Read: Leviticus 20:22-22:16; Mark 9:1-29; Psalm 43:1-5; Proverbs 10:18
Moses warned them to keep all of God’s laws so that the land they were going to wouldn’t vomit them out like it would the ones who lived there then. God was calling the Israelites to be his holy nation. By being holy, that meant that they didn’t make idols to worship or participate in any of the idol worship of the people they were going to drive out. They were to stone any woman or man who had a familiar spirit or was a wizard. A person with a familiar spirit was a person who could talk to the dead or speak for someone else with them not present. One of the meanings to the word was “ventriloquist” which is just putting someone else’s personality or voice in your body. The Hebrew meaning of wizard was a person who knew things through the spirit and a person who could conjure up spirits or ghosts. In another version it calls them mediums and spiritualists. We see them everywhere. We call them palm readers, raki healers, shamens, mediums, etc.
So, are we suppose to picket these businesses and throw stones at their windows? NO! We are to live by the spirit and not the law. We stone them with words we pray. We read God’s Word over their businesses and we pray that they repent first. If they refuse to repent then we pray that their power will not have any affect and that their business will fail and leave our nation.
God gave the priests many laws concerning themselves. The priests were to be a representative of Jesus, the spotless, sinless lamb which is the reason for all the conditions for the priests. God was serious about holiness. He still is.
Jesus was holy and he allowed Peter, James, and John to see him in his glorified state. Elijah and Moses appeared with him because they stood for the law and the prophets which both pointed to Jesus. The disciples wanted to build a shelter for Elijah and Moses because it was the Feast of Tabernacles and everyone built shelters around Jerusalem. Then, God appeared in a cloud and spoke, “This is my Son, whom I love, Listen to him!” Jesus warned his disciples not to tell anyone.
Immediately when they got down from the mountain, a man brought him a son who was possessed by a spirit of dumbness. It had tormented and tried to kill him on many occasions. The disciples had tried to cast it out and couldn’t. Jesus first demanded faith of the father, then did the deliverance. When the disciples asked why they couldn’t do it, Jesus said that this kind can only come out by prayer (and fasting).
Lord, may we be people of prayer and fasting and may we not look to people but to You alone. Guide us by your light and truth.
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