Posted on 09/25/2022 6:58:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In the New Testament, Acts 16, Paul casts out a "spirit of divination" that had possessed a slave girl. The town got mad because the town was getting rich of the girl. So apparently the girl's powers were real. But the spirit was against Paul.
King Saul also consulted a medium and while the Lord allowed Samuel to answer him with a rebuke for consulting a medium, it was listed among the reasons for Saul's death.
Nostradamus claimed to have a spirit guide. There is no indication that the spirit was sent from the Lord. Which means Nostradamus was violating God's law by consulting with the spirit.
Leviticus 19:31 ESV
“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 20:27 ESV
“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”
Leviticus 20:6 ESV
“If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
Isaiah 8:19 ESV
And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
Deuteronomy 18:10-12
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
1 Chronicles 10:13-14 ESV
So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance. He did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.
2 Kings 21:6 ESV
And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
I was cleaning out the basement over the summer and found water I had stored for the Y2K computer catastrophe way in the back of the crawl space. Passed the sniff test, so I just left it there. But I must admit to feeling a little foolish.
If Charles goes, William becomes king. If not William, it will be his son. Harry is out of the running unless both of them die before Charles
Can I interest you in the Bible?
If Nostradamus was alive in the days of the prophets he’d be put to death for all the prophecies not coming true.
I give you Elijah and the three hundred prophets of Ba’al.
In the perilous times of Mer Ica
One will take his position through fraud
Speaking, yet saying nothing
Shaking hands that are not there
He eats his pudding and is satisfied.
But the moment I knew the thing was completely overblown was when I heard one of the "Voices of Doom" (TM) declare somberly that planes would fall out of the sky because the computers would think it was 1900 and "flying had not been invented yet".
What I do remember most about it is my company had to be Y2K compliant so we had to get an entire new ordering and inventory control system. We were a small manufacturing company so having one scratch built was out of the question so the guys in IT jury rigged up one that was based on a point of sale system. And every now and then if you hit the right combination of keys it would pop up a drinks menu.
I had to reprogram a school library system to know th a due date of 2/15/00 was not 1900. But that wasn’t that hard. The manufacturer. Sent a few lines of.code in an email with instructions.
Harry is 6th in line to be king after William, George, Charlotte and Louis. Let’s hope all of them stay safe and keep Harry away from the throne.
Working in IT, I've heard and/or lived through pretty much every Y2K experience and story, true and apocryphal. But yours is a new one to me, and so I thank you -- you've made my evening.
All three of William’s children precede Harry in the line of succession. Harry is currently #5.
Saddly, he lost his eternal hellire boyfriend to a man named Chris...who died on a mall escalator.
I was cleaning out the basement over the summer and found water I had stored for the Y2K computer catastrophe
*retrospectively would have been a better word choice
I recall reading a book years ago titled “The Antichrist and a Cup of Tea”.
The expectation at the end was that Prince Harry would take the throne and the role of Antichrist.
The book detailed a lot of the history and myth behind the royal seat in England with the many claims to descending from Christ. I read this article and was surprised to see what was stated regarding Prince Harry. Surprised - I imagine that will happen a lot the next few years; Expectations= Scripture tells us where it is headed - that is not the surprise.
Hey, it’s vintage 4 billion year old water.
Nostradamus lived over 500 years ago, his quatrains are vague and often taken to mean all sorts of things that no one is sure if even one is correct…and yet he has a better batting average at getting it right than CNN.
People are retards.
The first time it happened we were rather confused.
After that it became a running joke that the computer knew when we were stressed and would offer us a selection of mixed drinks.
IT managed to get the number of times it happened down but it never went away entirely.
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