Idolatry – worship of alien gods pptx

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


RESCUED BY OTHER GODS & DEVILS.ON RETURN FINDS HER SHEPHERD HUSBAND DUMUZI ON HER THRONE

PURSUES HIM WITH VENGENCE


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


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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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.