(Demonology) Wizards Witches Sorcery Spiritism — Willie Mullan

Spiritual Warfare and the Whole Armor of God

Witches tonight. And as our brother Mr. Carson said, the whole team of demons will be around us this evening. Let's begin in Ephesians, chapter six, please. Ephesians, and we're at the sixth chapter. And Paul, writing to these saints in Ephesus, said in verse eleven, put on the whole armor of God.

Saints need to learn how to dress for battle. Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. So, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities.

And the word principalities there, the Greek word, is the word archae, and it's translated in the New Testament by the word prince, by the word captain, the captain of all salvation. And again and again it's prince that comes out, someone out in the front, the captain, the prince, the archer, the same word all the time.

And when we examined these princes, these are demon princes of course, we found that this was a part of Satan's army, and this part of his army works in the political realm. We found there was a prince of Persia, a demon prince, over the realm of Persia.

We found there was a prince of Grecia, and I'm sure there's a demon prince over this province of Austria. We looked up these demon princes working in the political realm. Then we went on to look at power.

So, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers. You see how the Spirit divides this, against the rules of the gods, against. So, that he's dividing this great diabolical army up for us, and we can see these demon princes, and they work in the political realms, and they need demon powers.

They work in the mental realm. By my reflection, my lifetime, I've seen oppressed by the devil. Remember our Lord went about doing good, healing all who were oppressed of the devil. Remember the woman who came and coming and saying, my daughter life at home greedily ducks, and depression, and vexations belong to the mental realm.

And then we looked up the rules of the darkness of this world, because this is another battalion here. They don't work in the political, and they don't work so much in the mental. They work in the evangelical realm.

They're determined to keep the weight of the glorious gospel from entering in. We found that they're not only trying to stop it from getting in, but if it did get in, they try to steal it, then come of the devil, and take it away, the word out of their mouth.

And if they can't stop it, and can't steal it, then they'll try to slaughter it, so that the young believer will never get his feet properly on them. And we've got along now to where we're looking at wicked spirits.

Can we rest not only against these demon printers in the political, and against these demon powers in the mental realm, and against these rules of darkness in the evangelical, but these wicked spirits, they work in the moral realm.

We saw wicked spirits working in the days of law, until it seemed the whole world was tainted with the wickedness. When God looked down, he saw not the wickedness of man. He held man responsible for this.

The wickedness of man was great. In fact, these wicked spirits worked so much in the days of law, that God said, every thought is only evil continually. What a world it was, with everyone on the face of the earth, every thought only evil continually.

And God had to destroy that world. Then we went on to look at these wicked spirits in the days of law, and these wicked spirits in the days of Christ's flesh, and then we went on to look at these wicked spirits who will be in the world again in full force in the days of the Antichrist, when people will be tormented by these same wicked demon gods.

Contact With Wicked Spirits and the Human Desire to Know the Future

So, that's where we've got to, and we're going to look at God's commandments tonight concerning contact with wicked spirits. I want to underline the word contact with you for the moment or two. You see, right from the fall, right from the very days of Adam, you find that in fallen man there is a curiosity to know something about the future.

That's in every one of us, and it has to be watched very carefully. We always try to make contact with what's going to be tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. That's why, if there is a good prophetic teacher at the prophetic word, we can always gather a crowd round him because people long to know.

And it's quite right for the prophetic teacher to go to the prophecies that God has given to him, and let the folks see things to come, and happenings ahead, and so on. And there seems to be a curiosity inside us that just cannot be satisfied.

Therefore, that's where we get spiritism on the up-grade of these spirit mediums. They say they can get us into contact with spirits who can tell us something about the future. That's where voodoo gets going, and black magic, and short in telling, and hand reading.

If I asked everybody to stand up and shout a hand read, don't be afraid, I'm not good. I'd like to do it, but I won't do it. When you see all this is sort of a curiosity that is, and you want to know something.

And the young girls, the 17 and 18, they want to know what the man's like, that they're going to marry. You know, that's a bit of a hand reading. And you know, this horoscope that's in the paper says, well, some of them nearly ate the paper to get it open to see what it says about.

Young girl is in the meeting now, and I told you, bless her, they'll catch you well. She said to me some time ago, she said, this morning is my birthday. Her eyes were shining. She said, you know, I looked at my horoscope this morning.

She said, it tells me about a dark-haired man who's tall, who's good-looking, who's got plenty of money, who's got a money mean. She said, oh, I'll know better about this, you know. I said, do you see that feeling that when you know?

She said, yes. I said, there's a word for that. That's what it is. That's just daft. I said to her, you know, if you had any sense at all, you would know that there's thousands, yay, a million young girls born on this very day.

A million football in the same meeting as me, you know. And there's some of them Chinese, and there's some of them Japanese, and there's some of them Italians, and there's some of them Germans, and there's some of them this, that, and the other.

Do you think if we all look at this horoscope today that there's a black-haired man for each one of them? She says to me, you've just spoiled it for me. And the thing to give her credit, she's talking to her the other night, she says, I've never looked at it since.

It's no use. Now, I know, you see, I know that while we must get into the depths of this subject, and certainly in the depths when we're talking about witches, and wizards, and divination, and necromancy, and all the rest of it, and when you come to voodoo, you're into the very depths of black magic.

Oh, I know that there's cup reading, and hand reading, and horoscopes where I have thoughts of amusement. Now, let me just say to you that you're having amusement with something you would be better not to have amusement with.

A young man came to see me the other day, says he's going to talk about this charismatic movement and tongues. Well, I speak in tongues, do you? Where? He says, I wouldn't do it in the church or anything.

I'd just do it upstairs at night in my own room. Now, he says, tell me what you'd do. I says, just get down on my knees and have something come over me, and a whole lot of words come out. I says, do you know what you're saying?

No, I says, don't know anything but enjoy it. I says, could I use the word amusement? Don't try to tell me that God gave this gift. Say amusement, do you? The present the devil's talking to you. It isn't amusement anymore, he doesn't know a thing about it.

I don't think you should be playing with something that you don't know about. You would need to know what you're doing, wouldn't you? But we'll come across this. Listen first, take your time now. Bring your Bible, and we'll find it for you.

It's in the book, isn't it? The truth must be in that book. That's what we're going to do. Now, for a moment, we're going to look at God's commandments concerning contact with wicked spirits. Now, we're beginning in the book of Exodus, chapter 22.

God's Commandments Concerning Witchcraft and Idolatry

The book of Exodus, chapter 22. Now, God says one of two things here, and it might shock you, but then, if it's in the book, I can't have shock in you, and I'm not going to try not to shock you. We're at Exodus 22, verse 18.

God says, thou shalt not, that's the commandment of God, thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Now, God meant every witch in the land to be put to death. Now, when God puts such a judgment upon someone who's a witch, then you must know it's wickedness of some sort.

There's a great wickedness there. In fact, when you go through these directions and commandments that God gave to Israel, and not everything that God said, thou shalt put to death, look at the next one, verse 19, whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Well, it's a terrible statement. Somebody said to me, one says, nobody would lie down factually with a beast. We don't even know the word you're living in. Let me say to you just bluntly that I've had a dozen folks in my own room in this town who confessed to me that they lay factually with beasts, both men and women.

Is that enough for you? And if you're ignorant of it, you can go home and bless God for your ignorance. You don't think God put something in this book that could never happen? And I assure you it's happening today.

Well, you see, when a man or woman gets so factually excited that they have to go and lie with a beast, there must be some wicked spirit working in them. There's just not more than the ordinary factual impulse.

God says, I'm not putting up with that. Every one of them, I'll have them blow it up. You see, God's going to blot out all the riches, and God's going to blot out all the folks who would lie factually with a beast.

See, verse 20, He that factually places unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Mind you, that's a tremendous thing, because I have known of young men who have come to Queens from Pakistan, and from Japan, and from China, and so on, and they not only do well at their lectures, and not only do well at their exams, but they leave Queens with honors, and go back and bow down to idols, because education doesn't just mean that you're spiritual anymore.

There are some folks who profess to be wise. They're the greatest fools in the land. And I can tell you that when a man or woman bows down to a wooden stick and calls it God, there are demons on the hook.

God says, I'm not putting up with it. I'm not putting up with it. I'm utterly destroying it. So that you can see, when God comes out into the open and said, thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be good to death.

He that sacrifices unto any God, he shall be utterly destroyed. Now, this is one of God's commandments, thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Let's go to the book of Deuteronomy, just for a moment or two.

Deuteronomy's Prohibition of Divination and Child Sacrifice

Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy 18, I'm commencing to read at verse 9. God's teaching is for here, when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God didst leave, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

We know God didn't want them to even listen to some of the things that were going on. A young fellow came to me once and said, you know, I would really like to go to a spiritualist meeting. I would really like to do this and that, wouldn't you?

Well, I'll tell you this, son, this book says you to shun. That's a very wonderful word. All these profane and vain babblings, you to shun it. They're all for going among it, you to get out from it. And don't forget it, the word shun will do you.

You're not to learn these things at all, and I'll show you why in a moment. This is a commandment, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. They said, there shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire.

Now, that's a tremendous thing. You see, there was a fire god in the land of Canaan when Israel entered into the land. And this idol, it was among the Ammonites, it was called Molach. Molach means the fire god.

You can find a picture of it in one of the museums. It was made of brass. It had a face like a calf, and it was bowed down with two arms up, arms of a man. And it said that underneath these arms of this idol bowed down was always placed firewood.

And sometimes a mother came and offered her first-born baby there. And she made her son or her daughter to pass through the fire. It burned. That went on. Some people wonder if it's going on still, and on it's still going.

When they got the carcasses, the little boy, Nick Jermits, who was murdered some time ago, remember the carcasses was burned. I don't know if many of you here know where Giant's Ring is. I would think a great number of you would know.

Isn't there many in this place that's ever been to Giant's Ring? Good now, that's not too bad at all. Quite a fair audience. Well, I know where Giant's Ring is, and I've been up the little lane and went into the middle, and you know the big stones that are there, and there's one on the top.

Now, according to the history of this country of ours, these stones were there before the birth of Abraham. It's gone back a day or two, isn't it? And it seems that that big stone in the center that's placed on the top of the others, that that was an altar where they offered living sacrifices.

I'm not allowed to say too much. There are policemen here all around me, but I know that the police are secretly keeping their eye on this day of night now. It was the little fellow McGurn that was going out there.

We're beginning to think, aren't we? A little word or two more about this. Let's come to the second book of Kings. Second book of Kings, chapter 21. Second book of Kings. Take your time and find the place.

Now, this is telling us about Manasseh when he came to the throne. Verse 1, we're at 2nd Kings 21, verse 1. Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to reign. And reigned 15, five years into Islam, and his mother's name was Sisheba, and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord after the abominations of the heathens, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel, even that of those abominable prestiges.

For he built up again the high places which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had destroyed, and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove as did Ahab, king of Israel, and worshipped all the hosts of heaven, and served them.

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, in Jerusalem will I put my name. And he built altars for all the hosts of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. And he made his son cast through the fire.

Yes, he did. He offered them in sacrifice, and observed tribes, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards. He lost much wickedness, as you will, because it was wicked spirits that was ending dying.

He kept to 22. That's a new man coming to the throne. He was just a lad of eight years old, Josiah. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and watching all the way of David as fathered, and Frank not less, and so on.

And when you come on into 23, you'll see some of the things that he did. Verse 5 says, he put down the idolatrous priests. Verse 6 says, and he brought out the gloom from the house of the Lord. Verse 7 says, he broke down the houses of the Sodomites.

Verse 8 says, he brought all the priests out of the city of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense. And verse 10 says, and he defiled, or destroyed is the other word, Tulfeth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

Molech was the god of the Ammonites, and the word means the god of fire. And do you see that word Tulfeth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom? That word Tulfeth means the king's god. And do you know this fellow Manasseh, he had not only brought all these abominations into the house of the Lord and into the court of the house of the Lord, but he had set up this fire god in his own garden where children were burned.

One should forget that. My God is talking. It's good luck to dribble on them in the evening. One should forget these commandments left before we begin at all. They shall not be repressed then, they shall not defile among you anyone that maketh his son or daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consultor with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them, that is the nations up from before thee. Here's what he said to Israel.

He said, verse 15, The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren like unto me. It's Moses that's talking, the Lord's talking through. Unto him shall ye hearken, says in verse 15, I will raise them up a prophet from among thy brethren like unto me, the Lord's talking through Moses now, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

You see, we're at the spot now where the prophet has arrived. He went to Calvary, and he died, and he rose again, and we're honoured down this night to listen to the Lord. We don't need to go down from these abominable temples.

You and I are honoured down to listen to the Lord. It's one of the things we're going to stress as we do these studies, that we must have everything from the book. If I stray from this book, and take speculation, and think it should be like this or that, you can rub it up.

I assure you I'm too afraid to stray from the book. If I stray from the book and these subjects, the devil will strangle me. But if I keep the sword in my hand, I'll be able to manage it. You'll find I won't stray.

I'm too old-fashioned for that. I've got a very hard battle to fight this night, and I can only fight it holding on to the book. Now, I think you can see these commandments that God gave concerning contact with wicked spirits.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Thou shalt not land the abomination. Thou shalt not cast thy sons into the fire. Thou shalt not be found among the orphans, and so on. Now, we want to have a look at God's catalogue, not only God's commandments.

Manasseh, Josiah, and Occult Practices in Israel's History

And the catalogue is clear in contact concerning wicked spirits. We are here in Deuteronomy 18, and it says, verse 10, Thou shalt not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire.

All that uses divination. Now, what do we know about divination? What is divination? A fellow came round to me a long time ago, and he said, you know, if these old fellows were three hazel sticks divining water.

I looked at him, I thought he was over the comic book. My dear friends, it's got nothing to do with the hazel stick. As you shall see in a moment, some of the godliest men I've ever known have been diviners of water.

This church has an old elder here called Mr. McGill, and I'll tell you that this church owes more to him than it will ever pay back. For there were times, he told me, he told me that he opened the boxes at night sometimes, and there were seven and six of them in the box.

And he had to put his hand into his own pocket to keep this priest going in his early day. And there were some times he wept as he went through the park, and once he stopped and said, oh God, I'll shut the doors.

But the Lord didn't allow him to shut the doors. And he lived to see this place packed the way it is tonight. And he used to say to me, thank God I never gave in. Well, that old man divined water all his days.

You're not telling me that he was demon-possessed. I have a school out in the country, a lovely place away in the hills. We have thirty boys and girls out there. And we have to get water, and have to get the water diviner.

And you know who divined the well out there? Dr. Paisley. When we do things, we do it well. And you should see big Paisley come up and down this ground and this thing going. And we had a medical doctor out there, and he said to me, as he was going up and down, he said to me, this is vast.

He said, I don't believe this thing. And I said, I don't know very much about it, but I know he can do it. And he got to a spot, and this old stick began twirling round and round. He said, I've got it, Willie.

Right down here. Come and do it. I said, I just called the doctor Barney. I said, Barney here doesn't believe you. He said, well, you just come over here. And he got the doctor to hold one of the legs of this hazel stick, and he held the other one.

And the stick turned so much round in the doctor's hand, and he tried to keep it back, that it took the skin of his face. Well, you've got your education, I don't. No, I don't think there's any demon possession about Mr. Paisley.

I know he shook the devil out of his knees the other day. That's not what divination means at all. I don't know what way to read this book. Oh no, this is something entirely different from that sort of thing.

This is going to a wicked spirit, and getting in contact with that spirit, so that that spirit can teach you something about the future. That's what this divination is all about. Now, that's not speculation on my part.

Let me show you that in the Scriptures, and then you'll get it all right. Come to 1 Samuel chapter 28, and we'll be coming back here tonight, but I'll just show you this bit now. 1 Samuel chapter 28. Now, this is the way at the end of the days of King Saul.

Verse 5,. 1 Samuel 28, verse 5,. And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not. A terrible moment in any man's life when God becomes silent to him.

The Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, because in the old economy God used dreams, nor by urine. And that was one of the stones in the best place. Sometimes it was used for giving judgment or counsel.

Neither by dreams, nor by urine, nor by prophets. God was silent. Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit. Now, I don't want you to get mixed up in this. When he talks about a woman that hath a familiar spirit, he's not talking about the woman's spirit.

He's not talking about the spirit of the angel. He's talking about a woman who knows a wicked spirit in the spirit world, and she's on familiar terms with it. He's talked to it more than once. That's what he's talking about, in case you get it all muddled up.

So he said, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor, a place called Endor.

And Saul disguised himself, put on all the raiment, and he went and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night, and they said, I pray thee, divine unto me. Did you get the word? Divine unto me by the familiar spirit.

This divination was not by a human spirit. This divination was by a wicked spirit that this woman knew. Have you got that now? Just in case you're only sleeping, and you're sort of half stupid. Have you got it now?

Because I get a lot of fools to deal with sometimes. They come around and talk to me about, well, I'll read you a Bible. Wanted divination. Divine unto me. He says, divine unto me. Now, this is what divination is.

It's a woman who has contact with a wicked spirit. Remember, this is possible. And he wanted this woman to get in contact with this wicked spirit because there are certain things he wanted to know about tomorrow.

If you want to know about tomorrow, you ask the Lord Jesus. He leaves the future in the Master's hands. Would you be going to get your hand read? You've got the Lord, and he understands. He knows about your future.

He's at my belt for you. You shouldn't be walking in the council of the ungodly. But there's more to this divination than that. You see, sometimes some of these men and women who use divination, they use the wind.

And I'm taught that there's good facing the south, and if the wind was coming from the left, then the days ahead are good for them. But if the wind was coming from the right, then the days ahead are evil for them.

Sometimes these divinators didn't only get in touch with evil spirits on the wind, but they watched the birds, and as the birds muttered in groups in the sky, you heard the starlings of them in their clothes, and did nothing.

They could read them. That's all they said. Of course, this book talks about lying divinators. Well, they told lies at times. You see, we want to be very careful when we talk about fire. Oh, the devil has used it.

We want to be careful when we talk about a rushing mighty wind. The devil has used it. We want to be careful when we talk about mutterings. Don't talk to me about mutterings. I don't think I'll have mutterings.

Oh, yeah, we're beginning to wake up, aren't we? We're going slowly, very slowly. Oh, we've got a long way to go. Let's go back to Deuteronomy 18. I hope you have your tea with me tonight. Just one of those mugs tonight.

All right. Verse 10, you lads, still. They shall not be found among you any one that misseth his son or his daughter to pass through the fire. Oh, that useless divination. Oh, an observer of times. What does an observer of times mean?

This is somebody that tries to read the stars. You know what an observer really is, don't you? There's a good one down there at Armagh. Conferring you for guidance. We've got a book here, the Lord's book.

The prophet hath told me, you're to hear him, man. Don't tell me you've put a horoscope in front of him. Ah, God won't put a novel out. Oh, not for a moment. That's not where you get your messages from.

Oh, God help you if you do. One that use of divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. That's a great word, isn't it? You know, that simply means someone who can put spells on someone else.

It's an enchanter. And I'm taught that in the heart of Africa, this still goes on, an old missionary who'd been there for 30 years told me this. He said, well, one of these old witch doctors started to chant, and the actual word that comes to you is muttering, can't you?

He said he would stamp up and down, and he would mutter, and he would go on, and then he would point at a certain man. I said, the man knew that he was putting a spell on him. He said, down in the compound where we once were, the witch doctor suddenly appeared, and started chanting, and started muttering, and then he got the hold of this man.

And this fellow was red. He said, oh, die. And our brother Bennington said to him, you'll not die. He'll look after you. He said, I immediately got him into the hush, put him to bed, put a guard on him, told him I'm a special Christian to cook the food, because they were poisonous.

And he kept saying, you know, inside seven days, I'll die. He said, you'll not die. He said, we will depend upon you. And he says, when he got over the first day, he began to hope. He said, I've never lived as long as this.

He said, you're not going to die. But that night, as the guard was watching him sleeping, calmly sleeping, nobody knew, his breathing stopped. He said, let's forget this. We're talking about a real devil.

And if God allows it to be so, it can be so. I tell you that these mutterings, and these encounters, are not to show we don't get a lot of around about us. Well, you know that. You never read this passage before.

You read songs that know everything. I don't think you've ever seen it before. God pity you. Okay, let's have a look at the rest of it. There shall not be found among you anyone that makes it his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

Well, we'll be looking at the witch of Endor in a moment, I suppose. And the word that's there for witch, this is very interesting. It's the very same Hebrew word that's rendered falser, again and again.

It's the very same word that's rendered falser. Now, I want to say this, that the word witch and the word wizard are very closely related. You see, the witch is the female evil spirit contactor. The wizard is the male.

It's the man that's up this game. Now, the word sorcerer can be either man or woman. Well, at least three will go together. In fact, there's another one that's here that goes, listen, leave witch for a moment.

You see, the word charmer, you know, that's this magic. You remember that you could never have these magicians with this. You remember, he called him the astrologers, and he called him the magicians, and they called him.

Oh, well, these were the charmers. Now, I want you to get this, or a constructor with familiar spirits. Surely you can see that the wizard and the witch and the constructor with familiar spirits are all very closely related, and so is the next word, or the necromancer.

Actually, I have a bible at home, and the word necromancer has a number at it, and then there's a word in the margin, and here's what it says in the margin. One that inquires of the dead. That's what the word actually means.

It means one that wants to get in touch with the dead to get news. He got the whole of that. We need to be very careful with certain things. Fire. I know that God is a consuming fire, you know. I know that God has used the wind.

I know that God has used the tongue. I also know that the devil has used the fire. Didn't he do it on third street? The devil has used the wind. Who do you think created the storm and the lake? Somebody said to me, won't it make a being God that created the storm?

And I said, well, Jesus never quenched anything that the Father began. We want to be careful with tongues, don't we? And we're just leading us, aren't we? Let's have a look at this witch of Rondo for a moment.

The Witch of Endor and Saul's Necromancy

We're 1 Samuel and we're at chapter 28. And I think that you will see things in the story tonight that you never thought were there. I think the way we read at times is disgraceful. Let's start it all over again.

Verse 4. Well, we'll go to verse 3. 1 Samuel 28, verse 3. Now, Samuel was dead. The old prophet was dead. And all Israel had lamented him, and rightly so. They came in ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had took away those that had familiar spirits and the wizards.

It was a time in his life when he was against all that out of the land. And the Philistines gathered themselves together and came and pitched in Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel together and they pitched in Jeboah.

And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. And when Saul inquired of the Lord, he's down in his knees praying, the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by hewling, nor by prophets.