Spiritualism, Sorcery and Witchcraft.....what does the Bible

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Spiritualism, Sorcery and Witchcraft.....what does the Bible say?

1. Do you know that God commanded Israel that those who practice
sorcery or witchcraft should not be permitted to live? Exodus
22:18
2. Do you know that to seek to communicate with spirits or with the
dead is to become defiled and unfit to appear before God to worship
Him? Leviticus 19:31
3. Do you know that God cuts off from among His people all who turn to
mediums for help? Leviticus 20:6
4. Do you know that capitol punishment by stoning was God's sentence
on any man or woman who calls up spirits? Leviticus 20:27
5. Do you know that witchcraft, fortune-telling, crystal reading
necromancy, and palmistry are related to spiritism and are strongly
condemned by God? Deuteronomy 18:10,11
6. Do you know that it was because of their black magic and related
practices that God destroyed the Canaanites? Deuteronomy 18:10-12
7. Do you know that Samuel's most effective way of impressing upon
Saul the enormity of the sin of disobedience was by likening it to
witchcraft? 1 Samuel 15:23
8. Do you know that King Saul of Israel, when he was faithful to God,
cleared all the spiritistic mediums out of the land? 1 Samuel 28:3
9. Do you know that when King Saul later consulted a medium, it was
only after his sins had made communication with God impossible?
1 Samuel 28:6,7
10. Do you know that Saul's loss of his crown and his untimely death
were the direct judgement of God on him for his dealings in
spiritism? 1 Chronicles 10:13
11. Do you know that the list of wicked King Manasseh's sins includes
consulting with spirit-meduims, fortune-tellers, and sorcerers?
2 Chronicles 33:6
12. Do you know that one of the reasons God rejected Israel was
because they practiced magic and communicated with evil spirits?
Isaiah 2:6
13. Do you know that it is insulting to God to consult the dead when
you can inquire of Him? Isaiah 8:19
14. Did you know that a fortune-teller may be demon possessed, like
the girl in Philippi out of whom Paul cast an unclean spirit in
the name of Jesus? Acts 16:16-18
15. Do you know that true Christians, like those at Ephesus, have
nothing to do with black magic and its related practices? Acts
19:19
16. Did you know that sorcery is included in the works of the flesh
listed in the Bible, and that those who practice it cannot enter
the kingdom of God? Galatians 5:19-21
17. Do you know that those who engage in sorcery will be shut out of
heaven and banished forever from God? Revelation 21:8 and 22:15
18. Do you know that the teachings of spiritism are doctrines of
demons? 1 Timothy 4:1
19. Do you know that demons are subject to God's greater power and
tremble before Him? James 2:19
20. Do you know that the increase in following after subversive
doctrines inspired by devils is one of the predicted signs of the
last days and of the near approach of judgement? 1 Timothy 4:1