Revelation Requires Death

Divination vs. Revelation

There is a kind of knowledge that may be obtained through effort, observation, and reasoning. 

And there is another kind that comes only through obedience and trust in God. 

Certain forms of knowledge, while impressive, leave the individual unchanged in character and untouched in obedience. 

This knowledge that puffs up is emptying us. Divination belongs to this category.

We want to know what is coming, preferably in advance and without having to change very much in the process. 

This is where divination enters, not with horns and smoke, but with a gentle promise that we can be informed without being interrupted.

Divination is not always dramatic. More often it is subtle. 

It offers us answers while allowing us to remain exactly who we are.

The modern church wants revelation without repentance. It wants insight without holiness and knowledge without the fear of God. This is the heart of divination. 

Divination is not a small sin.

It is high treason against Heaven. Treason that begins the moment we worry rather than worship.

Divination seeks to understand without dependence upon God. It looks for guidance without submission and certainty without faith. 

It is humanity reaching for what belongs only to God, while refusing to belong fully to Him. 

For this reason, it cannot lead a man nearer to the heart of God.

There are only 2 ways divine knowledge moves through the world.

One tries to read the handwriting of the future.

The other is governed by the Hand that wrote the future.

Divination is not intellectual curiosity. It is the desire to know without yielding to Yahweh.

Divination grasps for the fruit of forbidden insight while refusing surrender to the Son.

Revelation is the inheritance of sons who abide in the secret place, who eat from the tree of life.

Divination reveals information about life. Revelation reveals Jesus Himself, the one who is Life.

The Governing Distinction

From this point forward, Scripture presents only 1 true test for spiritual knowledge.

Does this knowledge preserve my control, or does it require my death?

The scroll that is sweet to the mouth is bitter to the stomach. Few choose to digest this truth.

Any insight that leaves the old man intact is not from the Holy Spirit, no matter how accurate it appears.

Divination always preserves control. Revelation always requires death.