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Some other well-known churches are the Wicca Church of America, Church of All Worlds,
Universal Church of Wicca, Aquarian Tabernacle Church, The Church of the Iron Oak, and the
Church of Universal Brotherhood. Witches are so organized that they hold seminars and
conventions that are publicized by the media. In 1970, the New York City Parks Department
issued a permit for the Witches International Craft Associates (WICA) to have a “Witch-In” in
Sheep Meadow on Halloween. Over 1,000 people attended.
In 1980, Joyce Clemow, a director of the New York Center for the Strange (a non-profit
research group that investigates “the myriad aspects of prognostication, prophecy, and
divination”) said that among America’s practicing witches, were three Congressmen, a
syndicated financial columnist, the President of one of the nation’s banks, a well-known
television newscaster, and a man who held a top foreign affairs position in the Nixon
Administration. Margot Adler, a reporter for National Public Radio, was a well-known witch,
and author of a book on neo-Paganism called Drawing Down the Moon.
The Bible is very clear concerning the occult. Exodus 22:18 says: “Thou shalt not suffer a
witch to live.” Witchcraft practitioners claim that this verse doesn’t refer to witchcraft, because
the word “witch” is translated from the Hebrew word “chasaph” which actually means “a
poisoner.”
However, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible identifies the original word out of
the Massoretic text to be “kashaph” (#3784), a root word which means to “whisper a spell, i.e. to
inchant (sic) or practise (sic) magic.” The word “kesheph” (#3785) is magic or witchcraft, as
used in 2 Kings 9:22, Micah 5:12, and Nahum 3:4; and “kashshaph” (#3786) is a magician or
sorcerer. The Hebrew word “chemah” (#2534) means “poison.” Another verse that corresponds
to this sentiment can be found in Leviticus 20:27, which says: “A man also or woman that hath a
familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones:
their blood shall be upon them.”
Jeremiah 10:2 says: “...Learn not the way of the heathen...” Deuteronomy 18:10-12 says:
“There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through
the fire, or that useth 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 neocromancer. For all that do these
things are an abomination unto the Lord...” 1 Peter 5:8 charges us to “be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” Ephesians
5:11 says that we are to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
reprove them.” And 2 Corinthians 6:11, says: “Be not unequally yoked together with
unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
has light with darkness?”
In 1980, Skip Tarrant, a head witch in the Church of Wicca, said: “Being a witch makes one
feel more alive.” According to the testimony of former witches and Satanists, the ancient religion
of Witchcraft and its ‘white magic’ is nothing more than a “little white lie.” The deities they
worship are actually demons, and the ‘horned hunter of the night’ is actually Satan. Many
witches have come to realize, that in order to get more ‘power,’ they have to surrender more of
themselves, moving into the darker side of Witchcraft, and sometimes into Satanism. Satan does
not care what he does, or who he destroys, in order to achieve his goals.