How Does The Harry Potter Craze Fit Into The Last Days?

[tsth]

I would also add 2 Kings 17:17 to this. (The whole chapter reveals a people in rebellion to God and His response to them, but the particulars in regard to their kids and witchcraft are within it too.)

2 Kings 17:17

17 And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.

In His Truth,

Suzanne

[Guest StElsewhere]

I would also add 2 Kings 17:17 to this. (The whole chapter reveals a people in rebellion to God and His response to them, but the particulars in regard to their kids and witchcraft are within it too.)

2 Kings 17:17

17 And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.

In His Truth,

Suzanne

Very few will see the wisdom of those words!

[MorningGlory]

There is no such thing as witchcraft! Devil worshippers, yes. But those who think they have 'transcended the astral plane' or flown about on a broom, or that they can cast spells are two bricks shy of a full load. This IS 2007; this sounds like about 400 years ago. Weren't any witches then either, folks. The Harry Potter books are fiction......not a good topic, for sure, but still fiction. I don't believe these books are manuals for learning witchcraft. "Magic" doesn't exist. Some people see witches and goblins behind every bush and stump.

[patricia1]

As my teens (non-HP'ers) were watching all the hype on the news about it, I told them to read this chapter of the Bible to understand how God feels about these things within a nation:

Isaiah 47

1 "Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate. 2 Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams. 3 Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one." 4 Our Redeemer--the Lord Almighty is his name-- is the Holy One of Israel. 5 "Sit in silence, go into darkness, Daughter of the Babylonians; no more will you be called queen of kingdoms. 6 I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.

7 You said, 'I will continue forever-- the eternal queen!' But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen. 8 "Now then, listen, you wanton creature, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.' 9 Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells. 10 You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me.' 11 Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you. 12 "Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror. 13 All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. 14 Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. Here are no coals to warm anyone; here is no fire to sit by. 15 That is all they can do for you-- these you have labored with and trafficked with since childhood. Each of them goes on in his error; there is not one that can save you.

i disagree. trish sorry

In His Truth,

Suzanne

[KeilanS]

The only craze is with the media , if i am not mistaken chuck and larry out performed this stupid hp/.

Chuck and Larry isn't saying much for our society either. A movie about homosexuals. It also didn't outperform HP, the craze is as big as people say it is. What actually happened was that on it's opening night, Chuck and Larry brought in more money that HP did on the same night (a week after HP came out). If you compare their opening nights, HP did much better.

[Guest StElsewhere]

As my teens (non-HP'ers) were watching all the hype on the news about it, I told them to read this chapter of the Bible to understand how God feels about these things within a nation:

Isaiah 47

1 "Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate. 2 Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams. 3 Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one." 4 Our Redeemer--the Lord Almighty is his name-- is the Holy One of Israel. 5 "Sit in silence, go into darkness, Daughter of the Babylonians; no more will you be called queen of kingdoms. 6 I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.

7 You said, 'I will continue forever-- the eternal queen!' But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen. 8 "Now then, listen, you wanton creature, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.' 9 Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells. 10 You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me.' 11 Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you. 12 "Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror. 13 All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. 14 Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. Here are no coals to warm anyone; here is no fire to sit by. 15 That is all they can do for you-- these you have labored with and trafficked with since childhood. Each of them goes on in his error; there is not one that can save you.

i disagree. trish sorry

In His Truth,

Suzanne

So who are you feeling sorry for..Trish orDo you think having you your kids and home? Do you think you can undo the HP influence with them reading a Bible passage? WOW

[Guest StElsewhere]

The only craze is with the media , if i am not mistaken chuck and larry out performed this stupid hp/.

Chuck and Larry isn't saying much for our society either. A movie about homosexuals. It also didn't outperform HP, the craze is as big as people say it is. What actually happened was that on it's opening night, Chuck and Larry brought in more money that HP did on the same night (a week after HP came out). If you compare their opening nights, HP did much better.

Where is your backbone in standing up against this satanic outrage...being absorbed by children?

[Guest StElsewhere]

I would also add 2 Kings 17:17 to this. (The whole chapter reveals a people in rebellion to God and His response to them, but the particulars in regard to their kids and witchcraft are within it too.)

2 Kings 17:17

17 And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.

In His Truth,

Suzanne

...and the same people who bathe there children in this satanic trash ...are the ones who turn around and say..."No Judgment is coming on America"...Yeah Right!...The Whole Head Is Sick!?

Isa 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Isa 1:5

[Guest StElsewhere]

There is no such thing as witchcraft! Devil worshippers, yes. But those who think they have 'transcended the astral plane' or flown about on a broom, or that they can cast spells are two bricks shy of a full load. This IS 2007; this sounds like about 400 years ago. Weren't any witches then either, folks. The Harry Potter books are fiction......not a good topic, for sure, but still fiction. I don't believe these books are manuals for learning witchcraft. "Magic" doesn't exist. Some people see witches and goblins behind every bush and stump.

Well if you believe this way ...then you can't think too much of the WOG...and what it says about witches and witchcraft! ... that's cool by me...so why hang out on a Christian Discussion Board?...just asking

[tsth]

WHO is trish??? And why is the trish statement in my post???? And what are you asking St.Else???

In His Love,

Suzanne