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Baal to Burden of Prophecy

142. Baal—An ancient Babylonian deity whose worship involved lewdness, bloody orgies, human sacrifice, and ceremonial prostitution. Baal was a constant snare to the Lord’s covenant people who resorted to this deity’s worship repeatedly because of its high sensual appeal. The meaning of the word Baal— husband, lord, and master—was attached to Yahweh in order to integrate his worship in Judaism. The idea that Yahweh was Israel’s husband (ishi in Hebrew, Hosea 2:16) facilitated this duplicity and eased Baal worship into His people’s religious system. The required lewd behaviors, coupled with multiple partner copulation (and partner swapping), lent itself well to this seduction as the natural desire to fornicate and commit adultery was exploited by the proponents of pagan religions. Body worship, which goes along with both fertility rites and human sacrifices, surround male prostitution (qedeshim), and ritual harlotry (qedeshot). They served the priesthood and engulfed their worshippers with them in perverse ritualistic sex acts. Their ritual ceremonies consisted of gay licentiousness between the sodomites and the worshippers. Baal was believed to impregnate a heifer in order to bring forth his hybrid offspring, the basis for his religion, rituals, and ceremonies. Its practice encouraged bestiality, which is condemned by God among His worshippers. The custom had much to do with the veneration of the sacred cow. The fact that the chief god Baal copulated with the cow gave the cow its exalted status in the eyes of baalists. It may also be the inspiration behind such worship today. 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 23:7. These historical facts have prophetic value in the recognition of similar practices and customs popularized today as fashion, liberation, or entertainment. Although stripped of the name Baal to make them secular instead of religious, they are the same old acts under a new name and the guise of sexual liberation, or recreational sex. However, everything secular has spiritual roots. These farces were introduced to the planet by the fallen angels mentioned by Jude and Peter, which “kept not their first estate.” Through them the devil’s age-old strategy imposed his ancient ruin on each generation to accomplish what he started in