The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

appointee, it constituted the conference of the god’s power for service. This is expressive of Numbers 27:15–23 and the basis for the Lord’s seeming arbitrary choice of Joshua to replace Moses in Joshua 1. In addition to all this, the anointing oil upon the head was for rulership and governing power. This understanding is frankly conveyed by the Lord in Leviticus 21:12. Thus it was prophesied according to the fulfillment in Matthew 2:23 that Jesus would be called a Nazarene, named Messiah, the Anointed Lord. 72. Anointment—A) The state or condition of being anointed. B) The word for this process was the Hebrew term shemen from which we understand the word shaman to originally emerge. Shemen means oil, especially a rich perfumed oil such as the kind used in anointing. It had the oil of the olive in mind. Shaman indicates the result of the anointing, which is to glow, shine, and grow fat (increase and swell with abundance). Its link to spiritual authority is based on these terms that point to the enhancement, empowerment, and the elevation of the anointed one. See 1 Samuel 10:1 and 16:1, Nehemiah 9:25, the result of the fatness that comes from the anointing in Scripture. Deuteronomy 32:15; Isaiah 6:10, the result of fatness that comes from the world. 73. Antediluvians—The name for the inhabitants of the earth who lived during Noah’s era and were destroyed by the world’s first rain. Genesis 7:6–17 and 9:11–28. 74. Anubis—The Egyptian god of the underworld and embalming. The deity was symbolized by a jackal with the body of a human and was revered as the guide to the afterlife. Refer to Micah 1:8 for an understanding of the prophetic significance of this creature in the Bible. Also, the Jackal (see definition) was often translated as dragon, to show that the two creatures, though physiologically different, served the exact same demonic purpose, one on water, the other on land. 75. Aphrodite—The goddess of love who was patterned after a Phoenician deity of similar attributes. The daughter of Zeus and Diana, Aphrodite is also linked to Uranus because she is credited with power over the sky and its changes. Victory, war, and nature were also given as her domains of power. Aphrodite was the wife of Adonis and high goddess of Athens, Corinth, Sicily, and Lesbos. She was celebrated in Corinth in an annual Aphrodisiac Festival. Hers was the cult of prostitution the city became famous for in the ancient world. The goddess was worshipped as a beautiful deity responsible for sexual pleasure in humans. Her name means “the foam born one,” and she served as the goddess