No 4

(Astrology)

The word astrology appears nine times in The Bible, in various forms and each time, words such as stargazers or magicians accompany it. It is, of course, condemned by God in the Bible (Deut 18: 9-13). The wise men from the East who searched the King of the Jews followed a star that God had supernaturally placed in the heavens as a guide to bring the Wise Men to the young child Jesus Christ (Matt 2: 1, 2). There are several other times, in the Bible, when the stars are used as a guide or as a sign or even to describe the number of one’s descendants. So the stars do have their position in the overall plan of God but, curiously enough, the Bible takes only 5 words to describe their creation (Gen 1:16).

The unsaved world however, has taken astrology for a myriad of uses all of which, are purely satanic. Astrology encompasses many occult practises; some of which are: horoscope, crystal ball gazing, tarot cards, palmistry, numerology etc, etc

The worst thing about all this is that some people can actually predict the future. You say what??? I’ll explain. Lets say someone goes and consults a tarot-card reader and the person gets told that a “very good thing” will happen in that person’s life; it could be anything! The person goes away and either knowingly or not trusts Satan and he (Satan) will influence this person’s life so much that the “good thing” sometimes happens. This seemingly future prediction is not due to the tarot-card reader but to Satan and his fallen angels. I know of a person who actually studied astrology for three long years and when he became a Christian and started to read the Bible, he realised that astrology and true Christianity were absolutely incompatible. From that point on, he strongly suggested to people who used the various occultic paraphernalia that they destroy them; preferably with fire as they did in Acts 19:18, 19. Christians have no business playing with astrology; it is deadly and satanic.