Great Baals of Fire at the Commonwealth Games!

by Cowboy Bob Sorensen 

Something flew under my radar that I would have missed except for a post from WHYOutreach. So anyway, while there are some folks who imagine occult symbolism and conspiracies everywhere they turn (such as the CERN collider causing the end of the world), this imagery is blatantly obvious. People who know their Bibles and biblical history are aware of the demon known as Baal.

How do you pronounce it? On Stargate SG-1 and other places, it's pronounced ball, like bouncy. Some say bail, like what you do when the boat is filling with water (I use this one). Others insert a gap, Ba'al, making it buh-ALL. However it is pronounced, it is a generic way of saying lord. Then it became a proper name.

Since I can't find a legal image, here's the Palmyra Temple of Baal-Shamin, WikiComm / Dosseman (CC BY-SA 4.0)
So who was this sidewinder, anyhow? Basically a fertility deity for Canaan and Phoenicia — better yet, read "Who was Baal?" Different places had their Baalim (plural form of Baal) and variations in their forms of worship. It also had equivalents like Hadad and Zeus, and possibly Bel (over yonder, Assyria and Babylon way). Some people believe that Islam is modern Baal worship. The Israelites frequently fell into worshiping this vile thing instead of the true God.

There are numerous images used to represent Baal, but the most common seems to be the form of a bull. The 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England included a giant mechanical bull and lots of ritual. Listening to the narration, it sounds like they are ushering a new era a peace, love, and grooviness for humanity. Blessed be! See "Now They Are Literally Bowing Down And Worshipping Baal Right In Front Of Our Eyes." (On a side note, the metal band Black Sabbath is from Birmingham. Tony Iommi and Ozzy Osbourne of that band performed.) Seeing those clips of the opening ceremony, I wouldn't have been surprised if the Antichrist was the guest star. Yeah, it really put me off.

Let's ride a side trail for a moment. Professing atheists frequently whinge about people who believe in creation, the Genesis Flood, the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, miracles, and so on. We're an "enlightened" society, no need for st00pid dujmb Xtian fictions, just give us science and reason. So why, in an increasingly secular (and dare I say, Islamicised) country like England were there no significant outcries about blatant paganism in today's society?

One simple reason is that atheists hate God and support things that God opposes. A second reason is that England (like many other countries including the formerly United States) is pagan. After all, evolution is an ancient pagan religion. Papa Darwin just popularized and tweaked it for his Victorian audience. Atheism was conspicuously absent on social(ist) media, otherwise I may have seen it about two weeks earlier.

Is this Baal worship a sign of the end times? Quite possibly. Listen up, Hoss: Whether you believe in the pre-tribulation Rapture, some other eschatology, or reject them all doesn't matter. What does matter is that sooner or later, we all will stand before Jesus. You had better be ready.

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