Wings of Liberty • February 4, 2025

Witches, Science and Idols: The Many Faces of the Occult in Our World Today

Witches, Science and Idols: The Many Faces of the Occult in Our World Today



The Bible plainly declares that witchcraft, spellcasting, and attempting to communicate with the dead are an abomination. When God drove the pagan nations out of the land of Caanan so that ancient Israel could take the land the Lord had promised to Abraham, He gave unambiguous instruction to His people:


When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.


12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.


13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.


14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.i


God absolutely prohibits witchcraft and necromancy (attempting to communicate with the dead). What else did God prohibit that the pagan nations were doing? The Lord declares in His Ten Commandments that idol worship is a sin. The second commandments states, in part:


Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.


Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.


Yes, you heard that correctly. God prohibits spell casting, witchcraft and trying to talk to the dead, just like He prohibits worshiping statues of Buddha or Mary.


Israel ignored God’s warnings, and God sent the judgments of heaven against them. The Assyrians, Babylonians, and Romans repeatedly invaded and destroyed their cities. They were starved, deported or killed, and their temple was destroyed, razed to the ground not once, but twice.


The western world is repeating the sins of ancient of Israel. Today, the occult is everywhere in our society. Hollywood relentlessly promotes it to the masses. It’s in movies and its on TV. It’s on Netflix and Disney Plus. It is shamelessly marketed to children. It’s on Tik Tok and Instagram, where millions of people each day watch videos on spell casting, hexes, tarot cards and palm reading.ii There are witch influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers online.iii “We’re everywhere”, bragged a 36-year-old witch to a news reporter in Australia.iv "Summoning demons has never been so fun!", declares a popular children’s book.v


The word “occult” comes from the Latin occultus, meaning secret or hidden. Satan, the rebel angel who was cast out of heaven and “deceives the whole earth”,vi promised Eve hidden knowledge. That is how death and suffering entered out world. You can read about it in Genesis chapter 3.


You may not have realized that occult practices are no different in God’s eyes than the idol worship of false religions. For one thing, attempting to talk to the dead using a séance is no different than attempting to talk to Mary, who is also dead. Both are necromancy, forbidden occult practices. It is just that one uses mediums and Ouija boards, and the other uses images and cathedrals.


But even if Mary were alive, which she is not, the Bible states clearly that it is a sin to make an image of anyone, or anything, whether in heaven or in earth, and bow down to it, or worship it.


But what does this have to do with science, you ask. “The enlightened person is opposed to such superstition”, you may say. “I don’t believe in witches or ferries, and I don’t believe in God. I am a scientist.”


But Satan is clever, and scientists are not immune to the temptation of supposedly hidden knowledge.

Alfred Russel Wallace, co-developer with Charles Darwin of the theory of natural selection, was a spiritualist, and saw “spiritualism as a legitimate domain of scientific enquiry.vii


Pierre Curie, physicist and husband of Marie Curie, often consulted a medium and believed in both her abilities and in the underlying claims of a spiritual realm containing entities.


Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, pioneer of quantum physics, believed that quantum physics would return spiritualism to the world that was once ruled by atheistic paradigms.viii That’s interesting, considering the emerging promise of quantum artificial intelligence and a coming singularity.ix


Most people do not realize that famous inventers Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were both involved in spiritualism. Tesla built a device to communicate with the dead, and spent years listening to recordings of what he believed to be the spirits of the departed.


Tesla was scared but fascinated by what he heard. “My first observations positively terrified me”, he said, “as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night.”x


“The sounds I am listening to every night at first appear to be human voices conversing back and forth in a language I cannot understand.”xi


Tesla filed a patent for the device, which he called a “Spirit Radio”. Today, people are building the device using plans posted on the internet, and using artificial intelligence to inform them of what “the dead” are supposedly saying. Like Tesla, they say that the recordings are disturbing, and listening to them can lead to mental deterioration.xii

Make no mistake, Tesla was involved in the occult. His device to listen to the voices that he thought were the dead is as prohibited by the Bible as going to speak to a clairvoyant or a medium. Satan simply substituted so-called science and technology for the human medium, and repackaged the deception.


The Bible states that the dead are dead – “the dead don’t know anything”.xiii Their thoughts have perished. Don’t attempt to speak to them, God warns. You’ll be listening to devilsxiv – the fallen angels who were cast out of heaven and who deceive the whole world.


The rise of the occult in our day is yet another sign that the end of all things is at hand. Don’t be deceived, friends. Jesus is coming again, and before He does, the Bible says that there will be a great “falling away.”xv People will be seduced by the occult and false religion. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s spell casting or so-called “science” that brings you into the occult, Satan would be happy with either.


The Bible is our safeguard. The dead are dead. Do not be deceived.


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iDeuteronomy 18:10-14

ii https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-63403467

iii https://qz.com/quartzy/1411909/the-explosive-growth-of-witches-wiccans-and-pagans-in-the-us; https://influencers.feedspot.com/witch_instagram_influencers/

iv https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/modernday-witchcraft-is-on-the-rise-in-australia-as-support-for-organised-religion-plummets/news-story/ccbc9bbcbc05ffd8acd8c5ab3f780f38

v https://www.newsweek.com/satan-getting-hot-hell-american-pop-culture-1790669

vi Revelation 12:9

vii https://www.cell.com/current-biology/p Deudf/S0960-9822(13)01317-1.pdf

viii https://medium.com/paul-austin-murphys-essays-on-philosophy/the-weird-case-of-wolfgang-pauli-hardcore-positivist-and-mystic-041551d67dde

ix The “singularity” is a tech industry term refering to their long-expected moment when artificial intelligence will become self aware.

x Nicola Tesla, 1901.

xi Nicola Tesla, 1918.

xii https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1831722931522826636 - “Tesla said he listened to this radio his entire life, I personally do not suggest this. This is why I have let the AI listen in. I am certain some of what is heard may contribute to a decline in some ways with people. This is why I hesitate releasing the schematics based on the actual patents. I advise to extend great caution in listening to more than a few seconds. And yes the feeling you have when you hear this is quite normal. And I will explain in detail why at some point. But I urge limited listening if you are handy enough to decide to build such a device. No I am not joking. However AI listening for us is incredibly useful. I have not only had the AI look for a language but also insights about the other sounds it hears and to discover if they are also a form of language.”

xiii Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6.

xiv Revelation 9:20; Revelation 16:4

xv 2 Thessalonians 2:34

Charlie Kirk

By Wings of Liberty • September 12, 2025
The world has lost a giant, and his name was Charlie Kirk. We live in a world of silent cowardice. There are cities in America today where a woman can be raped on the subway in broad daylight and bystanders will say nothing. It is a world where selfishness and iniquity have caused the hearts of many to grow cold, as the Bible warns in Matthew 24:12. It is a world where wickedness unobjected to has strangled principled discourse. People have stifled the voice of conviction in their personal lives for so long that it has subdued independence and courage in the public square. Put simply: people who are cowards in their personal lives will be cowards in their public lives. Under the best of circumstances in such a world, it would be difficult for anyone to stand up in the public square and voice their opinion, even if that opinion is a majoritarian position. But it takes supreme courage to enter public territory where one holds a minority opinion and engage in public dialogue with those who hate everything you stand for. When Charlie Kirk went to a public university to speak on the Bible, the sanctity of life and marriage, or how it is impossible for men to become women, he was entering territory where he knew his opinions were hated and would be misrepresented. He knew he was going to be threatened and vilified. He knew there was a risk to his life. But he went anyway. Whether you agreed with him or not, liked him or not, whether he was right about everything or not, it is necessary to somberly consider and lament the killing of such a man. We mourn the loss of rare species of animals and insects, flora and fauna. Billions are poured into the fight to save threatened animals. But the rarest of all things in this wicked, cold-hearted world is the principled and courageous human being. The silencing of a principled man, killed for the express purpose of censoring his voice, is a tragedy of infinitely greater magnitude than this foolish, dissipated generation realizes. We live in a world where closeted podcasters voice their opinions from the comfort of their living rooms. Most have never faced a big crowd, let alone a big hostile crowd. Let’s face it. Some of the most brazen and cocky online personalities who bark the loudest from their private apartment cocoons would soil themselves at the prospect of standing at a microphone surrounded by hundreds or thousands of actual people. Especially real hostile people. But Charlie Kirk was not only courageous, he respectfully dialogued with the people who screamed at him, insulted him, and hated him. In a world of polarization and cancel culture, and naked, open hostility, Charlie was measured and polite. A perverse generation of leftist students celebrates the loss of Charlie Kirk. They bask in it. They do not realize that they are rejoicing in the loss of that rarest of blessings: someone who cared enough to come speak to them despite their hostility. And who will go now? The ultimate censorship is murder. Cain killed Abel to silence his conscientious and courageous, principled speech. The Bible records the deaths and persecution of the prophets, every one of them censored and punished for speaking the truth. Isaiah sawn in two, Jeremiah thrown into the pit, Elijah hunted by wicked Jezebel. The apostles faired no better. Peter crucified, James killed with the sword, Stephen stoned, Paul beheaded. The blood of righteous Abel cried unto the Lord from the ground, and “he, being dead, yet speaketh” – Hebrews 11:4. Does the blood of Charlie Kirk cry less loudly? It takes courage to speak in the face of hostile crowds, but it is not only courage which drives a person to take such a risk. It takes conviction. A love of the truth. And yes, a love of people. The world has lost a giant. And it is right to mourn the passing of such a man. … On December 9, 2025, Charlie Kirk’s last minority opinion will be published posthumously. The book is on a subject he felt to be infinitely more important than mere politics. It is on the subject of the ancient and forgotten seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible, and is titled, “Stop in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life”. A Christian world which has embraced the papal falsehood of Sunday sacredness will soon hear the thoughts of a martyr on the sacredness of the seventh day of the fourth commandment. These are doubtless words that the conservative right, and proponents of Project 2025 need to hear. These are words which the left, who have rejected Creator God and Redeemer need to hear. It is another sign of the times.

THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 3: LIBERTY THREATENED

By Wings of Liberty • August 14, 2025
THE CURSE OF CHURCH AND STATE, PART 3: LIBERTY THREATENED Nearly a hundred and forty years ago there was a major national initiative to unite church and state in America and impose what was claimed to be Christianity on society. The push united representatives from at least eleven denominations, and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. After a severe struggle the movement failed. i Today, America is facing another similar crisis. … THE HISTORICAL PUSH FOR CHURCH AND STATE UNION IN AMERICA In the late 1800s, the National Reform Association (NRA) ii achieved country-wide political momentum for its initiative for a religious amendment to the Constitution to make the United States a Christian state. Its proposed amendment was worded as follows: "We the people" would acknowledge "Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among nations, His revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government..." iii The stated purpose of the NRA was to unite church and state. It’s organizational constitution contained the following purpose: To secure such an amendment to the Constitution of the United States as will declare the nation's allegiance to Jesus Christ, and its acceptance of the moral laws of the Christian religion, and so indicate that this is a Christian nation, and place all the Christian laws, institutions and usages of our government on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the land. iv The practical result of the proposed constitutional amendment was stated in the Christian Statesman, the flagship publication of the NRA, on February 21, 1884. Writer Rev. J. C. K. Milligan asked the question, “How is the Amendment to be carried out practically?viii In answer he stated: “In brief, its adoption will at once make the morality of the ten commandments to be the supreme law of the land, and anything in the State constitutions and laws that is contrary to them will become unconstitutional. v Another proponent of the NRA, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D. D., stated the following in a speech at the New York National Reform Convention: We want State and religion—and we are going to have it. It shall be that so far as the affairs of State require religion, it shall be revealed religion, the religion of Jesus Christ. The Christian oath and Christian morality shall have in this land ‘an undeniable legal basis.’ We use the word religion in its proper sense, as meaning a man’s personal relation of faith and obedience to God. vi Those who opposed the religious amendment to the Constitution were declared to be “infidels” and “lunatics”, and Jews, deists, Seventh-day Baptists, and all others, including Seventh-day Adventists, were classed with the atheists, and pronounced as ‘atheists’ themselves by Mr. Edwards: These all are, for the occasion, and so far as our Amendment is concerned, one class… They must be counted together.... they must be treated as [atheists], for this question, one party. Now look at it—look at the controversy. The question is not between opinions that differ, but opinions that are opposite, that are contradictory, that mutually exclude each other. It is between Christianity and infidelity. It is between theism and atheism, between the acknowledgment of a God and the denial that there is any God… They “are conjoined with the other members of this class by the accident of differing with the mass of Christians upon the question of what precise day of the week shall be observed… vii After stating that those who opposed the NRA religious amendment were only a “minority”, Mr. Edwards proceeded to describe the unfitness of such people for “advanced” societal participation: “I would tolerate him [the atheist, including Jews, deists, Seventh-day Baptists, etc] as I would a conspirator. The atheist is a dangerous man.... But he shall be tolerated. He may live, and go free, hold his lands, and enjoy his home; he may even vote; but for any higher, more advanced citizenship, he is, as I hold, utterly disqualified. viii The NRA ultimately failed in its initiative to have a national Sunday law passed and the push to unite church and state sullenly subsided for a time. Today, however, a resurgent coalition of parties, Protestant and Catholic, has largely already succeeded where the NRA failed. Christian Dominionism, including the Heritage Foundation/Project 2025, and adherents to the New Apostolic Reformation, have seized political power and are altering government to implement religious policy and goals, as Revelation 13 foretells. We believe this union of church and state represents the image to the beast recorded by John in Revelation: Revelation 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. ix EXAMPLES OF CHURCH/STATE UNION TODAY There is no shortage of examples to evidence that religious power is influencing, or outright controlling in some instances, the state. For example, Christian dispensationalism controls foreign policy in the Middle East, as Senator Ted Cruz recently admitted in an interview with Tucker Carlson. Ecumenical Christianity is convinced that whoever blesses the nation of Israel will be blessed, and whoever curses it will be cursed.

Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Signs of the Second Coming of Christ

By Wings of Liberty • July 30, 2025
The largest earthquake to hit the planet in 14 years struck off the coast of Russia on July 29, 2025. The monster 8.8 magnitude quake triggered global tsunami warnings, including officials urging the evacuation of the Hawaii islands coastline. Sirens blare. Anxious millions watch the internet for news updates, concerned for themselves and the safety of their loved ones. People watch and wonder. Floods and storms and earthquakes. War and disease and famine. What do these things mean? It is all a fulfilment of Bible prophecy. Nearly two thousand years ago, Jesus warned humanity of the signs of the end of the world, culminating in His return to this planet to raise the dead and rescue His faithful believers - 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18, and the destruction of the wicked – Matthew 13:30. We should expect to hear of “wars and rumors of wars” – Mathew 24:6, and to see “pestilences and famine” – Matthew 24:7. The Lord specifically referred to earthquakes and the roaring of the waves. Christ warned: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. Luke 21:25-28 The signs of the times are everywhere, friend. While officials can tell you to evacuate the coastline, and news agencies can inform you of the devastation which took place from this or that natural disaster, the explanation and deeper meaning of the increasing agitation and unrest in our world is found only in the Bible. These are the signs of the approaching Creator and Redeemer. Are you ready? Today is the day of salvation - 2 Corinthians 6:2, the door of mercy is still open. Christ is ministering in the courts in heaven on ehalf of humanity. But when he returns to this earth it will already be too late for repentance. The work of intercession will be finished and the door of mercy closed. Today is the day to seek the Lord while He may be found!. It is not safe to trifle with the call of mercy.