutes ago” and i just really had to google samuel being summoned by saul through a witch and got to the part about christianity and then it’s repeated again The Witch of Endor: from the [frontispiece](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_frontispiece) to [_Saducismus Triumphatus_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saducismus_Triumphatus) by [Joseph Glanvill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Glanvill) In the Septuagint (2nd century BC) the woman is described as a ventriloquist,[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-12) possibly reflecting the consistent view of the Alexandrian translators that demons do not exist.[[13]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-13) On the other hand, the Hebrew [Book of Sirach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Sirach), composed in the same period, represents it as a fact that Samuel prophesied to Saul after his death.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-sirach-2) [Josephus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus), writing in the 1st century AD, also appears to find the story completely credible.[[14]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-14) The [_Yalkut Shimoni_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalkut_Shimoni) (11th century) identifies the anonymous witch as the mother of [Abner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner).[[15]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-15) Based upon the witch's claim to have seen something, and Saul having heard a disembodied voice, the _Yalkut_ suggests that necromancers are able to see the spirits of the dead but are unable to hear their speech, while the person for whom the deceased was summoned hears the voice but fails to see anything.[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-auto-5) According to [Antoine Augustin Calmet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Augustin_Calmet), writing in the 18th century:[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-calmet-16) > The Jews of our days believe that after the body of a man is interred, his spirit goes and comes, and departs from the spot where it is destined to visit his body, and to know what passes around him; that it is wandering during a whole year after the death of the body, and that it was during that year of delay that the Pythoness of Endor evoked the soul of Samuel, after which time the evocation would have had no power over his spirit. ### **Christianity[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Witch_of_Endor&action=edit&section=5)]** : Saul, the shade of [Samuel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel) and the witch The [Church Fathers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Fathers) and some modern Christian writers have debated the theological issues raised by this text, which would appear at first sight to affirm that it is possible (though forbidden) for humans to summon the spirits of the dead by magic. [King James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I), in his philosophical treatise [_Daemonologie_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemonologie) (1597), rejected the theory that the witch was performing an act of ventriloquism, but also denied that she had truly summoned the spirit of Samuel. He wrote that the Devil is permitted at times to take on the likeness of the saints, citing 2 Corinthians 11:14, which says that "**Satan can transform himself into an Angel of light**".[[17]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-james-17) James describes the witch of Endor as "Saul's Pythonese", likening her to the ancient Greek oracle [Pythia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia). **He asserts the reality of witchcraft, arguing that if such things were not possible, they would not be prohibited in Scripture:[[17]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-james-17)** > Certain it is, that the Law of God speaks nothing in vain, neither does it lay curses, or enjoin punishments upon shadows, condemning that to be ill, which is not in essence or being as we call it. Other medieval [glosses to the Bible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glosses_to_the_Bible) also suggested that what the witch summoned was not the ghost of Samuel, but a demon taking his shape or an illusion crafted by the witch.[[18]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-18) [Martin Luther](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther), who believed that the dead were unconscious, read that it was "the Devil's ghost", whereas [John Calvin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin) read that "it was not the real Samuel, but a spectre."[[19]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-19) Augustin Calmet briefly mentions the witch of Endor in his [_Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatise_on_the_Apparitions_of_Spirits) (1759), among other scriptural proofs of "the reality of magic". He acknowledges that this interpretation is disputed, and says that he will deduce nothing from the passage "except that this woman passed for a witch, [and] that Saul esteemed her such".[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-calmet-16) Since this passage states the witch made a loud cry in fear when she saw Samuel's spirit, some interpreters reject the suggestion that the witch was responsible for summoning Samuel's spirit, claiming instead that this was the work of God.[[20]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-20)[[21]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-21) [Joyce Baldwin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Baldwin) (1989) writes that "the incident does not tell us anything about the veracity of claims to consult the dead on the part of mediums, because the indications [of the woman’s behavior] are that this was an extraordinary event for her, and a frightening one, because she was not in control."[[22]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-Baldwin-1989-1-2-Sam-22) — maybe there are just some uncertainties on earth that you’re not supposed to know completely because they distract from the point. ## Cultural references[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Witch_of_Endor&action=edit&section=7)] ![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/1675_Ehinger_Saul_spricht_mit_Samuels_Geist_anagoria.JPG/220px-1675_Ehinger_Saul_spricht_mit_Samuels_Geist_anagoria.JPG) Saul speaking to Samuel's spirit at the Witch of Endor 1675 by Gabriel Ehinger, [Städelsches Kunstinstitut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A4delsches_Kunstinstitut) . The story of Saul's consultation with the witch of Endor has frequently been set to music, with many works expanding on the character of the witch.[[24]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-24) One early example is _In guiltie night_, an [oratorio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio) written by [Robert Ramsey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ramsey_$composer$) in the 1630s, which formed the basis of a better-known work of the same title by [Henry Purcell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell) in 1691.[[25]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-25) The witch also appears in _Mors Saulis et Jonathae_ by [Charpentier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-Antoine_Charpentier) (c. 1682), [_Saul_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_$Handel$) by [George Frideric Handel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel) (1738), _Die Könige in Israel_ by [Ferdinand Ries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Ries) (1837), and [_Le Roi David_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roi_David) by [Honegger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Honegger) (1921). Notable operas featuring the character include [_David et Jonathas_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_et_Jonathas) by Charpentier (1688) and [_Saul og David_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_og_David) by [Carl Nielsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Nielsen) (1902). In 1965, the [Martha Graham Dance Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Graham_Dance_Company) premiered _The Witch of Endor_, a one act ballet with music by [William Schuman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Schuman). This was subsequently reworked into a short symphonic-style piece by [Moondog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog), for his [eponymous 1969 album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog_$1969_album$).[[26]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-26) Poetic works retelling the story include "[Saul](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_Lord_Byron_$ed._Coleridge,_Prothero$/Poetry/Volume_3/Hebrew_Melodies/Saul)" by [Lord Byron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron), published in his 1815 collection [_Hebrew Melodies_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Melodies),[[27]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-Kinsley-27) and "In Endor" by [Shaul Tchernichovsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaul_Tchernichovsky) (1893), a major work of [modern Hebrew poetry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Hebrew_poetry) which paints Saul as a sympathetic figure.[[28]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-28) [Rudyard Kipling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling), a year after the death of his son at the [Battle of Loos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Loos), wrote a poem called "[En-Dor](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/En-Dor)" (published 1919), using the story as a device to criticise contemporary mediums.[[29]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-29) In theatre, the witch of Endor figures in **[Laurence Housman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Housman)**'s 1944 play **_Samuel the Kingmaker_,** and has a central role in [Howard Nemerov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Nemerov)'s 1961 play _Endor_.[[27]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Endor#cite_note-Kinsley-27) The character has been portrayed cinematically by Israeli actor [Dov Reiser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Reiser) in the 1976 television film [_The Story of David_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_David), and by Belgian actress [Lyne Renée](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyne_Ren%C3%A9e) in the 2016 series [_Of Kings and Prophets_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Kings_and_Prophets). --- The end. _**The Kingmaker**_ is a 2019 documentary film written and directed by **[Lauren Greenfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Greenfield)**, featuring the political career of [Imelda Marcos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imelda_Marcos)[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-IndieWireJeanBentley-6)with a focus on the [Marcos family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_family)'s efforts to rehabilitate the family's image and to return to political power,[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-PhilStar-7)[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-BloombergClarissaBatino-8) including her plans to see her son [Bongbong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongbong_Marcos) become [President of the Philippines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Philippines),[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-9)[[10]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-VanityFairJulieMiller-10) and the alliance that Bongbong and [Imee Marcos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imee_Marcos) established with [Rodrigo Duterte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte) in his bid to win the [2016 Philippine presidential election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Philippine_presidential_election).[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-NewYorkTimesDargisManohla-3)[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-LATimesAmyKaufman-11) It debuted internationally in August 2019 at the 76th Venice Film Festival,[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-12) and debuted in the Philippines on January 29, 2020.[[13]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-AngelicaaaWORK-13) The Kingmaker was nominated as best documentary at the [London Film Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Film_Festival) and the [Stockholm Film Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Film_Festival), and for the Checkpoints Award at the [Bergen International Film Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_International_Film_Festival). It was nominated for four categories in the 2019 [Critic’s Choice Documentary Awards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critic%E2%80%99s_Choice_Documentary_Awards), eventually winning the award for Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary. It also received the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the Warsaw International Film Festival 2019. The film received critical acclaim and has a 97% Certified Fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes.[[14]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-14) The critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes reads, "_The Kingmaker_ aims a disquieting spotlight at the private life of a divisive public figure -- as well as the ways in which unchecked power seduces and corrupts."[[15]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingmaker_$film$#cite_note-Rotten-15) — —I have education that can improve lives. I was not aiming to put BBM on the throne. ?????? DO NOT RELATE TO VILLAIN. an attack on narcissism? selfishness. maybe. everybody is selfish in varying degrees. obviously some will use their power to make themselves even more powerful for their own interests. the point probably is to “love God and love others” basic Bible 101. ofc that’s really vague. practically means a lot of sacrifice. I think tiktok really was the deciding factor. leni might have won in 2016 because there was no platform yet to brainwash limited attention spans of data-using pinoys. ofc tiktoks are going to end up on facebook as videos. and now facebook now has tiktok like feature. — so i started this with Am-am at the top as sacrifice. that’s why. and that will break me because i know no amount of therapy will fix her brain. there are some things i wouldn’t want to be certain about on earth. will she be innocent before God’s eyes? I don’t know God. Jesus loves the little children. God’s grace, aiming all that pain and suffering on Himself so it would be possible for Him to forgive us and set us free from our sins yet not without consequences. age of accountability. divine election. kingmaker. election. the ultimate lottery. the ultimate inequality. i don’t know i don’t know i don’t know. stop swearing. Bonhoeffer subtext means I am wrong about what I just previously said. But remember he is not the Bible. “Our wish-dream, is essentially the idea of what _we_ think Christian life should be. It is the clear vision we have in our minds that we bring along with us, into every Christian gathering. Which, at first reading doesn’t sound so bad…or [dangerous](https://modernreject.com/2011/08/the-dangerous-christian/). But, Bonhoeffer goes on: **“Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive.** He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.” why man???? remember that time you said something about lolas in the church not understanding what they are listening to bc uncle kit prefers theology and gibberish long words. ## science def /ˈsīəns/ [Learn to pronounce](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&sxsrf=ALiCzsYmZIPROIC-PN5MR_RkIShFWP25gw:1653309312857&q=how+to+pronounce+science&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOMIfcRoyS3w8sc9YSmDSWtOXmPU4uINKMrPK81LzkwsyczPExLmYglJLcoV4pbi5GIvTs5MzUtOtWJRYkrN41nEKpGRX65Qkq9QANSSD9STqgBVAQBwOfbfWQAAAA&pron_lang=en&pron_country=us&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCva-S0fX3AhXOeN4KHdKLDi4Q3eEDegQIAxAK) [](data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) _noun_ 1. the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. "the world of science and technology" 2. a systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject. **witchcraft** , traditionally, the exercise or invocation of [alleged](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alleged) [supernatural](https://www.britannica.com/topic/supernaturalism) powers to control people or events, practices typically involving [sorcery](https://www.britannica.com/topic/sorcery) or [magic](https://www.britannica.com/topic/magic-supernatural-phenomenon) . Although defined differently in [disparate](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disparate) historical and cultural [contexts](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contexts) , witchcraft has often been seen, especially in the West, as the work of crones who meet secretly at night, indulge in cannibalism and orgiastic rites with the [Devil](https://www.britannica.com/topic/devil) , or [Satan](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Satan) , and perform black magic. Witchcraft thus defined exists more in the imagination of contemporaries than in any objective reality. Yet this [stereotype](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stereotype) has a long [history](https://www.britannica.com/topic/history) and has [constituted](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/constituted) for many [cultures](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cultures) a viable explanation of evil in the world. The intensity of these beliefs is best represented by the European witch hunts of the 14th to 18th century, but witchcraft and its associated ideas are never far from the surface of popular [consciousness](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consciousness) and—sustained by folk tales—find explicit focus from time to time in popular television and films and in fiction. Notion abt why God hates witchcraft - ties to Satanism “Charges of [Satanism](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Satanism) and celebration of the blasphemous black mass have been made against persons accused of heresy and witchcraft since early Christian times. Allegations were made against the Knights Templars in the 14th century and against the Freemasons in the 19th. [Joris-Karl Huysmans’s](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joris-Karl-Huysmans) novel _Là-bas_ (1891; [_Down There_](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Down-There)) describes a black mass celebrated in late 19th-century France.” — it’s not about porn [**Leviticus 19:31](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A31&version=ESV) ESV / 1,026 helpful votes** “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God. **[Exodus 22:18](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+22%3A18&version=ESV) ESV / 940 helpful votes** “You shall not permit a sorceress to live. **[Leviticus 20:27](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+20%3A27&version=ESV) ESV / 743 helpful votes** “A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.” **[Revelation 21:8](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+21%3A8&version=ESV) ESV / 698 helpful votes** But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” **[1 Samuel 15:23](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+15%3A23&version=ESV) ESV / 659 helpful votes** For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.” **[Leviticus 20:6](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+20%3A6&version=ESV) ESV / 656 helpful votes** “If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. **[Galatians 5:19-21](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+5%3A19-21&version=ESV) ESV / 637 helpful votes** **Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. [2 Chronicles 33:6](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Chronicles+33%3A6&version=ESV) ESV / 551 helpful votes** And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. **[Revelation 22:15](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+22%3A15&version=ESV) ESV / 530 helpful votes** Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. **[Isaiah 8:19](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+8%3A19&version=ESV) ESV / 488 helpful votes** And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living? **[Deuteronomy 18:9-12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+18%3A9-12&version=ESV) ESV / 463 helpful votes** “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. **[Acts 19:19](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+19%3A19&version=ESV) ESV / 432 helpful votes** And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. **[Deuteronomy 18:10](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+18%3A10&version=ESV) ESV / 403 helpful votes** There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer **[Micah 5:12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Micah+5%3A12&version=ESV) ESV / 400 helpful votes** And I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes; **[1 Chronicles 10:13-14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Chronicles+10%3A13-14&version=ESV) ESV / 369 helpful votes** **So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance. He did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. [2 Kings 21:6](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+21%3A6&version=ESV) ESV / 357 helpful votes** And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. **[Galatians 5:20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+5%3A20&version=ESV) ESV / 332 helpful votes** Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, **[Leviticus 19:26](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A26&version=ESV) ESV / 317 helpful votes** “You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes. **[Galatians 5:20-21](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+5%3A20-21&version=ESV) ESV / 297 helpful votes** Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. **[Revelation 18:23](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+18%3A23&version=ESV) ESV / 279 helpful votes** And the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery. **[Deuteronomy 18:9-14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+18%3A9-14&version=ESV) ESV / 262 helpful votes** “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, ... **[Isaiah 47:8-14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+47%3A8-14&version=ESV) ESV / 251 helpful votes** Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”: These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments. You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” But evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, for which you will not be able to atone; and ruin shall come upon you suddenly, of which you know nothing. Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed; perhaps you may inspire terror. ... **[1 Chronicles 10:13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Chronicles+10%3A13&version=ESV) ESV / 244 helpful votes** So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance. **[Deuteronomy 18:14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+18%3A14&version=ESV) ESV / 242 helpful votes** For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this. **[Isaiah 19:3](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+19%3A3&version=ESV) ESV / 238 helpful votes** And the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers; **[2 Kings 17:17](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+17%3A17&version=ESV) ESV / 228 helpful votes** And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. **[2 Kings 9:22](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+9%3A22&version=ESV) ESV / 227 helpful votes** And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?” **[2 Kings 23:24](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+23%3A24&version=ESV) ESV / 217 helpful votes** Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord. **[Deuteronomy 18:10-12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+18%3A10-12&version=ESV) ESV / 196 helpful votes** There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. **[Isaiah 2:6](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+2%3A6&version=ESV) ESV / 194 helpful votes** For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. **[Acts 16:16](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+16%3A16&version=ESV) ESV / 185 helpful votes** As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. **[Ezekiel 13:20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+13%3A20&version=ESV) ESV / 185 helpful votes** “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls whom you hunt go free, the souls like birds. **[Acts 8:9-13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+8%3A9-13&version=ESV) ESV / 184 helpful votes** But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.” And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed. **[1 Samuel 28:1-25](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+28%3A1-25&version=ESV) ESV / 182 helpful votes** In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, “Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.” David said to Achish, “Very well, you shall know what your servant can do.” And Achish said to David, “Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.” Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land. The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa. When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. ... **[Acts 8:9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+8%3A9&version=ESV) ESV / 180 helpful votes** But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. **[Malachi 3:5](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Malachi+3%3A5&version=ESV) ESV / 178 helpful votes** “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts. **[1 John 4:4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A4&version=ESV) ESV / 174 helpful votes** Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. **[Exodus 8:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+8%3A7&version=ESV) ESV / 172 helpful votes** But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt. **[Revelation 9:21](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+9%3A21&version=ESV) ESV / 166 helpful votes** Nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. **[Deuteronomy 18:10-13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+18%3A10-13&version=ESV) ESV / 162 helpful votes** There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, **[Nahum 3:4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nahum+3%3A4&version=ESV) ESV / 159 helpful votes** And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms. **[Jeremiah 27:9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+27%3A9&version=ESV) ESV / 149 helpful votes** So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ **[Exodus 7:11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+7%3A11&version=ESV) ESV / 149 helpful votes** Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. **[2 Thessalonians 2:9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+2%3A9&version=ESV) ESV / 145 helpful votes** The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, **[Isaiah 8:19-20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+8%3A19-20&version=ESV) ESV / 142 helpful votes** And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living? To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. **[Isaiah 47:12-14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+47%3A12-14&version=ESV) ESV / 141 helpful votes** Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed; perhaps you may inspire terror. You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons make known what shall come upon you. Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before! **[Isaiah 47:9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+47%3A9&version=ESV) ESV / 141 helpful votes** These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments. **[1 Samuel 28:3](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+28%3A3&version=ESV) ESV / 141 helpful votes** Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land. **[1 Samuel 28:9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+28%3A9&version=ESV) ESV / 140 helpful votes** The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?” **[2 Corinthians 11:14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+11%3A14&version=ESV) ESV / 135 helpful votes** And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. **[Isaiah 47:12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+47%3A12&version=ESV) ESV / 135 helpful votes** Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed; perhaps you may inspire terror. **[Isaiah 44:25](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+44%3A25&version=ESV) ESV / 135 helpful votes** Who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish, **[Deuteronomy 4:19](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+4%3A19&version=ESV) ESV / 134 helpful votes** And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. **[Luke 1:37](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1%3A37&version=ESV) ESV / 133 helpful votes** For nothing will be impossible with God.” **[Deuteronomy 18:10-11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+18%3A10-11&version=ESV) ESV / 130 helpful votes** There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, **[Ezekiel 13:18](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+13%3A18&version=ESV) ESV / 127 helpful votes** And say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive? **[1 Samuel 28:7-25](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+28%3A7-25&version=ESV) ESV / 125 helpful votes** Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.” So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Divine for me by a spirit and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.” The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?” But Saul swore to her by the Lord, “As the Lordlives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.” Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” He said, “Bring up Samuel for me.” ... **[Acts 19:18-20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+19%3A18-20&version=ESV) ESV / 124 helpful votes** Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily. **[1 Corinthians 6:19-20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+6%3A19-20&version=ESV) ESV / 123 helpful votes** Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. **[1 Peter 5:8](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+5%3A8&version=ESV) ESV / 119 helpful votes** Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. **[Galatians 5:1-26](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+5%3A1-26&version=ESV) ESV / 119 helpful votes** For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ... **[Daniel 2:27](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+2%3A27&version=ESV) ESV / 116 helpful votes** Daniel answered the king and said, “No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery that the king has asked, **[1 John 3:8-10](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A8-10&version=ESV) ESV / 115 helpful votes** Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother. **[Exodus 7:22](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+7%3A22&version=ESV) ESV / 115 helpful votes** But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. **[Jeremiah 27:9-10](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+27%3A9-10&version=ESV) ESV / 105 helpful votes** So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish. **[Jeremiah 14:14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+14%3A14&version=ESV) ESV / 105 helpful votes** And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. **[Ephesians 5:11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+5%3A11&version=ESV) ESV / 104 helpful votes** Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. **[Genesis 3:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3%3A1&version=ESV) ESV / 102 helpful votes** Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” **[Galatians 5:19](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+5%3A19&version=ESV) ESV / 101 helpful votes** Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, **[Ezekiel 21:21](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+21%3A21&version=ESV) ESV / 99 helpful votes** For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver. **[Matthew 24:24](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+24%3A24&version=ESV) ESV / 98 helpful votes** For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. **[Zechariah 10:2](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah+10%3A2&version=ESV) ESV / 98 helpful votes** For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. **[2 Corinthians 4:4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+4%3A4&version=ESV) ESV / 97 helpful votes** In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. **[Deuteronomy 18:1-22](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+18%3A1-22&version=ESV) ESV / 94 helpful votes** “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the Lord's food offerings as their inheritance. They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time. ... **[Acts 16:16-18](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+16%3A16-18&version=ESV) ESV / 93 helpful votes** As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour. **[Deuteronomy 18:10-14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+18%3A10-14&version=ESV) ESV / 91 helpful votes** There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this. **[Jeremiah 10:2](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+10%3A2&version=ESV) ESV / 90 helpful votes** Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, **[Revelation 1:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1%3A1&version=ESV) ESV / 89 helpful votes** The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, **[Acts 13:6-11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+13%3A6-11&version=ESV) ESV / 88 helpful votes** When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus. He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? ... **[Numbers 23:23](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+23%3A23&version=ESV) ESV / 83 helpful votes** For there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What has God wrought!’ **[Revelation 1:1-20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1%3A1-20&version=ESV) ESV / 79 helpful votes** The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ... **[Isaiah 54:17](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+54%3A17&version=ESV) ESV / 79 helpful votes** No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.” **[1 John 5:18-19](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+5%3A18-19&version=ESV) ESV / 78 helpful votes** We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. **[Exodus 8:18](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+8%3A18&version=ESV) ESV / 78 helpful votes** The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast. **[Acts 19:17-19](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+19%3A17-19&version=ESV) ESV / 77 helpful votes** And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled. Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. **[Revelation 20:2](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+20%3A2&version=ESV) ESV / 75 helpful votes** And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, **[1 John 5:4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+5%3A4&version=ESV) ESV / 75 helpful votes** For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. **[1 John 4:1-3](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A1-3&version=ESV) ESV / 75 helpful votes** Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. **[Ephesians 6:11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+6%3A11&version=ESV) ESV / 75 helpful votes** Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. **[1 Corinthians 5:5](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+5%3A5&version=ESV) ESV / 75 helpful votes** You are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. **[Job 1:12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1%3A12&version=ESV) ESV / 73 helpful votes** And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. **[Daniel 2:27-28](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+2%3A27-28&version=ESV) ESV / 72 helpful votes** Daniel answered the king and said, “No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery that the king has asked, but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these: **[1 Samuel 15:23-24](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+15%3A23-24&version=ESV) ESV / 72 helpful votes** For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.” Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. **[Genesis 3:5](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3%3A5&version=ESV) ESV / 71 helpful votes** For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” **[1 Thessalonians 2:18](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Thessalonians+2%3A18&version=ESV) ESV / 69 helpful votes** Because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us. **[Micah 3:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Micah+3%3A7&version=ESV) ESV / 69 helpful votes** The seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God. **[1 Samuel 28:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+28%3A7&version=ESV) ESV / 67 helpful votes** Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.” **[Daniel 4:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+4%3A7&version=ESV) ESV / 65 helpful votes** Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation. **[Acts 13:8-10](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+13%3A8-10&version=ESV) ESV / 51 helpful votes** But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? **[Ephesians 6:17](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+6%3A17&version=ESV) ESV / 50 helpful votes** And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, — No one person should have GODMODE or complete and total power. humility. you get drunk with power. Adam and Eve believed the lie because the serpent told them: [**Genesis 3:5](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+3%3A5&version=ESV)** For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and **you will be like God**, knowing good and evil.” They were in the midst of God and instead of being content of His graciousness toward them they wanted to have what God has —→ ENVY — i forgot i wasn’t speaking to christians. this country is a roman catholic country in theory. people do not like being told about sin. it’s old-fashioned. people are not going to like this message. you couldn’t even like this message even if you were already raised as a christian back in 2018 and wanted to go after hedonistic things. what happened????????????????????????????????????????? “obliquely” as in God happened. Like any set of events would have done and I would have still ended up here. Whether it would have been pain or happiness or what. Whatever I do nothing will change people unless God does something. other people have views. It is such a great miracle personally that I suffered so much pain and continually experience God not despite it. What privilege this is. It is not granted to many. One realizes who God is or at least a very limited understanding of Him, but still real, because we can’t contain God in our fallen minds, whenever we experience pain. When we’re happy we tend to forget God. What is God saying to me? “Remember Me all the days of your youth” verse — buy alister mcgrath book and tilly dillehay book!!!!!!! — wow i wonder what this notion entry looks like to an atheist. — # Ecclesiastes 12New International Version **12** Remember your Creator in the days of your youth,before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—**2** before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;**3** when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop,when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim;**4** when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades;when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;**5** when people are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets;when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred.Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets. **6** Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, and the golden bowl is broken;before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, and the wheel broken at the well,**7** and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. **8** “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.[[a](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NIV#fen-NIV-17532a)] “Everything is meaningless!” ### **The Conclusion of the Matter** **9** Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs. **10** The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true. **11** The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one shepherd.[[b](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NIV#fen-NIV-17535b)] **12** Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. **13** Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter:Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind.**14** For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil. **Footnotes** 1. [Ecclesiastes 12:8](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NIV#en-NIV-17532) Or _the leader of the assembly_; also in verses 9 and 10 2. [Ecclesiastes 12:11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NIV#en-NIV-17535) Or _Shepherd_