CHAPTER
I (PartOne)
TOP
1.
The Origin of False Religions Began with Lucifer.2. The Rebellion in Heaven
Against God.3. The Rebellion on Earth Against God.4. Lucifer Was and Is Today
Worshipped As the Sun-god.5. The Doctrine of the Immortal Soul, Basic
Foundation of Witchcraft.6. Astrology, the Origin of All Pagan Sciences.
In
the last book of the Bible, Jesus Christ gives His Last warning before He
returns the second time. This Last Day warning is found in chapters 13, 14,
16, 17 & 18 of the Book of Revelation. Jesus warns His people about how
the whole world will be deceived into worshipping Satan, symbolized as the
Seven Headed Dragon attacking a woman, a symbol of the True Faith.
In
Revelation 13:4, 8, 9 Jesus' prediction about the worship of Satan throughout
this world may be read: "And they WORSHIPPED THE DRAGON which gave power
unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the
beast? Who is able to make war with him? ... And all that dwell upon the earth
SHALL WORSHIP HIM, WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB
SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. If any man have an ear, let him
hear."
The
Apostle John wrote: "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have
heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby
we know that it is the last time." 1.John 2:18.The Apostle Paul warned:
"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except
there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of
perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or
that is worshipped: so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing
himself that he is God." 2.Thessalonians 2:3,4. There are various ways
our Lord has made known to His followers how to detect Satan who is the
invisible head of a partly religious and partly political movement. Revelation
13:18 warns it would be branded with the number 666. In Revelation 17:5 our
Lord describes this satanic movement that is antichrist in a symbol of a lewd
beautiful woman. And upon her forehead was a name written, "MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
The
very last warning our Lord is now giving the deceived world is found in
Revelation 18:4. "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, COME OUT
OF HER, MY PEOPLE, THAT YE BE NOT PARTAKERS OF HER SINS, AND THAT YE RECEIVE
NOT OF HER PLAGUES."
There
are three distinct messages symbolized as three angels in Revelation 14.
Revelation 14:6, 7 is calling the world away from the worship of the Dragon,
to worship God who created the heaven, earth, and the sea, and the fountains
of waters. In Revelation 14:8 it tells how Babylon the Great is fallen and how
she has made all nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
However, in Revelation 14:9,10 we read the most solemn warning ever given to
the world, of which most are completely ignorant. Satan is hardly ever
mentioned in many Christian circles, much less how he is predicted in
Scripture to lead most to lose their salvation.
"And
the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship
the beast and his image, and receive his MARK in his forehead, or in his hand,
the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out
without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the
presence of the Lamb." Revelation 14:9,10. God reveals that all nations
have already been deceived by "Babylon the Great, The Mother of Harlots
and Abominations of the Earth." And our Lord is calling His people out of
Babylon. But, the question to most is, what is Babylon? This is the whole
purpose of this book. It is to lay wide open for all to see what the sins of
Babylon the Great are, and who she is, and who this mysterious scarlet colored
beast is that she is riding on, as described in Revelation 17:1-8.
While
we study the history and the nature of "Babylon the Great (and of the
Beast that is carrying her)," we will learn that there was, is, and
always shall be in this world, avowed worshippers of Lucifer. Some will be
shocked to learn that Luciferians have lived and died in promoting the worship
of Lucifer through Babylonian, Egyptian and Druid Witchcraft, and are
determined to overthrow all religions and governments. Their goal is to unite
the world into a One World Government, and exalt Lucifer as the only god of
this world!
As
we continue to study the nature of "Babylon the Great," we will
study the philosophies of "Wicca" Wicca is the modern version of
Babylonian, Egyptian, and Druid Witchcraft with millions of both male and
female members. We will learn how apostles of Lucifer in the past and present
are using Secret Societies, Communism, International Banking, Christian
fronts, social issues to further their plans. We will learn how these modern
day witches are ever determined to overthrow the worship of Jesus Christ and
Christianity by using subliminal warfare (Mind Sciences), and physical force.
This Luciferian plot to destroy all religions and all governments, so that a
One World Luciferian Government may be established, is coming today, in what
is known as "The Aquarian Age," or "The New Age Movement."
In Latin it is called Novus Ordo Seclorum (New Order for the Ages). But its
real, concealed name is The Illuminati. And, it will be shown that it was from
the Secret Order of The Illuminati, that Communism was derived!
We
will study the origin of the number 666, and who today is branded with it. We
will study the Mark of the Beast with whom no true follower of Jesus will
identify. We will take a journey through documentive history starting with
Lucifer's rebellion in Heaven, and continue to expose through history how
Lucifer was worshipped, both ignorantly and openly, through the astrological
systems of Sun worship. After the camouflages have been removed from paganism
that reveal it was in reality Satan who was worshipped as the Sun-god, then we
shall remove all the camouflages Lucifer is hiding behind today, through false
systems of Christianity, and through an international political movement for a
One World Government.These two symbols, "Babylon the Great" and the
Beast that ascendeth out of the Bottomless Pit, will be carefully studied and
understood later on in the book. However, before the ordinary reader can
comprehend any of these things, we must go back into history to the time of
Adam and Eve, and to the time of Noah and Nimrod.
The
origin of lies traces to Lucifer (Genesis 3:4). And the origin of false
religion also began with Lucifer. In Isaiah 14:12-15 we read: "How art
thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down
to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the
north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most
High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit."
It
has been Lucifer's plan from ancient times to gradually unite this entire
world into a One World Government that would reject its Creator and worship
Lucifer instead. Lucifer before his fall was the most exalted angel next to
Christ. The "son of the morning" stood in the presence of God with
Christ. He was the covering Cherub, the lightbearer for God. However, Lucifer
began to think of himself as equal in splendor and wisdom to God. He began to
think he also deserved worship from the Lord's servants, and began to plot
against the Lord of Heaven. Lucifer, the covering Cherub, did set his face to
overthrow the worship of God. Lucifer did not at once reveal his covetousness.
If he had exposed all of his plans to the Universe, where sin and rebellion at
that time were not known, he would not have gained much following.
Lucifer's
plot to overthrow the government of Heaven would take long and careful
planning. Little by little, Lucifer began to find others whose sympathy he
could gain by criticizing how the Lord managed the affairs of the Universe.
Lucifer tried to make the God of Love, the Lord of the Sabbath, appear to be a
selfish tyrant. Lucifer, assuming the guise of godliness, led many Heavenly
Beings to come over to his side by misrepresenting God's character, as if God
Himself were the Evil One. Lucifer sowed seeds of murmuring, complaining and
strife which germinated into rebellion, and caused divisions among the angels
of Heaven. Lucifer tried to weaken the unity of Heaven, thinking this would
weaken the power of the Almighty. However, only one third of the Heavenly host
chose the side of the god of confusion. The whole Universe chose only two
sides; there was no middle ground. There was war in Heaven between Christ and
Lucifer. "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: He was cast out into the
earth, and his angels were cast out with him." Revelation 12:9.
The
very plans Lucifer tried to execute in Heaven, he is now conditioning the
people of the world to accept. Just as Satan, or Lucifer, concealed his real
plans from the angels in Heaven in the beginning to overthow the worship of
God, so is Lucifer trying today to overthrow the True worship of God among the
inhabitants of this world. Just as Satan did not suddenly expose his real
plans that would have demanded the worship of him by Heavenly Beings, so has
Satan camouflaged the worship of himself among earthly beings, through a
world-wide network of gods and goddesses, and later through false systems of
Christianity.
Sun
worship was the greatest rival religion of the worship of Jehovah in the Old
Testament. It was through Sun worship that the worship of Lucifer was
camouflaged throughout this world. Those who obeyed the pagan precepts were
actually bowing their knee before the Devil, not gods as they thought.
"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his
servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience
unto righteousness?" Romans 6:16.
As
the angels of Heaven chose sides before Lucifer was cast out of heaven, so
will the people of this world join into two distinct groups before the end of
this age. The line of distinction, which will be studied in detail in the
closing chapter, will be drawn by the Mark of the Beast foretold in Revelation
13: 11-18 and 14:6-13.
The
Luciferian plot to overthrow the worship of Jesus has always worked in secret,
using camouflages to remain hidden. It has not come upon the world suddenly,
but little by little. Likewise, we must also trace this history of the great
Luciferian Conspiracy little by little. We will expose how primitive man was
deceived into worshipping Lucifer, then bring the reader down through the
centuries and show how Lucifer is being worshipped in these modern 1990's.
To
begin this study, let's take a closer look at the name "Lucifer"
itself. The name "Lucifer" in Latin means "Light-Bearer"
and may also mean the planet Venus, which is the "morning star at
dawn"[2]. In Greek mythology, Lucifer was personified as a male figure
bearing a torch[3]. Hence, we have the origin of the Light-Bearer of the
Olympic Games. The Greek transliteration of the name of this incarnation of
Lucifer in the myth was Teitan. In middle English his name was Titan, which
also meant "Sungod"[4]. .A distorted record of the rebellion of
Lucifer and that of the rebel giant Nimrod has been preserved in Greek
mythology. Titan (Teitan), the personification of Lucifer, was the ancestor of
a race of giant humans here on earth who were overthrown by the Olympian
gods[6]. Hence, the word titan today means "one gigantic in size or
power." And, the word titanism today in our language means "spirit
of rebellion; or a defiance of and revolt against the established order or
authority"[6].
As
Lucifer was the chief leader that led the angelic host to rebel against God,
so did Nimrod cause the early descendants of Noah to rebel against God.
Flavius Josephus, the ancient Jewish historian, wrote about Nimrod and how he
seduced the people of his day to rebel against God, and was first to teach the
arts of masonry, while building the "Tower of Babel." From the book
"The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus", we read the following:
"
... Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God.
He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength
of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it was through his
means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which
produced that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into
tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from fear of God, but to bring
them into a constant dependence on his own power. He also said he would be
revenged on God, if he would have a mind to drown the world again, for that he
would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach! And that he
would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers!
"Now
the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to
esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower,
neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work.
And by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high,
sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it
was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to
be less than it really was." (The Complete Works of Flovius Josephus,
Whiston, Kregel Publications, 1960, 1978, p.30.)
Nimrod
tried to unite the whole known world of his day into a One World Government
that would be anti-God or Antichrist. But God wanted the sons of Noah to
eventually replenish the earth by traveling abroad the earth and settling in
colonies. This would have kept in check the wickedness that has always derived
out of the cities. In the beginning, it was not intended that man be crowded
together in large cities. This tower of Babel, the building of which Nimrod
supervised, was to have two great significances. The city of Babel would
become the metropolis of the world and unite its inhabitants under the
dictatorial rule of Nimrod. And its tower was to be a monument to man to stand
as a symbol of the wisdom of its builders.
By
building the city of Babel, Nimrod hoped to prevent the people from scattering
abroad into colonies as the Lord intended. While in the midst of this
building, when the tower reached an height that it could today be called
"skyscraper," our Lord came against it. In Genesis 11:3-9 we read:
"And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And
they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto
heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face
of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower,
which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is
one, and they have one language; and this they began to do: and now nothing
will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go
down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one
another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name
of it Babel (confusion); because the Lord did there confound the language of
all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face
of all the earth."
Nimrod,
who also built Nineveh, was worshipped by its early inhabitants under his
deified name "Ninus." He was first to incite people to war with
their neighbors after the confusion of tongues had scattered the early
descendants of Noah over the earth. Trogus Pompeius, who wrote of Ninus,
states that the first King of Nineveh caused the people to war against
themselves. Alexander Hislop compiled this statement written by Trogus
Pompeius, the ancient historian, in his book The Two Babylons, p. 23:" 'Ninus,
king of Assyrians,' says Trogus Pompeius epitomised by Justin, 'first of all
changed the contented moderation of the ancient manners, incited by a new
passion, the desire of conquest. He was the first who carried on war against
his neighbours and he conquered all nations from Assyria to Lybia, as they
were yet unacquainted with the arts of war.'"
Hislop
goes on to quote another ancient historian named Diodorus Siculus and shows
how Trogus Pompeius and Siculus both agree with each other.
"
'Ninus, the most ancient of the Assyrian kings mentioned in history, performed
great actions. Being naturally of a warlike disposition, and ambitious of
glory that results from valeur, he armed a considerable number of young men
that were brave and vigorous like himself, trained them up a long time in
laborious exercises and hardships, and by that means accustomed them to bear
the fatigues of war, and to face dangers with intrepidity.' " Loizeaux
Brothers, Neptune, NJ, 1916.
Hence,
Nimrod (Ninus) was celebrated at Nineveh, which he built, as a War-god, and
his epics as a hunter, a warrior, and his death were later imitated in the
Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and American Indian Mysteries.
His Egyptian name was Osiris[7]. To the Romans, he was also worshipped as Mars
(which means "The Rebel"), from which our name March was derived.
He
was Zernebogus to the Anglo-Saxon, which means: "The Seed of the Prophet
Cush"[8]. But, Nimrod's ancient Babel name was Merodach, which means
"To Be Bold, or Rebel"[9]. So here we find the real meaning of these
two gods found in Scripture: "Bel (The Confounder) is confounded,
Merodach (The Rebel) is broken in pieces Jeremiah 50:2)." We will study
more of the origin of the name "Bel" later.In the Babylonian myth of
Tammuz, or Thammuz (the equivalent to the Egyptian god Osiris, who actually
was Nimrod, the ringleader in the great apostacy against our Lord, was ordered
to be killed by a certain king. The reason given for his death was that Tammuz,
the incarnation of the Sun-god, tried to promote the worship of Astrology to
this certain king. However, this king ordered him to be put to death.
Maimonides, another ancient historian, had read deeply into the learning of
the Chaldeans. He describes this myth, quoted by Hislop in The Two Babylons,
p. 62:
"When
the false prophet named Thammuz preached to a certain king that he should
worship the seven stars and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, that king ordered
him to be put to a terrible death. On the night of his death all the images
assembled from the ends of the earth into the temple of Babylon, to the great
golden image of the Sun, which was suspended between heaven and earth. That
image prostrated itself in the midst of the temple, and so did all the images
around it, while it related to them all that had happened to Thammuz. The
images wept and lamented all the night long, and then in the morning they flew
away, each to his own temple again, to the ends of the earth. And hence arose
the custom every year on the first day of the month of Thammuz to mourn and to
weep for Thammuz."
Now,
in the worship of the Sun-god among the Mexicans, they believed that for the
Sun-god to bestow life on the world, he needed also to receive life from it
[10]. To show the reader the murderous character of Satan displayed in people,
and what human beings can be led to do by his false religious spirit, we will
explore some of the reasons behind the rites of human sacrifices.
To
the ancient Mexicans, the heart was the seat and symbol of life, and bleeding
hearts of men and animals were presented to the Sun-god to maintain him in
vigor and enable him to run his course across the sky [11]. Now, when the
Israelites turned their backs from worshipping the Lord, they adopted the
worship of the pagan gods from their neighbors. And they too were led by pagan
high priests to sacrifice human beings. "They joined themselves also unto
Baalpeor and ate the sacrifices of the dead. Thus they provoked the Lord to
anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. And they
served their idols which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their
sons and their daughters unto DEVILS and shed innocent blood, even the blood
of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of
Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood." Psalms 106:28, 29, 36-38.
The
ignorant Israelites were not sacrificing their children to gods, as they
thought, but unto devils. Paul, over 1000 years later, said the sacrifices of
the Gentiles which the Israelites adopted were actually "Sacrifices to
Devils." "But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice,
they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have
fellowship with devils." 1.Corinthians 10:20.As history has documented,
that greatest object in pagan worship was the sun, who was symbolized all over
the world as a heavenly bull [12]. The pagans displayed the cosmic god in
their arts as a bull standing on its hind legs with a tail, hoofs and horns,
with a man's head and arms, with a threeprong pitchfork in his hand. So the
ancient cosmic symbol of the Sun-god, with hoofs, a tail, horns and a
pitchfork, is where we today get our symbol for Satan as having hoofs, a tail,
and horns, with a pitchfork in his hand.
In
pagan philosophy, lightning was the manifestation of their god's wrath and an
agent of his punishment. The thunder was the voice of his warnings [13]. In
ancient Greece, thunder and lightning were believed by the worshippers of Zeus
to be manifestations of his presence. Any spot struck by lightning became
sacred. The very name "Zeus" (skt. dyaus, "The Bright
Sky") identifies him as the god of the sky and its phenomena [14]. In
Rome he was worshipped as Jupiter, in Scandinavia, Thor, and in Canaan, Baal,
the Storm god.
Lightning
from the sky separates into branches; hence, the lightning bolt found in the
hand of the supreme god of the sky was stylized into a pitchfork. This was a
symbol for his power, as he who controls the lightning bolt. Besides Satan's
personation of Christ just before Jesus' Second Coming, what other power of
God is the second beast of Revelation 13:11-17 going to counterfeit through
lying wonders? "And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come
down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men." And this is still
future.
The
prince of the power of the air is also the prince of darkness. Just as the
pagan was deceived by Satan in ancient times, so is the Christian in modern
times. And, if man can learn how to bring electricity down from the sky and
harness its energy, how much more could Satan, a supernatural being, who is
even called in the Bible "The Prince of the Power of the Air"
(Ephesians 2:2), able to cause destructive storms! And not only this, but also
give his followers secret knowledge how to do the same to their enemies.
Because the Sun-god was believed to have this power and would also give it to
his followers, if they were obedient, or would zap his enemies with his bolt,
the pagans worshipped their gods through fear. In Bible Truth, it is the
goodness of God that turns an evil person to worship Him (Romans 2:4). But in
pagan belief, it was the anger of the Storm god, his hatred for man, his
unmerciful attributes, that made the pagans bow before him. Not through love,
but through fear. Their whole worship revolved around winning the evil one's
favor by pacifying him through sacrifice and appeasement.
The
main features behind the pure demon worship of ancient Babylon can be seen
today by the open worship of the Yezidis of Kurdistan, Armenia, and the
Caucasus. In their pagan worship they believe it is "Melek Taus,"
who is the Devil, that was the co-creator of the world [15]. Their religion
today is the worship of both Good and Evil, or Christ and Satan. They have
adopted some heretical elements of Christianity, and some precepts of Islam.
They regard Jesus as an angel in human form and recognize Muhammad as a
Prophet with Abraham. They practice circumcision and baptism. Instead of
Christ as the creative agent of the Godhead (Ephesians 3:10), they regard the
Devil as the creative agent of the Supreme God, and seek even today to
(appease) him as the author of evil. They also avoid mentioning the name of
the Devil in fear of offending him [16]. We will study another religious
movement that has the dualism of good and evil to be worshipped from today's
Rock Era a little later. This study should be particularly interesting for
people who called themselves Christians during the epidemic of the Beatle
hysteria.
The
Yezedis, like most pagans, believe their destinies are not determined by a
good, loving, kind and gentle God, but by the Evil One, who has no mercy, who
delights in destroying mankind. They believe that the good God will forgive no
matter how they regard him. But, it is the Evil One whose favor they must
secure. He, as the destructive deity, must be pacified by offering him
sacrifice, penance, and worship. Is this not similar to how multitudes who
call themselves Christians are led to worship the Lord of the Scriptures? Is
it not pictured by erring priests and pastors that God is a vengeful God, who
is ever waiting to cast the unrepentant into a burning place of torment, or
sent the repentant to purgatory, so they may be tortured by fire until they
suffer enough to be purified for Heaven? Is it not screamed, dramatized and
shouted to congregations about how gruesome are the tortures of them who are
now, so they say, in Hell, the burning place of torment?
There
is hardly a Christian denomination that doesn't teach the doctrine of Life
After Death or Immortality of the Soul. But the Bible clearly states that no
one lives on after death. "For the living know that they shall die: But
THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANYTHING, neither have they any more a reward: for the
memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their
envy, is now perished: neither have they any more a portion for ever in any
thing that is done under the sun." Ecclesiastes 9:5,6.If the wicked are
tormented in Hell Fire as taught by most Christian priests and pastors, when
the wicked die, would they not have some knowledge of the torment they are
supposed to be experiencing? "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it
with thy might: For there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom,
in the grove, whither thou goest." Ecclesiastes 9:10.
If
the righteous go to Heaven after death as taught in most Christian churches,
would they not be praising the Lord? The Bible says: "The Dead Praise Not
The Lord, Neither Any That Go Down In Silence." Psalms 115:17.
If
man goes to Heaven at death like most Christian churches tell their members,
wouldn't these righteous people have some thoughts or ideas where they are?
The Bible says: "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in
that VERY DAY HIS THOUGHTS PERISH." Psalm 146:4.Some go to the gravesites
to talk to their dead friends or relatives, but the Bible says: "His sons
come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low but he
perceiveth it not of them." Job 14:21. "For in death there is NO
REMEMBRANCE OF THEE, IN THE GRAVE WHO SHALL GIVE THEE THANKS?" Psalms
6:5.
Jesus
plainly stated that the dead are still in the graves at His Second Coming, not
in Heaven: "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now
is, WHEN THE DEAD SHALL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON OF GOD: AND THEY THAT HEAR
SHALL LIVE." ... "MARVEL NOT AT THIS: FOR THE HOUR IS COMING, IN
WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, AND SHALL COME FORTH;
they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life and they that have
done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." John 5:25,28,29.
Both
the wicked and the righteous are still in their graves. However, there is a
Hell Fire where the wicked will surely be destroyed. But this is still future.
This hell fire comes from Heaven, not from some secret place where the dead
are now receiving their punishment. The Devil is not in charge of some secret
place called Hell that is under the earth where all the wicked have been
thrown. Nor does the Devil run around with his pitchfork, sticking and burning
the wicked both day and night. The fire will be from Heaven and will destroy
the wicked and also the Devil himself. Revelation 20.
Peter
foretold Christ's Second Coming would be in fire: "The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise, as some men count slackness: but is longsuffering to
us-word, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the
which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall
MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO AND THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE
BURNED UP." 2.Peter 3:9, 10.David foretold Christ's Second Coming 1,000
years before Jesus was born. In Psalm 50:3-5, we read: "Our God shall
come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall
be tempestuous round about Him. He shall call to the heavens from above, and
to the earth, that He may Judge His people. Gather my saints together unto me;
those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
Paul
also foretold that Jesus would be a consuming fire to those who have rejected
the Gospel. 2.Thessalonians 1:7-9, "And to you who are troubled rest with
us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not
the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His
power." In Isaiah 29:6 we read: "Thou shalt be visited of the Lord
of hosts with THUNDER, AND WITH EARTHQUAKE, AND GREAT NOISE, WITH STORM AND
TEMPEST AND THE FLAME OF DEVOURING FIRE."
The
doctrine of the wicked being thrown into ever burning fire cannot be found in
either the Old or New Testaments, but it is found on the pages of Sun worship.
The Hell Fire Jesus plainly described in Scripture has two time periods. There
are two different times fire and brimstone shall rain from Heaven. The first
shall be at Christ's Second Coming. But the consuming fire that finally
destroys the Devil, his angels, and the wicked will not be until after the
1,000 years described in Revelation 20:1-6, 9, 10. This is when the wicked
will be raised from the dead, and Satan will make a last effort to destroy the
New Jerusalem: "And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and
compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; and fire CAME
DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND DEVOURED THEM. AND THE DEVIL THAT DECEIVED
THEM WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, WHERE THE BEAST AND THE
FALSE PROPHET ARE, AND SHALL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOR EVER AND
EVER." Revelation 20:9, 10.
This
whole earth is going to be covered with fire. Fire is a purifying agent. And
it will be fire that our Lord will use to purify the earth of its pollutions
caused by Satan and man for 6,000 years.
In
the book of Malachi we read the following: "For behold, the day cometh,
that shall burn as an oven: and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,
shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord
of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch." Malachi
4:1.The Lord destroyed everything in Noah's day by water; that was just a
shadow of the earth when it shall be covered by fire. Peter saw this was to
come and said in 2.Peter 3:5,6, "For this they willingly are ignorant of,
that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of
the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed
with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the
same word are kept in store, reserved unto FIRE against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men."
As
stated before, there are two periods of this Hell Fire predicted by both the
Old Testament Prophets and by the New Testament Apostles. And, there are also
to be two resurrections. In Revelation 20:1-9, it plainly states the
resurrection of the wicked and their destruction will not happen until the
1,000-year millenium is over. "And I saw an angel come down from heaven,
having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he
laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and
bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him
up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till
the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a
little season. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the
beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads,
or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand
years." We will study more of this very important doctrine later.
Now,
among the first inhabitants of the earth, Lucifer's first lie was "YE
SHALL NOT SURELY DIE (Genesis 3:4)." And, this same LIE of the Devil has
been used from Adam and Eve's day to our present time today. Here lies the
origin of the foundation of the falsehood of immortal soul, reincarnation, all
forms of Spiritualism, Astrology, Black Magic, Necromancy, Purgatory and Hell,
the burning place of torment. The whole system of the Mystery of Iniquity is
based on this lie of the Devil, "Life after Death." But the Bible is
very clear: "THOU SHALT SURELY DIE." Genesis 2:16, 17.
Man
does not continue to live after death as most have been deceived into
believing. "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know
not anything." Ecclesiastes 9:5. As stated before, the myths about
"Life After Death" can be traced in the legends of Nimrod who became
the great god of the Assyrians and Babylonians [17]. At Nineveh, Austen H.
Layard, from the British Museum, uncovered the ancient city and discovered
over 25,000 tablets describing the ancient history of the Assyrian Empire
[18]. Layard found inscriptions at Nineveh that said it was Ninus who built
the city [10]. The word "Nineveh" itself means "The Habitation
of Ninus"[20]. But it has been discovered that the name Ninus was just a
deified name the early Assyrians called Nimrod, because the Bible itself says
it was Nimrod who built Nineveh (Genesis 10:11). Nimrod (Ninus) was said to
have been killed, according to the inscriptions, but his "spirit"
became immortal and flew up to the Sun and he became "Beelsamon,"
"Lord of Heaven"[21].
In
all forms of witchcraft, as in all modern forms today, the doctrine of
"Immortality of the Soul" was the center of their whole pagan belief
and worship. Pagans believed that when they died they took possession of one
of the stars in Heaven. The ignorant pagans, like multitudes of Christians
today, believe that the spirits of the dead are "ministering spirits,
sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation." Hebrews
1:14.
If
the reader has ever read into the history of any nation, the history of the
people shows that their whole culture was surrounded by the belief in
"Life After Death," "Reincarnation," and communicating
with the dead. Multitudes of pagan traditions, worldwide, have their origin in
the Legends of Nimrod.The Babylonians taught that the fate of everything was
dependent on the sky. The Babylonians, as most ancient people, believed that
each mortal, like the gods, had his own star in the Sky [22]. Here we can
begin to see why primitive men believed their chief gods inhabited the planets
and named the planets as the homes of their gods. Saturn (the Roman god of
crops) is believed to be the star-god Stephen said the ancient Israelites
worshipped in their apostasy under the name of Remphan [23]. "Yea, ye
took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the Star of your god Remphan, figures
which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon."
Acts 7:43, see also Amos 5:26.
This
will also help us to understand the cosmic religion of Astrology, and how
Astrology ties in with Sun worship. Astrology was actually the origin of the
pagan sciences and pagan symbols. John, in the book of Revelation, was given
this sacred number 666 of Astrology to identify who this beast is (see
Revelation 13:1-11, and 18) that Jesus warns not to be identified with
(Revelation 14:9,10).
In
the ancient Babylonian astrological system, it is the Sun-god who is the ruler
and main god of the zodiac. And all the gods of heaven (the stars) were
considered offspring of the sun. According to pagan philosophy, all the star
gods you have heard about in school were actually manifestations of the heat,
fire and light which flowed from the sun. It was believed that it was the
Sun-god who was the source of all things, and all the other gods were but
emanations of the sun, "flesh of his flesh." Therefore, all the
manifestations of the gods of nature were just manifestations of the one god,
the Sun, whose worship by primitive man was in reality to Satan. Even
Lucifer's name means "Day Star," the "Illuminated One," or
"Shining One"[24].
The
Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Hindus and American Indians, like the
Babylonians, all believed that their gods were just representations of the one
god. The ancient people, shortly after the flood, had a knowledge of the True
God of Noah, Shem, and Abraham. But the worship of the True God of Noah, Shem,
and Abraham soon became perverted into idolatry by the larger population when
Nimrod tried to unite the whole world into a One World Government. And this
anti-God movement shall be attempted by some modern Nimrods in our time!
Both
history and the Bible reveal that the greatest mystery to mankind has always
been the Universe. And Satan, the Prince of the Power of the Air, used man's
curiosity about the heavenly host to cause man to worship them instead of
their Creator. "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the
Lord and served Baalim (the Sun-god)." Judges 2:11.
The
word Baalim is a term to describe the whole system of Sun worship. Augustine
said in his book, The City of God, that all the learned pagan doctors declared
that all the chief gods of the Greek-Roman world were 'one and the same love,'
and that all the stars were part of love and had rational souls [25]. All the
chief gods of Greece and Rome were the same gods worshipped in Babylonia,
Assyria, Egypt, Persia, and North and South America [26]. Only the names were
different, like their languages and cultures were. It was from Babylon (Babel)
that Sun worship started. And, it is also where all ancient and modern nations
today receive their system of Astrology [27].
In
pagan philosophy, the stars controlled the affairs of the human race. Hence,
the science of Astrology claims to interpret the will of the star gods. The
chief star gods of the pagans were the gods of Astrology, which were believed
to be just emanations of the one god, the Sun-God [28], the ruler of the
Zodiac. Astrology is the foundation of all the pagan sciences of the occult,
whose author is Lucifer, and his spirit guides are his angels. Spiritualism,
which is just another name for Witchcraft, is today, among the young, the
biggest rival of Jesus Christ. It will be through Spiritualism that men and
women will come with all manner of lying wonders that will gather the whole
world under Satan's banner. "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here
is Christ, or there, believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs and
false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it
were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." Matthew 24:23,24.
Spiritualism
(Witchcraft) will deceive the whole world into accepting a strong delusion
that will bring Satan to finally use his crowning deception that will cause
most to lose their salvation. Lucifer, this Old Serpent, called the Devil,
will personate Jesus Christ just before the real Christ comes the Second Time.
This will be Satan's last effort to destroy mankind. However, students of the
Bible, who have made Scripture their only standard to judge between truth and
error, will not be fooled into worshipping Satan as Christ. For the satanic
movement to unite the world under one banner and Christ walking upon this
earth again is a complete contradiction of Scripture. But to actually
understand any of this, the reader must not be ignorant of Satan's devices; so
we need to examine what the Bible says Spiritualism or, what Witchcraft is.
This we will study in Part II of this Chapter.
CHAPTER
I
(PartTwo) TOP
1.
The modern term for witchcraft taught in Colleges today. 2. The origin of the
"Great Rite" among modern day witches. 3. What is Phallicism? 4. The
Jewish Star of David is not originally from Judaism, but Babylonian
Witchcraft. 5. The Pentagram and Pentagon. 6. Sacred Numbers and Letters in
Witchcraft That Deceive Today. 7. The Origin of the Number 666. 8. Names for
the Devil and Sun-gods That Add to 666. 9. The Origin of the Name Phoenix (Fenex),
an Ancient Name for Lucifer.
Little
do young Rock and Rollers know they are deceived by an unseen host of agents
of the Devil. The Bible warns it will be demons, using people as their
instruments, that will lead others into rejecting the True Christ. "For
they are the spirits of DEVILS, working miracles, which go forth unto the
kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of
that great day of God Almighty." Revelation 16:14. There is absolutely
nothing romantic about Satan. He will give some power to work miracles, but
this is his way of deceiving. Just as God uses man to lead others to Him, so
does Satan. However, unlike God, once Satan has used a person for his own
purposes, Satan will cast away all whom he has used to deceive others, like a
man casts away his trash into the trash can. So to help a Bible student avoid
falling into any of Satan's traps, one can learn from the Scriptures and from
those whom Satan has already used, how not to become another one of his
victims.
To
start, we need to study again the first deception at the Garden of Eden. As we
stated before, the Devil uses camouflages to keep his worship hidden. The Sun
and Nimrod were only a front used by Lucifer to get multitudes to bow before
him. However, the first camouflage he used to deceive Adam and Eve was the
serpent. The very thing Satan used to deceive Adam and Eve became eventually
one of the most sacred symbols of Sun worship! Instead of the serpent as being
a symbol of Satan and deception, as the Bible instructs, the serpent became a
symbol of the "Great Benefactor and Healer" of mankind. The serpent
was worshipped as the "God of Healing" and
"Life-Restorer." "YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE," Genesis 3:3,
was Lucifer's first lie to our first parents. The serpent, the god of healing,
was generally represented in the pagan arts entwined on a stick, staff or a
stock of a tree [1]. Here we find the origin of the strange symbol that the
American Medical Association (AMA) uses today. This medical insignia was
originally the symbol of the Egyptian god Hermes, who we will see in a moment
was Nimrod's father, Cush. And it's here we find the origin of the word
hermetic.
This
ancient word found in classical literature actually derived from the ancient
Egyptian god of medicine. This name is actually Chaldean and the Greeks and
Egyptians adopted this god from the Babylonians. The very word hermetic means
the hidden knowledge of magic, occult sciences, etc [2]. Not only was the
serpent worshipped by the ignorant pagans as "The Great Benefactor"
for mankind, the serpent ironically enough was worshipped also as "The
Great Enlightener." What did Satan say to Adam and Eve besides, "Ye
shall not surely die?" In Genesis 3:5 we read: "FOR GOD DOTH KNOW
THAT IN THE DAY YE EAT THEREOE THEN YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED, AND YE SHALL BE
AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL."
In
The Two Babylons, by Hislop, p. 227, we read the following:
"Along
with the sun, as the great fire-god, and, in due time, identified with him,
was the serpent worshipped. In the mythology of the primitive world, says
Owen, 'the serpent is universally the symbol of the sun. In Egypt, one of the
commonest symbols of the sun, or sun god, is a disc with a serpent around it.
The original reason of that identification seems just to have been that, as
the sun was the great enlightener of the physical world, so the serpent was
held to have been the great enlightener of the spiritual, by giving mankind
the 'Knowledge of Good and Evil.' ' " The ancient Mayans of the Yucatan
in Mexico worshipped the serpent god under the name of Can. Can means
"serpent" in the Mayan language, as Can or A-Can was the ancient
Sumerian and ancient Scottish word for serpent. Here we find the origin of our
word canny, shrewd or serpent-like. The Babylonians worshipped Can the serpent
and Vul, the god of fire. The Romans simply combined the two words into
'Vulcan," the Roman god of fire from when also comes our word
"volcano" [3]. This seems to be how the Mayans and Mexicans named
their gods. They too combined two words to describe their serpent god. "Kulkul"
means "beautiful bird," and "Can," serpent. Hence, "Kulkulcan,"
which means "Bird Serpent" in the Mayan language. This is the exact
same meaning for Quetzalcoatl, the Mexican pagan messiah in central Mexico
[4].
Interestingly
enough, the cosmic symbol for Quetzalcoatl was a feathered serpent! Here is
another interesting observation. The origin of the word "Vatican"
also derived from two words. The Latin word "vatic" or "vatis"
means "prophet or soothsayer" [5]. The combined word,
"Vatican," appears to mean "divination by the serpent"!
The symbol for Astrology is often shown in pagan arts as a serpent in a
circular position with his tail in his mouth. This represented eternal life.
There
is the strong evidence from Scripture that the serpent originally had wings
and flew, instead of having legs as the evolutionists say. The Scriptures
reveal it was a curse for the serpent to travel on his belly as he does now.
"And the Lord God said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life."
Genesis 3:14.
Hence,
that feathered serpent that has been displayed in pagan arts and worshipped as
the god of healing, is none other but "that Old Serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world." Revelation 12:9.
While
Satan changed the image of the serpent into something to be adored and
worshipped, the goat, from antiquity, symbolized the Devil. The goat, known
for its agility, stubborn character and having its own way, is what
Astrologers say people are who are born under the sign of Capricorn, the
He-Goat. Witches in the Middle Ages were widely reputed to worship the Devil
in the form of a goat [6]. During the Middle Ages there was a widespread witch
panic that produced witch hunts and witch trials. Witches were often charged
with poisonings and other injuries as well as murder. The charge of murder
might have been derived from making a wax image of a hated person and
consuming it over a slow fire or sticking it with pins. African witchdoctors,
Haitian experts in Voo-Doo, and American Indian medicine men indulged in this
Satanic Black Art. The Middle Ages witch trials record how multitudes of
witches confessed, under torture, that they held local meetings called covens
to adore their master, make plans to execute the diabolic will, and partake in
bestial rites. In southern Europe the site where the witches met was called a
synagogue; in Germany it was called a blocksberg [7]. These meetings usually
took place at midnight. It was brought out during the trials that witches
claimed they came to their meetings by being carried by the Devil: others were
able to fly by anointing themselves with oils from the bodies of murdered
infants; still others rode broomsticks, or a cow or a goat. At the rendezvous
Satan appeared as a black animal, often a goat, or as a man with cloven feet
[8]. There are many different sects in modern witchcraft today; however,
modern day witches do not believe that the Devil exists. They are not Satanist
old women with long black hair and a wart on their nose.
A
Christian will be shocked to know that ancient Witchcraft has been revived and
modernized among the young people today. And, it is the religion of some of
those who control the wealth of the world! Their covens (churches) are today
Federally recognized tax exempt churches, and enjoy the same rights under the
protection of the law as do the Christians. And, believe it or not, there are
millions of both male and female witches here in the United States alone.
Witchcraft is the biggest rival religion of Christianity in England and
America [9].
It
is interesting enough, however, that these modern witches exalt the horn gods
and the pagan goddesses such as the Egyptian pagan trinity Osiris, Isis, Horus,
which originated in the worship of Nimrod (the Sun), his wife Semiramis (the
moon), and Tammuz (the Morning Star).Like their pagan brethren, modern day
witches are ignorant to the fact that these gods do not exist. Even though
they claim the Devil does not exist, they too are in reality bowing their knee
before him. They exalt the gods Satan hid behind to deceive the ancient
nations. Pan or Bacchus is another god the witches exalt and worship. It
depends on what coven they belong to. Anyway, how was this ancient pagan god
displayed in pagan art? He had a man's head with horns and cloven feet!
Now
witchcraft, as stated before, has been modernized. Modern day witches who
worship the gods of cosmic forces claim now to work magic and cast spells for
the general good of the community. This kind of witchcraft is called white
magic. Those who practice casting spells that injure people practice what is
known as Black Magic.
However,
most of these modern day witches claim to be good witches as in The Wizard of
Oz, and unlike medieval witchcraft that made an image out of wax to stick pins
in it so the person the wax image looked like would die, these modern day
witches claim now that this wax image is used to heal people. This revised and
modern form of witchcraft is called today Wicca, which is the feminine form of
an Old English word, "Wicce," meaning -- "Witch" [10]. The
main feature of Wicca is, however, nature worship. Just as the ancient Baal
worshippers in Babylonia believed it was the cosmic Star gods that were
responsible for pouring out the rain from Heaven and caused fertility among
the plants and mankind, so do these ignorant people in these modern witch
covens teach their little ones these things.The word Baal, so often seen
throughout the Old Testament, was used to describe a god. The word means
"Lord" or "Master" [11] and in the Bible it was the name
for the Sun-god.
Now,
kings of pagan nations often were considered the incarnation of the Sun-god,
and to identify with the Sun-god the kings would adopt the name of his god as
Jezebel's father did in 1.Kings 16:31. His name was "Ethbaal" which
means "with Baal" or "Baal's man" [12].
Just
as ancient Sun-kings pretended to be the ancient incarnation of the Sun-god,
so does modern witchcraft teach that the High Priest is the personification of
the horned god Pan, or Osiris. And, the High Priestess of these covens, like
ancient Sun worship, is the personification of Isis, Diana, or one of the
other names this pagan goddess has throughout the world. Baal worship was
basically a fertility cult that taught its followers that the Sun-god and
Moon-goddess controlled the seasons, brought fertility, etc. Here we find the
origin of the beliefs of Wicca.
Witches,
ancient and modern, take off their clothes during their meetings as a symbol
of freedom, and so the power they say they receive from their gods can freely
flow from their bodies. A circle is drawn to contain and concentrate the power
the witches claim to receive through lewd dancing and chanting. On nights of
the full moon and other festivals, the High Priest of witchcraft performs a
ritual known as "Drawing Down the Moon." This is taught to new
members to explain how the High Priestess becomes the incarnation of the
Moongoddess [13].
Witches
believe that the build-up of power is achieved much more readily when the
participants are naked, and when a certain sexual tension is present. When
these witches reach the power they want charged in their atmosphere, they
begin to cast their spells. They claim the spells should always be for the
good; an evil spell, they say, rebounds threefold upon the head of its
creator. After their spells are cast, the witches settle down to a ceremony
that is similar to the holy communion held for the Egyptian god Osiris.
However, instead of a round disk wafer that was an Egyptian symbol of the sun,
some modern day witches make cakes in the shape of a five pointed star called
the Pentagram. This to the occultist is one of the most powerful weapons in
magic. The Pentagram symbolism is based on that of the number five which
according to Astrology, stands for the living world of nature, such as Air,
Fire, Water, Earth, and the Spirit of their god and pagan goddess who used the
elements, according to witchcraft, to create the Universe.
The
number five in Astrology also represents the four directions and the center,
for the five senses (smell, taste, sight, touch and hearing). Witchcraft, like
all forms of Spiritualism, teaches man is a microcosm (miniature universe);
man is the ruler of nature, and as the miniature image, the potential master
of all things [14]. So, the Pentagram (five pointed star) with one of its
points projecting upwards is imagined in Witchcraft as a man's body with arms
and legs extended, and is a symbol of the dominance of the divine spirit. It
is used as a magical weapon for invoking good influences and keeps the evil
spirits at bay, say those who practice white magic.
Many
of our youth reject the religion of the Bible, and now worship the created
things instead of the Creator through this new modern form of Witchcraft
because Witchcraft today is attractive and has taken on a brighter look.
Instead of the satanic evil looking people of the Middle Ages, the witches of
today have been, for the past century, portrayed as good people, who fight
against the evil forces of this world, such as "Wonder Woman," with
her sign of white magic (the Pentagram) displayed on her forehead. But to
distinguish the bad witches from the good witches, say the occultists, a
reversed Pentagram with two points upward is a symbol of Black Magic, and of
those who do worship the Devil. The two points of the star pointed upwards
suggests the horns of the Devil symbolized as a goat attacking the Heavens
with his horns [15]. This five pointed star which has two points upward was,
and is today, worn as an amulet by open Devil worshippers, and by many modern
day magicians and wizards. Originally this evil sign was worn to show Satan
that they had chosen him as their leader [16].
Is
this not chilling and frightening to know that multitudes of women of high
fashion may not be aware that when they wear that little gold chain around
their neck, with this five pointed star with two points upward, they are
showing they have chosen the Devil's side, and seek his protection? Is it not
chilling to know that they who call themselves Freemasons, and the ladies who
call themselves "The Order of the Eastern Star" display this evil
sign in their lodges? We will study even more shocking truths about the origin
and purpose of these Secret Societies in the next chapter.
As
stated earlier, there are many sects of modern witchcraft today, and many
variations found in their rituals. In some covens the cakes they use in their
communion are made into the shape of a crescent, which is the symbol of the
Moon-goddess. These cakes, by the way, are made of salt, honey, wine, meal,
oil and, in some covens, blood. They are eaten in honour of the Egyptian god
Horus [17] or whatever god the coven exalts.
In
ancient witchcraft the cakes were round with a cross drawn on them that
represented the first letter of the name of the ancient dead and risen pagan
messiah "Tammuz," who was the incarnation of the Sun-god and the son
of the Moon-goddess (the Queen of Heaven). Even the Israelites, when they
turned from the worship of our Creator made these same cakes that honoured the
pagan queen of Heaven and her god-child Tammuz. In Jeremiah 7:18 our Lord
condemned this ancient ritual in the worship of these cosmic gods. "The
children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead
their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger."
Today,
the Roman Catholic Church dedicates these same cakes to the Virgin Mary whom
they ironically call the Queen of Heaven [18]. These cakes are called by Roman
Catholic "Hot Cross Buns" [19]. The name of this pagan goddess the
Israelites worshipped and dedicated these cakes to is found in Judges 2:13.
Her name to the Israelites was Ashtaroth. To the early Romans her name was
Venus, the goddess of love.
Witchcraft
is just another word for Spiritualism, but the modern word used to cover-up
the evil name of Witchcraft so it may be taught in Colleges is
"Parapsychology." Now, to understand this other abomination found in
both ancient and modern Witchcraft, the reader must understand that it was the
Sun-god and Moon-goddess who created the whole Universe, according to these
witches. To honour this pagan belief, a ritual called "The Great
Rite" is strictly observed among these socalled "good" witches.
Since the High Priest in a coven is believed to be the incarnation of Pan, the
Sun-god, and the High Priestess is the incarnation of the Queen of Heaven, the
Moon-goddess, these two mimic the myth in the creation of the Universe by the
Sun-god and the Moon-goddess when they perform "The Great Rite"
ritual, which is engaging in sacred prostitution.
This
is justified by the witches on the grounds of fertility, because after all,
they say, Wicca is a fertility cult [20].
To
try to understand any of this perversion so you can teach others how to avoid
it, the reader simply needs to realize that this abominable practice of sacred
prostitution found today in modern witchcraft is nothing new. All ancient
heathen worship of the Sun-gods had within its philosophies Phallicism. What
is Phallicism? It is the veneration and worship of male and female sex organs.
The union of male and female organs is symbolized in witchcraft as a point
within a circle, and also as two triangles uniting to make a
"Hexagram" [21] better known today as the "Star of David."
The truth is, King David of Israel never carried this emblem that is now the
symbol of Israel. This emblem was adopted from witchcraft by some Jewish
priests who had explored deep into the Babylonian religion during their
captivity in Babylon. From here sprang witchcraft in another garb called the
Cabala.
The
Mexican Indian, centuries before seeing a white man, had the Hexagram as the
symbol of their phallic worship of the cosmic gods. Often the Hexagram is
displayed as a symbol of the 7 planets that serpentine their way through the
Zodiac. The Sun in the center is displayed in a circle with a point in its
center.
Usually
before these modern day witches partake of the cake and wine to honour Horus
or Pan, as we examined in part one of this chapter, a ceremony for any new
initiates into their coven is performed. This involved blinding, binding, and
whipping new members for the purpose of purification. However, this ceremony
is not as brutal as in medieval covens; they are good witches, so the whip
they use now is said to be of embroidered silk. However, those present with
sadomasochistic tendencies might be satisfied. The following five-fold kiss
bestowed by the High Priest or Priestess on the feet, knees, genitals, breasts
and lips of a new member speaks for itself [22].
In
Man, Myth and Magic, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural, Vol. 14,
p. 1867, Cavendish, we read the following:
"Only
three pieces of magic can be performed at each meeting, they claim, and the
spells should always be for the good; an evil spell rebounds threefold upon
the head of its creator. Sometimes the spell is cast telepathically: for
instance, in the case of a spell cast to cure a person of a bad leg the
witches would stand silently and 'will' the leg to heal. On other occasions
they might use a doll, or 'fith-fath,' to represent the sick person - bathe
the doll's leg with a healing potion, or the high priestess might 'bind' the
spell, wrapping her girdle around the blade of her athame in a special
way."
How
popular has this modern witchcraft become? In the September 12th, 1982
Arkansas Democrat "Family Weekly," Georgia Frontiere appeared on the
front page. Georgia inherited the Los Angeles Rams when her late (sixth)
husband drowned in the riptides off the Florida coast in April 1979. He was
72. But what we really are interested in bringing to your attention is her
openness about being able, says she, to talk to her dead husband's spirit, and
how she dabbles in the occult. On page 11 of the Sept. 12 issue we read the
following: "Georgia gives Nolan Cromwell on unasked for raise ... and
Georgia, who dabbles in the occult (she says she's talked to Carroll's
spirit), mysteriously waves a hand at half-time over Haden's injured leg,
which is believed to be broken.
'I
thought for sure she was nuts,' Haden says. 'Then, incredibly, after the
doctors told me they were sure it was broken, the X-rays were negative.'
"
Why
are more and more people coming out publicly and admitting to be connected
with Spiritualism? About 25 years ago they would be afraid to make such
statements for fear of public ridicule and harm. However, most Christians
never heard of the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951 which only applies to those
who obtain money from the public under the pretext of possessing supernatural
power. This allows those who really can perform these lying wonders to
practice their arts legally in the open for the first time in hundreds of
years [23].
Most
witches, because they believe in the immortality of the soul, teach that every
human being has a spirit guide that they can contact for advice. This is also
where the Psychics claim their advice and information comes from. These
departed souls, they say, are the spirits of loved ones, ancient Indian
Chiefs, or Egyptian, Hindu, or Chinese Sages, or Wise Men from past ages.
These spirits, they say, have much wisdom because the spirit guides have
experienced many reincarnations and have mastered the lessons they were meant
to learn while on earth, and now have the power to benefit the livng [24].As
we already read from Scriptures, the doctrine of "Life After Death,"
or the belief in an immortal soul is a lie from the Devil. But the miracles
and spells that some witches have are very real. They may not know it, but
they receive their power from Devils who, after they use them to deceive other
humans, will destroy the very ones they have used.
However,
a person who has chosen the teachings of Jesus Christ, and made His Spirit a
guide through a knowledge of the Scriptures, knows that these spirit guides
are not spirits of past Sages, but spirits of devils impersonating them. And,
the believer who has chosen the God of the Bible is promised protection from
those who practice Voodooism and spell casting. In Numbers 23:23 we read:
"Surely there is no ENCHANTMENT (Witchery) against Jacob, neither is
there any DIVINATION against Israel."As established earlier, the ancient
pagans believed that when they died their souls flew up to the Heavens and
took possession of one of the stars. The chief gods of the Zodiac, which were
but emanations of the Sun-god, all HAD A SACRED NUMBER. Space does not allow
us to examine all of these numbers in Astrology. However, to help us
understand why this mysterious number 666 was given to John the Apostle in
Revelation 13:18, warning us not to be identified with it, it is necessary now
to examine some ancient pagan numerology.
Ancient
Astrology teaches that one of the sacred numbers of the Chief god of the
Zodiac (the sun) was the number one. The Sun symbol, we saw earlier, was a
Heavenly Bull and a serpent. Since Babylon was the birth place of Astrology
and the rest of Idolatry, we will see how this Babylonian system of gods and
goddesses spread throughout the ancient world and has penetrated into modern
culture today.Originally, the letters of the various alphabets had, and still
have to some extent, a numerical significance. The English language has lost
track of this, for there are no numbers that identify with each letter of our
alphabet. But, the first letter of the alphabet in many languages still
carries with it a reference to the Sun-god (one) whose main symbol was either
a serpent or a bull. Take, for instance, the first letter in the Hebrew and
Chaldee alphabet. It was a symbol of a bull [25].
The
Greek word aleph (alpha) is the name of the first letter in their alphabet,
and it means bullor ox. It is interesting to note that the ever-revered
bullgod of the Orient (the elephant) has the same root (eleph) in his name,
and almost every Hindu temple has its phallic idol to commemorate the
lifegiving qualities of their god (one). So to honour the Sun, the god (one),
the Heavenly Bull-god, the first day of the week [26] (Sunday) and the first
of everything was dedicated to the bull-god as sacred. The first day of the
month, the first day of the year, the first born son and the first fruits of
the harvest and of the flocks, were kept sacred and dedicated to him.
Indeed,
most Christians cast away the original day of the worship described in Genesis
2:1-3 (before Jews were ever heard of) for the observance of Sunday, the first
day of the week! We will investigate this mystery later.
The
number 2 in ancient Astrology is considered a female number and a symbol for
the Mother goddess who, according to pagan belief, is the second member of the
godhead. However, pagan philosophy teaches that the number 2 was thought upon
as an evil number. In ancient paganism, women were considered as evil and the
cause of death. Some scholars claim that our very word, evil, is eve-il.The
name of the second letter of the Hebrew Chaldean alphabet is Beth, a feminine
proper name which means house. The moon, which is the symbol of the Mother
goddess, is ever considered as the monthly house of the Sun in Astrology.
The
number 3 is a sacred number identified with the pagan godhead of Baal, Ishtar
and Tammuz. Sometimes the number 3 represented a triple aspect of the Sun-god
as the ruler of Heaven. While the sun appeared in the sky it was symbolized as
a Heavenly Bull. The Serpent was the symbol of the sun in the spiritual realm
of things." However, when the sun sinks into the Western ocean at the end
of the day and spends the night in the realm of darkness and the dead, he then
becomes the fish god, Lord of the Underworld. The Fish-god to the Babylonians,
Assyrians, and Philistines was Dagon. This name Dagon, like Kulkulcan of the
Mayans, is derived by combining two words. Dag means Fish, and On means Sun.
Hence, the part man and part fish gods worshipped in the Old World. To the
Romans he was Neptune who was ever displayed in ancient Roman arts as part
man, part fish, with a pitchfork in his hand. It was during a festival to
celebrate the capture of Samson and to give thanks to Dagon for delivering
Samson into the Philistines' hands that Samson pulled down the house in which
the Philistines were celebrating, on himself and three thousand Philistines.
Judges 16:23-31.
It
is an interesting observation that the High Priest of Dagon wore a robe and a
mitre that resembled a fish. This mitre the pagan priests wore is the origin
of the mitre the Popes and Cardinals wear today. This mitre that resembles a
fish head was worn centuries before the birth of Christ by pagan High Priests
of Dagon [28].
In
India, their trinity is based on the 3 phases of the Sun-god. When the sun
rises in the East, he is Brahama, when he gains his meridian, he is Siva, and
when he sets in the West, he becomes Vishnu. This explains why the gods of the
orient sometimes were displayed with three heads and three pairs of arms on
one body. Many pagans believed in the three aspects of the Sun-god, who has 3
phases in which he travels across the sky. Hence, the number 3 in Astrology
represents the trinity in Witchcraft.The number 4 is the sacred number in
Astrology for the Sun as Ruler of the four quarters of the Universe, or the
four divisions of the Zodiac, the four seasons, and the four directions. It is
interesting to note the name of Tammuz, where the cross originally came from.
It was originally the initial T in Tammuz, which was known as the sacred Tau.
The cross was a symbol of the sun worshippers centuries before Jesus was born.
The number 4 itself is little more than a cross. Take away the angular bar and
we have a cross. As the reader probably has observed, no Catholic will pray a
prayer or worship God until he makes the four directions across his head and
body to resemble it. That which is now called the Christian cross was
originally the mystic Tau that the Chaldeans used to sacrifice a first born
child to the Sun-god [29]. And, it was this very thing that was used to
crucify Jesus on. No greater insult could Satan give to Christ than to
sacrifice Him on his own symbol of heathen worship.
We
have already explored some of the reasoning behind the number 5 in Astrology
such as the 5 pointed star (Pentagram), but it is the number 6 that should
capture our close attention. The hidden meaning and symbols represented by the
number 6 are so involved that an entire book could be written about this
number and its origin. Here again, we explore the worship of the serpent,
because the number SIX has ever been connected with the serpent.
It
is interesting to note that man and the serpent, along with the other land
animals, were created on the sixth day (Genesis 1:24-31). The words used to
say SIX, sex in Latin, seis in Spanish, seks in Norwegian, shest in
Portuguese, sechs in German and sas in Chaldean-Hebrew, as in most languages,
start with the letter S. The letter S derived, believe it or not, from a
pictograph of a cobra, erected in its striking position. The hissing sound of
the letter S represented the voice of the serpent. We can note that snake,
serpent and Satan begin with the serpent letter S. On the heads of cobras
there are usually distinct markings in the shape of letters. They are V, U and
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