(May 11, 2014)
The most important language in this chapter is the language concerning following the prophets. But the most interesting language is the language concerning the importance of not turning to diviners or necromancers or witches or wizards. As moderners, we tend to think that the only reason the ancients believed in such things was because they were simple-minded and foolish. But these were people who saw the Lord’s fire and fed on manna. They had seen true power – they would not have been easily mislead by charlatans performing parlor tricks.
I think that, in a day of understanding and faith, Satan openly performed many false miracles to lead the people into wickedness. Now, in our modern society, he is more content to not display his power so as to entice the world through reductive materialism into abandoning the Lord and cheating their souls. But we are unwise to believe that such things have no power.
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