If an Enchantment or Divination Works Against a True Seed of God, What Is the Explanation?
1) Direct Answer
No spell truly works on a true seed walking in the Light. The Bible says, “Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel” and “No weapon formed against thee shall prosper.” If something seems to “work,” it is either a bluff and fear tactic, a door opened by disobedience, or a trial God Himself permitted—never the power of witchcraft overruling the Blood.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Numbers 23:23—Balaam could not curse whom God had blessed.
- Isaiah 54:17—No weapon formed shall prosper against God’s heritage.
- 1 John 5:18—He that is born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one touches him not.
- Luke 10:19—Authority over all the power of the enemy; “nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
- Galatians 3:13—Christ redeemed us from the curse.
- Colossians 2:15—Jesus spoiled principalities and powers.
- Proverbs 26:2—The curse causeless shall not alight.
- Job 1–2—Satan could not touch Job except by God’s permission and only within limits.
- Revelation 2:14; Numbers 25; 31:16—When Balaam couldn’t curse, he enticed to sin; judgment came from God because of Israel’s disobedience, not because enchantment had power over the covenant.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- If Balaam could have cursed God’s people, why did he have to lure them into sin? Because he had no power over the blessed. The only “inroad” is when people leave the Word and give place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27). Then consequences are God’s chastening, not the triumph of sorcery.
- Sometimes God permits a Job-like trial to glorify His Name. That is not divination conquering a believer; it is God proving His child and setting bounds on the enemy.
- Many “workings” are fear, suggestion, or coincidence misread as a curse. The Cross broke the legal right of every curse. Stay under the Blood, and the spell has no landing place.
Short Reinforcing Counsel
- Renounce and break all contact with occult things (Acts 19:19).
- Repent of any known sin; shut every door (James 4:7; 1 John 1:9).
- Stand on the Word, put on the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6:10–18), and speak the Name of Jesus.
Final Conclusion
For a true seed, no enchantment can prevail. If harm appears, it is either a lie of fear, a door opened by disobedience that calls for repentance, or a strictly limited trial permitted by God for His glory. The spell itself has no authority over the Blood-washed.
Existing Follow-Up Answers
- Show Me Examples of "a Bluff and Fear Tactic" or "lie of Fear" or Satanic Harm Appearing to Work?
Direct Answer Yes. The Bible shows many cases where Satan’s work is only a bluff, a lie of fear, or a limited harm that only appears to work but
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Time-tested faith
58-0530 §68
Now, do you realize my position? This is right at ten years around the world. Through witch doctors... I've had witch doctors to sit and go through enchantments and say they'd have a storm to blow me away. And a storm come and just whirl around and round. I just kept preaching. About fifty thousand people... About fifteen witch doctors on each side, going through all kinds of enchantments: bleeding theirself, and putting blood on them, and everything, calling up evil spirits, and truly, here come clouds. And it com...
God's Provided Way
53-0613 §77
Not long after that... He didn't have the enchantments then to attract the attention of the people, just him and his lamb, sitting in the cold, waiting for whoever would pass by and give him a coin. And then one night, his little girl took sick. And the doctor thought she was going to die. He staggered his way out into the night, and he laid down. He said, "God, I don't have nothing else here to give You but my lamb. But if You will let my little girl live, I promise You, Lord, tomorrow I will go to the temple and...
The faith that was once delivered to the saints
53-1129A §122
Well, about six months later in a cold November day, he sat at the gate shivering. No lamb to lead him. No doves to do enchantments. No money to pay the coal bill, but he had obeyed God. First thing you know he heard a racket coming down the street. "What is it?" There's screaming and crying, shouting. There's always some kind of excitement where God is around. Said, "Who is that coming?" God had provided a Lamb for blind Bartimaeus' eyes. Here come the Lamb. And that Lamb is provided for every spiritual blind man...
Possessing the enemy's gates
59-1108 §11
"Thy seed shall possess the gate of its enemy." That's God's sworn promise. The seed of Abraham. Then by His Holy Spirit, seeing that the mother was to be part of the son also, because they are part of the flesh, then the Holy Spirit working through these people, said, "Let your seed possess the gate of the enemy." Then God swearing He'd possess the gate of the enemy, then what position does that put the church of the living God? We are Abraham's seed, for we being dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are...
God commissioning Moses
53-0508 §57
Here come a witch doctor up with all of his enchantments, and the Holy Spirit stopped him dead in his tracks like that. And he wilted down before the power of the Lord. I tell you we serve the living God. Yes, sir. It come to challenge and moved back. Then we stood there at Durban, and I heard this doctor raging. He was a young fellow about thirty-five years old. And he said, "I want to see him out here." Brother Baxter lead this way, and go back this way, and said, "You'll have to get off the platform, Doctor." An...