IDOLATRY – WORSHIP OF ALIEN GODS
SHEKINAH EVANGELIZATION PROGRAMME
Not miracles but truth !
• “YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE
TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE” JN 8:32.
SPIRITUAL WARFARE
• “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head and you will strike his heel.” Gen 3:15.
• Spiritual war continues
FAMILY TREE
NOAH
SHEM HAM JAPETH
FAMILY TREE
HAM
CUSH MIZRAIM PUT CANAAN
Noah’s curse on Canaan. Gen 9:25cursed generation rebels against God
• CUSH’S SON – NIMROD
• FIRST TRIED TO PLEASE GOD• MIGHTY HUNTER / WARRIOR • LATER PRIDE & HAUGHTINESS
CUSH
NIMROD
BABEL Gen 10:9-9KING WORSHIP, STARRY HOST WORSHIP
BABYLON – CENTER OF RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN 2247 BC
DEVIL BEGINS TO SOW LIES & COUNTERFEITS
VIOLENCE & RELIGION = (Cain’s way)
IMMORALITY (Baalam’s error)
REBELLION (Korah’s rebellion) Jude 11
EL – the high god• Father of gods in Sumer, Mesopotamian & Egyptian religions
• Not so powerful against lesser gods.
CATAL HUYUK – TURKEYMOTHER GODDESS
GIVES BIRTH ETERNALLY BUT PARTNER ‘THE BULL’ MUST DIE
ASHERAH/ ANAT – VILE GODDESS OF FERTILITY OF CANAAN - IN SYRIA CONSORT OF EL
ANAT, Sister and wife of BAAL
ANAT & BAAL
• BAAL attacked by MOT, god of death & sterility• BAAL surrenders and is chewed up by MOT• EL is helpless• ANAT is furious, kills MOT, cuts him and scatters his flesh over fields
• Restores BAAL for sexual reunion• Celebrated as New Year festival for Anat & Baal.
ASHERAH POLE = LINGAM in India•CREATIVE ENERGY•SKY GOD•SHRINE PROSTITUTION FOR AGRICULTURE IS CONSIDERED A COSMIC SEXUAL ACT OF CREATION•MOTHER GODDESS IN CANAAN
ASHERA POLE IN INDIA WITH A SNAKE AROUND
IN SUMER = INANA
INANA
LION UNDER HER FOOT
RA – EGYPTIAN SUN GOD FATHER OF ASHERA & ANAT
ISIS w/o OSIRIS PARENTS OF HORUS- EGYPT
GREECE – DEMETER, HERA, APHRADITE (ROMAN DIANA)
DEMETER- FURIOUS, VENGEFUL, GRAIN GODDESS, MISTRESS OF THE DEAD
ARTEMIS= DIANA IN ROME
ARTEMIS – GREEK (Ephesus)
• MISTRESS OF ANIMALS• HUNTRESS• PATRON OF UNTAMED NATURE
• SOURCE OF LIFE• FEARSOME• VENGEFUL, IMPLACABLE• BLOOD THIRSTY
EPHESUS – ARTEMIS TEMPLE7 ANCIENT WONDERS OF WORLD
ASTARTE IN BABYLONCONSORT OF BAAL
INANA & DUMUZI - FABLE 1
INANA INVADES HER SISTER ERESHKIGAL’S
UNDERWORLD PALACE IN HELL BUT GETS KILLED
INANA & DUMUZI - FABLE 1
RESCUED BY OTHER GODS & DEVILS.ON RETURN FINDS HER SHEPHERD HUSBAND DUMUZI ON HER THRONE
PURSUES HIM WITH VENGENCE
INANA & DUMUZI - FABLE 1
DUMUZI FLEES TO BE WITH ERESHKIGAL FOR 6 MONTHS OF YEAR
LATER RETURNS WHEN HIS SISTER GESTINANA TAKES HIS PLACE IN HELL
FOR NEXT 6 MONTHS
INANA & DUMUZI - FABLE 1
WHEN DUMUZI RETURNS AGRICULTURE BLOSSOMS & WHEN HE GOES TO HELLSUMMER DRAUGHT= WIDESPREAD CULT
DUMUZI = TAMMUZ =
ADONIS IN GREECE
TAMMUZ – DUMUZU – FABLE 2
• God of Rainy season – died in winter solstice and resurrected in summer solstice
• Virgins weep and mourn in JULY winter solstice.
• Virgins rejoice on summer solstice• Ezek. 8:10-16 “Sin of Jewish women weeping
for Tammuz” – pagan religious ritual
NIMROD- SEMIRAMIS• WOMAN & HER SEED - TAMMUZ – FABLE 3
TAMMUZ – DUMUZU – FABLE 3• Died while hunting – killed by wild boar(winter)• Semiramis orders Virgins to fast for 40 days• Claims resurrection of Tammuz / Adonis coming back from the region of the dead where ANAANA / ASHTARTE his consort was confined to.
• Resurrection symbol – Egg – Easter Eggs
TAMMUZ & EVERGREEN TREES
• TO CELEBRATE TAMMUZ BIRTHDAY• center of this worship was Gebal, Syria, • held in the famous temple of Venus or Aphrodite in south Phoenicia.
• Worship immoral rites - stopped by Constantine the Great.
• TANTRIC RITUALS IN INDIA.
Greek mythology - Adonis & Aphrodite/ Venus/ Diana =
Artemis of Ephesus
SEMIRAMIS =ANAANA/ INANA / ISIS/
DEMETER /ARTEMIS/ APHRODITE/DIANA/VENUS/
ASTARTE /ISHTAR/ HINDU GODDESSES/
MOTHER GODDESS CULT”
• 40 DAYS LENT• Madonna• Pontifez Maximus = high priest title
EASTER – II myth• Easter eggs = • “an egg of wondrous size fell from heaven • into river Euphrates; • fish rolled it to the bank, • doves settled upon it and hatched it; • out came Astarte, or Ishtar, the goddess of Easter.”
‘EASTER FESTIVAL’
IS A
FESTIVAL OF
ASTARTE OF
BABYLON ISHTAR OF GREECE
Saxon goddess Eastre = Astarte, Syrian Venus, = Astoreth in the O.T.
• abomination to God- 1 Sam 7:3; 1 Kgs 11:5, 33; 2 Kgs 23:13;
• Jer 7:18; 44:18. Round cakes, imprinted with the sign of the cross were made at this festival, the sign being in the Babylonian mysteries, a sign of life.
2. Worship of the Queen of Heaven Jer 7:18; 44:17.
• Acts 19:27 – The temple of Diana / Artemis- licentiousness
• Corinth Temple- Devadasis – male & female
WHO IS THE WOMAN OF REV 17?
WHO IS THE WOMAN OF REV 17?
WOMAN OF REV 17 IN EUROPE ?
SEMIRAMIS
FAMILIAR ?PRAYER ROOM
BRUSSELS AIRPORT
EU POSTER
EU FLAG
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and …..• YOGA
Also called “Complimentary Medicine”Also called “Complimentary Medicine”
STATUES & IDOLS = IDOLATROUS RITUALS= SINFUL LIFE Rom 1:21-31.
• “Young son died, inconsolable father made a statue for him.
• Ordered religious ceremonies & customs.” • Babylon= Emperor worship = Statues= Idols• NEBUCHADNEZZAR = GOLDEN IDOL• ROMAN = CAESAR WORSHIP• ANTI-CHRIST = IDOL THAT SPEAKS
LATER – FULL BLOWN IDOLATRY
BULL / COW / SNAKE WORSHIP CONSTANT SNARE FOR AGES
Growth of Idolatry
• Roman Catholic Church• Emperor Constantine – Hellenization• Christmas – December 25 / January 7• Lent – 40 Days of mourning – for “JESUS WHO
IS ALIVE”• Easter• Mother worship / veneration• Mother and child • Saints statues and pictures
PONTIFEX MAXIMUS
• Roman Emperor Gratian refused this post because he was a true Christian and saw that Babylonianism idolatrous.
• So Demasus, bishop at Rome, elected A.D. 378• Then on Babylonianism & organized Christianity became one.
Growth of Idolatry
• Rome Bishop – Papa King – Romanization• kissing the hands of the king, • burning fragrant incense, • spreading of the Red Carpet, • carrying the king on a palanquin, • bowing or kneeling down before the king, etc were given a religious colour and imbibed into Christianity.
• Convent – nuns (Roman Vestal Virgins in Zeus Temple)• Monks – Monastries• Dark Age – Prevention of Commons learning Bible
IMAGES, STATUES & SAINTS IN CHURCH• First Christians had no images of Christ. • From 100-400 A.D. Christian leaders rebuked introduction of images of Christ & saints into their worship.
• 36th Canon of the Synod of Elvira prohibited images.• Eusebius, father of Church history, opposed them.• Ambrose, Jerome, & Augustine mention pictures of apostles & Christ & the worship of images as beginning in their day.
• Eastern influence -Use & adoration of images began
• Lateran Synod sanctioned their use in A.D. 769.• Tarsius, an advocate of images, made patriarch of the East in A.D. 784;
• A.D. 787, Synod of Nicea ascribed reverence to images & worship to God.
• Synod of Frankfurt in A.D 794, & sanctioned at Paris in A.D. 825.
• Emperors in the East continued their opposition & advocates of images were exiled for some time.
• Images restored in the area of Theodora in A.D. 843.
• A.D. 850, the cult of image worship-due to stories of miracles performed through them.
• Blessings were claimed for the images themselves• finally in A.D. 1188, it was declared that denial of images was a denial of God.
• In A.D. 1225 it was said that Christ was not Christ unless He was graven as an image or statue.
• Thomas Aquinas in A.D. 1265 declared that an image of Christ claims the same veneration as Christ Himself.
• The 25th session of the Council of Trent held during 1551-52 justified the worship of images.
Infant god
• Mother & Child cult -
Gen 3:15
• “SHE” instead of ‘HE’ in earlier versions of RC Bible
• Removed after much protest
DEVIL- FATHER OF LIES
• The devil will sidetrack anyone willing to believe by many means from:
• KNOWING GOD, TRUSTING IN HIM,• WORSHIPPING HIM in spirit and in truth• SERVING HIM
WHAT DOES THE WORD OF GOD SAY?
* Jer 5:3, 21; Mt 13:14-15; Mk 8:18. Jn 4:23-24* God should open our eyes to see the wonderful things in his Word. Ps 119:18.
* “What shall I do, Lord?” ASK CONTINUALLY- Act 9:6; 22:10.
• “YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE
TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE” JN 8:32.