This year, as I studied the powerful evidence for the accuracy of the Gospel account and the overwhelming evidence of propaganda against it, I asked myself why in every age were the same powerful people working so hard to destroy the credibility of the Gospel story?

Why?

And if the Gospel wasn’t credible, why hadn’t it simply collapsed from the weight of its own fabrications?

Suppose it were literally true to the last word?

What then?

Would that explain who or what could be behind the conspiracy against it?

And why?

It was then that I saw very clearly the reason why the Bible forbids the study of such things as astrology, even while acknowledging their potency.

It is not that astrology is superstition and nonsense, as materialists believe, although there is plenty of that also.

No. Astrology has truth enough in it.

But enough truth is not all the truth.

And even though a Christianized mind, such as mine, might look at a horoscope (or the tarot or other systems of divination) divorced from the religious practices in which any of them is embedded;  or might even re-embed them in Christianity; even though one might study them simply for the knowledge they embody; historically, astrology involved worship of the planets.

It still does, whether one knows it or not.

However, innocuous these studies seem to be, a student of occult techniques is opening the door to spiritual Babylon.

This year, I shut the door.

That is all I will say about it.

I came out of Babylon.