Galatians 3:1 “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? (literally, who has put the evil eye on you or brought you under their spell) It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.”
Witchcraft is a dark, forboding, demonic force. It is easy to
recognize in its various outward forms. However, there is a subtle form
of witchcraft that this verse in Galatians exposes. Witchcraft, in its
overt and visible manifestations seeks to do its damage to the people of
God. Yet by stealth and through the means of false teaching, witchcraft
also seeks to obscure the message of the cross in the Church.
Paul rebukes the Galatians, saying in so many words, “What’s wrong
with you people? Who has brought you under their spell? You saw the
cross. It was so very clear to you. What? Can’t you see it anymore?”
Let me state it once again, witchcraft seeks to obscure the message of the cross in the Church.
What Paul writes is intriguing. How could he make this comment, “It
was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as
crucified”? How could Paul suggest such a thing?
Did Paul forget who it was he was writing to? Did he have some mental
aberration and think he was writing to the Christians at Jerusalem and
not in Galatia? The Galatian Christians were not at Golgotha to see the
Lord crucified. Continue at
John Samson
