What Is New Age/Occult? Why Is It So Dangerous?

Let me first start with this.

Revelation 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

These practices bring people into a non-biblical awareness of the esoteric. By adding to the bible they created a new doctrine and a false one. This has caused many churches to be Laeodacia churches, with the Lord who was once welcome there to be knoncking on their door to come back in. Churches are being fooled by the strange fire because it too has power. The occultic practices have replaced the biblical ones. The scripture Revelation 22:18 is very clear to not only steer clear but what will happen to you or your church if you do these things.

This alone should scare people from adding anything to the church or ministry of Christ. But many have been seduced led astray with false doctrines. I’ve heard preachers say, when I use these types of practices ministry is much faster. Beware! You are being deceived, speed was never an option with the ministry of Christ. It’s only God speed when the Lord chooses it to be.

God is mysterious and he will do what he chooses to do. This is why we are to seek his face. Yeshua(Jesus) said I do nothing but the will of my Father. That being said do you really think the Lord would want new age in his church? In order to seek his will and not miss the mark we must line everything up with his word of God.

The world is looking for answers most are looking in the wrong places. We must line our doctrines up with the Holy Bible. It is not only the oldest recorded word in history, it is the inspired word of God. The bible teaches us how to minister=help people. It teaches us how to pray and what we should be doing to see people set free or healed. Somehow the snake slithered his way into the church body and up to pulpits of many churches.

New Age is known as self help, making yourself into the great I am. I can do this without God, his word or prayer. I have a better way. It always stems from false religions or false doctrines. All of it has satan hidden behind it. The word occult means something hidden. Why would the devil want to hide behind these practices? He’s doing it to get you to indirectly worship him. The kingdom of darkness always mimics Gods. An example of this is when Moses threw down his staff it turned into a snake(well technically a crocodile, but we wont get into that now you may want to look into that). The pharisees threw down their staffs and they turned into snakes too. God’s snake ate all of their snakes, showing the higher power comes from God and that the kingdom of darkness has power too. Being that the enemy’s only power is what we give him. It makes sense he would be the author of confusion, creating false religions to hide himself behind to get worship. “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me” (Hebrew: לא יהיה־לך אלהים אחרים על־פני‬) is one of the Ten Commandments found in the Bible at Exodus 20:2 I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. 3 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 4 thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; 5 and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments. {S} 6 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:6 I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

Having no god before him means worshiping him alone. When you practice these occultic practices it causes you to be worshiping false gods. How you say? Well, I’ll use yoga as an example. In yoga each movement is a prayer to hindu god. The word yoga actually means hindu practice. Now as a Christian we can not be a hindu, so anyone doing this is opening their life open to confusion along with demonic entities.
Here’s a list of other occultic and new age practices:

Be In Health -Occultism

Click link above to watch

Why are these practices so dangerous?

All of the above list may come across as innocent things, some present themselves as God sent things. and all are no doubt on my mind from the devil. ^{Hebrews 2:14-15 14} Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;¹⁵ And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Occult activity rejects God’s will for mankind. Occult practice is hazardous because it is a violation of the will of God. It is forbidden by God and even pronounced to be an “abomination” to Him Deuteronomy 18:9-12 ⁹ When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.¹⁰ There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.¹¹ Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.¹² For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

The only power has is what we give him. If a person opens themselves up to any of these they will have a measure of grace from God to get it right. But if they continue in them they will in no doubt have demonic involvement of some sort. It will cause health issues or anxiety. Romans 6:23 ²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

These 5 verses are giving all of us major warnings from the Lord on what specific areas of the occult that we are to avoid like the plague. To be forewarned is to be properly armed.

• “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes His son or daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures up spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.” (Deuteronomy 18:10-13)

• “And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them …” (Deuteronomy 4:19)

• “Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 19:31)

• “And the person who turns after mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.” (Leviticus 20:6)

• “So Saul died for His unfaithfulness which he had committed against the Lord because He did not keep the word of the Lord, and also because He consulted a medium for guidance.” (1 Chronicles 10:13)

“Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.” —Hebrews 13:9

I personally renounced all practices I found the devil had duped me into dabbling in. I also went trough deliverance and healing too. I would say to anyone that has gotten involved please seek the Lord for guidance in removing any ungodly influences over your life.

Here are some steps you can take:

• Confess the specific activity before God as a sin and ask for His forgiveness.

• Renounce the specific activity before God and tell Him that you will never, ever participate in that activity again.

• Burn or throw away all books, objects, or items associated with this activity.

• Directly engage with the demons by speaking out loud to the them, telling them they no longer have any legal right to stay attached to you since the occult activity has now been fully confessed and fully renounced before God the Father.

• Then command them to now leave you in the name of Jesus Christ and for them to never, ever come back on you again.

You should seek a full gospel church that may help you in deliverance from any thing that may have attached itself to you as a result of an open door with these activities.

Be blessed because we are victorious in Christ! Don’t allow the enemy to beat yourself up for being duped. It has happened to the best of us. It’s time for us to stop and be that pure bride he’s coming for.