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Question: Do Christians have premonitions?

Define: (pre-before; monish-warning)
     To receive a warning before-hand. "Anticipation of an event
without conscious reason"; to feel a coming danger.

 
1. Man cannot know the future; only God can foretell history or
events.
2. The Bible foretold the destiny of nations and the coming of
Christ. (H.Hailey)

Forecasters predicted the worst snowstorm of the season for Boston
in 1974. School classes were cancelled and snowplows were readied,
but not even a single snowflake fell (Newsweek, Mar. 25, 1974)

Henry Morris examined 72 "prophecies" uttered by 10 prominent
psychics in The National Enquirer (Jan.3) for 1978.  Of these, it
is remarkable that not one was fulfilled in 1978 as predicted!

Passages:
Deut. 18:9ff. The most complete list of spiritistic arts in the
Bible. All are condemned and prohibited.
C. Woods: The text catalogues eight ways by which Canaanites sought
to consult their gods or to control events. The first three of te
somewhat overlapping terms describe forms of divination, the next
two depict religious magic or conjuring, and the last three deal
with ways of consulting the spirit world.
v. 18: cf. Ex. 4:15; Num.22:38; Jer. 1:9. My words in his mouth.

Not only a warning against divination, but also an affirmation that
God speaks through His true prophets.

New Testament: Acts 13:4-13: want to know what God thinks of those
who claim to have premonitions?; cf. Acts 16:16-18.


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