ENDOR, SORCERER, FALSE PROPHET, WIZARD, ASTROLOGY

  ENDOR, SORCERER, FALSE PROPHET, WIZARD, ASTROLOGY

Pastor Carolyn Sissom

Monday, February 20, 2012

The past two weeks, I have received several prophetic words, dreams and warnings. I had a dream about the demonic principality and power, Endor.  This past week I had to get an “attitude adjustment”, because I just did not want to be bothered.  After I got over my little “snit” (The Louisiana French call it a “boudeau--pronounced boo-day”), I started spiritual warfare by preaching on the Davidic Covenant on Sunday evening notifying and declaring to that devil that  Jesus is King of Kings and all authority in heaven and earth has been given to Him.

Dream:  I saw a man dressed in long black robes (clergy).  He (it) was surrounded by sorcery, astrology, wizardry, familiar spirits and witchcraft.  I saw and heard “Endor”.  Instantly the scene changed.  I was seated at a table with Jesus.  I spoke to  Him with the same attitude I have had to “overcome” this past week.  I said to Him, “Don’t tell me I am going to have to deal with the spirit of the witch of Endor again!”  He did not answer me, but gave me a very kind and loving smile.  End of dream. 

 We are in “contract” with the King of Kings.  “Man can accept or reject the divine contract, but we cannot alter the terms.” (Kelly Varner, Whose Right it is).

Wednesday night the Lord spoke that the ensuing battle has to do with jealousy and competition over “authority”.   There is no authority in the realm of the Spirit except by the Name above all names, Jesus Christ.  He was given all authority in Heaven and earth.

I have concluded that the spirit of Endor is behind the spirit of “false authority”, “false kings”, “false fathers”, “false apostles”, false prophets”, and “false teachers”.  The devil always has a counterfeit of the Lord’s appointed authority.  The false-Christs and false-prophets will challenge God given authority just as they challenged Jesus.  Mt. 21:23:  “By what authority do you these things and who gave you this authority?  There is much ado these days in Christendom over “authority”.  If the demons don’t know our name, we don’t have any authority in the Kingdom.  Acts 19:13: “the evil spirit answered and said to them, Jesus I know and Paul I know, but who are you?”

   The spirit of anti-christ is at work not only in the leaders of nations, but is establishing the foundation for the false-prophet in religious arenas. (Rev. 16:13).  The leaders of the Gentiles are confronting and challenging all God appointed authority.   Man can’t give Kingdom authority and man can’t take it away.

In the governmental political arena, the “false prophet” is aligning itself with the spirit of anti-christ.  This is not new.  It has always been Satan’s agenda to discredit the King of the Kingdom of God, Christ, and his brethren with a counterfeit.

Since the appearance of “sorcery”, “astrology”, and “wizardry”  was so apparent around “Endor” in my dream, this identifies Endor with false prophets.  Also, from the appearance, this spirit is a "strong man" behind "sorcery", "astrology", and "wizardry".

Mt. 7:15:  “Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

Mt. 24:11:  “And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many.”

Mt. 24:124:  “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”

Luke 6:26:  “Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you! For so did their fathers to the false prophets.”

Rev. 16:13:  “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.”

The dragon represents Satan.  Many years ago the Lord spoke to me that the mouth of the beast is the mouth of the liberal media that supports the agenda of the spirit of anti-christ; and next is the mouth of the false prophet.

The anti-Christian agenda as presented by the spirit of anti-Christ seeks to validate immoral and ungodly laws of homosexuality; abortion; bowing and accepting other gods and idols other than Jesus Christ; anti-Israel policies; lack of national patriotism with a world agenda.

The governmental political leaders of the anti-Christian agenda are now setting-up the platform and foundation of the mouth of the false prophet to validate and affirm their religious theology which is in total opposition to the Holy Bible.   The President of the United States has stated this theology as part of his platform, yet states that he is a Christian.   Rick Santorum rightly exposed this false-Christ theology as unscriptural.  Franklin Graham also addressed this, but came short of saying the President is acknowledging a false Christ and voicing false prophecy or false theology as presented in the Holy Bible.

“Christ is the image of God.  Antichrist is any other image.  Duality is idolatry.  To focus on any other image or theology is to worship another god or “false Christ”.  Duality is idolatry.” (K.V.T.P.L.C.)  Rom. 1:25:”…Who changed the truth of God into a lie…”

  As this election season unfolds, we will begin to witness the mouth of the false prophet as those in religious political circles align themselves with the mouth of the dragon and the mouth of the beast.

There are many in the Kingdom of God who have been gifted with prophetic gifts, yet are prostituting those gifts for financial gain and fame.  Many who have received prominence will align themselves with the spirit of the false prophet to protect their ministries.  They will fear the mouth of the beast will destroy their name and ministries.   Out of this fear, they will take the mark of the beast.

Rev. 19:20:  “And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image.  These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”

Endor is a place in the territory of Issachar yet possessed by Manasseh.  It was a place known for witchcraft, sorcery, and spiritism.  When God’s people entered the land He had sternly enjoined them to root out the Canaanite, practices of spiritism and necromancy, for He Himself would speak to them through His prophets.  To seek to know His plans by magical means was a “detestable practice” (Dt. 18: 9-22).  In early days, Saul had expelled the mediums and spiritists from the land, but his disobedience had caused a complete breakdown of communication from Yahweh.  Having no priests with him since the slaughter of the priests at Nob, he could not seek their counsel.

 Saul would have been in his 60’s at the time he disguised himself and hiked the 12 miles to Endor.  This is a time in the life of ministers when they often feel insecure about their future as well as their legacy.  Though they may have done great exploits of faith in their younger years, fear of losing their ministries causes them to compromise and lose sight of absolute Faith in the Lord and His Kingdom purposes.  They are vulnerable to compromise with the false-Christs, false-prophets, and political prowess.

1 Samuel 28: 6-7:  “Saul enquired of the Lord.   The Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.  Then Saul said to his servants, seek me a woman that has a familiar spirit, (a medium) that I may go to her, and enquire of her.   His servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that has a familiar spirit at Endor.”

“Saul sought out a medium, mistress of a divining demon.  Disguised, he required the woman to call up the spirit of Samuel (a true prophet of the Lord).  But the Lord intervened and brought back Samuel’s spirit from the intermediate, disembodied state.  The medium’s fright proves this.  This was not a case of a medium communicating with the spirit of a deceased person; it was God actually calling back Samuel in spirit form to pronounce impending doom upon Saul.  It is thus a once-for-all expose of the fraud and wickedness of necromancy, spiritism, and all occultism.” (P.P.T.)

Elymas the Sorcerer (Acts 13:7-12):  Paul and Barnabas were on a missionary journey in Paphos.  Segius Paulus a senatorial proconsul called them because he desired to hear the Word of the Lord “But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.  Then Saul (who also is called Paul), filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, and said, O full of all subtlety and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?  And now behold the hand of the lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season, and immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness. And he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.”

All authority in heaven and earth has been given to the Lord Jesus Christ.  The prophets are hearing the sound of the clarion call, there will be a battle between the false prophets and the prophets of the Lord.  I will not say that the strong man Endor is the only strong man behind the spirit of the false prophet.  However, from the vision, I conclude, it is the strong man over "astrology", "wizardry", "sorcery" and"necromancy".

  On whose side will you stand?  Our Captain is uttering His mighty voice before His army (Joel 2: 1-11).  He has not called us to evacuate the conflict or to escape our place in His redemptive plan.  I have counted my costs and burned my exits.  

Our choice is to have the Spirit depart from us as the Lord departed from Saul or we can stand with the Prophet, the Lord Jesus Christ.   The Lord cut Saul off in his sins.  Do not doubt it is a sin to compromise the truth of the Holy Bible and the sovereignty of the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.  The unholy trinity is in place, the dragon, the beast and the false prophet.  Many will compromise and like Saul lose not only their life, but their soul.  Saul feared the voice of the people and obeyed their voice instead of the voice of the Lord.  In his backsliding from the Lord, Saul lost his throne, his life and spent his last day on earth consulting a witch.

Lev. 20:6:  “And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cu them off from among his people.”

Rev. 20:10: “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

En-Dor Rudyard Kipling

The road to En-dor is easy to tread  

  For Mother or yearning Wife.

There, it is sure, we shall meet our Dead
    As they were even in life.
Earth has not dreamed of the blessing in store
For desolate hearts on the road to En-dor.
Whispers shall comfort us out of the dark—
    Hands—ah God!—that we knew!
Visions and voices—look and hark!—
    Shall prove that the tale is true,
And that those who have passed to the further shore
May be hailed—at a price—on the road to En-dor.

But they are so deep in their new eclipse
    Nothing they say can reach,
Unless it be uttered by alien lips
    And framed in a stranger’s speech.
The son must send word to the mother that bore,
Through an hireling’s mouth. ’Tis the rule of En-dor.

And not for nothing these gifts are shown
    By such as delight our dead.
They must twitch and stiffen and slaver and groan
    Ere the eyes are set in the head,
And the voice from the belly begins. Therefore,
We pay them a wage where they ply at En-dor.

Even so, we have need off faith
    And patience to follow the clue.
Often, at first, what the dear one saith
    Is babble, or jest, or untrue.
(Lying spirits perplex us sore
Till our loves—and their lives—are well-known at En-dor . . . .

Oh the road to En-dor is the oldest road
    And the craziest road of all!
Straight it runs to the Witch’s abode,
    As it did in the days of Saul,
And nothing has changed of the sorrow in store
For such as go down on the road to En-dor!

Rudyard Kipling 1919

Pastor Carolyn Sissom

Eastgate Ministries, Inc.

www.eastgteministries.com

Scripture from K.J.V.; F. F. Bruce Bible Commentary; Principles of Present Truth by:  Kelly Varner as indicated; Vision of Endor and of Jesus was given to Pastor Carolyn Sissom, February 2012; Comments and conclusions are my own as I was led by the Holy Spirit and after much prayer and consideration.