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The witches almanac even commanded you must bury your toenail & hairclippings. Your enemies could use them to mix into a spell and gain control over your spirit. So I would be very careful to bury my toenail and hair clippings. Superstitution controlled my life. The witches almanac was filled with all kinds of superstitions.
There was an endless list of these superstitutions in the witches almanac that "controlled" my life.
I was at this point where all these signs and omens were a living reality to me. A real twilight zone. Eventually everything was an omen that spelled out doom.
This is the same way horoscopes work. They use your "Imaginings" to control your life. Astrologers are vague in their predictions: they leave a lot open to the imagination, and in my state of mind back then it would really carry me away. But this is the purpose of astrology & witchcraft, to keep you away from the word of God, to keep you from standing firm.
Satan uses peoples imaginations & superstitions to control them. Now I know why Paul says in Corinthians 10 v 5:
CAST DOWN EVERY IMAGINATION THAT EXALTS ITSELF AGAINST THE WORD OF GOD & BRING INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST...
When I first read this these words after I was saved they were like an ice cold drink of water in a hot, parched desert.
As hard as it is to believe, I continued in this altered state of reality for quite some time, continuing to indulge in every vice & sin I could possibly experience. Our magical spells turned destructive and towards even our friends.
Well--- sin can only cause destruction & chaos. Eventually my 1st wife & I was divorced.
I remarried later & continued with my witchcraft & drugs. Some things got better, some things got worse. It was off & on.
After a few more years, I eventually gave up practicing witchcraft: but my mind couldn't find rest. It began to be haunted by all kinds of evil pictures, evil imaginings--to horrible to mention here --It was like Satan didn't want to let me go. What I didn't realize then was : once you open the door the psychic world of witchcraft, you cannot close it. Only Jesus can.
So I even stopped using drugs in an attempt not to be so sensitive to the psychic world, and even the real world. Things got a little better when I quit using drugs, but I eventually got yet another divorce. It was up & down, up & down, nothing to hold on to. Like Isaiah 57, 20 & 21, "like the waves of the troubled sea - the wicked cannot rest-- There is no peace -saith my God to the wicked". Boy was that ever true.
Since the time I had been sent overseas in the army until this point in my life - which was in 1980 - was 18 years of hell - In that time frame I had filled up this mind & body with marijuana, speed, barbiturates, heroin, acid (LSD), all kinds of sex magazines, wife swapping, beer & whiskey, drunk more times than I can ever remember, all kinds of occult philosophies & practices, all kinds of devil books, violent acts, all kinds of movies from Hollywood, & on & on. You could say my cup was just about filled. I say all this to my shame, but to God's glory, because He stopped all that.
When I remarried in 1980 to my present & 3rd wife things seemed to get a little better. But for the first 6 years of marriage I still had "PSYCHIC ATTACKS". I still had no rest. Having two children help me settle down some. But I eventually went to see a psychologist - but that was like washing my foot with my sock on. It just didn't work. It was sort of like taking all my sins out of one bag & putting them in a brand new one & shifting the weight. It seemed "different" but the burden of sins was still there. Only Jesus can take away your sins.
So I was at the end of my rope. I believe I was ready for something, but I didn't know what. I started to watch some preaching on TV on Sunday mornings. Looking back, I see God began dealing with me, I know. It was like a series of events began to unfold - God must have been answering my mothers & grandmothers prayers.
At work a friend gave me a bible - I began to read it & read it...... Another friend at work began to witness to me about Jesus. Then I found a bible tract where Jesus said, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest". I mulled this over in my mind, What does he mean come unto me? I said here I am, but nothing ever happened. I read it over and over but it didn't make any sense - yet I couldn't get it out of my mind.
I continued watching preaching on TV & soon afterwards I took another job that took me inside of a church to install new air conditioners. Many times I would stop and gaze at a picture of Jesus hanging on the wall. He was holding a lamb. I had an overwhelming desire to know more about this man. He seemed so gentle & kind, a radiance seemed to glow from around him, and he seemed so peaceful. That's what I was looking for. I remember I made several unnecessary trips by the picture so I could stop and gaze a little longer
My peace to come began one day when my daughter was invited to vacation bible school.
She came home asking questions like "what does it mean to be born again?" It got me to thinking. When they asked me to visit her class, I went to see what made her so excited. Next thing I know the preacher came out & witnessed to me. (Twice)
You know if this preacher had come over preaching all that name it and claim it stuff & telling me if I'd just get saved I could be living in great wealth & prosperity - I'd still be in my sins - I just don't have much patients for false preachers- Paul said let them be cursed. BUT this preacher was a fisher of men. He was a man in pursuit of God's holy plan - not power & glory. He actually cared for my soul. Can you imagine that. He told me about JESUS - how he came to free the captives (which I was) to set at liberty them that are bruised & to preach the gospel to the poor. This preacher made Jesus come alive. The holy spirit was with him.
I was convinced at this point I wanted to be saved. This was the peace I had been looking for. I walked the church isle that next Sunday and I told the preacher to please stop the proceedings because I wanted to confess Jesus with my mouth. (I had remembered reading that part in the bible the lady at work had given me & the Holy Spirit impressed that on me very much. So with my mouth I confessed Jesus & renounced the devil that I had been living for.
I was so happy I couldn't stand it..............
Nobody meets Jesus without changing. My life took on a new meaning from that day. I now had something to live for.
I became a living testimony of how Jesus can change a heart. I'm just like one of those 1st Century Christians Paul talked about in 1st Corinthians Chapter 6 - Paul said these couldn't inherit the kingdom of God: Fornicators, Idolators, adulators, thieves, extortioners, & revilers:
Paul said ....AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. BUT NOW ARE YE WASHED, NOW ARE YE SANCTIFIED, NOW ARE YE JUSTIFIED, IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.
(MAN THAT IS GRACE)
Now I'm washed - Now I'm cleansed. Now I'm whole & sanctified. Behold old things are passed away & all things are made new. I began to see everything in a new perspective - a new light - the light of the gospel.
* Instead of thirsting for beer & whiskey;.........I have a thirst for Jesus
* Instead of hungering for occult and playboy magazines.......I have a hunger for the Bible.
I began to renew my mind by studying God's word. It was wonderful. It was a reality that I never knew existed. It was & is absolutely wonderful.
Some ask me what it's like being born again. The only description I can even begin to crudely describe is like having lived in a deep dark cave, where the walls of the cave are sublit by reflected gray light and the floor was nothing but mud and slime. Then one day you begin making your way up the cave until one day you stumble outside onto a green mountainside, in the springtime, with blue skies & white clouds, a bubbling blue creek & yellow daises. You've gone from gray & black to living color.
It would be nice to end my testimony here & say from this point my life was just fine and dandy and no more problems, but the reality of life is that Jesus began to open my eyes to the scriptures. We are not saved to ride the gospel wagon, but we are saved to get out and push. He showed me the laborers are few,
.......or just as the song goes "Everybody wants to eat at my table but nobody wants to work in my fields.
So after a good rest & fill I started going to the county jail & witnessing for Jesus, & how he had changed my life & how he could change theirs too. It was very rewarding. There is no greater joy, than to see someone saved. Jesus said, "I have come that your joy might be full." I also began having deeper & more frequent bible study. This was a radical departure from my previous life-style.
But Jesus had other plans for me besides the jail house - there was another field he wanted me to work in. It was the field I had just come from, and I really didn't want to go back. So when Halloween rolled around after my conversion I wasn't enthusiastic to say the least. The Lord wanted me to warn others of witchcraft & the occult,
SO here's my testimony of what I've seen and heard.
During the Halloween season, when my kids began to bring home witches, ghosts & goblins, that they had colored in school, as they always had before - I became very angry (it had never really bothered me before my conversion) ........all sorts of memories would flash through my mind about how I had been seduced into the occult world through this celebration of death. I began to remember how my involvement began with a mere fascination with Halloween & all the seasonal activities associated with it. So I began to talk about the deception behind Halloween but no one would believe or listen to me. I couldn't understand why some people became so violent in defense of Halloween. Those who think Satan is not smart, should think again. Hiding behind children is a great weapon. Children only understand candy & fun, not evil posing as good. Jesus had opened my eyes to the real truth behind Halloween. You know somebody has to be lying. Either Halloween is fun and games and witches are nice people, like my neighbor was, & God is a liar........... or else; God is telling the truth and "Thou shall not suffer a witch to live". Pretty strong words huh?
Halloween used to be bobbing for apples, fun parties, etc., yet even this lighter side, this kindergarten of Halloween is eerie, when you consider for a minute, when you look behind the curtains, if you will : that on this night when children are gathering candy & having fun - the FBI Academy in Virginia, (the national institute for the study of violent crimes) has published a document that estimates 40,000 people are being ritualistically murdered in satanic covens all over the world. I have this documentation in writing it anyone wants to see it. This night witches & satanic covens all over the world are cursing God, blaspheming Jesus, eating raw human flesh, performing all kinds of twisted, perverted, unholy acts, from urinating on crosses to having black masses, Do you know what a black mass is?? It is extreme abomination. It is sickening. It will turn your stomach upside down. Go to the library and read about it. I guarantee that you will not want your children celebrating the same night as all these activities are going on. It is not Hollywood movies, it's the real thing.
Beyond any stretch of the imagination, this night is a celebration of DARKNESS.
It seemed the more I tried to educate people about what was taking place on this night the more I began to seem like a nut. Anyway when my kids brought these witches & things home I decided to go and talk to their teachers.
While I was walking the halls of the elementary school I took time to read some of the children's response to Halloween that a teacher had put on the bulletin board.
· one child says; it make me happy inside when I see spiders crawling across the floor.
· I want to be just like Frankenstein when I grow up.
· and the shocker was.... "I want to go to Set's house".
What would a 3rd grader know about Set? Yet ....what grown up? In the world of demonology Set is a high ranking demon. Sort of a general if you will.
Also, my daughter came home asking me if I wanted to see Bloody Mary? I asked, "Who?" She said, "Bloody Mary, all you have to do is turn around three times in the dark, while calling out her name, and she will appear to you. She will also have a baby in her arms, and if you want her to she will stab it". I was dumbfounded to say the least..........
THESE SEASONAL ACTIVITIES CAN OPEN DOORS TO ...........
.....the spiritual world that can & will result in emotional & spiritual turmoil for many children. I know it did me. Years of anguish & needless suffering.
A I continued my walk down the halls of the elementary school I also saw life size witch posters hanging from the ceiling; ghosts, goblins, skeletons, witches riding brooms, & witches stirring cauldrons. They were plastered all over the hallways & classrooms. Most of them were in cartoon form but I tell you I wasn't fooled.
I've never understood why signs & symbols that are directly connected to the occult, to evil, are allowed to be accepted as normal. I know many parents (myself included) would object strongly to swastikas or even cartoon dolls of Hitler or Stalin being hung & plastered all over the walls. Why? - because these things form an association to evil.
Even psychologist warn their adolescent mental patients, who have become involved in the occult, (first thing) to get rid of all their signs & symbols of the occult that they have hanging in their rooms. They instruct the parents of these teenagers to "tear them down immediately".
Many children, teenagers & even adults are being drawn into the occult world through an attraction to this darkness.
HERE IS MY WARNING:
I was at one time pursing a degree in Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counseling. I wanted to help others get through what I had been through. I was doing a research paper for my psychology class, that required information on the occult. I obtained information from a local mental hospital. I talked with Norma Durrant who was at that time the administrative director for the adolescent wing. She told me 20% of all her referrals one year were teenagers who had become involved with occult activities. She went on to say she had talked with a Lieutenant of the Dallas Police Dept. He told her the mental hospitals in Dallas are being inundated with teenagers who are dabbling in the occult. (Dabbling means to undertake something without any serious intentions). He said there is an alarming increase in occult crimes.
Mrs Durrant gave me a copy of a government report published by the FBI Academy in Virginia; a national center for the analysis of violent crime; (same report as I mentioned a few moments ago.) that states "there is a flood of occult & satanic crimes occurring all across the country".
So much so that they predict that seminars in the near future will focus on "the impending end of the world". Now the FBI is not a religious organization but they, unlike many Christians, see firsthand the fruit of the occult revival that is sweeping the country.
There is a revival of the occult going on in this country. The evil darkness of old times (as in the days of Noah - which was not all eating and drinking, but lots of sorcery- this darkness is covering the land again.)
The book of Daniel says in Chapter 8 verse 25 "And he shall cause his CRAFT to prosper"....This craft he speaks of is not ceramics, or porcelain painting or even politics: but witchcraft, horoscopes, psychic activity & occult
There was an endless list of these superstitutions in the witches almanac that "controlled" my life.
I was at this point where all these signs and omens were a living reality to me. A real twilight zone. Eventually everything was an omen that spelled out doom.
This is the same way horoscopes work. They use your "Imaginings" to control your life. Astrologers are vague in their predictions: they leave a lot open to the imagination, and in my state of mind back then it would really carry me away. But this is the purpose of astrology & witchcraft, to keep you away from the word of God, to keep you from standing firm.
Satan uses peoples imaginations & superstitions to control them. Now I know why Paul says in Corinthians 10 v 5:
CAST DOWN EVERY IMAGINATION THAT EXALTS ITSELF AGAINST THE WORD OF GOD & BRING INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST...
When I first read this these words after I was saved they were like an ice cold drink of water in a hot, parched desert.
As hard as it is to believe, I continued in this altered state of reality for quite some time, continuing to indulge in every vice & sin I could possibly experience. Our magical spells turned destructive and towards even our friends.
Well--- sin can only cause destruction & chaos. Eventually my 1st wife & I was divorced.
I remarried later & continued with my witchcraft & drugs. Some things got better, some things got worse. It was off & on.
After a few more years, I eventually gave up practicing witchcraft: but my mind couldn't find rest. It began to be haunted by all kinds of evil pictures, evil imaginings--to horrible to mention here --It was like Satan didn't want to let me go. What I didn't realize then was : once you open the door the psychic world of witchcraft, you cannot close it. Only Jesus can.
So I even stopped using drugs in an attempt not to be so sensitive to the psychic world, and even the real world. Things got a little better when I quit using drugs, but I eventually got yet another divorce. It was up & down, up & down, nothing to hold on to. Like Isaiah 57, 20 & 21, "like the waves of the troubled sea - the wicked cannot rest-- There is no peace -saith my God to the wicked". Boy was that ever true.
Since the time I had been sent overseas in the army until this point in my life - which was in 1980 - was 18 years of hell - In that time frame I had filled up this mind & body with marijuana, speed, barbiturates, heroin, acid (LSD), all kinds of sex magazines, wife swapping, beer & whiskey, drunk more times than I can ever remember, all kinds of occult philosophies & practices, all kinds of devil books, violent acts, all kinds of movies from Hollywood, & on & on. You could say my cup was just about filled. I say all this to my shame, but to God's glory, because He stopped all that.
When I remarried in 1980 to my present & 3rd wife things seemed to get a little better. But for the first 6 years of marriage I still had "PSYCHIC ATTACKS". I still had no rest. Having two children help me settle down some. But I eventually went to see a psychologist - but that was like washing my foot with my sock on. It just didn't work. It was sort of like taking all my sins out of one bag & putting them in a brand new one & shifting the weight. It seemed "different" but the burden of sins was still there. Only Jesus can take away your sins.
So I was at the end of my rope. I believe I was ready for something, but I didn't know what. I started to watch some preaching on TV on Sunday mornings. Looking back, I see God began dealing with me, I know. It was like a series of events began to unfold - God must have been answering my mothers & grandmothers prayers.
At work a friend gave me a bible - I began to read it & read it...... Another friend at work began to witness to me about Jesus. Then I found a bible tract where Jesus said, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest". I mulled this over in my mind, What does he mean come unto me? I said here I am, but nothing ever happened. I read it over and over but it didn't make any sense - yet I couldn't get it out of my mind.
I continued watching preaching on TV & soon afterwards I took another job that took me inside of a church to install new air conditioners. Many times I would stop and gaze at a picture of Jesus hanging on the wall. He was holding a lamb. I had an overwhelming desire to know more about this man. He seemed so gentle & kind, a radiance seemed to glow from around him, and he seemed so peaceful. That's what I was looking for. I remember I made several unnecessary trips by the picture so I could stop and gaze a little longer
My peace to come began one day when my daughter was invited to vacation bible school.
She came home asking questions like "what does it mean to be born again?" It got me to thinking. When they asked me to visit her class, I went to see what made her so excited. Next thing I know the preacher came out & witnessed to me. (Twice)
You know if this preacher had come over preaching all that name it and claim it stuff & telling me if I'd just get saved I could be living in great wealth & prosperity - I'd still be in my sins - I just don't have much patients for false preachers- Paul said let them be cursed. BUT this preacher was a fisher of men. He was a man in pursuit of God's holy plan - not power & glory. He actually cared for my soul. Can you imagine that. He told me about JESUS - how he came to free the captives (which I was) to set at liberty them that are bruised & to preach the gospel to the poor. This preacher made Jesus come alive. The holy spirit was with him.
I was convinced at this point I wanted to be saved. This was the peace I had been looking for. I walked the church isle that next Sunday and I told the preacher to please stop the proceedings because I wanted to confess Jesus with my mouth. (I had remembered reading that part in the bible the lady at work had given me & the Holy Spirit impressed that on me very much. So with my mouth I confessed Jesus & renounced the devil that I had been living for.
I was so happy I couldn't stand it..............
Nobody meets Jesus without changing. My life took on a new meaning from that day. I now had something to live for.
I became a living testimony of how Jesus can change a heart. I'm just like one of those 1st Century Christians Paul talked about in 1st Corinthians Chapter 6 - Paul said these couldn't inherit the kingdom of God: Fornicators, Idolators, adulators, thieves, extortioners, & revilers:
Paul said ....AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. BUT NOW ARE YE WASHED, NOW ARE YE SANCTIFIED, NOW ARE YE JUSTIFIED, IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.
(MAN THAT IS GRACE)
Now I'm washed - Now I'm cleansed. Now I'm whole & sanctified. Behold old things are passed away & all things are made new. I began to see everything in a new perspective - a new light - the light of the gospel.
* Instead of thirsting for beer & whiskey;.........I have a thirst for Jesus
* Instead of hungering for occult and playboy magazines.......I have a hunger for the Bible.
I began to renew my mind by studying God's word. It was wonderful. It was a reality that I never knew existed. It was & is absolutely wonderful.
Some ask me what it's like being born again. The only description I can even begin to crudely describe is like having lived in a deep dark cave, where the walls of the cave are sublit by reflected gray light and the floor was nothing but mud and slime. Then one day you begin making your way up the cave until one day you stumble outside onto a green mountainside, in the springtime, with blue skies & white clouds, a bubbling blue creek & yellow daises. You've gone from gray & black to living color.
It would be nice to end my testimony here & say from this point my life was just fine and dandy and no more problems, but the reality of life is that Jesus began to open my eyes to the scriptures. We are not saved to ride the gospel wagon, but we are saved to get out and push. He showed me the laborers are few,
.......or just as the song goes "Everybody wants to eat at my table but nobody wants to work in my fields.
So after a good rest & fill I started going to the county jail & witnessing for Jesus, & how he had changed my life & how he could change theirs too. It was very rewarding. There is no greater joy, than to see someone saved. Jesus said, "I have come that your joy might be full." I also began having deeper & more frequent bible study. This was a radical departure from my previous life-style.
But Jesus had other plans for me besides the jail house - there was another field he wanted me to work in. It was the field I had just come from, and I really didn't want to go back. So when Halloween rolled around after my conversion I wasn't enthusiastic to say the least. The Lord wanted me to warn others of witchcraft & the occult,
SO here's my testimony of what I've seen and heard.
During the Halloween season, when my kids began to bring home witches, ghosts & goblins, that they had colored in school, as they always had before - I became very angry (it had never really bothered me before my conversion) ........all sorts of memories would flash through my mind about how I had been seduced into the occult world through this celebration of death. I began to remember how my involvement began with a mere fascination with Halloween & all the seasonal activities associated with it. So I began to talk about the deception behind Halloween but no one would believe or listen to me. I couldn't understand why some people became so violent in defense of Halloween. Those who think Satan is not smart, should think again. Hiding behind children is a great weapon. Children only understand candy & fun, not evil posing as good. Jesus had opened my eyes to the real truth behind Halloween. You know somebody has to be lying. Either Halloween is fun and games and witches are nice people, like my neighbor was, & God is a liar........... or else; God is telling the truth and "Thou shall not suffer a witch to live". Pretty strong words huh?
Halloween used to be bobbing for apples, fun parties, etc., yet even this lighter side, this kindergarten of Halloween is eerie, when you consider for a minute, when you look behind the curtains, if you will : that on this night when children are gathering candy & having fun - the FBI Academy in Virginia, (the national institute for the study of violent crimes) has published a document that estimates 40,000 people are being ritualistically murdered in satanic covens all over the world. I have this documentation in writing it anyone wants to see it. This night witches & satanic covens all over the world are cursing God, blaspheming Jesus, eating raw human flesh, performing all kinds of twisted, perverted, unholy acts, from urinating on crosses to having black masses, Do you know what a black mass is?? It is extreme abomination. It is sickening. It will turn your stomach upside down. Go to the library and read about it. I guarantee that you will not want your children celebrating the same night as all these activities are going on. It is not Hollywood movies, it's the real thing.
Beyond any stretch of the imagination, this night is a celebration of DARKNESS.
It seemed the more I tried to educate people about what was taking place on this night the more I began to seem like a nut. Anyway when my kids brought these witches & things home I decided to go and talk to their teachers.
While I was walking the halls of the elementary school I took time to read some of the children's response to Halloween that a teacher had put on the bulletin board.
· one child says; it make me happy inside when I see spiders crawling across the floor.
· I want to be just like Frankenstein when I grow up.
· and the shocker was.... "I want to go to Set's house".
What would a 3rd grader know about Set? Yet ....what grown up? In the world of demonology Set is a high ranking demon. Sort of a general if you will.
Also, my daughter came home asking me if I wanted to see Bloody Mary? I asked, "Who?" She said, "Bloody Mary, all you have to do is turn around three times in the dark, while calling out her name, and she will appear to you. She will also have a baby in her arms, and if you want her to she will stab it". I was dumbfounded to say the least..........
THESE SEASONAL ACTIVITIES CAN OPEN DOORS TO ...........
.....the spiritual world that can & will result in emotional & spiritual turmoil for many children. I know it did me. Years of anguish & needless suffering.
A I continued my walk down the halls of the elementary school I also saw life size witch posters hanging from the ceiling; ghosts, goblins, skeletons, witches riding brooms, & witches stirring cauldrons. They were plastered all over the hallways & classrooms. Most of them were in cartoon form but I tell you I wasn't fooled.
I've never understood why signs & symbols that are directly connected to the occult, to evil, are allowed to be accepted as normal. I know many parents (myself included) would object strongly to swastikas or even cartoon dolls of Hitler or Stalin being hung & plastered all over the walls. Why? - because these things form an association to evil.
Even psychologist warn their adolescent mental patients, who have become involved in the occult, (first thing) to get rid of all their signs & symbols of the occult that they have hanging in their rooms. They instruct the parents of these teenagers to "tear them down immediately".
Many children, teenagers & even adults are being drawn into the occult world through an attraction to this darkness.
HERE IS MY WARNING:
I was at one time pursing a degree in Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counseling. I wanted to help others get through what I had been through. I was doing a research paper for my psychology class, that required information on the occult. I obtained information from a local mental hospital. I talked with Norma Durrant who was at that time the administrative director for the adolescent wing. She told me 20% of all her referrals one year were teenagers who had become involved with occult activities. She went on to say she had talked with a Lieutenant of the Dallas Police Dept. He told her the mental hospitals in Dallas are being inundated with teenagers who are dabbling in the occult. (Dabbling means to undertake something without any serious intentions). He said there is an alarming increase in occult crimes.
Mrs Durrant gave me a copy of a government report published by the FBI Academy in Virginia; a national center for the analysis of violent crime; (same report as I mentioned a few moments ago.) that states "there is a flood of occult & satanic crimes occurring all across the country".
So much so that they predict that seminars in the near future will focus on "the impending end of the world". Now the FBI is not a religious organization but they, unlike many Christians, see firsthand the fruit of the occult revival that is sweeping the country.
There is a revival of the occult going on in this country. The evil darkness of old times (as in the days of Noah - which was not all eating and drinking, but lots of sorcery- this darkness is covering the land again.)
The book of Daniel says in Chapter 8 verse 25 "And he shall cause his CRAFT to prosper"....This craft he speaks of is not ceramics, or porcelain painting or even politics: but witchcraft, horoscopes, psychic activity & occult