Baal worship
188A is for Alphabet, Artist, and Ahab
8 Apr 2024
32:02¶ 83
“As we go on reading through the Old Testament histories, every now and then one of the kings of the north and even the…”
24:18¶ 63
“And that’s something of what Elijah was about. He appears out of nowhere. He confronts Ahab and says, “It’s not going to rain until…”
21:26¶ 54
“But Ahab takes it more than a step further when he introduces Baal worship. He marries Jezebel, and you can hear the name ‘bel’…”
187Purple Dye and Child Sacrifice
1 Apr 2024
27:24¶ 82
“First of all, Baal was not the name of a god. It’s a title, like God or Lord. It actually means Lord. Every city…”
27:57¶ 83
“These Baals or Baalim became identified with nature. Baal is the masculine side – the storms, the sunshine, the lightning, that which is violent…”
28:41¶ 85
“In order to get nature to do your bidding, the priest of Baal had to come up with that which was anti-natural. So as…”
121Elijah's Job
6 Jun 2022
0:56¶ 6
“It begins when Ahab of Israel marries Jezebel of Phoenicia and they introduce Baal worship, which is nature worship. The basic idea is that…”
1:17¶ 7
“God was not happy with this and, in response to Elijah’s prayers, God tells him to go say, “No rain till I say so,”…”
2:01¶ 8
“It’s set on Mount Carmel, which is Baal’s backyard. It’s Phoenician territory. It’s up high, so the clouds are nearby. Baal is the thunder…”
119When Nature Fails
23 May 2022
29:13¶ 136
“In the ancient world and in scripture particularly we see this thing called Baal worship. First of all, there was no god named Baal.…”
29:42¶ 137
“To be a member of that community you have to worship that god, but that god has now been absorbed into the forces of…”
30:31¶ 139
“It then becomes the king’s job to oversee this process and make sure that the gods are being honored in such a way –…”
117More Things Are Wrought By Prayer
9 May 2022
0:59¶ 3
“The background here is that Ahab and Jezebel have established Baal worship as the state religion in Israel, the northern kingdom. Baal worship, as…”
1:43¶ 4
“Baal was particularly the masculine side of nature, the lightning storm, the rain that impregnates Mother Earth, everything big and boisterous and powerful but…”
2:05¶ 5
“The political advantage to this was that the king, and possibly the queen serving as high priestess, become social engineers on a cosmic level.…”
116Jezebel
2 May 2022
9:49¶ 33
“Then Baal worship. I think we’ve talked about Baal worship before, but this is a good point just to remind everybody of what it…”
10:08¶ 34
“Baal is the male dimension manifested in lightning, fire, thunder, and rain, the things that descend from heaven and permeate Mother Earth to bring…”
10:41¶ 35
“When the male and the female get together harmoniously, then things are great and society flourishes. There are crops. There are children being born.…”
106To Kill A King
21 Feb 2022
11:09¶ 45
“In Baalistic culture it was a crime to try to assassinate the king, because obviously the king was there by the will of the…”
11:32¶ 47
“You wouldn’t have been able to do it, so you might even ascend the throne at the point, with the applause of the people.…”
85A Mother in Israel (Part 1)
27 Sep 2021
18:18¶ 58
“As we look at this, this is a good time to remember yet again the nature of Canaanite religion, Baal worship. It’s nature worship.…”
18:49¶ 59
“Lewis was right in describing for us the satanic ideal of the materialist magician, where your religion and philosophy exes God out of the…”
19:19¶ 60
“Windstorms, the river, that’s all in our back pocket.” On top of that add military technology. Add science to magic. “We got this thing.…”
83Baal and Astarte
13 Sep 2021
7:07¶ 43
“Some things about Baal worship. It is so vague, and the Bible deliberately does not give us a lot of information. For one, the…”
7:30¶ 44
“We have a male side of the deity and we have a female side. They’re supposed to get together and be fertile, and their…”
10:36¶ 53
“But in time mythologies grew up around them, not nearly as interesting as the Greek myths, let alone the Norse myths, which are much…”
70Science and Wonder
23 May 2021
1:16:02¶ 236
“Left to itself, a society will turn its back on mathematics and science, and we will end up with magic. David was describing Baalism.…”
1:02:01¶ 198
“The point is actually that, no, there isn’t one, and the reason why it is so popular to hunt down explanations is because they’re…”
1:16:39¶ 237
“If we want good crops and fertile bodies for our wives, we have to offer them the sacrifices that they insist on, even if…”
59Happy New Year... Again
14 Feb 2021
16:53¶ 55
“We don’t want the impersonalism of Baal worship, where nature is just this series of interrelated forces that we try to placate or manipulate…”
19:12¶ 60
“Yeah, it’s that discontinuity that is essential to the Christian faith. If we only have continuity, we’re stuck with Baal worship and there’s no…”