Not sure what your question is that you want to discuss. All leading translators steer timidly clear from this name, which basically comes down toLord Hole.(. Thank you for the Truth regarding the shape shifting, debased religion of Baal worship. Historically, this god was worshipped and associated with disregarding any and all sexual restraints, extreme sexual practices and orgies. Your bringing forward the reality of Baal worship into modern religious practices is an example of fractal self similarity over generations. What human hubris!!!! Many times the Bible tells us to be holy as YHVH is holy. It is clear that we have an internal and an external enemy. (http://www.cresourcei.org/baal.html). Thanks a lot. Their worship was the very definition of ritual uncleanliness. While the Israelites were camped at Acacia Grove, some of the men defiled themselves by having sexual relations with local Moabite women. Yes, I totally agree with you. For example, they may want to lose weight and get healthy by exercising and eating healthily, but it takes too much effort to resist the downward pull of the flesh. After reading Leviticus, Numbers, and then Deuteronomy, you come across a lot of warnings and laws about worshipping other Gods. In fact you cant even know him if you dont follow his laws (1 John 2:36), you dont know what sin is if you dont know and follow his laws (1 John 3:4), and you dont love him if you dont obey his Torah-commands (John 14:15, 21). For Baalism, the more unbiblical, perverse, satanic, sexually deviant the better! Can you define this word from its biblical definition? The was merely window dressing Baal worship to make it more palatable and acceptable. 17). Following Baal is very tempting and seductive, since it appeals to the baser inclinations of mens depraved nature. The fractals bind the two Testaments together in such a way as to preclude multiple authors. [Wikipedia]. the young messiah He does not change. Very good article! Yes, you read that last part right. And it makes perfect sense. The use of profanities relating to excrement and sex in communication and the proliferation of pornography is a manifestation of a society that is sliding into Baal worship. They are the same. It is Not random that I was half-listening to a testimony of a young man online, describing his near-death experience & simultaneously, his out-of-body experience & his trip to hell first, & then a trip to heaven, before regaining consciousness. God bless. The dearth of information has the unintended benefit of providing modern authors with a nearly blank canvas upon which to work. Lastly, I decided that I wanted to question who exactly the god Baal was, and more specifically, who was Baal-Peor thats mentioned in Deuteronomy 4:3? Scripture is clear, not muddy on this issue, and so is Yeshua. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Sex has become a god in our world. 3) The Torah-law of Elohim that he gave to Moses is the very heart, will, mind and character of Yeshua the Messiah, the Creator of the universe and his Father. In reading the Weekly Scripture Reading this week, the portion concludes with some of the Israelite men defiling themselves by yoking with Moabite women and their gods. Although the theater, costumes and actors may have changed, it is still the same play. Rather, youre again simply regurgitating the lies youve heard from the pulpit. Agape is defined as the God who gives Himself away for the sake of His beloved. Therefore, it can be surmised that Baal-Peor is the god of fertility around the mountain Peor. Someone who tells it like it is. 5) You mention righteousness. Belphegor is derived from the Hebrew -, or baal-pr.
For most people, it has not been the God of the Bible, the Creator of the Universe, but rather Baal or the devil who is merely an inferior created being. All glory and praise go the Creator. Conversely, it takes no effort to slide downward, since gravity naturally pulls us downward. Another thing I learned about Baal as the fertility god is that the mythology of him outside of the Bible comes from two different sources of writing, the Enuma Elish and the Ugarit with the Enuma Elish being Babylonian and the Ugarit being Syrian. Some Baal cults went to the extreme often sacrificing children or worshipping their own excrement. Ruths Proposal: What are the details of her proposal, and what do theymean. This point is only the first step in a whole long line of logical questions that could be posed that point to Someone and something else beyond this mortal plane. (http://bibleatlas.org/beth-baal-peor.htm) This would be a probable reason for why the Israelites would have strayed to following after the god Baal-Peor since the lust for these activities would have been seen as far more pleasurable than offering an animal in sacrifice. Perhaps not in the extreme form represented by Baal-Peor but certainly in the sexual liberties of 21st century American culture. On the one hand he gave light and warmth to his worshippers; on the other hand the fierce heats of summer destroyed the vegetation he had himself brought into being. (http://biblehub.com/topical/b/baal.htm) However, These two descriptions coincide one another on one fact: that Baal gave prosperity to the land, and he took it away. The same sources mention various other facts concerning the cult, all of which give the impression that it still existed at the time of the Tannaim. He is the Living Torah-Word/law of Moses. but to understand God way,truth is were its difficult You see, when you write an article, its not always possible to tag all the bases on every relevantly related topic much less the tangential ones to that have to do with main point of the article, or else youd have a book and not an article. I have some questions. (, The Canaanites worshiped the Baal (the local fertility deity) but the people of each community had their own baal, as we can tell by place names like Baal-zephon, Baal-peor, and Baal-hermon-(, The worship of Baal-Peor is described as licentious and through sensual activities. If we dont, we will make the same mistakes and suffer the same consequences (judgments) as our forefathers. Remember what King Solomon taught over 3000 years ago, if there was nothing new under the sun then, there is nothing new under the sun now! ], Idolatry with Baal-peor. It is his Word, given to Moses who wrote it down. In biblical times, Israel would even bring aspects (or spiritual trappings) of the penthouse (worship of YHVH) into the basement of Baal worship to give the latter the appearance of the former. The mantra of Baalism, as it also is in Satanism and witchcraft, is do what thou wilt, if it feels good, do it, or eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.. There are only a half-dozen references to the deity, and these are presented below. cvi. See Top 10 Worst Theological or Mythological Demons for an uninspired rehash of the material presented below -- with no attribution --that is depressingly typical, or The Occultpedia, which cites several sources which clearly derive from de Plancy, and use the illustration without attribution. Suffice it to say, next time you post a comment on this bog, I suggest you get your proverbial ducks in a row before you comment. you cant save God without the Holy Spirit for the fight is spirit not fresh or mind. An aspect of the downward pull of Baal, worship is to consider the human body of paramount importance. One doesnt have to do anything to descend into the darker abysses of mans baser nature. We can learn many valuable lessons from mistakes of those who have preceded us. It is the only known extensive text in Moabite. Tough words, but the Truth. Hates what it does to His divine-image bearers. In other words, in our struggle as modern-day people to understand why the Israelites would stray so much to other gods, there is now some reason to understand. Thank you! our law breaking) was atoned for so that we could now go forward by the power of the resurrected Yeshua living in us through his Holy Spirit who would write his laws on our hearts so we would be empowered to live in accordance to his holy laws and no longer be a slave to sin (i.e. Baal Peor is the Baal of Mount Peor, a Moabite god which later commentators have sometimes identified with Chemosh, the national Moabite deity. Huh! It gave its name to the Ba'al who was there worshiped, and to whose service Israel, before the entrance into Canaan, was, for a brief time, attracted (Num. Go back and study your Bible instead of taking me to task for preaching the Truth of the Bible as you listen to the liars in the pulpit who make the Word of Elohim of none-effect by their unbiblical and blasphemous teachings against the law/instructions/precepts/teachings of the Creator aka the law of Moses. Only one problem Moabites are not Canaanites they are descendants of Lot, then it was the Phoenicians or Tyrian or Sidonians that worshiped Baal the storm god. Thanks Natan Lawrence! But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved. {Hosea 9:10}, Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead; {Psalms 106:28}, And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day. There are at least 20 steps that have to occur in a single leaf involving a long chain of events to produce sugar and oxygen. (Strongs and BDB H1187). It was also an event that remained in the memory of Gods people, as it was spoken of time and time again, by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, throughout the Scriptures. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. The remaining citations refer back to the incident described in Numbers 25, lovingly illustrated above. And how is Salvation our own, belonging to each person in a different kind of way, but with the same underlying meaning, to serve the Lord, in spirit & in truth, & not be idolatrous in serving other gods? Baalism hates anything biblical. can be more seductive than the privilege of operating on the human brain?.And for some surgeons the ultimate idolatry of worshiping self is too hard to avoid. God hates Baal worship. The god is himself also called "Peor" by abbreviation (Num. Baal has even ensnared millions of Christians as well. Systems of Transliteration Citation of Proper Names. This article has been very enlightening to me as well! (http://bibleatlas.org/beth-baal-peor.htm), (http://jerryandgod.com/2013/10/24/skull-and-bones-and-jeremiah-19-the-sign-of-the-potters-house/). NO! On the one hand he gave light and warmth to his worshippers; on the other hand the fierce heats of summer destroyed the vegetation he had himself brought into being. (, two different sources of writing, the Enuma Elish and the Ugarit with the Enuma Elish being Babylonian and the Ugarit being Syrian. Idolatry with Baal-peor. The god Baal himself was worshipped by the Canaanites in the Old Testament times, and was seen as a sun god and/or a fertility god. Against this rising tide of paganism stands Jesus. His love is unconditional and based on who He is not in what we do for Him. Thank you. As with all sin, there is always an origin. Human history tends to repeat itself over and over again. Go read what he said for yourself if you want to know the Truth and not fantasies and philosophies contrived in the mind of fallen and sinful humans: see John 14:15, 21 and Mark 12:2931 where Yeshua sums up his Torah-law (the law of Moses) as the outward expression of love. Its all part of the process of finding your divinity within which was the Lie that Lucifer got Adam and Eve to fall for in the Garden. No other religious system on earth has ever made war against Baal. In the Bible, Elohim is leading men upward against his base nature. To bring this idea and topic full circle, the Septuagint translation renders Baal of Peor, Beel-phegor, which is a known demon and one of the seven princes of hell in demonology. This type of preoccupation with the baser nature of man is part of the slippery slope downward that characterizes the worship of Baal.
This is the lie that many people find themselves living. Be careful of belittling evil and the practice of it.Yes abortion is a modern day expression of the worship of the ancient god known as Molech. Hates how it de-humanizes and demeans. law breaking). Moab was a kingdom in present day Jordan, along the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. 6) You mention holiness. Moreover, each loss and win happened in a chronologically uniform manner and that is why there were seasons. This is why the Bible warns us against it. The name meant destroyer, subduer, or fish god. The cross is not the last word in righteousness. 28). Such was the attribute of the Baalim the worship of that which is disgusting and degrading by godly and civilized humans. Thats what it boils down to. The potty commonly used to toilet-train human young is essentially a portable commode. What is the appeal of Baal worship? But he doesnt write his laws on our hearts so that we can cavalierly and rebelliously ignore them. This has been some tough medicine for you, and hopefully itll provoke some serious reflection on your part. The worship of Baal-Peor is described as licentious and through sensual activities. So, whats if love? Peor was a mountain in Moab (Num. (, However, there were also cases of sacrifice similar to that of Molech. What youre telling me is that Jesus fulfilled the law of Moses so I now dont have to do it. In this brief study, we will examine the characteristics of a society that is spiritually backslidden. Moreover, those with baal in their name had to change their name to bosheth which meant shame. Hope you can appreciate that. Are you now going to go and do the very things that put Yeshua on the cross and brought on you the death penalty in the first place? In Baalism there is nothing beyond this physical life, and therefore, for the worshiper of Baal, life is hopeless, which is why he must indulge the self now, for there is nothing in the future beyond this life to look forward to. Broken families and broken relationships. The domination of Baal worship in our modern secular society worldwide is evidenced in no greater way than the societys all out war on anything biblical and Judeo-Christian, while at the same time our society gives a pass to and even promotes every other heathen religious and philosophical system.
As can easily be determined by the text, the books of demonologists were the role-playing game supplements of their day. Dont really know what youre disagreeing with. That way we will preserve our family line through our father. As a result, both of Lots daughters became pregnant by their own father. So to read this article & almost right in the beginning you mention how the pull downward, by Baal, is easy, almost effortless, as gravity pulls us down, vs the pull upward, towards God, is much harder, & requires us fighting against our flesh, its like a light bulb went off in my head, & spirit! Men are naturally attracted to Baal worship. The forces of Baal dominates every public institution in America, which is why theyre all engaged in an all out war against every form of Christianity even in its most benign expression. 9) NO! Priests and priestesses would copulate with worshippers who came to make offerings at the shrine. Its because youre listening to the liars in the pulpit and you do not know their Bibles either and who also are simply repeating the traditions of men by which the Word of Elohim has been made of none-effect as Yeshua said in Mark 7:9, 13. Homosexuality. Its always easier to indulge than to sacrifice! Moreover, Yeshua told us that the law of Moses can be summed up as loving Elohim with your whole being and your neighbor as yourself (Mark 12:2931). Go look this up in the Bible. It is commonly held that this form of Ba'al-worship especially called for sensual indulgence. But I have a few complaints against you. Please watch this videos to get more understanding in the Bible Chew on that one for a moment. So far thats what all youre comments have been doing. Sexual restraint is considered unholy. The worship of this idol consisted in exposing that part of the body which all persons usually take the utmost care to conceal. According to Psalm 101:3, God will not allow the wicked to cleave to him, and the sad part is that the wicked do not want to cleave to our Lord and turn away from their wicked ways. 7) So because Yeshua fulfilled all righteousness at the cross, does that mean that we can now go and sin by ignoring the law of Moses? Everyones Salvation is their own. So you must honor God with your body. {1 Corinthians 6:18-20}. The Phillip Medhurst Picture Torah 586. Now that I got your attention, please hear me out and allow me to explain. The Bible defines love in specific terms, as did Yeshua the Messiah. Earth worshipers believe that man came from the earth and is going back to the earth,which is his mother or god. Outstanding! As a fertility god, Baal religion dealt with the seasonal cycle. So what, then is love??? What a wonderful article to shake the true believer to flee from the god of this evil age. There is more. Such a a nebulous concept can be defined in many different ways by anyone and everyone. What Baal-Peor means in this case is Lord or Possessor of Peor. In the past, the ancients worshiped concrete images that represented the depraved and dark side of man where physical idols represented the ideas behind Baal worship. Right: 1898 Mesha Stele drawing.CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. Thank you for following your spirit in being obedient to our Creator by writing this article, & by allowing others to gain some enlightenment, like me, into the seemingly very simple & basic principles in the Word of God, but that we have fallen so far from, that we have become blinded & deaf to what is right in front of our face. Getting into fractals is not a way to learn more about God. I challenge you: If you are really a seeker of Bible Truth and a lover of Yeshua, you will seek this Truth out and then align your life and thinking with it. Thank you and Gods directions. It is a practical theory of modern new age practice that comes from Kabbal and the ancient mysteries of Babylon. without sin. Lucifer was the ring leader of the fallen watchers and he and the others were worshiped in a variety of ways but there was never anything new under the son. The bodily functions including defecation and sexual reproductions take on a divine status and is something to be venerated and worshipped,which is why the ancients worshiped the sexual organs and why modern society has such a fascination with sex and is given to vulgarity. (LogOut/ (, Baal religion revolved around the cycles of nature necessary for survival and prosperity in the ancient world, primarily growing crops or raising livestock, as well as the growth of human populations.
Num 25:1 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the people began to have immoral sexual relations with women from Moab.2 Then they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, so the people were eating, and bowing down before their gods. Peor, if it derives from the same stem, could therefore mean opening or, as noted by Rashi above, Peor was so named because before it they bared their anus [] and relieved themselves. They vanish from the historical record in the Persian period (7th c. BCE), when various tribes from Arabia overran their territory. The entry in the 1818 edition is quite brief, and is reproduced here: The 1863 edition, in which he revised many entries following his conversion to Catholicism, includes a woodcut illustration of the demon (which is reproduced in every demonology book you are likely to lay hands upon)and a much longer entry. What are the biblical definitions, NOT the definitions of the false teachers in the pulpits, of some of the words you use to supposedly annul the Torah-Word aka law of Moses? Hates it for what it represents. Though the prophet Jeremiah is specifically addressing societal conditions of ancient Israel who had turned away from fully following YHVH Elohim, the main issues still apply to any society, ancient or modern, that forsakes biblical spiritual values for secular and materialistic ones. Its not just a sinful nature or the boogey man peeking around the corner. Baal is still defined as lord, and Peor is still defined as the gap. Where can I lean more about this subject? To do so is sin. Life isnt a hopeless, set of random and improbable, even impossible, occurrences all coming together. Have you experienced sexual brokenness and shame? Blessings upon u and all involved with this message. We need Gods grace to keep us faithful. Whats more appealing to the human nature? For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. In America, the sexualization of everything, including the premature sexualization of children, which leads to the act of child sacrifice called abortion is an aspect of Baal Peor, which is perhaps the grossest aspect of societys bent toward the dark side and depraved side of human nature.
Sexually transmitted disease. Baal was a Canaanite god worshipped in many different ways by many different tribes. ], [Note: According to the text, this would make for 176,000 slain as a result of the blasphemy, bringing the number of dead to an even 200,000. Nowwww I understand a little/lot more better! Cars and other Man Toys are prime examples. There is no English translation of the book, to my knowledge, and the text is extremely relevant to our appreciation of Lairds stories, so Ive taken the liberty of translating the entries as best I could. I connected this to our present day abortion. Many individuals give lip service to the penthouse, while at the same time theyre really dwelling in the basement. The law and order in the universe and the complexity of nature is astounding and is beyond human comprehension. That being said, there is hope, and with hope comes joy and gratefulness and happiness, meaning and fulfillment in life. Holy is the Hebrew word kadash. The word Baal meaning Lord or Possessor is used in many different ways. Everything around us speaks, yea shouts, to the existence of superior intelligenceto a Creator that is far above humans in every way. Yeshua told us that to love him you have to keep his Torah commands/his laws that he, as the Word of Elohim, gave at Mount Sinai, and I could give you 100 other verses on this. You cant say that you love Jesus, but then reject his laws. To Him I will rely on, and I will let His Spirit lead me and teach me how to walk in this world in the beauty of perfect holiness best revealed on the cross. Simply this, it takes a lot of energy to move upward, against the force of gravity. The book of Genesis gives an unflattering account of the origin of the Moabites. Run from sexual sin! The Moabite Stone, a stele bearing an inscription commemorating the activites of King Mesha (c. 840 BCE), was discovered in 1870. Upon recovering from this illness, she journeyed to make well of this promise. Different ideas about the image of God has created divisions among religions. In a similar way, you have some Nicolaitans among you who follow the same teaching. so enlighteningwow! Moreover, when used as Baal-Peor it meant Lord of the gap or Lord of Peor (with Peor being the mountain and not the word gap). Satisfying its lusts, desires and appetites is a priority. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); What I discovered was that Baal means lord or possessor or master (Strongs and BDB H1167 and H1168). Worshipping Baal involved ritual sex. These disgusting acts were then associated with and used in sexual practices. This was probably a result of the fact that Baal was often worshipped through indulgence of the senses which is always tempting no matter the person. Again, what is the appeal of the Baal? When looking at who exactly Baal was, I found that the answer was rather confusing while also very intriguing. He speaks out against the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes. Baal-Peor literally means Lord of the open holes or Lord of the rectum according to Jewish sources. Tassels, Commandment Stones, & the Throne ofGod. In the second part of this article, we will turn to the use Laird has made of the abomination of the Moab nation. Reconstructed parts are black, original parts are grey. I may not have covered all the points in this article that you mention above, but that doesnt mean that I dont concur with you.
Your arguments will not stand up on judgment day before Yeshua the Living Torah Word of Elohim who will judge us for rewards by his Torah-Word. To me, this possibility, and reality, seems self evident. On high holy days, the community would gather and engage in large-scale orgies as they sought to commune with Baal. Are you struggling with sexual temptation in your life? If youre inclined to respond to me, what a week, month or two before doing so after much prayer, fasting, meditating and searching the Scriptures, otherwise itll be a waste of everyones time.
And the admonition that I should give my life for my brother if He gave his life for me. However there were priests, tribal rituals and physical manifestations and constructs of the practice of worship that go way beyond mere traditions and activities. The location of Mount Peor itself is uncertain. iii. Add to this that Baal worship in ancient times often occurred on high places or mountain tops giving it the allusion of being in the penthouse, while in reality, it was a basement religion full of evil rites and ceremonies that appealed to the baser nature of man. Our faith in Jesus gives us the power to live a holy life and experience the joy that comes from submitting our sexual desires to Him. There was a very real religious practice up in the higher mountains and hills.