Spread of the Occult
Media Spearheads Occult Influx
A plethora of Occult themes is being spearheaded by the multi-media. For instance: our movie theaters have led the charge of the occult invasion for years. Who can forget the lines of people who stood outside theaters to watch the 70’s movie the Exorcist? Yes, there have been fright flicks before has for years among these being hoax films  such as various films about Count Dracula, the Wolf Man, the mummy and other cult movies. However, these were poorly done and did not carry the same weight of demonic presence as those films that followed from the 70’s to the present. Some of these satanically devised films that followed were:

•    Children of the Corn
•    Rosemary’s Baby
•    Halloween
•    Amityville Horror
•    Pet Cemetery
•    Nightmare On Elm Street
•    The Shinning
•    Salem’s Lot
•    Texas Chainsaw Massacre
•    Last House on the Left
•    Ghost
•    Twilight
•    Eclipse
•    New Moon
•    Paranormal Activity

Just to name a few:

Television started off with some rather cute shows like:

•    Bewitched
•    I Dream of Jeannie
•    The Munsters
•    The Adams Family

But then moved on to:

•    Dark Shadows
•    The Mentalist
•    Medium
•    Ghost Whisperer
•    Paranormal
•    Most Haunted
•    The Haunting
•    Supernatural
•    Charmed

To Name a Few.

Why do people flock to these films and television shows? Some say that its because people like to be scared. However, I say that its more than that. People are curious about the occult. Each of us has a longing for spiritual things. Unfortunately, those without Christ flock to spiritualistic entertainment because it fills  void in their lives. Descartes, the French mathematician said “that in every man is a God shaped void that can only be filled by God Himself.” How true. But I believe that if people do not turn to God to fill this void, they often turn to the occult to find its fullness.

The Bible is explicit in its condemnation of involvement with the occult or playing around its fringes, Deuteronomy 18:10-12 states “There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God will drive them out from before you.

Television and movies may seem harmless but they are not. The multi-media exposes all of us to the occult and creates a desensitization within our psyche as to its dangers. They mollify us and put us to sleep. May Christians everywhere wake from its trance-like induced state and make other choices in the field of entertainment. May unbelievers realize the futileness of turning to false spirituality to fill their God-shaped void.