One in Messiah Congregation
קָּהָל
אֶחָד
בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
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of the Congregation of Israel
עֲדַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל
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Shabbat
Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
Today, we sadly use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from
the 1500’s.
Today’s date is Feb. 25, 2023
February -- month of Februa
Februarius had 28 days, until circa
450 BC when it had 23 or 24 days on some of every second year, until Julius
when it had 29 days on every fourth year and 28 days otherwise.
Februa is the Roman festival of purification, held on February
fifteenth. It is possibly of Sabine origin.
The God of Israel has His own Calendar: we are
now in the 12th month
of God, Day 4, called Adar אֲדָר
Today’s Topic
(Seems
like)
Part 3
Other
gods
Last week topic was Spiritual wickedness.
A few weeks ago I did a talk on other religions, doctrines…
There
are over 5000 religions in the world, over 40,000 denominations
All different gods
From the scriptures, all terms for different doctrines:
Doctrine of vanities
Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men
The doctrine of
the Pharisees and of the Sadducees
Every wind of doctrine
The commandments and doctrines of men
Doctrines of devils
Divers and strange doctrines
The doctrine of
Balaam
The doctrine of
the Nicolaitans,
God hates
Nicolaitans, a sect = 1) a sect mentioned in Rev.
2:6,15, who were charged with holding the
error of Balaam, casting a stumbling block before the church of God by
upholding the liberty of eating things sacrificed to idols as well as
committing fornication
The
counsel of Balaam, the way of Balaam
Apostle
Saul / Paul said:
2 Cor. 11 [4] For
if he (or anyone) that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not
received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted,
Another (or other) Jesus
Another (or other) spirit
Another (or other) gospel
Basically,
why would you put up with him?
Other gods are in our daily lives, we say them every day:
Some names of the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory;
from the 1500’s, we use today:
January - Janus's month
"month of Janus"
Janus is the Roman god
of gates and doorways, depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. His festival month is January.
February - month of Februa
Februa is the Roman festival of purification, held on February fifteenth. It
is possibly of Sabine origin.
March - Mars' month - "of Mars"
Mars is the Roman god of war. He is
identified with the Greek god Ares.
April - Aphrodite's month
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess
of love and beauty. She is identified with the Roman goddess Venus.
May - Maia's month
Maia (meaning "the
great one") is the Italic goddess of spring, the daughter of Faunus,
and wife of Vulcan.
June - Juno's month - Juno is the
principle goddess of the Roman Pantheon. She is the goddess of marriage and the
well-being of women. She is the wife and sister of Jupiter. She is identified
with the Greek goddess Hera.
Want to know the end, let me take you back to the beginning:
2 Pet.2 [4] For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of
darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; [5] And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing
in the flood upon the world of the ungodly…
Jude [6] And
the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their
own habitation, he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Gen.2 [9] And out of the ground made Yehovah God to grow every tree
that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the
midst of the garden, and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
Evil, first time mentioned above
Gen.36 [38] And Saul died, and Baal-hanan
the son of Achbor
reigned in his stead.
Baal means lord above, many people, towns, places have
that name…
satan
Gen.3:5
For God does know that in the day
you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you
shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Other gods
Terah served other gods
Laban had other gods
Rachel
stole them
Gen. 31 [30] And now, though
you would needs be gone, because thou sore long after thy father's house, yet
wherefore have you stolen my gods? [31] And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because
I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure you would take by force your daughters
from me. [32] With whomsoever you finds your gods, let
him not live: before our brethren discern you what is yours with me, and take
it to you. For Jacob knew not that
Rachel had stolen them.
Gen. 35 [2] Then Jacob said unto his household and to all that were
with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you,
and be clean, and change your garments… [3] And let us arise, and go up
to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day
of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
[4] And they gave
unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand,
and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the
oak which was by Shechem.
All the
people we know (or don’t know) have other gods
The 10 Commandments
Exod.20 [3] You shall have no other gods before Me.
[4] You shall not make unto thee any graven image, or any
likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth:
[5] You shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:
for I Yehovah 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;(or any generation)
[6] And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.
Deut.12 [2] You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the
nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under
every green tree: [3] And you shall overthrow their altars, and break
their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall hew down the
graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Deut.17 [2] If there be found among you, within any of thy gates
which Yehovah
your God gives thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of
Yehovah
your God, in transgressing his covenant, [3] And had gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,
either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not
commanded; [4] And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and
inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
[5] Then shall thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and
shall stone them with stones, till they die.
[6] At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses,
shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one
witness he shall not be put to death.
[7] The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to
death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shall put the evil
away from among you.
Judges 2 [11]
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Yehovah,
and served Baalim:
[12] And they forsook Yehovah 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 Yehovah to
anger. [13] And they
forsook Yehovah, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
בַּעַל Ba`al {bah'-al}
Meaning: Baal = "lord" n pr m 1) supreme male divinity of the Phoenicians or Canaanites
Judges 2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Yehovah, and served Baalim:
(Jdg. 2:11)
Numbers 22:41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam,
and brought him up into the high places of Baal,
that thence he might see the utmost part of the people. (Num. 22:41)
Balaam
Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor
of Mesopotamia, (Deut. 23:4)
בִּלְעָם
בֶּן־בְּעוֹר (Deut.
23:5)
Balaam the son of Beor (Num.
22:5)
And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely,
Evi, and Rekem, and Zur,
and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor
they slew with the sword. (Num. 31:8)
Balaam
also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword
among them that were slain by them. (Jos.
13:22)
Soothsayer = קָסַם qacam
Meaning: 1) (Qal)
to practice divination, divine 1a) of diviners of the nations, Balaam 1b) of
false prophets of Israel 1c) prohibited
Usage: AV - divine 7, diviners 7, use 3, divination 1,
prudent 1, soothsayer 1; 20 times
Balaam the son of Bosor (2 Pet. 2:15 )
who loved the
wages of unrighteousness; (2 Pet. 2:15)
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass
speaking with man's voice forbad the madness
of the prophet. (2 Pet. 2:16)
בִּלְעָם
בֶּן בְּעוֹר (2 Pet. 2:15)
Then we have a Witch
כָּשַׁף kashaph {kaw-shaf'}
Meaning: 1) (Piel)
to practice witchcraft or sorcery,
use witchcraft 1a) sorcerer, sorceress (participle)
Usage: AV - sorcerers 3, witch 2, witchcraft 1; 6 times
Exod. 22 [18] You shall not
suffer a witch to live.
Deut.
18:10 There shall not be found
among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the
fire, or that uses divination,
or an observer of times, or
an enchanter, or a witch, [11] Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
[12] For all that do these things are
an abomination unto Yehovah:
and because of these abominations Yehovah thy God
doth drive them out from before you.
Witchcraft:
כָּשַׁף kashaph {kaw-shaf'}
Meaning: 1) (Piel)
to practice witchcraft or sorcery, use witchcraft 1a) sorcerer, sorceress
(participle)
Usage: AV - sorcerers 3, witch 2, witchcraft 1; 6 times
קֶסֶם qecem {keh'-sem}
Meaning: 1) divination, witchcraft 1a) of the nations,
Balaam 1b) of false prophets 1c) in a good sense (king's lips as oracles)
Usage: AV - divination 9, witchcraft 1, divine sentence 1;
11 times
αρμακεία pharmakeia {far-mak-i'-ah}
Meaning: 1) the use or
the administering of drugs 2) poisoning 3) sorcery, magical arts, often found
in connection with idolatry and fostered by it 4) metaph. the deceptions and
seductions of idolatry
Usage: AV - sorcery 2, witchcraft 1; 3 times
Evil people are all through the scriptures and
still here today in 2023
God
said:
Deut. 32 [39] See now that I,
even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I
wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
רְאוּ
עַתָּה כִּי
אֲנִי אֲנִי
הוּא וְאֵין
אֱלֹהִים
עִמָּדִי
אֲנִי אָמִית
וַאֲחַיֶּה
מָחַצְתִּי
וַאֲנִי
אֶרְפָּא
וְאֵין מִיָּדִי
מַצִּיל׃
[40] For I lift up my hand to heaven,
and say, I live forever.
כִּי־אֶשָּׂא
אֶל־שָׁמַיִם
יָדִי וְאָמַרְתִּי
חַי אָנֹכִי
לְעֹלָם׃
[41] If I whet my glittering sword,
and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies,
and will reward them that hate me.
[42] I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour
flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning
of revenges upon the enemy.
[1] And I saw
a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were
passed away; and there was no more sea.
[2]
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
[3]
And I heard a great voice out of heaven
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with
them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be
their God.
[4]
And God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
[5]
And He that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new.
And He said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
[6] And He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end.
אֲנִי
הָאָלֶף
וְהַתָּו
רֹאשׁ וָסוֹף
נְאוּם
יְהֹוָה
אֱלֹהִים
הַהֹוֶה וְהָיָה
וְיָבוֹא
אֱלֹהֵי
צְבָאוֹת׃
I will give unto him that is athirst of the
fountain of the water of life freely.
[7] He that overcometh
shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
[8] But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and
all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
In closing for today,
This short topic is a product of all the
people we encounter (with other gods) on a daily basis
wherever we go.
God says:
Rev.
1:8
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,
saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
I am God Almighty
שַׁדַּי Shaddai
Meaning: 1) almighty, most powerful 1a) Shaddai, the Almighty (of God)
Usage: AV - Almighty 48 times
אָנֹכִי
אָלֶף וְתָו
רִאשׁוֹן
וְאַחֲרוֹן
רֹאשׁ וָסוֹף׃
I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments that
they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates
into the city. Rev. 22:14
May God
bless you all and keep us from all evil
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם