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(Deuteronomy 18:9-11) The command to reject all the occult practices of the Canaanites. 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.
Deuteronomy 18 delves deep into the roles and responsibilities of Israel's spiritual leaders. The chapter offers an in-depth look at the provisions made for the Levites, warns against engaging in detestable practices, and promises the coming of a Prophet greater than Moses.
- (9-11) The Command to Reject All The Occult Practices of The Canaanites.
- (12-14) Why Rejection of All These Occult Actions Is commanded.
- (15-19) The Promise of A True Prophet to come.
- (20-22) The Penalty For A False Prophet.
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. 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 spell...
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. You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you. a. For a...
The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, according to all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.” And the LORD said to me: “What the...
“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, t...
Deuteronomy 18:9-14 lists nine kinds of occult and magic practices as “abominations to God,” designating them as absolutely forbidden to the Israelites. The great passage in the chapter is found in Deuteronomy 18:15-19, where “that Prophet like unto Moses” is promised.
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 ) ( 8:28 ) ( Jo...
He should be like unto Moses, only above him. This prophet is come, even JESUS; and is He that should come, and we are to look for no other. The view of God which he gives, will not terrify or overwhelm, but encourages us. He speaks with fatherly affection and Divine authority united.
Chapter 18. Now again he repeats how the tribe of Levi is not to be given any portion of the land but they will eat the offerings that were given unto the Lord made by fire as their inheritance for the Lord is their inheritance.
