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Sunday: The Deadly Consequences of Spiritualism
Daily Lesson for Sunday 2nd of June 2024
The fable that death is really just entrance to a new stage of life is based on the concept of the soul’s natural immortality. This pagan idea infiltrated the church early on as it moved away from its biblical foundations in an attempt to make its faith understandable to the wider Roman world. “The theory of the immortality of the soul was one of those false doctrines that Rome, borrowing from paganism, incorporated into the religion of Christendom.”—Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 549.
“ ‘And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell’ ” (Matthew 10:28, NKJV).
What should this verse alone tell us about the supposed immortality of the soul?
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The Lord forbade His people from involvement in occultism of any kind. They were not to tolerate among them “a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead” (Deuteronomy 18:11, NKJV). Such people were to be stoned to death (Leviticus 20:27). The punishment seems incredibly harsh, but it was designed to protect Israel from worshiping false gods.
Witchcraft is demonic. It seduces people into false worship and counterfeits a genuine relationship with God, but it can never satisfy the deepest needs of the heart. Spiritualism is at the heart of Satan’s plan to take the world captive. But Jesus, by His grace and power, sets captives free from the chains of evil that bind them.
Read Ecclesiastes 9:5; Job 7:7-9; and Isaiah 8:19-20. What do these Bible passages teach us about death and communication with the dead?
Though unbliblical, the belief that the dead go right to heaven at death has been around for so long and is so firmly entrenched that it’s very difficult for people to let go of it. People use a few texts that are taken out of context to try to justify the belief. But this false teaching leaves them with no protection against the deceptions Satan can foist on them, especially in the final crisis.
What has been your experience with trying to explain the state of the dead to other Christians? What, if anything, have you found effective?
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