Divination
105The Witch of Endor
14 Feb 2022
6:45¶ 24
“Again, the word divination means more than fortune-telling. To us, fortune-telling simply means you look down the corridors of time into the future and…”
7:07¶ 26
“Yeah, or what passes over on the other side to a divining rod or St. John the Divine. That doesn’t mean he’s God-like, it…”
7:42¶ 27
“So Saul wants some kind of magic guarantee that things are going well, not just, “Oh, yeah, I see the future and you’re so…”
103Rebellion and Witchcraft
31 Jan 2022
17:49¶ 77
“A note about divination, and this is something that I’ve only become clear on of late. We tend to think of divination as fortunetelling.…”
18:24¶ 79
“Right, but it seems that more generally in the ancient world diviners were thought, where they saw the future, to freeze the future. When…”
18:46¶ 80
“Obviously God is on the side of these people. We want you to change that by prophesying, not just look into the future and…”
91An Unlikely Hero - Rise of the Bramble Men
8 Nov 2021
27:45¶ 96
“The pagan world saw the seeing as determining, generating, creating. This is why when Balaam was hired to prophecy against Israel, the word that’s…”
22:58¶ 74
“Whereas Gideon had not used the fleece for divination – he already knew God’s will – this is divination. This is taking something sacred,…”
22:20¶ 73
“Apparently, it’s possible that it became an idol. More likely, since he made the ephod and not a golden calf or something else, the…”