The term crystal gazing is a form of seeing visions by the means of using several different objects. There are several schools of thought as to the sources of the visions seen in the crystal gazing trance. Crystal gazing may be used by practitioners sometimes called "readers" or "seers" for a variety of purposes. These may include to predict the future, to give character analyses, to tell fortunes, or to help a person or client make choices about current situations and problems.
Whatever tool or object used to induce the crystal gazer's trance can be achieved with any shiny object, including a crystalline gem stone or a convex mirror. In more common practices, a crystal ball is most often used to gaze into and consult with. Some gazers use what is called a "palm ball" which is held in their hand while others use a larger ball which is mounted on a stand. Whatever form of method a psychic or fortune-teller chooses to use, will usher them into the unseen spirit realm and will assist them in contacting the supernatural.
Old Testament ~ The Urim and Thummim
In the Old Testament of the Bible you will find where the priest would inquire of God by using what is called the Urim and the Thummim. The Urim means "lights" the oracular brilliancy of the figures in the high priest breastplate. The Thummim means "perfections" one of the objects in the high priest breastplate that represented complete truth.
The earth and everything on it belong to the Lord, this includes the world and all its people belong to Him. God is the creator of everything, but Satan has a counterfeit for everything God created. This is especially true when it comes to the things of the supernatural. God has prophecy, Satan has witchcraft. God has true prophets, Satan has false prophets, and God has the Holy Spirit and Satan has crystal gazing, fortune tellers, mediums and psychics.
In the Old Testament God revealed His mind and spoke to His people through the priest inquiring of the Urim and Thummim. He would lead the people by shining light and speaking truth through these crystals which were placed on the breastplate of the high priest. Before the priest made any decisions for the people of God, He was instructed to first consult with God. As God's strategies, plans for the future and other knowledge was revealed through these stones, the priest were obedient and the Israelites received total and complete victory.
New Testament ~ The Holy Spirit
Before Jesus ascended to Heaven He told His disciples that if He would go away, but He would send them a comforter. This comforter is the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit was what Jesus gives to the believers to comfort them, teach them, reveal truth, lead them and direct them according to the mind of God. The same way God used the Urim and the Thummim in the Old Testament, Jesus came in the New Testament died and shed His blood for us on the cross and became a mediator between us and God. The veil was torn in the temple which was a sign of the partition between us and God being done away with. Jesus became our high priest and we no longer need a priest to inquire through the Urim and Thummim to seek God on our behalf. The blood of Jesus made it possible for us as believers to have access and to come boldly before the throne of God to receive revelation knowledge of whatever we need to know. It is when we come into the presence of God that He reveals the secret things and hidden knowledge to us by His Holy Spirit.
As believers we are to never to consult with mediums or fortune tellers to try and find out our future or speaking to the dead. All methods such as crystal gazing, tarot card reading, tea leaves, reading palms and all other forms of seeking hidden and dark knowledge is totally forbidden. The methods by which those that practice these forms of the occult are considered devilish wisdom and it does not come from God.
Crystal Gazing Is Forbidden
Just as it was in the Old Testament many many years ago before Christ, it still remains today that God forbids believers to obtain hidden knowledge through crystal gazing and other forms of the occult. As Christians when we want to inquire about anything concerning our lives we must seek the Holy Spirit to show us, reveal to us and give us truth concerning these matters. It is before the throne of God that we obtain the mercy of God and truth.
In the book of Revelation 4:5-6 it speaks of the sea of glass like crystal that is before the throne of God. It is through this sea of glass that all things are made known concerning the past, present and the future. Everything in life is seen before the throne of God clear as crystal. God knows all and He sees all and there is nothing that is hidden from His face.
Deuteronomy 18:9-14
When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, don't learn to do the terrible things the people of the other nations there do. Don't sacrifice your sons or daughters in the fires on your altars. Don't try to learn what will happen in the future by talking to a fortune teller or by going to a magician, a witch, or a sorcerer. Don't let anyone try to put magic spells on other people. Don't let any of your people become a medium or a wizard. And no one should try to talk with someone who has died. The Lord hates anyone who does these things. And because these other nations do these terrible things, the Lord your God will force them out of the land as you enter it. You must be faithful to the Lord your God, never doing anything he considers wrong.
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