Pastor Yu Bin's Truth of the Spirit World, Part Eight: Fortune-Telling

1. Article note: This is a transcript summary

This article is based on the public video content of Part Eight 《算命》 in Pastor Yu Bin’s “Truth of the Spirit World” series. The original video discusses fortune-telling, palmistry, face reading, Four Pillars/Bazi, character divination, hexagram divination, and mediumship/communion with spirits, as well as how Christians should view destiny and prophecy.

It should be noted that this article is positioned as an observation of religion and spiritual culture. It does not make absolute judgments on whether “fortune-telling is always accurate,” “fate systems are real,” or “spirit mediumship exists,” and it does not seek to prove any religious position. The references to demons, evil spirits, curses, and spiritual deception are mainly explained as the speaker’s interpretation within a Christian faith framework.

2. Video theme: How Christians should view fortune-telling

1. The appeal of fortune-telling in Chinese society

Pastor Yu Bin notes at the beginning that fortune-telling is both controversial and highly attractive among Chinese people. Many have encountered fortune-telling to some degree: sometimes it seems inaccurate, and at other times very accurate, which leads people to wonder what it is actually about.

Fortune-telling takes many forms in Chinese culture, including palmistry, face-reading, Four Pillars (Bazi), character divination, and divining with hexagrams. These methods all attempt to infer hidden information in one’s fate from physical traits, birth time, symbolic characters, hexagrams, or other symbolic systems.

From a cultural observation perspective, the reason fortune-telling remains popular is not simply that people enjoy mysticism, but that when facing uncertainty in real life, people naturally want to know what comes next, avoid misfortune, seize opportunities, or find a basis for life decisions.

2. The speaker’s own experience

Pastor Yu Bin says he grew up seeing elders in his family go for fortune-telling, and he knew people who seemed very accurate, which gave him strong curiosity about it.

Later, he began studying fortune-telling himself and eventually was able to calculate for others; by his own account, he could do it fairly accurately. After coming to Christ, he repented and no longer divined for others, and began to reflect: why is fortune-telling sometimes accurate? How should Christians face fortune-telling?

This gives the episode a strong testimonial tone. It is not purely an external critique; it is a person who once studied and practiced fortune-telling reinterpreting his past through a Christian faith lens.

3. Is fortune-telling true, or just psychology?

1. The speaker’s judgment: fortune-telling is true to some extent

In the video, Pastor Yu Bin raises a direct question: Is fortune-telling truly real, or are diviners simply deceiving people with psychological techniques?

His answer is clear: based on his personal experience, fortune-telling is real to some extent. That is, he believes fortune-telling can sometimes know things ordinary people do not know, explore hidden secrets in a person’s fate, and even state what may happen in the future.

This does not mean he insists fortune-telling is legitimate; on the contrary, he believes its potential accuracy is exactly where spiritual issues are involved.

2. “Being accurate” does not mean the source is correct

Yu Bin’s core warning is that something appearing effective does not mean its source is good or legitimate, and it does not mean a person should pursue it.

Within his Christian understanding, if fortune-telling can reveal certain hidden information, it is not because the diviner truly has authority over destiny. Rather, Satan to some degree knows, influences, or manipulates human destiny and makes that information visible through certain principles, knowledge, and systems.

In other words, the speaker does not deny all fortune-telling experiences; he interprets “accuracy” as part of spiritual deception. What he is concerned about is not “whether it works,” but “where this ability comes from and where it leads people.”

4. The speaker’s spiritual explanation for fortune-telling accuracy

1. The framework of “the whole world is under the ruler of the evil one”

Pastor Yu Bin cites the perspective in 《圣经》 that “the whole world lies under the hand of the evil one,” and argues that Satan can to some extent know human fate and can influence it.

In his explanation, Satan has established certain principles, knowledge, and learning systems. When people study destiny using these, Satan reveals some events that may happen, making the diviner seem truly accurate.

This explanation is a typical Christian spiritual warfare framework. It does not treat fortune-telling as merely psychological suggestion, nor as neutral traditional knowledge, but as a way Satan uses knowledge systems to deceive.

2. Satan is not omniscient or all-powerful

Nonetheless, Yu Bin also emphasizes that the true authority over human destiny is not Satan but God. Even if Satan can know some things, he cannot know everything, and he is not omniscient or all-powerful like God.

In his faith framework, human destiny is ultimately in God’s hands and can be changed by God. Satan does not have the same power as God and cannot decide a person’s final outcome.

This distinction is important. The speaker is not presenting Satan as an equal power to God; rather, he emphasizes that Satan may deceive, influence, and frighten people, but ultimate authority still belongs to YHWH.

5. Fortune-telling and mediumship: from knowledge systems to spiritual contact

1. Why fortune-tellers may move toward mediumship

For Yu Bin, the most dangerous part of fortune-telling is not only studying fate through certain knowledge and methods, but that many practitioners eventually move into spiritist practices and communication with spirits.

According to him, methods like palmistry, face-reading, Four Pillars forecasting, and hexagram divination can still produce reasonably plausible results, but not necessarily maximum accuracy. In order to know more and calculate more precisely, some practitioners seek help from the spirit world.

At that point, fortune-telling is no longer just symbolic systems, experiential knowledge, or divination techniques; it may enter what he calls the mediumship level.

2. Advanced class testimony on “inviting a spirit”

In the video, Pastor Yu Bin shares an acquaintance’s experience. By his own account, while in seminary he had a Taiwanese classmate who, as a youth, specifically attended fortune-telling classes.

The basic class taught fundamental principles, mnemonics, rules, and calculation methods; students memorized these, and by applying the methods they could often speak with about 80–90% confidence.

After the basic class, the master told students that to become more accurate, they had to take an advanced class and pay higher tuition. In the advanced class, what was taught was not more reasoning tricks but spirit-calling: each student had to “invite their own god/spirit,” so that a spiritual entity would connect with them and reveal things they could not calculate on their own.

Yu Bin interprets such “gods” as evil spirits. He believes this is not legitimate knowledge, but humans using demonic power to do what ordinary people cannot and to know what ordinary people do not know.

6. Fortune-telling, fear, and curse

1. People bound for a long time by divination outcomes

Yu Bin says that over years of ministry he frequently met people who came for help. These people had once been told by a fortune-teller that they would die at a certain time, suffer disaster, or face tragic endings, and they therefore lived in fear for a long time.

Some even after believing in Jesus remained afraid that predictions from the past would come true. For them, those words were no longer mere predictions; they were like a thorn in the heart that made peaceful living impossible.

This is important because it shows the psychological and spiritual pressure fortune-telling can create. Whether or not the reader accepts the speaker’s theology, one can still see that negative destiny predictions can have prolonged effects on people.

2. The speaker frames fortune-telling as an entry point to cursing

Yu Bin further says that when someone allows others to calculate their fate, they are effectively allowing Satan to curse themselves.

This is a strong expression within Christian spiritual warfare language. It treats negative forecasts spoken by a fortune-teller not merely as psychological suggestion, but as potential spiritual cursing entering a person’s life.

This article preserves the speaker’s statement, and it should also be noted: if someone develops severe anxiety, fear, insomnia, depression, or self-harm thoughts because of past fortune-telling results, they should promptly seek professional mental health support, pastoral care, or crisis intervention, and not carry it alone.

7. Can destiny be changed: a Christian view of new creation

1. “If anyone is in Christ”

Yu Bin emphasizes that God can change life. When a person is in Jesus Christ, destiny is no longer determined by previous curses, prophecies, or fear.

He cites the notion in 《哥林多后书》5:17 that if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation; the old has passed away, and everything has become new. In his understanding, Jesus Christ can break the curse Satan has sown through fortune-tellers in a person’s life and fill life with grace, blessing, and light.

This is the theological core of the video: fortune-telling may bind a person in the past and fear, but Christian faith emphasizes that in Christ a person becomes a new creation, and the direction of life can be renewed by God.

2. Destiny is no longer defined by divination outcomes

From the speaker’s perspective, Christians should not continue to live under divination results, nor treat fortune-teller predictions as unchangeable fate.

He believes the real one who governs human life is God, not the fortune-teller, evil spirits, divinatory systems, or past prophecies. If someone turns to Christ, they can be released from fear and no longer let those words dictate future choices.

This means the content of this episode is not only a rejection of fortune-telling, but also an emphasis on a Christian destiny view: the future is not locked in by numerology or fate systems; it can be renewed, rescued, and changed in God’s hands.

8. Testimony of the mentor’s mother: “Accurate up to age thirty, then a white light”

1. Buddhist background and fortune-telling master

In the latter half of the video, Pastor Yu Bin shares his mentor’s mother’s testimony. He says that before coming to Jesus, she also had a Buddhist background and was even a lay practitioner. At that time, her master was a well-known resident abbot from a famous temple in Qingdao, with notable recognition in China.

Among the disciples who trained under that master, one senior disciple was especially good at fortune-telling, and according to the speaker, was very accurate.

This senior disciple once divined for Yu Bin’s mentor’s mother, but only up to the age of thirty. According to the speaker, events before thirty were predicted with considerable accuracy; after that, he did not continue, but said that if she did not marry by a certain age in her early thirties, she would spend her life in loneliness, without a husband or children.

2. Life turning point after coming to Christ

Later, the mentor’s mother immigrated to Canada and believed in Jesus in the year she turned thirty. According to the speaker, she later understood why that senior disciple had only divined up to thirty: once she entered Jesus Christ, her life became like a flash of white light, and the fortune-teller could no longer “see” her.

This is a very typical Christian testimonial expression. It is not an externally verifiable fate case, but a faith narrative the speaker uses to illustrate that “a person becomes a new creation in Christ, and previous destiny predictions no longer have final authority.”

3. Marital curse being broken

Yu Bin also mentions that his mentor’s mother later had long-term fear in marriage issues, worrying that the elder disciple’s words about “a life of loneliness” would come true. The closer she came to that predicted age, the stronger her fear became.

But when she married Pastor Yu Bin, she had already passed that age. The speaker believes God broke the curse Satan planted in her marriage through that senior disciple and gave her a new path of life: she became a minister and served God in partnership with him.

In the article, this testimony is not presented as proof that a certain divination prediction was technically overturned, but as an expression of the speaker’s core belief: God’s grace can surpass fortune-telling predictions, fear, and curses.

9. Reading value as a religious-cultural text

1. It presents a Christian dual judgment on fortune-telling

A representative feature of this episode is that Pastor Yu Bin does not simply say “it is all a scam.” Instead, he admits that some fortune-telling he experienced in the past was indeed accurate, and that in some degree fortune-telling may know hidden information.

But his conclusion is not “therefore, you can do fortune-telling.” His conclusion is “because it can be accurate, it is more dangerous.” In his faith framework, accuracy alone does not prove a proper source; it may instead indicate deeper spiritual issues.

This is a typical Christian spiritual discernment logic: it does not use supernatural efficacy as the ultimate criterion. It evaluates source, allegiance, fruit, and whether it leads people toward God.

2. It also reflects Chinese destiny anxiety

Fortune-telling remains attractive because it addresses deep-rooted destiny anxiety in Chinese society: when one will marry, whether a career can succeed, whether disaster will strike, whether health will break down, whether family members are safe, and whether there is future breakthrough.

Yu Bin identifies this point precisely. He believes that when people seek fortune-telling from uncertainty and fear, they can be drawn into deeper fear: hearing a negative prediction may entangle them in that claim for years.

From a religious-cultural observation perspective, this points to the fact that fortune-telling is not just a traditional divination issue; it also involves psychological security, sense of control in life, future anxiety, and religious belonging.

10. Conclusion: Seeing destiny, fear, and faith through discernment in fortune-telling

In this episode, Yu Bin 《算命》, the core is not a systematic explanation of Bazi, face-reading, palmistry, character divination, or hexagrams. Rather, it answers from a Christian spiritual discernment perspective: Should Christians practice fortune-telling?

His answer is explicit: no. In his understanding, fortune-telling can sometimes be accurate, but that accuracy does not mean it comes from God; rather, it may come from Satanic principles and spiritual deception, ultimately leading people toward mediumship, fear, and cursing.

For Christian readers, this is a wake-up article about fortune-telling and destiny views. For non-Christian readers, it can also serve as material for observing how Christianity responds to Chinese fate-divination culture. Regardless of whether the reader accepts the theological judgment, this type of text reminds us that the more a person tries to control destiny, the more they need to discern to whom they are entrusting trust.

This article explores divination and fate systems from a Christian discernment perspective, and can also be read alongside this site’s I Ching Divination Tool to understand how divination tools operate in practice.

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References

• Pastor Yu Bin’s “Truth of the Spirit World,” Part Eight: Fortune-Telling
• Playlist for Pastor Yu Bin’s “Truth of the Spirit World” Series
• 《约翰一书》5:19: The whole world is lying in the hand of the evil one
• 《申命记》 Chapter 18: Prohibitions on divination, spirit contact, and witchcraft
• 《哥林多后书》5:17: If anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation