The word “occult” means hidden. Occult religion is the search for and use of hidden knowledge to gain “enlightenment,” power, and access to whatever god or other being is worshiped or followed. Satan preyed upon Adam and Eve by telling them that God had hidden important knowledge from them, which, he, the serpent, would disclose. The hidden wisdom he offered contradicted what God said and appealed to their vanity. He promised that by eating the forbidden fruit, rather than die, they could become like God, knowing good and evil for themselves. They would no longer be dependent upon or subservient to God. As we know, the devil lied. They did indeed die and did not become like God in any sense except having firsthand knowledge of evil. The occult does come through on that end.

This temptation and fall in the garden is foundational for our understanding how the devil operates by enticing people into evil and consequent destruction by offering occult knowledge and power.

The devil appeals to our pride by offering to reveal to us what God has hidden. He does this to transfer our allegiance from the Creator to him, Lucifer, the supposed light bearer. In general, satanic occult religions and philosophies present the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as the “bad guy” who unnecessarily hinders mankind’s development. Satan, or Lucifer, poses as the “good guy” who is working to educate and liberate mankind.

A transfer of allegiance takes place when we begin to mistrust the true God, who is the true light giver, and open our hearts to the evil one, who disguises himself as an “angel of light.”

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” John 8:12 (NKJV) 

...Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 2 Corinthians 11:14 (NKJV)

Satan entices us to open our hearts to the hidden things of evil while at the same time obscuring the truth. When we open ourselves to evil and deception, our hearts begin to harden against God.

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; Ephesians 4:17–18 (NASB95)

When we open ourselves to Satan, we are not aware of the depth of his cunning and trickery. He is able to weave his spell around the minds of individuals who abandon God’s truth so that they become lost in a maze of deception.

Paul summed it up in the following passage from Ephesians.

As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, Ephesians 4:14–15 (NASB95) 

We dare not wander down any path that departs from the truth of God’s Word. Satan only takes us down those paths to destroy us.

God’s Mysteries

It is true that God does hide some things from us. Some of what he hides is outside of our need to know. He is God and is not required to share with us the secret counsels of his heart. Moses wrote:

The hidden things are the Lord your God’s, but the revealed things belong to you and to your children forever, to do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29 (LES2-Septuagint)

God hides some things to test our humility and loyalty, to see if we will trust in him even when we cannot figure things out for ourselves.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5–6 (NKJV)

God created us to trust and rely upon him. This is a main way we honor him. Trust plus allegiance are the two ingredients of faith, without which we cannot please God. (Hebrews 11:6) If trust is broken, allegiance will disappear. This is what happened to Adam and Eve. Refusing to trust God is to impugn his character, something no wise person would ever do. Humility allows us to be okay with not knowing everything. ( To gain more understanding, I suggest you read another of my articles entitled, “An Unexpected Key to Happiness.”)

God hides some things in order to reveal them at the proper time. He is indeed a God of surprises! These are what the Bible calls mysteries, which cannot be understood apart from divine revelation.

When God opens our understanding to grasp these mysteries, however, they always agree with and add depth to  what God has spoken earlier in his Word. Satan’s evil mysteries, however, contradict what God has said.

One of the greatest mysteries in the Bible that was hidden until after Christ’s resurrection is that the Gentiles are included in God’s plan of salvation on an equal footing with the Jews. Paul wrote:

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles—2 if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you, 3 how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, 4 by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), 5 which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: 6 that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel, 7 of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power. Ephesians 3:1–7 (NKJV)

The New Covenant explained the meaning of God’s promise to Abraham that his “Seed” (singular) would become a blessing to the whole earth. Rather than the ethnic people called the Jews being God’s “chosen people,” the New Covenant enlarged that group to include both Jew and Gentile who are chosen “in Christ.”

For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Ephesians 2:14–18 (NKJV)

The rock solid principle concerning legitimate mysteries, things hidden from us until God reveals them by his Spirit, is that the new revelation always builds upon and clarifies what is already written. God never reveals some new truth and contradicts what is written in his Word. 

The Occult Nature of Modern Astrophysics

Heliocentrism is regarded as an established scientific fact by most of the church in the West. It will probably come as a great shock for many to discover that, first of all, it is not scientifically proven, and, secondly, it is based on an occult religion. It’s grip on humanity is not merely by scientific conviction. It is a satanic deception which spell must be broken spiritually.

Leading astrophysicists over the last five hundred years agree that it is impossible to prove the heliocentric theory through observation from the earth. Models can be constructed that will explain all astronomic phenomena using either the geocentric or heliocentric design.

People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations, For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations. You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.    —Cosmologist George Ellis, in Scientific American, “Thinking Globally, Acting Universally”, October 1995

J.D. Bernal stated:

[Copernicus’] reasons for his revolutionary change were essentially philosophic and aesthetic,” and in a later edition he is more convinced that the “reasons were mystical rather than scientific”   —J. D. Bernal, Science in History, 1st edition, London, Watts, 1954; 2nd edition, 1965).

Conversely, empirical experiments, such as Airy’s Failure and the Michelson-Morley experiment,  prove that the earth is at rest.

The data [of Michelson-Morley] were almost unbelievable… There was only one other possible conclusion to draw – that the earth was at rest. – Physicist Bernard Jaffe, Michelson and the Speed of Light, 1960, p.76.

The most common alleged “proofs” that support heliocentrism are the CGI images of a spherical earth suspended in space provided by NASA and other space agencies and the reasoning that only a spherical earth can account for eclipses. Both of these fail under scrutiny. In previous articles, I made the case that NASA has lied to us so often that it is unreasonable to accept as true anything it offers.

Einstein, who accepted the presupposition that the earth revolves around the sun, developed his theory of special relativity to explain away the unexpected and unwelcome results of the Michelson-Morley experiment. He famously concluded that it is impossible for us to tell whether the earth is moving or the sun, moon, and stars.

“While I was thinking of this problem in my student years, I came to know the strange result of Michelson’s experiment. Soon I came to the conclusion that our idea about the motion of the Earth with respect to the ether is incorrect, if we admit Michelson’s null result as a fact. This was the first path which led me to the special theory of relativity. Since then I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment, though the Earth is revolving around the Sun.” (Taken from How I Created Relativity by Albert Einstein)

How could Einstein know something that cannot be proved? How convenient! Satan always has a clever counter argument that defies all sound reasoning but baffles those who accept the lie that the “experts” are so much smarter than we are that we cannot hope to ever comprehend their wonderful insights. That is one way brainwashing works.

Heliocentrism Is an Occult Religion

One reason the heliocentric lie is so widely accepted is because it is a satanic religion whose “spell” creates a strong grip on the mind once it is accepted as truth.

God created us and the world in which we live in such a way that we are required to live by faith. The big question is faith in what? Will we trust our own understanding or God? Eve failed her test because she considered the forbidden fruit to be something good instead of trusting what God said. Satan’s lies are powerfully alluring because they tempt us to try to be like God instead of relying on him as we should. Our pride rebels against being a dependent being. We want autonomy. We want to figure things out for ourselves. It did not go well for Eve, nor will it for us if we refuse to trust what God says.

Whether we trust the Bible or “science,” we must use faith.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’ —Max Planck

Faith in man always disappoints.

Thus says the LORD, “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind And makes flesh his strength, And whose heart turns away from the LORD. Jeremiah 17:5 (NASB95)

Trust in God and his Word is a safe refuge and our ultimate source of wisdom and understanding.

For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. Proverbs 2:6 (NASB95)

Copernicus rejected God’s wisdom in an attempt to figure out a new way of viewing the heavens and earth that was not restricted by what the Bible says.

[Copernicus’] work, published in 1543, was called On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres. It stated that the center of the universe was a spot somewhere near the sun…The scheme met the requirements of philosophical and theological belief in circular motion. In every other respect, however, Copernicus struck at the heart of Aristotelian and Christian belief. He removed the Earth from the center of the universe and so from the focus of God’s purpose. In the new scheme man was no longer the creature for whose use and elucidation the cosmos had been created. His system also placed the Earth in the heavens, and in doing so removed the barrier separating the incorruptible from the corruptible.  —James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed, p. 135

Both Copernicus and Isaac Newton were devotees of Egyptian “hermetics,” an occult pursuit of alchemy.

Hermetics supposedly originated with Hermes (hence, “hermetics”) Trismegistus from ancient Egypt. Here are Copernicus’ own words. Judge for yourself.

In the middle of all sits Sun enthroned. In this most beautiful temple could we place this luminary in any better position from which he can illuminate the whole at once? He is rightly called the Lamp, the Mind, the Ruler of the Universe: Hermes Trismegistus names him the Visible God, Sophocles’ Electra calls him the All-seeing. So the Sun sits as upon a royal throne ruling his children the planets which circle round him. The Earth has the Moon at her service. As Aristotle says, in his On Animals, the Moon has the closest relationship with the Earth. Meanwhile the Earth conceives by the Sun, and becomes pregnant with an annual rebirth.  —Nicolaus Copernicus , De Revolutionibus, Of the Order of the Heavenly Bodies

Copernicus uses unmistakable religious language that elevates the sun, Helios or Sol, to god status.

The Copernican conclusion is that, via “gravity,” the sun rules the earth and the other “wandering stars,” which are all named after pagan gods and goddesses.

Put another way, the sun controls the earth, keeping her in submission to Helios or Sol, which are names associated with Satan himself.

NASA images of the sun make it out to be a raging nuclear inferno that threatens to engulf and annihilate everyone on earth, another clear reference to Satan and hell.

The actual sun looks nothing like NASA’s image.

  NASA computer generated image

  Photograph

Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of universal gravitation lends scientific credibility to heliocentrism. He was a secret alchemist, who wrote more than a million words about that occult art of trying to transform inferior substances into gold. Michael White, in his book, Isaac Newton, the Last Sorcerer, quoted John Maynard Keans, who said that Newton was the “last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians.” (pp.2-3) His theory of universal gravitation, according to Dickson White in his book, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology, was “destined to be fatal to the old theory of creation.” (Vol. I, 15) Anyone who believes the Bible is the standard of all truth should question the truthfulness of the theory of universal gravitation. (Go to time 58:37 for the section on gravity.)

Things fall down at a certain rate of acceleration until they encounter a medium of greater density, or they rise until they encounter a medium of less density. On a biblical earth, electromagnetic forces, which are stronger than gravity is theorized to be, can account for what is attributed to gravity, including the tides, and also for why gravity can be so easily overcome.

It has never been proved that all masses exert  force on one another. Newton’s theories also assume the existence of a vast vacuum called “outer space,” which is nowhere taught in the Bible. But these are scientific arguments. I want to focus mainly on what the Word of God says.

According to God’s Word, all heavenly lights are contained in the vault of the firmament. None of these lights are said to be solid spherical objects that are part of an evolutionary ever expanding universe. When we observe the stars and “planets” through a telescope, they do not look like NASA’s computer generated images.

Newton claimed to have discovered mathematical and physical proof for the principles found in occult hermetic writings.

Newton was also a fan of Hermes Trismegistus and translated one of his books, The Emerald Tablet, into English. One of the quotes from this book obviously influenced Newton’s work regarding gravity. He said, “The sun’s force is above all force, for it vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing.”

Johannes Kepler, another highly regarded astronomer from that period, wrote in his book titled, Of the Harmony of the World:

Newton effectively legitimized pagan sun worship by giving it an apparent scientific basis, much as Charles Darwin provided a scientific rationale for those wishing to abandon the acknowledgement of a Creator with regard to the origin of life.

A false explanation of creation presents a false testimony of the Creator.

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