Judgment on Mediums and Call to Consecration

God calls His people to reject occult practices and live in consecrated obedience under His sanctifying authority.

This passage highlights the necessity of turning from false sources of guidance and trusting in the God who alone sanctifies His people.

The passage is not a direct prediction of Christ, but it prepares categories fulfilled and clarified in him: exclusive loyalty to God, rejection of demonic and false spiritual powers, and sanctification grounded in God's saving action. Christ embodies perfect covenant faithfulness, confronts unclean spiritual powers with divine authority, and sanctifies his people through his once-for-all offering and continuing intercession.

This passage warns against turning to mediums and spiritists, declaring such acts as covenant unfaithfulness, and calls the people to consecrate themselves in obedience to the LORD.

1. Why does God forbid seeking guidance from mediums and spiritists?
2. What does this passage teach about trusting God for direction?
3. How does consecration relate to daily obedience?
4. What modern influences might draw people away from trusting God’s Word?

This unit follows the sanctions against giving children to Molek in Leviticus 20:1-5 and continues the chapter's concern for covenant boundaries. Leviticus 19 had already forbidden turning to mediums and spiritists; Leviticus 20 now attaches covenant consequence to that rebellion. Verses 6-8 form a compact theological hinge: judgment against occult dependence, a positive call to holiness, and the repeated covenant formula, 'I am the LORD your God' and 'I am the LORD, who makes you holy.'

Leviticus addresses Israel as the redeemed covenant people brought out of Egypt and being formed for life before the LORD. Chapter 20 belongs to the holiness material that applies covenant loyalty to worship, family, sexuality, justice, and community purity.