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Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ING THE WORK OF GOD Now the magicians of Egypt, they alsodid in like manner with their enchant-ments. Ex. 7:11. As mankind departed from right and lost the knowledgeof God, dead heroes were deified as gods, and much of thepagan worship consisted in sacrifices to the spirits of the dead,supposed to be living still and concerned with affairs in theland of the living. When Israel fell away from God andjoined the Moabites in the worship of Baal-peor, the recordsays of the nature of the service: They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and atethe sacrifices of the dead. Yea, they sacrificed their sonsand their daughters unto devils. Ps. 106:28, 37. Spiritualism: Ancient and Modern 267 Instead of dealing with the spirits of the dead, the idol-atrous worshipers were really putting themselves in directtouch with the agencies of Satan, the fallen angels. Divine Warnings This explains the severity of the divine warnings against theancient practice of necromancy, or mediumship. The Lord said:
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DEMONISM IN THE DAYSOF CHRIST He said unto him. Come out of the man,thou unclean spirit. Mark 5:8. Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seekafter wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord yourGod. Lev. 19:31. When thou art come into the land which the Lord thyGod giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abomina-tions of those nations. There shall not be found among youany one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass throughthe fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, oran enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with 268 Our Day in the Light of Prophecy familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that dothese things are an abomination unto the Lord/ Deut.l8:9-12. The ancient seance, where the living sought unto the deadfor knowledge, was denounced by the prophet Isaiah: When they shall say unto you. Seek unto them thathave familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp andthat mutter: should not a people seek un

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