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
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The Seal of God
54-0514 §87
"This Gospel will be preached..." What Gospel? What is the Gospel? Not the Word only. Paul said, "The Gospel come to us, not in word only, but through power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost come the Gospel." Paul said, "I never come with some seminary education, come making big swell words, for your salvation to be based upon swelled words, and enchanting lips, and some doxology or apostles' creed, or something like that. I never come to you like that. But I come to you knowing only one thing: the power of the r...
Divine Healing
54-0620E §39
I read a story once of blind Bartimaeus---a fiction, perhaps. I will quote it before we pray for the sick. He said blind Bartimaeus in those days... He had two little turtledoves, and they done little enchantments for the tourists. They had to do something outstanding, or they couldn't live ... make a living, begging, and they had no other way to live. So said those little turtledoves would do tumbles. Said, one night... He had a little girl, and she got sick. So he went out and prayed, and he said, "Lord, if You'l...
Why are people so tossed about?
56-0101 §85
Oh, God, take me back to the Shekinah glory; take me in the veil with You. I'm satisfied with Jesus. Lord, let me lose myself and find it in You. Get into the inner veil where all these howls of the world... The Bible said in the last days there'd come a famine upon the earth, not for bread and water alone, but for hearing the true Word of God. And people will go from east to west and everywhere trying to find it. That hour is here! That hour is here when men are putting themselves up like gods, and wanting to be g...
The Seed shall not be heir with the shuck
65-0429B §27
The sun rises of a morning, a little baby, just born, very weak. At seven or eight o'clock it starts off to school. At ten or eleven o'clock it's out of college. It's shining in its strength from about eleven till about three, then it begins to weaken. In the evening it goes down, gets weak, an old man. Is that the end of it? It dies. No, it rises again the next morning, see? All nature, your real, true Bible that witnesses with this Bible, and that's what I'm trying to show you this morning. Now through nature you...
The manifestation of Thy resurrection to people today
54-0809E §25
...r a while he begins to see his hands, and here he comes down the road, rejoicing and screaming that he was able to see. He followed Jesus, because Jesus had done something for him. I told a little story not long ago---I read it; may I pass it to you?---of blind Bartimaeus. They said he had been blind practically all of his life. The little story: It may be fiction; it'll do for this time. And said that he used to go down to the gates, and he had two turtle doves that done little enchantment, tumbling over each othe...