Worshipping Baal involved ritual sex. His Royal Law. Best Regards, Mark. Hope you can appreciate that. For the Moabite lineage, it surrounds that of sexual sin, literally having been conceived in the midst of it.
Holy is the Hebrew word kadash. There are only a half-dozen references to the deity, and these are presented below. 5) You mention righteousness. Scholars have suggested that Baal of Peor, could then be translated as lord of the openings, lord of the gap or lord of the holes. The denial of sexual desire almost criminal.
I have shared this with other believers. cvi. Outstanding! What does this mean? In many cultures from ancient Mesopotamia to the Babylonian Empire to Egypt and Greece and Rome. Looking at Lees words I hear a loud hissing emanating from them. But all Ba'al-worship encouraged this sin; and Peor may not have been worse than many other shrines in this respect, though the evil there was certainly flagrant.
The potty commonly used to toilet-train human young is essentially a portable commode. 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. Moreover, at one point in time Yahweh was called Baal, but this and the naming of children was done away with after the time of Ahab and was abolished in Hosea 2:16. To serve Baal is to follow the lusts of the flesh, while to serve the God of the Bible is to have to resist the downward pull and obey his set of rules. The worship of Baal is everything that leads men downward against his better nature to fulfill his bodily appetites. However there were priests, tribal rituals and physical manifestations and constructs of the practice of worship that go way beyond mere traditions and activities. We attain Gods righteousness bu faith in what Lord Yeshua accomplished in His death, resurrection, ascension to the throne of glory and the sending of His Holy Ruah. http://americanchristianministries.org/index.php/cds/beware-of-baal-peor-modern-israel-s-challenge-cds.html, http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/baal.html, http://jerryandgod.com/2013/10/24/skull-and-bones-and-jeremiah-19-the-sign-of-the-potters-house/, http://tyndalearchive.com/scriptures/www.innvista.com/scriptures/compare/israel.htm, http://12tribes.blog-pad.com/jehovah-and-yahweh-are-baal, http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/BaalPeor.html#.VB-1xPldWqJ. The worship of Baal-Peor is described as licentious and through sensual activities. Nowwww I understand a little/lot more better! Sorry to be so blunt, but you dont have a clue what the biblical definition of love is.
He is cited directly, or plagiarized, in most other works referring to Belphegor, up to the present day. We need Gods grace to keep us faithful. About Chemosh, the national Moabite deity, not much additional information is known.
Against this rising tide of paganism stands Jesus. This was helpful in understand the similarities and differences between Baal and Baal-peor.
He is the Living Torah-Word/law of Moses. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account.
By coming against the law of Moses, youre coming against Jesus! Concise fully aware of who Baal is now! Moreover, that which comes from the body waste, semen, etc. The Scriptures speak very STRONGLY of sexual sin and the defilement of the body. What does this have to with those living in the twenty-first century and what can we learn from this? 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). 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. No wonder the LGBT lobby love Baal-peor. Tassels, Commandment Stones, & the Throne ofGod.
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I have found it very enlightening. 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-(http://tyndalearchive.com/scriptures/www.innvista.com/scriptures/compare/israel.htm) So what we can gather is that Baal was a term used in the form of lord for many different lands and that is why we find Baal-Peor in Deuteronomy and Numbers. He seeks the best and the highest for the lowest of the lowest of His creation without discriminating against the object of His love. IT IS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAWS AND COMMANDMENTS OF THE CREATOR. Your bringing forward the reality of Baal worship into modern religious practices is an example of fractal self similarity over generations. When Baal won the battle, there was fertility in the land, and when he lost the battle there was drought and lack of prosperity in the land. In the Bible, Elohim is leading men upward against his base nature.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. Numbers cap 25 vv 1-8.
Huh! All leading translators steer timidly clear from this name, which basically comes down toLord Hole.( http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/BaalPeor.html#.VB-1xPldWqJ) This writer is taking the position that Baal-Peor was nothing more than a god pertaining to sex. That being said, there is hope, and with hope comes joy and gratefulness and happiness, meaning and fulfillment in life. Change). The Bene Haelohim were the fallen watchers. 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. We can learn many valuable lessons from mistakes of those who have preceded us. The cross is not the last word in righteousness. Just read Jeremiah 32 and was getting such a download of a study from God which led me to your article. My prayer is that we wake up and repent before it is to late. 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. No! It is his Word, given to Moses who wrote it down. His love is unconditional and based on who He is not in what we do for Him.
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. So when His own people - the people He miraculously saved and sustained - begin to worship Baal-Peor, He responds with swift, righteous judgment. If what youre saying is true, does that mean that we can ignore the law of Elohim given to Moses and Israel? Things would have been much worse except for Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron, who takes up a spear and kills an Israelite man and Moabite woman as they engaged in ritual sex in front of Moses and the gathered congregation at the entrance of the Tabernacle itself! Both of these stories were somewhat different than each other; however, there was an over-arching theme in both of them in which the god Baal was in a battle with some other beast or god.
While the name Baal one of the gods of the ancient biblical Canaanites may mean nothing to modern people, the Hebrew word baal simply means lord or master. In modern terms, whatever mores, principles or ideals a society has given itself over to and therefore dominates that society become de facto the lord, master (or Baal) or god of that society. Repent of your sin, or I will come to you suddenly and fight against them with the sword of my mouth. {Revelation 2:14-16}. So, whats if love? The violation of YHVHs Torah-law of Moses (1 John 3:4). Just las night, I was studying the complex structure of a plant leaf and all the chemical processes that occur inside of it to produce energy from sunlight, water and CO2. 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. More Specifically, Who wasBaal-Peor? Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Not surprisingly, in an arid and agriculturally marginal area of the world the fertility of land and crops played a large role in Canaanite world view.(, As the Sun-god, Baal was worshipped under two aspects, beneficent and destructive. Thanks. Again, Baalzebub was the god of these disgusting practices. Then another problem they did sacrifice to gods plural. sin is baal worshiping, hate, unforgiveness, unfaithful, multiple sex etc To do so is to toy with the immutable and spiritual Word and mind of YHVH Elohim. Thats what it boils down to.
Abortion. What human hubris!!!! 17). Right: 1898 Mesha Stele drawing.CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
Excellent article. So by now you may be thinking, What about Baal-Peor? Well this is also somewhat convoluted, but easily understood. If true, this shows us the serious depravity of the people that the Israelite nations encountered and the severity of yoking with them and following the despicable ways of worship that revolves around their gods.
Rather, youre again simply regurgitating the lies youve heard from the pulpit. bible season 1 (was done 2015)
When Baal won the battle, there was fertility in the land, and when he lost the battle there was drought and lack of prosperity in the land. God bless. How pray tell do you do this? The right to make chooses was given and mankind is upholding the right to its fullest. Really? 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.
(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. Do you feel enslaved to your sexual desires? They vanish from the historical record in the Persian period (7th c. BCE), when various tribes from Arabia overran their territory. Different ideas about the image of God has created divisions among religions. Are you struggling with sexual temptation in your life? His love does not depend on how hard we work to keep His law. 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.
Some Baal cults went to the extreme often sacrificing children or worshipping their own excrement. When my spirit was opened to the very simple fact that our Messiah came to teach us one message, & one message alone, about the Kingdom of God, something soo simple, that I had heard about & read about a million times, but yet was so deaf & blind to, that I was distracted mainly by Religion. 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. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Blessings. We have shed our Christian character for that of Belial, Satan and his minions. A plague is unleashed. 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. To serve Baal is to fulfill the immediate desires of ones lower nature without thinking about the long term consequences of ones actions upon oneself, ones family and society, as opposed to thinking about the long term consequences of resisting the downward pull and choosing the higher path. 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. Lets get this one straight, first! 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. The last conclusion is one that I make because the worshipping of Baal-Peor consisted of sensual desires, combined with the Israelites struggle to assimilate into monotheism.