Nov 1995 - Editorial

by Edwin Neely | Category: Editorial | Nov 1995

'FOCUS' this month investigates one aspect of our godless age, the humanistic rejection of anything supernatural. Another feature of our day is that millions are searching for answers from the supernatural, looking for problem solutions and titillating previews of the future, so much so that North American television advertises 24 hours per day psychics on the other end of a no-charge telephone line. So lucrative has this business become that advertisements proclaiming that one company of fortune tellers is superior to others is commonplace. Even police departments and high government officials in the western world consult mystic sources on a regular basis, looking for clues in crime solving and advice for political direction.

Isaiah (8:19,22) warned the people of his day and us also, in the straightest terms:

And when they say to you, 'Seek those who are mediums and the wizards, who whisper and mutter, should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?... they will be driven into darkness (NKJV).

In some areas of the U.S.A. the witch doctors of other times and places have been replaced in an 'enlightened' world with medical facilities which try to balance scientific thought and supernatural revelation. Science and medicine have their obvious place, but to those who would learn the truth, the urging of God is 'to the law and to the testimony'.

Some say there is no God and no supernatural. Some search the supernatural as if there were no God. God's Word remains the only absolute and trustworthy standard for divine revelation for both today and the future.

Edwin Neely | Nov 1995
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