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Transcript 330D — Is Fortune-Telling for Real?
CALLER: What does the Bible say about a spirit of divination? I believe that somewhere in Acts there's a woman who is held by a spirit of divination. And she followed Paul, and it was cast out. Can you shed some light on that?
HC: Yes. The question is raised concerning the activity of the slave girl who had the spirit of divination. Actually, Satan, or the demon world, have some knowledge of the future. They are outside of us. And just how they have this knowledge, I am not really certain. But they do. They are able to know something about the future.
Now they don't have a perfect knowledge. One of the reasons is that the future is not in their hands, and God can frustrate what Satan would desire. But even as a medium or a fortune teller today is able at times to have some insight into the future being reasonably accurate, so it was possible for this slave girl to have the spirit of divination.
Now any activity of this kind is altogether of Satan. Anyone who claims they can divine the future has to be receiving his information from Satan. The only sourcebook that we have of the future is the Bible. And of course it is absolutely accurate, if we understand it correctly. The Bible is a marvelous source from which we can have knowledge of the future.
But the moment that we think we can divine the future because of some other information that has come to us from whatever source it may be, then we are violating God's rules. We are becoming a prey of Satan.