Witchcraft: Purpose, Methodology, and Outcome

[votivesoul]

This topic has come up in a couple of recent threads, and seems to be, therefore, a necessary item to address.

Without going into much detail, I am going to attempt to explain the purpose, methodology, and outcome witchcraft has in a person's life. I believe having some understanding of the way the enemy of our souls works, is an imperative, if we are going to properly discern and defeat him. What I present here is going to be somewhat broad, and for the most part, deals with my own unfortunate experiences, before the Lord saved me.

The Purpose

Witchcraft, for the most part comes down to two main concepts, that are really two sides of the same coin. They are:

1.) Manipulation
2.) Control

The idea behind witchcraft is that the one involved in it can be granted the power to manipulate the circumstances, the situations, and even the people around them, so that those things can become subject to the one wielding the power.

The reason this kind of thing is undertaken is so that the one involved in witchcraft can gain some kind of control over whatever it is that is being manipulated.

Methodology

In my experience, witchcraft works primarily off of two main concepts:

1.) Subversion
2.) Perversion

Subversion is the pulling away, the derailing, and changing of one's course, into a new, unanticipated direction. Perversion, on the other hand, is the intentional corruption and twisting of one's course, so that, although the person remains on the same path as before, it becomes altogether unrecognizable.

What manipulation is to subversion, control is to perversion. When the practitioner of witchcraft succeeds in his or her efforts to manipulate circumstances, situations, or people, those very things are subverted, so that those things can be brought under the control of the practitioner, so the practitioner can pervert those things, at will.

There is a lot of different ways this can take shape, depending on the particular field of witchcraft involved, but suffice it to say that wherever something or someone is being subverted, in particular, away from Christ, or the message of Christ is or has been perverted, know and understand that some form or another of witchcraft is responsible.

Outcome

The final outcome of the subversion and perversion attempted by the practitioner of witchcraft is that, both the witch and those who've come under his or her spell, are slowly but surely made to become the thrall of an evil spirit. Basically, the final goal and outcome is the denouncement of Jesus Christ, the disbelief in God Almighty, and the ruination of the human souls involved, so that, upon death, eternal damnation is assured.

All witchcraft is anchored in rebellion against the commandments of the Lord God. There are many different kinds of witchcraft in the world, depending upon one's location and the evil spirits involved. But the bottomline is, no believing Christian should have any part in this wickedness. While most of the specifics don't need to be shared or taught, lest through weakness, a brother or sister ends up tempted to look too deeply into how all of this stuff works, and begins, perhaps subconsciously at first, practice whatever form of witchcraft they've begun studying, it still behooves us to have a general, working knowledge, so that we can be on our guard, ever vigilant to resist this work of flesh and/or work of satan.

Let us not be ignorant of the devil's devices. Let's let the light of our Lord shine upon and expose these evil works of darkness, so the people of God can be certain to never, even unintentionally, find themselves involved in this most serious of offenses God has had the displeasure of dealing with.