A Devil Spirit

Acts 16, beginning at verse 16:

“Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.”

You see the power that’s in fortune-telling? It’s witchcraft. Actually, if you want to use the right name, it’s divination. The Greek is very vivid. It says she had a spirit of Python. That’s the actual word.

The snake, the Python, is particularly associated with fortune-telling. It’s not a snake that poisons people, but it’s a snake that wraps itself around people and ultimately crushes the life out of them.