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Jesus seeing a vision isn't necromancy; but, it isn't Jesus seeing real people either, just as John's vision of the things to come in Revelation is not necromancy - it isn't reality either, it was a portrayal of what was to come - like a movie to us. Events in a movie aren't happening in front of our eyes literally, nor are they interactive that we may reach out and touch the people on the screen. And you seem hung up on the term necromancy. Saul didn't go to a necromancer, he went to a spiritist - a woman with a familiar spirit, similar to a witch but not quite the same thing. You see, the occultic communication with the dead takes on many different forms. It just so happens they are all outlawed by name so that nobody had any excuse. Kinda like you guys outlawing Arianism. It isn't the term being outlawed, it's what it encompasses. Many don't know what the terms even mean beyone a dictionary generalization of the term. Actually, most don't. The average person doesn't even know what a necromancer is save to think it's generally a wizard.

Revelation 5:8 is prophetic symbolism. If you can find a prophet to interpret it, knock yourself out. The key to interpreting prophecy is that it still has to conform to God's word. This is how prophets and what they spoke were judged in OT days. If the prophecy as interpreted contradicted God's word, the prophet was put to death.. they didn't get a chance to be blasphemous twice.