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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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
God's Provided Way
53-0613 §76
Old blind Bartimaeus... Did you ever read his story? Here's a little story of him. Bartimaeus had been blind for years. And he had a little girl, we're told, a little story of him ... that he had a little girl. She was about ten years old, little curly-headed girl. He'd never seen her in all of his life. And today, how dogs lead the blind, the sheep led the blind then. They had lambs that led the blind. And Bartimaeus sat on the street begging. And he had two little turtledoves that done a little enchantment for th...
The End Time
54-0307A §10
Oh, he said, his daddy packed it. And he said one day the lion got after his daddy and he set the little idol down, and built up a fire and said the little enchantment that the witch doctor told him, and the lion run away. Said, "Well, if Amoyah failed (that's "god, the unseen.") The word means 'the wind,' the 'Amoyah.' They say, "We pray to the unseen force like the wind. If he fails, this won't fail." Now, you know that's not Christianity, not at all. Well, I said, "Being a hunter myself, the lion... The prayer t...
Jairus And Divine Healing
54-0216 §49
Now, if you'll just love God with all your heart. And if you've done something to your neighbor or somebody, just say in your heart now, "I love them too," see. "And I love God with all my heart. And, Brother Branham, I have criticized you a little bit, but I love you anyhow," see. All right. Now, just let that take place like that, and just get that whole atmosphere in here of love, then watch the law of God go to work on that one, see. That's how it... Just the same as it made the hornets go back, as it stopped t...
Speak to this Rock
53-1115A §89
I read a little story on Bartimaeus. He'd been blind for years, and he'd had a little girl, they said about ten, twelve years old, and she had never seen ... he'd never seen her. And one night, she took sick. So, Bartimaeus ... in them days instead of a dog leading them, like the blind men have today, they had a lamb to lead them. Now, listen closely. And the lamb would lead him up to the gate, and he'd sit there with a little cup. And he had two little turtledoves, and those little turtledoves would turn over and...
Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 3
57-1006 §38
And the Holy Spirit's a-moving and working in the members of this Body. There's the church. No matter if it's poor, and in a mission, if it's standing out under a pine tree somewhere, or wherever it is, if it's in somebody's house in a private meeting, no matter where it would be. Beauty and things doesn't enchant God. It's the sincerity of the heart by a revelation that Jesus Christ has been presented as the Son of God, a personal Saviour. Amen! My, you never get these through like that, will we?