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What Christians Need to Know About Witchcraft: ‘Satanic Culture Is Real’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Amid the Halloween season, interest in witchcraft and the occult grows, and while they’re easy to dismiss as fake, Christians must be aware of their real-world impact.
“The satanic culture is real, witchcraft is real, and I think we live in a culture where we like to act as if that’s just something that is make-believe, cute and entertaining to see in movies, especially around this time of the year,” “Trending with Timmerie” podcast host Timmerie said.
She explained that even though many people say witchcraft is fake, “Satan wants us to believe that.” It is, in fact, real.
The podcast host recalled a time in her childhood when she entered a store filled with crystals and witchcraft tools. There was even a woman who was a witch.
“[Witchcraft] is one of the fastest growing religions right now,” Timmerie stated.
The York Daily Record reported that witchcraft, which includes paganism and Wicca, has increased “from around 8,000 practitioners in 1990 to roughly 1.5 million in 2018.” That number is likely even higher today.
“WitchTok,” a social media trend, has exploded across platforms.
Movieguide® reported, “Witchcraft has become one of the top trends on TikTok, and as the ‘WitchTo’ hashtag goes viral with over 30 billion views, users are being seduced by occult practices.”
While many believe that the TikTok witches are real, others aren’t so sure.
TikToker Alex Biron challenged witches to “hex” him. Two weeks later, he shared an update.
“In his update video, Alex is still adamant that the witches have nothing to do with his eye which has started to turn red,” Ky Stewart wrote. “He says — in a humorous manner — that it has nothing to do with ‘magic’ because he spoke to a doctor that told him that it’s a ‘sudden anomaly that he hasn’t seen before that’s not responding to medicine in the usual ways.’”
“What all this has taught me is that it doesn’t matter if I think the witches of TikTok are real or not or whether Alex really has been hexed. What matters is that I do not, under any circumstances, want to mess with WitchTok,” Stewart added.
While some are skeptical of witches’ power, the Bible condemns participating in witchcraft because it separates us from God.
“The Bible very strongly condemns spiritism, mediums, the occult, psychics, all of it… it’s abominable for us to participate in the antithesis of God,” Temmerie explained.
“You need to be aware of the reality of these things…at the end of the day…we’re called to confidently place ourselves in the hand of Providence, in the hands of God, giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it,” she concluded.
Movieguide® recently reported on the dangers of witchcraft:
Jeannie Ortega Law is a vibrant, authentic, passionate, prayer-filled woman. She exudes charisma in her interviews both in front of and behind the camera. Her platform as a former pop star gives her an opportunity to share the Gospel around the world. Now, she’s sharing her testimony and lessons in spiritual warfare in her new book, What Is Happening to Me?
…Ortega Law first encountered terrifying spiritual warfare when she was just a child when her family introduced her to the false religion of Santaria.
“I was exposed to things in that religion, and just even as a child, overall, that I didn’t have the emotional capacity to understand. And now that I do have the emotional capacity to understand, they were downright evil,” Ortega says of what she witnessed…
“We are also interacting with all these other dead spirits to either put curses on people or to get what we want. It’s magic, and it’s witchcraft, according to what the Bible says…”
“I just thank God that there was always that feeling like something wasn’t right. Now even going back through it, I’m like, ‘Wow, Lord, You were there!’” Oretega Law says. “He had always inserted Himself in different ways in my life, regardless what I was exposed to, to help kind of lead me down another path.”
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