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September 21, 2006
Then (1000 BC) and Now 2006
Hello everyone and I thank you for your patience, I haven't written a message in a while. I have the same day to day problems as anyone else. I am truly sorry it has kept me away for so long.
Today I would like for you to go to the book of Judges; I am going to be discussing Baal worship and forms of it. This is a religion that the Jews were always so quick to turn to and caused their ruin on many occasions. I am afraid it has crept into the world religious stream at large as we know it today and I'm sure it will be the prevailing religion before and maybe also during the tribulation; I would like for you to read this with an open mind and see what the Bible says about it.
Judges 2:1 And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I swear unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. 2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of the land; you shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: Why have ye done this? Skip to verse 4 And it came to pass when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lift up their voice, and wept. 5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the Lord.
Judges 2:12 And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger. 13 And they forsook the Lord and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
The people here made cakes to Ashtaroth and drink offerings to her.
Judges 17:1 And there was a man of Mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou the Lord, my son. 3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee. 4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
These molten and graven images are now in a house or a temple, and they are gods called by names; now watch how this progresses.
This also in spite of the fact of Commandment number 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Then number 5, Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
5 And the man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and a teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Notice this is in spite of the fact that only a Levite in the Jewish people could be a priest. Micah has also made an ephod which is like a cloak, robe, or outer garment, and made a teraphim.
6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces were towards the east; and they worshipped the sun towards the east.
(Sunrise Service if you please.)
Folks, I want to ask you today if you go to an assembly that has statues and they are called by names or if you worship the Lord through a female in heaven, or your church is full of idols and graven images and your priests are called "father"; I want you to know today that is an abomination. I know there are going to be plenty of you that will get furious over this. I am telling you this because time is short and you should move quickly to get your family out of those religious organizations before the Lord returns and there is no remedy.
I have spoken to people about these things and it's the quickest way to make someone angry I have ever seen.
I am pleading with you, it is your and your family's salvation I seek, nothing more. I am concerned that there are over a billion people in these churches and they don't know that their priest can't get their sins forgiven, nor can Mary. I'm sorry and some of this may sound cruel to you but these words were spoken a couple thousand years ago and look at the response Jeremiah received 2 Chronicles 36:15 And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Jeremiah 44:15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burnt incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
That's where we are today folks, I write these messages to hope to draw some of you to the light and get you out of religious bondage. Christ died for your sins, believe that and be saved. One day there is going to come an end to the grace period, and then there will be no remedy. It will be too late for you then.
I pray you seek the Lord, make sure you are saved, know what to believe and stick with it, it is all about trust, not works.
I love you all in the Lord.
Posted by michael at September 21, 2006 09:14 PM