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"You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
Exodus 22:18

Ye shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD. "`Regard not those who have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:30-31

"`And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits and after wizards to go a whoring after them, I will even set My face against that soul and will cut him off from among his people..."`A man also or woman who hath a familiar spirit, or who is a wizard, shall surely be put to death. They shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.'"
Leviticus 20:6, 27

"When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you [anyone] who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, [or one] who practices witchcraft, [or] a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

For all who do these things [are] an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.
Deuteronomy 18:9-14

And Samuel said, "Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee from being king." And Saul said unto Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and thy words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
1 Samuel 15:22-24

"Hitch up my chariot," Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. When Joram saw Jehu he asked, "Have you come in peace, Jehu?" "How can there be peace," Jehu replied, "as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?" Joram turned about and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, "Treachery, Ahaziah!"
2 Kings 9:21-23 (NIV)

Moreover the workers with familiar spirits and the wizards, and the images and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 23:24

But he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and made wooden images; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall My name be forever."

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; also he observed omens, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger. And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put My name for ever...
2 Chronicles 33:2-7

For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways; They [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, And they are pleased with the children of foreigners. . . Their land is also full of idols; They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.
Isiah 2:6, 8

Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in Mount Zion. And when they shall say unto you, "Seek unto those who have familiar spirits and wizards, who peep and who mutter," should not a people seek unto their God? For the living, to the dead? To the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Isaiah 8:18-20

"And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek the idols and the charmers, and them that have familiar spirits and the wizards. And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them," saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 19:2-4

I will destroy the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds. I will destroy your witchcraft and you will no longer cast spells. I will destroy your carved images and your sacred stones from among you; you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.
Micah 5:11-13 (NIV)

The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear, and there is a multitude of slain and a great number of carcasses. And there is no end of their corpses--they stumble upon their corpses" because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavored harlot, the mistress of witchcraft, that selleth nations through her whoredom, and families through her witchcraft. "Behold, I am against thee," saith the LORD of hosts, "and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness and the kingdoms thy shame.
Nahum 3:3-5

Then the seventy [fn] returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name."
Luke 10:17

And it came to pass as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed by a spirit of divination met us. She had brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. The same followed Paul and us, crying out and saying, "These men are the servants of the Most High God, who show unto us the way of salvation." And this she did many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, "I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And he came out that same hour.
Acts 16:16-18

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarreling, rivalry, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. About these things I tell you again, as I have also told you in times past, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19-21



The History of Vampirism

Bob Larson | www.boblarson.org


The real story of Dracula upon which Hollywood's celluloid successors of vampirism are based, has nothing to do with the 1931 Bela Lugosi "Dracula" film or the 1897 Bram Stoker Gothic novel. The real Dracula, Vlad Dracula, was a 15th Romanian monarch, a hero to his country. Dracula's father got his title membership in the crusading "order of the Dragon." (He really did live in a Transylvania castle for which he taxed local merchants.) It wasn't until 1972 that Romanians finally connected the Hollywood Dracula to the historic Vlad.

His reign of savagery against the invading Ottoman Turks led to his assuming the name of Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler. He was said to have impaled military challengers on upright wooden stakes, creating what was called the "forest of the impales." This barbarianism was done to intimidate his foes, and it worked. When the Turks marched into Dracula's province of Wallachian in the summer of 1462, they were horrified to see 20,000 of their fellow soldiers rotting on stakes, which formed a two- mile long wall of corpses. They immediately retreated.

In addition to intimidating his opponents, Vlad extended his butchery to support his own brand of family values. Promiscuous women were skinned alive. Hats were nailed to the heads of visiting dignitaries who failed to show respect by taking off their hats.

In spite of this checkered history, present-day Romanians see Vlad Dracula and his son as positive figures because they ruled during a prosperous period and rid the region of thieves. Furthermore their repelling the Turks saved Christian Europe from encroachment of Islam. Today, tracing Dracula's footsteps is one of Romania's most popular tourist attractions.

Whatever the historical accuracy of vampire legends, the fact is that the media has reinvented the Dracula epic and infused it with hedonism and savagery. As a film producer quoted in USA TODAY put it,

"Some observers believe today's growing sexual paranoia and widespread safe sex concern have unearthed Dracula's popularity once again, Vampires are at the core of our deepest fears about sex and death."

Why have vampire stories persisted and gained in popularity? Perhaps the asexuality of vampirism blends well with today's gender confused society. After all, the real tension in the movie "interview with the Vampire, " was the homosexual interaction between Louis and Lestat. One English professor suggested, "The vampire allows us to talk about things that are difficult to deal with directly. The vampire has always had sexual overtones — the sharing of blood, the biting of the neck."

Ironically, vampire love states that these creatures of the night never have sexual intercourse. Their real pleasure comes from the kill — male or female, young or old. Hollywood has created a compromise where sex is twisted to the point it is not only accomplished without genitalia, but also without guilt, and without love.

Understanding the contemporary interest in vampires may be no more mysterious than the obvious supernatural nature of their character. In their defiance of death and religious dogma, vampires are a way of grasping at the unknown. Vampires aren't bound by time and space limitation. They appear and disappear they will emerge from the mist to provoke our deepest fears and suspicions. Vampires, if understood in this way, are indeed that most mysterious of all the aliens among us.