WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT ASTROLOGY?

What Does the Bible Say About Astrology?
QUESTION: What does the Bible say about astrology, tarot cards, and numerology?

ANSWER: Interestingly, all of these “activities” have something in common. They are all part of the occult, because they attempt to find the “hidden” signs that affect human destiny (the word “occult” means “hidden”).

The Bible does address all three of these types of activities in Deuteronomy 18:11-14. What you will find is that God did not allow His people to practice sorcery or divination.

The problem with these practices is that they attempt to explain human destiny through spiritual means, but it’s not the Spirit of God. There’s just no substitute for God when it comes to our future destiny. A great example of this is in the book of Daniel, where the court astrologers attempted to interpret the king’s dreams regarding the future, and they failed miserably. Daniel put them to shame with his God-inspired interpretations (Daniel 1:20).

We do want to make a couple of comments about what the Bible says about stars and numbers. In Genesis we find that God created the stars, along with the sun and the moon, as “signs to mark seasons and days and years” (Genesis 1:14). So the stars have value as “signs,” but God intended for them to be signs for the seasons, not for help in predicting our futures.

Same goes for numbers. There is such a thing as “Bible numerology.” Numbers in the Bible are important in that they symbolize certain truths, such as the number seven symbolizing completion or perfection. But when people try to read into the numbers or patterns of numbers, even in the Bible, it becomes an exercise in futility.

One of the reasons people are so intrigued with these “hidden” things is that they don’t want to accept what God has plainly revealed in His Word. It’s a way to avoid the truth about our future and the hope God has set before us.