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DEAD MEN'S BONES

Part VII

The last chapter of Dead Men's Bones addressed how Israel turned away from the LORD and, through the prophet Ezekiel's writing, we learned the nation's Spiritual defilement had been underway for a very long time. The reader will recall the large valley of Dead Men's Bones, which was the imagery used by the LORD, were said to be very dry. This was a prophetic indicator the lack of Spiritual life, represented by the bones which had no breath in Ezekiel's prophecy, had been a reality in Israel for many years. 

The book of Ezekiel is important, as the LORD surveys Israel's apostasy through a series of images, in which God showed the prophet how far Israel had strayed from His commandments.

"Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north…and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here….but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations (Ezekiel 8:5, 6).

The "image of jealousy" was an idolatrous graven image, which was placed within the temple, at the entryway to the altar. Ezekiel is shown many other evil things occurring in the temple, including the well known passage where there are "women weeping for Tammuz" (Ezekiel 8:14). God tells the prophet that Israel, participating in a heathen ritual associated with the Babylonian deity of the same name, has embraced Tammuz within the temple precincts. After showing the prophet so many abominations, the LORD concludes the obvious in that He tells Ezekiel the house of Israel and the house of Judah has blasphemed Him.

"Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me" (Ezekiel 20:27).

God also reminds Ezekiel that Israel provoked Him once they were in the promised land, where they saw "every high hill," and offered sacrifices to idols. Indeed, the prophet Amos tells us Israel resisted the LORD even before He gave them the land of Canaan after escaping from the slavery in Egypt. Shortly after the outrageous acts of fashioning a golden calf and proclaiming the idol was the deity that brought them out of Egypt, Israel spent forty years in the wilderness outside of their promised homeland.

"O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves" (Acts 7:42, Amos 5:26).

Although most contemporary Christians adamantly resist this identification, the association with a star – which serves as a religious emblem – is self evident as the so called Star of David is universally recognized as a symbol of Israel. Not only is there no such thing as a "Star of David," these verses in Amos and Acts both associated the six pointed star, utilized by Jews and Christians alike, with Moloch.

Once Christians learn there is zero Scriptural authority for any "Star of David," to say nothing of anecdotal data which conclusively links the six pointed star to Solomon's apostasy, the lines are drawn. What is amazing is the ferocity with which believers defend Israel over this issue. After all, the book of Ezekiel has just stated Israel worshiped devils right in Solomon's temple. Israel was sternly reproached by the LORD for her repeated idolatrous acts – deeds which eventually became so offensive to God that He destroyed the nation.

Invariably, Judaeo-Christians will seek to diminish the facts in order to sustain their belief system. The very fact the six pointed star is easily documented as an Occult symbol, closely connected to Solomon, points to a dark reality within the Christian faith of millions. To put it another way, when it comes to provocative issues such as Israelite or Christian apostasy, when most believers loudly proclaim they just want the truth, they are demonstrating fatal flaws in their Spiritual orientation.

Scripture tells us the following:

"There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God…there is none that doeth good, no, not one" (Romans 3:11, 12).

Many of us fail to understand that, even after we've been born again in Christ, our flesh and blood man or woman still does not want the truth. Jesus tells us He is the way, the truth, and the life, but apart from the Spirit of God which He pours into us, it simply is not in us to desire God. The implications of this are enormous, but the fact remains there is none that seeketh after God, and that certainly includes seeking after the truth. It is only the Spirit of God in us that loves the truth.

For instance, a crucial verse which characterizes this startling fact is found in II Thessalonians. It tells us those that perish are lost, because they don't love the truth.

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie…with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved" (II Thessalonians 2:11, 10).

Thus, we need to seek the LORD in everything, as our hearts and our minds are dead without the Spirit of the LORD. When God through His Spirit, draws us unto Him, it is the Holy Spirit who convicts us of our sinful nature, and gives us the love of the truth, which is JESUS CHRIST.

"When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth" (John 16:13).

As the LORD showed Ezekiel the abominable sins committed by Israel, it is self evident the people had deceived themselves into believing the Gentile religious practices were simple variations (or ethnic parallels) to the strict system of the worship of Yahweh, as detailed by Moses in the law. Once again, it's important to recognize this apostasy had been deeply ingrained for centuries. For example, the previously cited verse concerning the "tabernacle" in the wilderness under Moses, was clearly linked to the symbol identified as the "star of…Moloch" by the prophet Amos.

Moloch was another of the devils posing as a god, and his worship included the hideous practice of the burning of children as a sacrifice.

"Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations…thou has taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto [the devils] to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredom a small matter, that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?" (Ezekiel 16:2, 20, 21).

We note the previous texts linking the sacrifice of Israel's children to Moloch occurred in association with the tabernacle, "in the wilderness," and this period was even before Israel came in to the promised land. Since Joshua led Israel into Canaan at some time in the 14^th century BC, and Ezekiel's prophecy of the valley of Dead Men's Bones is during the Babylonian captivity in the 6^th century BC, we're looking at a period of apostasy of a considerable length.

Further, Moloch is prominently mentioned as one of the devils embraced by Solomon when his many wives turned his heart away from the LORD:

"Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon" (I Kings 11:6, 7).

By the time Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem in the mid 10^th century BC, the blasphemy Israel absorbed from Solomon's foreign wives had thoroughly seeped into their leavened worship of the LORD. Even worse, as Solomon's incalculable wealth financed naval fleets from Tyre and Sidon that accessed the Atlantic Ocean, evidence exists which suggests that when the king of Israel turned to the devils, concurrent with his multi-national commerce, his corrupted religion spread to Europe and even the Americas.

For instance, the Scriptures tell us the Tyrian/Israelite naval fleet of Solomon regularly visited Tarshish to obtain gold and silver; but we now know that Tarshish was Sardinia, a possession of Spain. Even more intriguing is the fact there are Sardinian records which indicate the ancient locale was, at one time, largely inhabited by the Nephilim giants.  

"For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram [Hiram of Tyre]: every three years came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks" (II Chronicles 9:21).

At intervals of three years, ancient sailing vessels could travel great distances. For example, in pre-Columbian America, in what is now Mexico, artifacts have been discovered in temple ruins in Copan and Palenque which point directly to the sacrifice of children to Moloch.

This particular devil is closely linked to Saturn – and the name Chiun in the reference in Ezekiel to the "star god" and the tabernacle, is a Persian name for Saturn. In ancient Canaan, which eventually hosted the maritime fleets of Tyre and Sidon which were acquired by Solomon, Moloch was depicted as a hideous metallic demon, with arms outstretched as a receptacle to receive infants, and the extended arms were sloped to slide the baby into a furnace in its body. The disgusting idol is peculiarly featured with an outstretched tongue, as though it desires to consume the sacrifice.

The very same imagery was discovered in research at Palenque almost 200 years ago, and it is described as a mask of Saturn, with indications dating it to a few centuries after Solomon's temple was built:

"The pictorial description given in the engraving…found in the plaza of Mexico (buried in the time of Cortez) has a direct bearing upon the Tyro-Mexican Saturn. The centre of the sculptured Calendar-circle…is a horrid mask, or face… and one remarkable incident of identity is, that each face has the tongue hanging out, and by the muscular action, in the same blood-devouring manner."

"Now these masks of Saturn (as we have named them) were discovered many hundred miles apart, which would seem to indicate that the worship, or adoration of that heathen deity was a general one, and practiced by all the Mexican Aborigines" (The History Of Ancient America, Anterior To The Time Of Columbus; Proving The Identity Of the Aborigines With the Tyrians And Israelites, George Jones, 1843, page 144, 145).

Since the practice of feeding Gentile infants to Moloch was evidently transmitted through Solomon's devotion to the devils, we'll remind the reader that, under the Old Covenant, the Scriptures teach us that God appointed Israel to be the mediator between Himself, and the Gentile nations:

"The darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising" (Isaiah 60:3).

Just as Moses was the mediator between the LORD and the Israelite nation in the Old Testament, God purposed to redeem the Gentile nations by exporting His glory through Israel.

"And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem" (Isaiah 2:3).

Many believers have yet to recognize the importance of this prophetic architecture, even though it is evidenced throughout the Bible. The concept of mediation is crucial, for it anticipates the New Covenant role of Jesus Christ, who is the final mediator between God and every person, on an individual basis. As we showed in Chapter IV of the present work, the role of Israel in the Old Covenant, mediating between God and the heathen nations, is under a sophisticated attack, as the scholars are attempting to remove Israel's failed role from the equation, even as they seek to insert a supposed "divine council" of "gods" in their place.

This false doctrine would make the fallen angels – a so called "divine council" of gods – the interface between the LORD and the Gentile nations. Thus, the idea that God utilized Israel as a light to the Gentiles is extremely important.

"The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth" (Deuteronomy 7:6).

That same book of Deuteronomy tells us the Spiritual inheritance of the Gentile nations was directly equated with Israel:

"When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel" (Deuteronomy 32:8).

The number of the children of Israel was computed as the number which went into Egypt, and that is well established in Scripture as seventy. Incredibly, the modern scholars, relying upon non-scriptural Gentile documents, have removed "the children of Israel" from the text, and inserted "the sons of God" – following mystical texts which tell us there were seventy "gods" (including the fallen angels) which they falsely claim the LORD appointed over the Gentile nations!

Most readers will recognize it was "the sons of God" who, as the Nephilim angels, married human wives in that epic passage in Genesis 6:4. It's alarming to realize that at least two modern English bibles have now tampered with the Word of God, and follow this corrupted reading.

Not only does this latest "research" insert seventy devils as the Old Covenant mediator between the LORD and the Gentile nations, it sharply diminishes Israel's Old Covenant culpability for their refusal to function in their divinely appointed role of shining the light of the LORD to the Gentile nations. Indeed, instead of exporting the light of the LORD to the lost, Israel imported the Spiritual darkness of the Gentiles into their own ranks. Worse yet, as the nation flourished under Solomon, an untold number of Gentile souls were destroyed as Israel subsequently spread the Spiritual darkness of Moloch (aka Lucifer) to the surrounding nations.

-- James Lloyd

To Be Continued

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