Wings of Liberty • February 4, 2025

Witches, Science and Idols: The Many Faces of the Occult in Our World Today

Witches, Science and Idols: The Many Faces of the Occult in Our World Today



The Bible plainly declares that witchcraft, spellcasting, and attempting to communicate with the dead are an abomination. When God drove the pagan nations out of the land of Caanan so that ancient Israel could take the land the Lord had promised to Abraham, He gave unambiguous instruction to His people:


When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.


12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.


13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.


14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.i


God absolutely prohibits witchcraft and necromancy (attempting to communicate with the dead). What else did God prohibit that the pagan nations were doing? The Lord declares in His Ten Commandments that idol worship is a sin. The second commandments states, in part:


Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.


Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.


Yes, you heard that correctly. God prohibits spell casting, witchcraft and trying to talk to the dead, just like He prohibits worshiping statues of Buddha or Mary.


Israel ignored God’s warnings, and God sent the judgments of heaven against them. The Assyrians, Babylonians, and Romans repeatedly invaded and destroyed their cities. They were starved, deported or killed, and their temple was destroyed, razed to the ground not once, but twice.


The western world is repeating the sins of ancient of Israel. Today, the occult is everywhere in our society. Hollywood relentlessly promotes it to the masses. It’s in movies and its on TV. It’s on Netflix and Disney Plus. It is shamelessly marketed to children. It’s on Tik Tok and Instagram, where millions of people each day watch videos on spell casting, hexes, tarot cards and palm reading.ii There are witch influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers online.iii “We’re everywhere”, bragged a 36-year-old witch to a news reporter in Australia.iv "Summoning demons has never been so fun!", declares a popular children’s book.v


The word “occult” comes from the Latin occultus, meaning secret or hidden. Satan, the rebel angel who was cast out of heaven and “deceives the whole earth”,vi promised Eve hidden knowledge. That is how death and suffering entered out world. You can read about it in Genesis chapter 3.


You may not have realized that occult practices are no different in God’s eyes than the idol worship of false religions. For one thing, attempting to talk to the dead using a séance is no different than attempting to talk to Mary, who is also dead. Both are necromancy, forbidden occult practices. It is just that one uses mediums and Ouija boards, and the other uses images and cathedrals.


But even if Mary were alive, which she is not, the Bible states clearly that it is a sin to make an image of anyone, or anything, whether in heaven or in earth, and bow down to it, or worship it.


But what does this have to do with science, you ask. “The enlightened person is opposed to such superstition”, you may say. “I don’t believe in witches or ferries, and I don’t believe in God. I am a scientist.”


But Satan is clever, and scientists are not immune to the temptation of supposedly hidden knowledge.

Alfred Russel Wallace, co-developer with Charles Darwin of the theory of natural selection, was a spiritualist, and saw “spiritualism as a legitimate domain of scientific enquiry.vii


Pierre Curie, physicist and husband of Marie Curie, often consulted a medium and believed in both her abilities and in the underlying claims of a spiritual realm containing entities.


Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, pioneer of quantum physics, believed that quantum physics would return spiritualism to the world that was once ruled by atheistic paradigms.viii That’s interesting, considering the emerging promise of quantum artificial intelligence and a coming singularity.ix


Most people do not realize that famous inventers Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were both involved in spiritualism. Tesla built a device to communicate with the dead, and spent years listening to recordings of what he believed to be the spirits of the departed.


Tesla was scared but fascinated by what he heard. “My first observations positively terrified me”, he said, “as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night.”x


“The sounds I am listening to every night at first appear to be human voices conversing back and forth in a language I cannot understand.”xi


Tesla filed a patent for the device, which he called a “Spirit Radio”. Today, people are building the device using plans posted on the internet, and using artificial intelligence to inform them of what “the dead” are supposedly saying. Like Tesla, they say that the recordings are disturbing, and listening to them can lead to mental deterioration.xii

Make no mistake, Tesla was involved in the occult. His device to listen to the voices that he thought were the dead is as prohibited by the Bible as going to speak to a clairvoyant or a medium. Satan simply substituted so-called science and technology for the human medium, and repackaged the deception.


The Bible states that the dead are dead – “the dead don’t know anything”.xiii Their thoughts have perished. Don’t attempt to speak to them, God warns. You’ll be listening to devilsxiv – the fallen angels who were cast out of heaven and who deceive the whole world.


The rise of the occult in our day is yet another sign that the end of all things is at hand. Don’t be deceived, friends. Jesus is coming again, and before He does, the Bible says that there will be a great “falling away.”xv People will be seduced by the occult and false religion. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s spell casting or so-called “science” that brings you into the occult, Satan would be happy with either.


The Bible is our safeguard. The dead are dead. Do not be deceived.


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iDeuteronomy 18:10-14

ii https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-63403467

iii https://qz.com/quartzy/1411909/the-explosive-growth-of-witches-wiccans-and-pagans-in-the-us; https://influencers.feedspot.com/witch_instagram_influencers/

iv https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/modernday-witchcraft-is-on-the-rise-in-australia-as-support-for-organised-religion-plummets/news-story/ccbc9bbcbc05ffd8acd8c5ab3f780f38

v https://www.newsweek.com/satan-getting-hot-hell-american-pop-culture-1790669

vi Revelation 12:9

vii https://www.cell.com/current-biology/p Deudf/S0960-9822(13)01317-1.pdf

viii https://medium.com/paul-austin-murphys-essays-on-philosophy/the-weird-case-of-wolfgang-pauli-hardcore-positivist-and-mystic-041551d67dde

ix The “singularity” is a tech industry term refering to their long-expected moment when artificial intelligence will become self aware.

x Nicola Tesla, 1901.

xi Nicola Tesla, 1918.

xii https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1831722931522826636 - “Tesla said he listened to this radio his entire life, I personally do not suggest this. This is why I have let the AI listen in. I am certain some of what is heard may contribute to a decline in some ways with people. This is why I hesitate releasing the schematics based on the actual patents. I advise to extend great caution in listening to more than a few seconds. And yes the feeling you have when you hear this is quite normal. And I will explain in detail why at some point. But I urge limited listening if you are handy enough to decide to build such a device. No I am not joking. However AI listening for us is incredibly useful. I have not only had the AI look for a language but also insights about the other sounds it hears and to discover if they are also a form of language.”

xiii Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6.

xiv Revelation 9:20; Revelation 16:4

xv 2 Thessalonians 2:34


By Wings of Liberty December 21, 2025
FAKE MONEY, FAKE SABBATH Everyone knows it is a crime to print fake money, or to use it, also known as “passing it off”, as legal tender. If you want to go to jail fast, print fake money and give it to your buddies for their trips to 7/11. Why does the government get so bent out of shape if you make your own money? Because that’s their exclusive domain. The Constitution (Article 1, section 8) says that only Congress has the power to print money. And boy are they doing a lot of it! 38 Trillion of it in fact, and counting, and they don’t want any competition from civilians. Yes, if there’s anything left in the Constitution that the federal government actually takes seriously it’s the right to print money! The Bible says that we are to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s – Matthew 22:21. There is no doubt that regulating money is primarily the domain of government. Similar to ancient Rome, it has the faces of it's leaders on it. American money also bears the Great Seal of the United States, featuring the coat of arms on one side, and the so-called Eye of Providence on the other, a symbol which bears uncanny resemblance to the Eye of Horus in the rites of ancient Egypt, as well as the All-Seeing Eye in occult practices. God, the Creator and eternal sovereign of the universe, also has an exclusive domain, and he’s even more jealous about His authority than Caesar. Caesar has been delegated temporary oversight (by God) of civil government while this earth remains. But God has always retained sovereignty over religious matters. His domain is itemized in the first four commandments of the Decalogue, separated and enumerated on a separate table of stone to show unmistakably that this is the Creator’s exclusive domain. As part of humanity’s obligations to the Creator, God declares that the seventh day of the week is His Sabbath, and He blessed it as such. The Sabbath predates the fall of humanity – Genesis 2:1-3. It is the sign of His creative power – Exodus 20:11. It is the sign of His sanctifying power – Exodus 31:13; Hebrews 4:9, 10. The seventh day is “the Sabbath of the Lord thy God” – Exodus 20:10; Mark 2:28. God has exclusive jurisdiction over the Sabbath. It bears the great seal of the Creator – His name – the LORD; His title – Creator; His jurisdiction – heaven and earth – Exodus 20:11. God is far more jealous over His Sabbath than Congress is over money printing. The government will throw you in jail if you help it print money. But the Bible says that those who attempt to change the words of the Most High will be destroyed – Revelation 22:19. The Founding Fathers of America believed in the separation of church and state. But there has arisen new kings today “who know not Joseph”, nor the blessings that Providence bestowed on this great land in the past. The forces which are running America into the ground through debt will also establish a counterfeit Sabbath. Sunday sacredness will be exalted, and passed off to the public as the genuine article in much the same way any common counterfeiter makes fake Benjamins. If Congress jealously guards the right to print money, does it not think the God of the universe will jealously guard His Sabbath from counterfeiters? But that is what Sunday sacredness is – it is a counterfeit. It is the mark of the Papacy, and the sign of its authority. It is the Roman Catholic Papacy which boasts to have changed the law of God – it admits it is a counterfeiter. The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine by Reverend Peter Giermann states the following: “ Question: Which is the Sabbath day? Answer : Saturday is the Sabbath day. Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church in the Council of Laodicea transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” The Reverend Steven Keenan’s Doctrinal Catechism says similar: “ Question: Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept? Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day; a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.” There are many indicators which demonstrate that powerful forces are pushing American society toward a union of church and state and the imposition of Sunday rest laws on the populace. Jesuit-educated Erika Kirk, the new president of Turning Point USA, has given an interview where she laments the loss of Sunday blue laws, and has stated that society must be “retrained”. i On November 13, 2025, the Michigan House of Representatives passed House Resolution 222 which officially declares November 23, 2025, as “Christ the King Sunday”. Christian Nationalists today want the same thing Pius XI wanted when he wrote his encyclical Quas Primas in 1925 (which is referenced in the Michigan resolution), and created the original Catholic Feast of Christ the King Sunday. They want a union of church and state. The Michigan resolution was sponsored by Republican state Representative and Catholic, Josh Schriver, who also sponsored a resolution in September 2025 to honor Pope Leo XIV upon his election as pope. ii The White House has issued another press release honoring another Catholic holiday. First it honored Lent, and encouraged Christians to observe Lent, which is a festival entirely devoid of biblical basis. Now it has honored the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. iii The executive branch of government has declared that, “For nearly 250 years, Mary has played a distinct role in our great American story”, and “As we approach 250 years of glorious American Independence, we acknowledge and give thanks, with total gratitude, for Mary’s role in advancing peace, hope, and love in America and beyond our shores.” The attribution of God’s blessing and protection over America to Mary is idolatry, and blasphemy. Papist Jonathan Berry, architect of Project 2025’s Sunday provisions, has been ratified as Solicitor of Labor. The Department of Labor has wasted no time in moving toward a unification of church and state. It is hosting regular prayer services where federal employees are encouraged to pray and sing hymns. iv Berry has stated his intention to restore Sunday sacredness in America and use his civil authority as Solicitor of Labor to punish transgressors of Sunday rest laws. v Sunday laws are coming. A global conversation has begun and it will grow until it becomes the dominant issue on this planet. Everyone on earth will pick a side. On one side is the Creator of the universe, and His pledge to “write His laws in our hearts and in our minds – Jeremiah 31:31-33. To make all things new. He says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” On the other side is the ecumenical movement, the Papacy, the civil and apostate powers of government, and their false Sabbath, the eminent pagan day of the Sun. You will decide where you stand. ________________________________ i https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2HjvrMaHnlw ii https://www.wingsofliberty.net/michigan-house-of-representatives-pass-resolution-to-establish-papal-holiday iii https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception/ iv https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/department-of-labor-hosts-first-prayer-service-emulating-regular-pentagon-events v https://www.wingsofliberty.net/copy-of-the-curse-of-church-and-state-part-3-liberty-threatened
By Wings of Liberty November 22, 2025
On November 13, 2025, the Michigan House of Representatives passed House Resolution 222 which officially declares November 23, 2025, as “Christ the King Sunday”. Since we had never heard of this festival some research was in order. The Feast of Christ the King is an annual Catholic holy day instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 in an encyclical entitled Quas Primas, Latin for “In the First”. i SPOILER ALERT: If you have read papal encyclicals before, this one is just as pretentiously arrogant as the rest of them, full of flowery rubbish the substance of which is that the pope ought to be reinstated as ruler of the world, and outrageous lies about utopia on planet earth if this were to occur. The encyclical would be ridiculous but for the deadly serious history of the murder of millions of martyrs by the Papacy. Rome never changes. Quas Primas was written by Pius XI prior to the Lateran Pact in 1929 which restored civil power to the Papacy. In consequence, the encyclical is a manifesto for the restoration of the union of church and state, and contains a number of statements to this effect: If We ordain that the whole Catholic world shall revere Christ as King, We shall minister to the need of the present day, and at the same time provide an excellent remedy for the plague which now infects society. We refer to the plague of anti-clericalism, its errors and impious activities. [Anticlericalism is criticism of the clergy, especially clergy who are always meddling with civil power]. … Moreover, the annual and universal celebration of the feast of the Kingship of Christ will draw attention to the evils which anticlericalism has brought upon society in drawing men away from Christ, and will also do much to remedy them. While nations insult the beloved name of our Redeemer by suppressing all mention of it in their conferences and parliaments, we must all the more loudly proclaim his kingly dignity and power, all the more universally affirm his rights. … When we pay honor to the princely dignity of Christ, men will doubtless be reminded that the Church, founded by Christ as a perfect society, has a natural and inalienable right to perfect freedom and immunity from the power of the state; and that in fulfilling the task committed to her by God of teaching, ruling, and guiding to eternal bliss those who belong to the kingdom of Christ, she cannot be subject to any external power. … But how is this connected to Resolution 222? Why is the Michigan House of Representatives making resolutions to impose Catholic religious festivals on the people of Michigan, most of whom are not Catholic? The answer is that Christian Nationalists today want the same thing Pius XI wanted when he wrote Quas Primas in 1925, and created the Feast of Christ the King: a union of church and state. The Michigan resolution was sponsored by Republican state Representative and Catholic, Josh Schriver, who also sponsored a resolution in September 2025 to honor Pope Leo XIV upon his election as pope. Mr. Schriver has ties to the so-called Christian Nationalist movement and its ongoing efforts to unite church and state in America. In a 2023 talk radio interview on WCHY-FM, Mr. Schriver declared that “it's God who appoints our elective officials. Honestly, I work for God and not for man. And so I answer to one person, and that's Jesus Christ.” Mr. Schriver’s assertion that he is not accountable to the citizens of the 66 th district is something they will perhaps remember when they have occasion to revisit the ballot box. But we digress. More to the point, the Michigan House of Representatives has taken steps to unite church and state, a violation of the Establishment Clause which is extended to apply to the individual states via the 14 th Amendment. See Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947) - https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/330/1/. Bible prophecy foretells of a coming union of church and state in America, and in the world at large, and the imposition of the mark of papal authority, which is Sunday sacredness. It is not so far fetched as one watches events in the state of Michigan.
By Wings of Liberty October 18, 2025
Humanity is accelerating toward the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and the events warned of in Revelation 13-18. Ecumenism is bringing Protestantism back into harmony with the Papacy. The wall of separation between church and state is under attack from religeonists who covet state power to compel their dogmas on the human population. We have passed another signpost. The Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534 during the Reformation over a dispute about papal authority and the annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage. As a result of this schism, Anglicans have long had an established creed similar to the Westminster Confession of the Reformed Church. Like the Westminster Confession, the “39 Articles of Anglicanism” formally rejects the papal claim to universal supremacy for the Bishop of Rome. The 39 Articles of Anglicanism include the following: “As the Church of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch, have erred, so also the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith”; “The Romeish Doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshiping and Adoration, as well of Images as of Relics, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God”, “It is a thing plainly repugnant to the Word of God, and the custom of the Primitive Church to have public Prayer in the Church, or to minister the Sacraments, in a tongue not understanded of the people”, “Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, are not commanded by God's Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage: therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness”, and “ The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of England.” The Popes assert they “hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty”. England rejected these boastful claims and the Pope’s presumptuous authority to dominate the minds and hearts of humanity. It is not a coincidence that while many other European countries were suffering under the oppression of the Inquisition, England was advancing toward empire. So vast was is influence at one time it was famously even claimed that “the sun never sets on the British empire”. But a great change has come. For some decades England, which never sufficiently distanced herself from Rome doctrineally, has been increasingly friendly toward the Papacy. Today, the globalism of the Roman pontiff is the globalism of King Charles III. The climate change agendas of Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV are also shared by King Charles III, the latter of who’s father publicly advocated for population reduction and compared humanity to a “plague”. England is also adopting digital IDs and carrying out mass surveillance and censorship on its own citizens, a practice near to the hearts of the prelates of Rome, to be sure. And now, King Charles III, who holds the title of not only king but Supreme Governor of the Anglican Church, is headed to Rome to hold a public prayer ceremony with Pope Leo XIV. The leader of the Anglican Church has not engaged in public prayer with the Bishop of Rome for approximately 500 years. According to the Royal Palace, “This will be the first state visit, since the Reformation, where the Pope and the Monarch will pray together in an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel, and the first time the monarch will have attended a service in St Paul’s Outside the Walls, a church with an historic connection to the English Crown.” According to MSN News, Charles III will also accept a new title. “Charles is also being recogenised for the British monarchy’s historic association with the Papal Basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls in Rome, the seat of a Benedictine Abbey, and will be made “Royal Confrater” of the abbey.” Rome never changes. The Papacy has not retreated one letter from its false doctrines. It still claims authority over this earth. It still teaches the false doctrine of purgatory and forbids priests to marry, as well as many more false doctrines which Protestants, including Anglicans, object to. So why this ecumenical development today? The change is with the Anglican Church, which is drifting back toward the once-estranged mother as prophecy foretells. The light of sola scriptura that was brought to England by the Bible is being rejected. It seeks the company of the pope, the pretender to the throne of Christ. Like Israel of old, Anglicanism will say, “we have no king but Caesar.” Of all the Protestant denominations, Anglicanism is the closest to Catholicism. The pageantry and formal rites still have many similarities. England mirrors the union of church and state of Roman Catholicism by unifying church and state in the person of the monarch of England. It has no pope, but it has a king who claims to be the head of the church. Now that king will go to Rome. All roads lead there, it is said, and Protestantism has set itself to prove it. The sun is setting on the British empire after all. SOURCES: https://www.papalencyclicals.net/leo13/l13praec.htm https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/king-to-pray-at-public-service-with-pope-during-state-visit-to-vatican/ar-AA1OF5lH https://www.ibtimes.com/prince-william-shares-prince-charles-philips-grave-concern-over-issue-2767853