Punishment for divination
Human beings have a natural inclination to know about their future especially while they are in crisis. In 2 Kings chapter 1, we read a similar incident. A King called Ahazia who fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber, sent messengers and said unto them, “Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease”.
But the angel of the Lord told prophet Elijah, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them,
“Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die”.
And he died.
Ahaziah went to a fake god who has no power over his future. The Creator of Heaven and earth only have right over human beings and their lives. Ahaziah did not ask messengers to go to Baalzebub to save his life from sickness, or for healing or to prolong his life because he knew it cannot do that. People approach false gods for divination. But Lord Jesus only have the right to give back life, to extend it, even to raise the dead to life etc. He said,
“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death” Rev. 1:18
No satan, enemy, magician have control over a man’s life. He will live on this earth as long as God allows him. When the Lord commands, he falls sick, gets fatal blows, and his life is taken away from this earth as we see in the case of Ahaziah. Shall we fear this God?
Rhema word for the Month – February
“….the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Neh 8:10)