Necromancer - One Who Consults the Dead

No, this is not all souls day. I just feel obliged to include this in my blog after reading one passage in the scriptures about consulting the dead.

Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one 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

Deuteronomy 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Deuteronomy 18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

It is our family tradition to travel back to our home town yearly every November 1st to visit the tomb of my father.

Customarily, we offer prayers for his soul and inform him that his grandsons and grand daughters are there for him.

What's unusual is the thinking that he is there looking at us, guiding us and protecting us all the way, the usual of him when he is still alive.

At first glance, it's a sign of respect & humility but ultimately not rewarding.

Colossians 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

What's that again? Voluntary humility an abomination to GOD? The offering of prayers alone is an abomination unknowingly committed.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Your next question may be - Are you still going there? My answer is, Yes of course but not on All Souls Day for the dead don't have a day!