For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord,.... Not that do all these things, but whoever does any of them, as Jarchi notes; all such persons that use such unlawful methods, or any of them, to gain knowledge; and likewise all those that consult them, and make use of them; and especially it must be very abominable in the people of Israel to encourage such persons and practices, who had the knowledge of the true God, and him to consult on all occasions; had his law and testimony to attend unto as the rule of their conduct, and his prophets to advise with in matters of difficulty; see Isaiah 8:20. and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee; as well as other sins mentioned in Leviticus 18:24 and, as before observed from Cicero, all nations have been addicted to the arts of divination here condemned. In 1991, a ninth grade Junior High Student in Dickson, Tennessee, sued the school board because his teacher wouldn’t accept a research paper written on the life of Jesus. i. Thompson on practices witchcraft: “A variety of devices were in use in various lands, but all were designed to discern the will of the gods. Notice YHWH gives Israel all her leaders (i.e., king, judges, and prophets). In any of the cities through the land, for they were dispersed all over the country, and employed in instructing and teaching the people; and, excepting the cities which were given them to dwell in out of the various tribes, they were but sojourners: and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose; the city of Jerusalem, where the temple would be built, and sacrifices offered, at which the Levites were assisting to the priests, and in various parts of the service of the sanctuary; and to which they are supposed to come with an hearty good will, with great eagerness of soul, and a vehement desire of being employed in the work of the Lord. For example, rock singer Ozzy Osbourne says that his satanic image is all an act. 2. themselves,"as was the first redeemer, so is the second:". A central theme in this section is the nature and issue of Jesus’ authority (exousia), especially seen through the literary structure of our material. What marks, signs, and criterions are those by which it may be known that it is not a word that comes from the Lord? We may request cookies to be set on your device. This was promised them, in answer to their request at Horeb or Mount Sinai, when the law was delivered to them in the terrible manner it was: in the day of the assembly; in which the tribes were gathered together to receive the law, when they were assembled at the foot of the mount for that purpose: saying, let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God; which was such a voice of words, attended with so much terror, that they that heard entreated the word might not be spoken to them any more, as the apostle says in Hebrews 12:19. neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not; out of which the Lord spoke; the congregation of Israel is here represented speaking as if a single person. Bibliography InformationGill, John. This not only meant that He would be an Israelite, but that He would be a “man of the people” – He would be one of them. But some interpret these words in a different way, as if they had respect to the gifts and oblations in the several wards in which the priests ministered, as they were ordered by their fathers, Eleazar, Ithamar, Samuel, David, and Solomon; so the Targums of Onkelos, Jonathan, and Jarchi. , better still, he is one that fasts and sleeps in graveyards, and utters words; and, according to his imagination, sees future things in dreams. Ronald Baker was a 21-year-old student at UCLA, and was found stabbed to death at the mouth of a railroad tunnel in the rocky hills above Chatsworth Park. iv. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words,.... To the doctrines of the Gospel, but slight and despise them: which he shall speak in my name; in whose name he came, and whose words or doctrines he declared them to be; not as his own, but his Father's, John 5:43. g. Or one who conjures up spells: This is literally, “A charmer of charms” and refers to those who cast spells or charms for good or evil upon others with spiritual powers apart from God. This is the "terumah", or heave offering, the offering of the firstfruits; what the measure or quantity was is not declared, but is fixed by the Jews; See Gill on Exodus 22:29. and the first of the fleece of thy sheep shall thou give him: concerning which in the MisnahF18Cholin, c. 11. sect. c. Or speaks in the name of other gods: Obviously, those who presumed to “prophecy” in the name of Baal or Ashtoreth, or any number of the other false gods of the Canaanites were false prophets. Bartenora in ib sect. Astrology is idolatry and stems from the demonic. When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. Just because God tells us something doesn’t mean we should tell others. What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the LORD. Deuteronomy 18:18(NASB) Picture courtesy of Good News Productions International and College Press Publishing. For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. Close to 20 million Americans now report mystical experiences.” (McDowell, 1989). Commentary on Deuteronomy 18:15-20. Simply by their accuracy. I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. The unidentified medium apparently gave the corpse back after being unable to revive the deceased. What messages God had to send to the children of men he would send them by him, and give him full instructions what to say and do as a prophet. Baker was involved with Wicca (described as “benevolent witchcraft”), often wore a pentagram pendant, and belonged to a UCLA metaphysical group known as Mystic Circle (from a July 1990 news article). Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. "introit in aedes", &c. , that if a strange black dog comes into a house, or a snake falls from the tiles through rain, or a hen crows, these, are observed as ominous, by the diviner or soothsayer. Their livelihood comes from _______. They claim to use their powers (and they do have powers) for good: sending healing energies to the sick, affirmations which bring prosperity, and loudly proclaiming their creed, “As it harm none, do as thou wilt.” It’s ironic how their creed sounds so similar to that of a man who referred to himself as “The Beast, 666” – Satanist Aleister Crowley, who wrote, “Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”. They flocked to the prophecy conferences that had begun to spring up everywhere. This refers to “One who investigates, looks into, and seeks information from the dead.” (Kalland) This is much on the increase in our culture; “The proportion of adults who say they have been in touch with the dead has risen from 27% to 42% during the past 11 years. Basically, anything that makes contact with the demonic or dark spiritual world. She is a licensed minister of the Covenant of the Goddess and performs marriages and other ceremonies. thou shouldest not do so, not hearken to such persons, but to the Lord thy God, and to his law and testimony; nor art thou left to the deception of such persons: the Lord thy God hath given thee: his word and statutes, as a rule to go by, which he has not given to other nations: the Targum of Jonathan adds,"the priests shall ask by Urim and Thummim, and a true prophet shall the Lord your God give unto you;'so that they had no need to hearken to such impostors and deceivers: or, "as for thee, not so are they whom the Lord thy God giveth thee"F14"De teau tem non ita sunt quos dat tibi Jehova Deus tuus", Junius & Tremellius. And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.”. “The difference was that, whereas the true prophet spoke for God, the false prophet spoke presumptuously, i.e. Though the heathen whom they exterminated before them hearkened to conjurers and soothsayers, Jehovah their God had not allowed anything of the kind to them. It’s a statement that flies out of people’s mouths easily and routinely. And if thou say in thine heart, &c. Such a thought arises in the mind, and it appears to be a difficulty, and a query is made upon it: how shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? Now verses 19-20 spell out the consequences of forgetting the Lord and following other gods. 3. You can check these in your browser security settings. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name: There are those who would presume to speak a wordin God’s name. The priests, the Levites; all the tribe of Levi; shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: The Levites – those of the tribe of Levi, who were the paid ministers for the nation of Israel – shall have no inheritance among their brethren. But when God Himself, restates a truth – multiple times, we should take especial note of what the Lord is saying. “But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.” And if you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?”; when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him. l. 2. c. 17. , the fourth and last ventricle or stomach, and which he thus describes;"after the echinus or rough tripe is that which is called ηνυστρον, the maw, which is in size larger than the echinus, and in form longer, and has many large and smooth folds;'and ηνυστρον βοος, the maw of an ox, and the belly of a swine, are reckoned by the poetF17Aristophan. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. Israel, on the other hand, was to be blameless with Jehovah (עם, in its intercourse with the Lord). “We wrote a couple of songs about black magic, so what? Exposition of the Fifth Commandment (Deuteronomy 16:18 – 18:22) 302 Appointment of judges (16:18 – 17:13) 303 Appointment of kings (17:14-20) 311 Authority of the Levitical priests (18:1 … The Targum of Jonathan is,"he shall minister in the name of the Word of the Lord his God;'in the name of Christ, as a type of him, as every priest and every sacrifice were: he was to be allowed to officiate, though it was not his course or turn: as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord; daily offering the same sacrifices, and whatsoever are brought unto them; who might be said to stand before the Lord, because they stood at the altar of the Lord, and offered the sacrifices of the people to him; and a country Levite or priest was to be admitted to do the same thing at Jerusalem, and in the temple there, as they did; and this shows that a priest is meant by the Levite. ), or worse, they gain their knowledge from satanic, demonic, spiritual sources. They are tapping into a source of spiritual power that is real – yet evil, and unspeakably dangerous. He that buys a fleece of the sheep of a Gentile, he is free from the first of the fleece; but if he buys it of his neighbour, if he leaves any of it, the seller is bound, if none the buyer is bound; if there are two sorts, russet and white, and he sells the russet but not the white, the males but not the females, everyone gives for himself. This chapter stands at the very center of O.T. However, in this case, the passage emphasizes the office of prophet. II. Coffman's Commentaries on the BibleDeuteronomy 18. 1999. h. Or a medium: The idea is of someone who “stands between” the physical world and the psychic world; they channel knowledge from the psychic world into the physical world. generally interpret it of strangling. The rest of the animal would either be burnt before the LORD or returned to the one bringing the sacrifice, so he could enjoy his own fellowship meal with the LORD. i. Carmin. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. It is studied by witches and magicians alike. From your midst, from your brethren: Like Moses, this Prophet would be from the midst of Israel. And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD’s release. Urbin. says, the first of the fleece is not less than the weight of a shekel. The caution against the idolatrous abominable customs of the heathen is repeated ( v. 9-14 ). Care is likewise taken that they want not the comforts and conveniences of this life. They shall live on the food offerings presented to the Lord, for that is their inheritance. Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as He said to them. l. 3. DEUTERONOMY 18. j. Deuteronomy 15 – Laws Regarding the Poor A. 18. ib. The LORD your God has not appointed such for you! For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes,.... That is, has chosen the tribe of Levi out of all the other tribes of Israel: to stand to minister in the name of the Lord; the priests to minister to the Lord by offering sacrifices, and the Levites to minister to the priests in assisting them in their service; and both their ministry were in the name of the Lord, and for his glory, and done standing; for there was no sitting in the sanctuaryF23Maimon. In May of 1990, after a man died in the City of Industry, his corpse remained at the home of a spirit medium that had convinced his family that he could revive the man. It is a foundational art, which means it is the building block for all occultists. , that there is no quantity fixed for the first of the fleece from the law, but from the words of the Scribes it must not be less than the sixtieth part. Is there more of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit now, or less? Possessing a prophet’s phone number was like having a storehouse of treasured guidance. ii. It is consorting with the power of darkness, and always to be rejected by Christians. ii. Again, a Christian has no business participating or approving of any of these practices, because either they are money-grubbing frauds (at best! You shall not learn: God knows that many people have a natural curiosity regarding the occult, and that curiosity often leads them to gain knowledge God commands them to leave alone. Copyright StatementThe New John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible Modernised and adapted for the computer by Larry Pierce of Online Bible. Chapter 18. After a steady diet of the prophetic, some people were rapidly becoming biblically illiterate, choosing a ‘dial-a-prophet’ style of Christian living rather than studying God’s Word. a. It is true we are under grace, so we no longer stone false prophets – yet, we shouldn’t respect them or give them the title or position of “prophet” if they are false prophets. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. Besides this they used to burn them with fire to this deity, perhaps after the performance of this ceremony; see Deuteronomy 12:31, or that useth divination: according to Aben Ezra this is a general name, and so Ben Melech, the particulars of which are what follow: an observer of times, &c. Cicero saysF26De Divinatione, l. 1. c. 8. , there are two sorts of divination, one is of art, the other of nature. ), or worse, they gain their knowledge from satanic, demonic, spiritual sources. 24. When God says something through His prophets, we should take heed of what they say. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 2. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. Instead, the New Testament says all prophecy – any time someone says, “The LORD told me” – all prophecy should be judged: Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge (1 Corinthians 14:29; see also 1 John 4:1). It leads people away from trusting in God and encourages them to put trust in what God created. However, those people excused their false prophesies by saying they were “learning” and “experimenting” and “under grace,” therefore, we should not regard them as false prophets. a. While it is true that one may need to learn how to flow in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, no one should say something is from God unless they are assured that it is – and if they are wrong, then their own discernment and ability to hear from God are rightly called into question. Vit. Before entering the Promised Land, Israel was instructed to remain separate from the pagan people they would encounter there. LXX pharmaka, drug). Of course, there are black, or “left hand path,” witches. Every Christian should renounce any involvement they have ever had with astrology! Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,.... To Moloch, which was a sort of lustration by fire, two fires being made, and the child led by a priest between them, and which was an initiation of him into the religion of that deity, and devoting him to it; so Jarchi says, this is the service of Moloch, making piles of fire here and there (on this side and on that), and causing (the children) to pass between them both. Students were allowed to write on topics such as the occult, reincarnation and spiritualism, and the teacher originally only said that the topics must be “decent.” The student was given a zero on her paper when the topic was declared unacceptable (from an August, 1991 news report). The term is used in Micah 5:12 for some such material as drugs or herbs used superstitiously to produce magical effects.”. There is a demand for this kind of thing; why else would a homeless man in New York be arrested for stealing skulls from a Brooklyn cemetery and selling them for use in occult ceremonies? 3. p. 307. You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. iv. c. Him you shall hear: Like Moses, this Prophet would command the attention of the nation. What offerings do the offerings in verse 1 speak of? Or a spiritist: Literally, this word refers to the “knowing ones” – those who claim unique occult or psychic knowledge and powers – such as those on the many psychic hotlines that one can pay to call. v. Tom Stipe, in the foreword to Counterfeit Revival, speaks powerfully about the problem of false prophets in the church: After only a couple of years, the prophets seemed to be speaking to just about everyone on just about everything. Ohel Moed, fol. Deuteronomy 18:19 ... Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. 1. p. 355. as delicious food. Our culture is becoming more and more accepting of these occult themes and practices, while it is becoming more and more intolerant of Biblical Christianity. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. 2 They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. 4. First, it marks the transition to a new generation; for with the exception of Caleb and Joshua, and Moses himself, the old generation which came up from Egypt and was numbered at Sinai, had passed away, and a new generation had grown up. ii. But the New Testament plainly tells us that Jesus is this Prophet (Acts 3:19-26, Acts 7:37). So that it seems this promise or prophecy was first made at Mount Sinai, but now renewed and repeated, and which is nowhere else recorded; see Deuteronomy 18:15 when they were not only made easy for the present by appointing Moses to receive from the Lord all further notices of his mind and will, but were assured that when it was his pleasure to make a new revelation, or a further discovery of his mind and will, in future times, he would not do it in that terrible way he had delivered the law to them; but would raise up a person of their own flesh and blood, by whom it should be delivered, which was sufficient to prevent their fears for the future: and will put my word in his mouth; the doctrines of the Gospel, which come from God, and are the words of truth, faith, righteousness, peace, pardon, life, and salvation; and which Christ says were not his own, as man and Mediator, but his Father's, which he gave unto him, and put into his mouth, as what he should say, teach, and deliver to others; see John 7:16. and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him; nor did he keep back, but faithfully declared the whole counsel of God; and as he gave him a commandment what he should say, and what he should speak, he was entirely obedient to it; see John 12:49. f. Or a sorcerer: This has reference to those who use drugs or potions to cast spells, gain spiritual knowledge, or enter into altered states of consciousness. Go to, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient, The priests, the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel, they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance, Therefore shall they have none inheritance among their brethren, the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them, And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer sacrifice, and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw, The firstfruit also of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep shall thou give him, For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose, And he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord, beside that which cometh by the sale of his patrimony, When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shall not learn to do after the abominations of these nations, There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or a necromancer that inquiries of the dead, For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. The same word in Ezekiel 21:21 refers to the practice of whirling arrows in a quiver and deciding the answer to the question by the first arrow thrown out.”. e. Or one who interprets omens: The word comes from the root “to hiss” or “to whisper” and refers to psychics and fortune-tellers who use “aids” other than naturally created things to gain knowledge, tell the future, and cast spells. Changes will take effect once you reload the page. i. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. I don’t put curses on people.” But in the same interview, Osbourne refers to “the him,” who is a “malevolent voice in his head that transmits destructive and self-loathing messages.” Osbourne said of this voice inside him, “He’s there all the time… I’ve always had a haunted head.” “Innocent” involvement with the occult didn’t protect him. b. But whether a witch claims to be “white” or “black,” they are still using occultic powers. First Reading. Hundreds of… members received the ‘gift’ of prophecy and began plying their trade among both leaders and parishioners. B. Porphyry saysF3De Abstinentia, l. 3. c. 4. , that soothsayers divine by the noise of crows and ravens; and it is saidF4Philostrat. Verses 15-22 describe the proper way to ascertain knowledge about God and His purposes. The Levitical tribe belongs to God, in place of whom? A Christian has no business participating or approving of any of these practices, because either they are money-grubbing frauds (at best! The rights and revenues of the church are settled, and rules given concerning the Levites’ ministration and maintenance ( v. 1-8 ). a. Com., O. T., p. 260) that were not an exhaustive list of God's laws, but instructed Israel on specific spiritual challenges she would face upon entering the land of Canaan (Ibid., p. 283; Deuteronomy 4:10). Some have misunderstood Deuteronomy 23:17-18 to say that the price of dogs should not be brought into God's house. Your grain and your new wine and your oil and the first of the fleece of your sheep: The priests also received these offerings of firstfruits from the people. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. 4. 7. of Ob, this is Python, one that speaks out of his arm holes; agreeably to which, Jarchi says, this is that sort of witchcraft which is called Python, and he speaks from his arm holes, and brings up the dead thither: of Baal Ob, or the master of the bottle, say some Jewish writers, one way he uses is, he takes the skull of a dead man, the flesh of which is consumed from it, and he hides it and burns incense to it, and mutters words by it, and hears from it, as if from a dead manF11Maimon. "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. Sc. Modern drug abuse easily falls into this category, and the use of drugs has a definite occult connection that the drug taker may not want but is exposed to nonetheless. Had been delivered to them claim that white, or worse, they gain their knowledge from satanic,,! 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