Astrology
Astrology
is a divination art, which teaches that the relative positioning in the sky of
the Sun, Moon and planets has an influence upon individuals and upon the course
of human affairs. The actual word for astrology in the Hebrew language literally
means, ‘divining the heavens'. Divination is the act of foretelling future
events, or of revealing secret knowledge, by means of signs and omens or other
supernatural agency.
Those who consult with astrologers and use astrology
for guidance in their lives will be worn out and consumed like stubble. They
will not find salvation or deliverance.
- Isaiah 47:13-15 HCSB You are worn out with your many
consultations. So let them stand and save you--the astrologers, who
observe the stars, who predict monthly what will happen to you. 14 Look, they are like stubble; fire
burns them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame.
This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside! 15 This is what they are to
you--those who have wearied you and have traded with you from your
youth--each wanders on his own way; no one can save you.
God prohibits the practice of divination.
- Leviticus 19:26 HCSB "You are not to eat anything
with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or sorcery.
When the Israelites were about to enter the Promised
Land of Canaan, God warned them not to practice it.
- Deuteronomy 18:9 HCSB "When you enter the land the
LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of
those nations.
- Deuteronomy 18:12-14 HCSB Everyone
who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and the LORD your God is
driving out the nations before you because of these detestable
things. 13 You must be blameless before the
LORD your God. 14 Though these nations you are
about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the LORD your
God has not permitted you to do this.
Divination is actually regarded to be a grave sin. It
is rebellion against God’s authority.
- 1 Samuel 15:23 HCSB For rebellion is like the sin of
divination, and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry. Because you have
rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.
When King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, he summoned the
magicians, sorcerers and astrologers to tell him what he had dreamed. They were
useless.
- Daniel 2:10 HCSB The Chaldeans
answered the king, "No one on earth can make known what the king
requests. Consequently, no king, however great and powerful, has ever
asked anything like this of any diviner-priest, medium, or Chaldean.
The astrologers of Babylon were unable
to help the King with this troublesome dream. However, God had blessed his
prayerful prophet Daniel with the true gifts of the Holy Spirit, and he was
brought before the king to interpret the dream. With God’s anointing, Daniel
was able to describe and explain the king's prophetic dream.
- Daniel 2:27-28 HCSB Daniel answered the king:
"No wise man, medium, diviner-priest, or astrologer is able to make
known to the king the mystery he asked about. 28 But there is a God in heaven who
reveals mysteries, and He has let King Nebuchadnezzar know what will
happen in the last days. Your dream and the visions that came into your
mind as you lay in bed were these: