The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

the story as fuel for continued fighting. Obadiah wrote the Old Testament’s shortest book and served before Jeremiah’s time. 956. Obscene—A) Unchaste and immoral. B) That which produces and promotes impurity. C) Signifies a bad omen; a sign of the presence of evil forces and agents. D) Spiritual and moral disfigurement caused by lewdness. E) Filth that bodes of evil omens; portentous and inauspicious. F) What hags and old witches motivate. G) The offensive, injurious, and perverse. H) The filth that springs from hate and the abominable. The word applied spiritually defines a deliberate attempt to offend accepted standards of morality, modesty, and decency with lewdness purposely to incite lustful passions and desires. It implies using the repulsive, repugnant, and disgusting as tools to outrage. Sexually driven portrayals of the impure intended to defile and demoralize and promote pornography on behalf of a deity or in compliance with its rites of service and worship. According to the Old Testament, the term was spawned and inspired by Asherah, or Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of sex, war, and fertility. I) The filth and impurity produced by the obscene that equates to excrement and urine. Adultery. 957. Obscenity—A) The lewd, crude, and base acts of perversion that, when popularized, bode of impending ill. B) Widespread obscenity foretokens impending doom. Ezekiel 16:27 and 23:44. That which is repulsive and lustful to cause or fortify depravity. C) A premeditated assault by perversion, lewdness, or debauchery. D) A deliberate act to offend by excess. E) Morally abhorrent. F) Obscenity is that which should be kept out of view (suppressed) because of its intentional aim to offend, to assault morality and modesty, and inflame the passions for the purposes of moral destruction. 958. Occult—A) Hidden, concealed, and secretive. B) Mysterious arts and practices. C) Unlawful access to, and appropriation of, the powers and forces of the supernatural for godless purposes. 959. Oded—A Samarian prophet of 2 Chronicles 28:9. He urged the Israelites to treat their Judean captives fairly and tenderly. His intervention resulted in their humane treatment, something that was not originally planned by their captors. 960. Office—A position of trust where agency and representative powers are granted for one’s service to another. Isaiah 22:15–25. 961. Officer—One charged with special duties and responsibility of a command conferred by a governmental authority for a public service.