Deuteronomy 18:9-22 - Occult Practices Versus Prophetic Revelation

⁹ When thou comest to the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee,. thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations. ¹⁰ There shall not be found in thee him causing his son or his daughter to pass through in fire, divining divinations, practicing magic, and taking omens and a sorcerer, ¹¹ And charming a spell, and asking of a necromancer, and a wizard, and seeking to the dead. ¹² For every one doing these things is an abomination to Jehovah And on account of these abominations, Jehovah thy God destroys them from thy face. ¹³ Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God. ¹⁴ For these nations which thou shalt possess them, they will hear to those practicing magic, and to those divining: and thou, not thus, gave Jehovah thy God to thee.

¹⁵ A prophet from the midst of thee, from thy brethren, like me Jehovah thy God shall raise up to thee; to him shall ye hear. ¹⁶ According to all thou didst ask from Jehovah thy God in Horeb, in the day of the gathering, saying, I will not add to hear the voice of Jehovah my God, and this great fire I will no more see, and I shall not die. ¹⁷ And Jehovah will say to me, They did well in what they spake. ¹⁸ A prophet will I raise up to them from the midst of their brethren, like thee, and I gave my word in his mouth, and he spake to them all that I shall command him. ¹⁹ And it was the man who shall not hear to my word. which he shall speak in my name, I will require from him. ²⁰ But the prophet which shall act proudly to speak the word in my name which I commanded him not to speak, and who shall speak in the name of other gods, and that prophet died. ²¹ And when thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah spake not? ²² The prophet who shall speak in the name of Jehovah, and the word. shall not be and shall not come, it is the word that Jehovah spake not; in pride the prophet spake it: thou shalt not be afraid of him.