Something we noted in this chapter, but shows up in a lot of other passages, is the warning about divination, soothsaying and mediums. The whole problem with these pagan practices is that they arise from a desire to see the future. Once one knows the future, the temptation is to decide how to meet it by your own reasoning, and to stop seeking God’s face. You aren’t supposed to poke around in the future itself; any choice you make about it will always be based on human thinking. Rather, you are supposed to pray and ask the Lord to tell you what to do next. It doesn’t matter what’s coming with that; you need to know what God wants from you regardless of what’s coming.
Even when you seek a prophetic word, the whole point is to know God’s will for you, not God’s will for everyone else. We aren’t looking for any particular advantage in this life except what comes in the same package as shalom.
I agree.