I actually read the Baal myth...here's what I found! (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- In this series we are looking at the story of Baal from the Ras Shamra texts found at Ugarit. Baal is one of the main Canaanite gods whom Israel was tempted to worship in the Hebrew Bible alongside their pagan neighbors. The more we know about the Baal myth, the more we recognize when the Biblical authors use imagery associated with it and what Scripture proclaims about the TRUE “rider on the clouds”, YHWH!
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1 kings 18: 27 At noon Elijah began to make fun of them. “Pray louder!” he said. “If Baal really is a god, maybe he is thinking, or busy, or traveling! Maybe he is sleeping so you will have to wake him!” 28 The prophets prayed louder, cutting themselves with swords and spears until their blood flowed, which was the way they worshiped. 29 The afternoon passed, and the prophets continued to act like this until it was time for the evening sacrifice. But no voice was heard; Baal did not answer, and no one paid attention....
This is one of the best stories of the Hebrew Scriptures. Rarely is boastimg encouraged. Yet Elijah was so confident Baal did not exist that he taunted the prophets of Baal before Elijah called fire down from the Nooshere: The First Heaven. ❤
@@dalelerette206 This God-off is both hillarious and deadly serious. :p
@@universalflamethrower6342 I have been having dreams of Enoch and Eiljah returning as two witnesses (starting at low level ontensity) since around Sunday, March 3rd, 1991. Lord have mercy.
How about Abraham chopping up his father Terahs idols? That is one epic tale.
@@dalelerette206 can you tell us more about your dream what do they look like and what were they doing?
How can you be sure it's Enoch and Elijah revelation 11 doesn't mention the two witnesses by name?
I grew up a Christian and always thought it was silly to worship something you made yourself out of wood or stone. Just like Jeremiah 10:3-5. But then I learned that very real demons (fallen angels) were being represented by those images, and they were playing false gods. Now I can understand why the pull and enticement into idolatry over and over for Israel was so strong. These demons granted favors in exchange for worship, just like they do today.
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12
A very excellent word Eric.
True. Many people think these "gods" didn't exist, that there weren't real spirit beings being worshipped by these ancient people. The ancients weren't stupid. They wouldn't have wasted their time with imaginary beings if they knew they didn't actually exist or didn't get anything out of it. The fact is, these beings do exist, and things were quite different back then from today. The fallen spirits made themselves known to mankind much more openly and frequently back then than they do today. Everything changed with the Resurrection of Christ. Death was defeated and the demons were bound. The Lord said He saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. This was in the context of Him giving His disciples power over the spirits. We now live in a world where the demons are by and large bound and unable to work exactly as they once did in ancient times before the Resurrection. The Lord does allow some demonic workings to occur, but it is nowhere to the extent that it was back in the OT.
When Moses presented himself to Farao, their magicians replicated almost every miracle that Moses showed to them. Moses, by the power giving to him by God, transform his staff into a snake and the Farao's magicians did the same (one example). There were fantastic and supernatural things going on back there from both sides. This is why I agreed with your comment. People nowadays think that the ancient kings from Israel were just stupid in abandon Got (I mean, they were) but it was not for nothing.
Sorry my english, I'm new to this english writing thing.
Get mental health help.
Indeed. Also, there would have been a whole boatload of culture (festivals, rituals, songs, orgies, poetry, etc) to go along with each god/idol. It would be extremely enticing.
Thank you for including sources. Anytime a scholar like you recommends a book, I put it on my shelf for future reading. I really appreciate it.
Scholar lol
Technology, computers, innovation 💡, art 🎨 culture and ideas. 😅
This provides a rich context for understanding many passages in the Old Testament. Thank you for this series.
yes indeed. I'm actually wondering why there's no mention that YHWH is also mentioned in the Ugaritic tales...
It's not called the Old testament, it's called Torah.
@@smudgeyarksha3514Torah means the Law. But the Torah is the first five books of the Bible. Tanahk is what the Jewish canon of scriptures are called
@@sneeu27Torah doesn't mean The Law, it means - To Teach.
@@smudgeyarksha3514 Oh, for goodness' sake.
I'm 5 mins in but as an illustrator, comic creator, martial artist and amateur theologian- your background alone has me hooked!
We sound like Kindred spirits based off ov those words. Yay for common grounds ❤
You can skip to eight minutes. The beginning is the index of book recommendations
thanks
Thx
That's the best part .... books are supior to a 8 min UA-cam talk ....
Thanks
Thanks
Using neighboring slogans, phrases, and imagery that everyone of the region was familiar with for the purpose of teaching, correcting, rebuking, and debating. We still do this today.
@@ClayA.Reynolds exactly
especially in politics
@@DiscipleDojo (just some thoughts and notes as i listened. Things to come back and look into more)
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@hollywoodpineapple837 kamala2024!?
What I find fascinating is that Ugarit was unknown to archaeology until the 1970’s when the city state was discovered. Before then it was just a legendary place mentioned in the Bible. So if Ugarit maintained the Baal mythology, the same Baal that the Phoenicians introduced to North African Carthage and the Sabaeans of Yemen.
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Geography & meteorology was very important & shaped migration
Travel was in different ways for several groups
By water or those across land
Ba’al is a complex word. It means husband, lord, and an academically uncertain god. Carthage primarily worshipped Ba’al Hammon. Lord Hammon. Hannibal worshiped Ba’al Melqart, Lord Melquart, a less popular, but very powerful god.
There’s a lot of debate about if there ever was a “Ba’al” deity. In the Hebrew, most mentions of Ba’al are tied to a city with a known deity, or it says “the Ba’als”, as in a pantheon.
Wow this was good... subscribed. I see part 2 has been released, going to rewatch this one first. Thank you, sir
I am so glad you're doing this scripture in context series. It is so easy to forget that the Hebrews were not just living in a vacuum. Civilization had been around for a few millennia before God called Abraham out of Ur and the land of the Chaldeans, and we never hear anything about Ur or the culture of Babylon outside of the bible. It's great that you're doing this. I'm here for it. 👌💪
Ummm maybe take an art history class...i literally did my project on this topic and how it relates to art of that time.
@@CedricsMom ironically, the Chaldeans originally came from Northwest Canaan, then settled in Babylon and replaced the indigenous Babylonian royalty as rulers.
The bible is not very accurate historically.
Soooo… there truly IS nothing new under the sun.
That’s been my conclusion for a while. Nothing new. I think of these days as the age of synthesis.
Yes, The song does remain the same, same actors different names. I'm glad others are willing to admit they noticed👆😊
Ewe huemans should be somewhat aware more 👁️
I've yet to see the similarities
@@DannyDoGood have you read the enuma elish,Sumerian epic of creation? Short read that may help you see them👍😊enjoy.
This is epic! Thx JM for putting this together.
I don’t think Christians should be so surprised that these similarities would be found in the Bible. Today, we use cultural references all the time to still teach truths. We talk about references to truth in our tales today, like Marvel, in LOTR, etc.
Looking forward to seeing Psalm 82 connections to Canaanite mythology brought up, if possible.
“ here’s mud in your eye.”
the old gods become the devils of the new religions
It's because everything devolves over time..entropy..look at Judaism. Borrowing from the past marduck to christ and onward
other times they become lesser divine beings sometimes as in the biblical instance they become "angels" the closer the Israelite elite moved towards a monotheistic thought process the more the divine beings that they believed in became lesser beings (so that it didn't clash with their new religious beliefs)
In reality none of them are real it was just the ancient world trying to understand the world they lived in and what causes this to happen why does this happen and Gods (or outside forces) orwere their answers
Christ is the Creator of all, how is it that He created everything, including man, then man created Christ? Your logic makes no sense you better figure it out!
@@porkflaps4717 Its because your view is only one view in a world of many views. By default, you don't know anything about what you preach. Your comments on the subject amount to nothing more than a guess. So you are lying to people stating you have some sort of insider knowledge on some god when everyone knows you read a book and determined that to be a fact with no validation whatsoever. Similar signs of people that have a mental illness.
The sea gods Nommo/Nummo/[sea god Yammu in the Baal account?], who created the Anunnaki, and were later killed by the Anunnaki.
It's amazing how these demons manifest themselves again and again in similar iterations throughout the civilizations of mankind. Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Scandinavian etc.
Even today we see these same characters, although in a much more subtle manifestation.
Interesting 😊
People will often quote the King James Bible Matthew 6:24, "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." But they read this as if there were only once Prince of Hell. Mammon is certainly a Prince of Hell in the sense of accursed finances. But there are actually 7 Princes of Hell -
Lucifer, Leviathan, Azazel, Asmodeus, Belphegor, Mammon, Beelzebub,
...each representing one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Lucifer somehow became Satan by various means depending on who you talk to. Some
Hebrews say Lucifer volunteered to willingly become Satan at God's request. Other Christians say Lucifer rebelled against God, indirectly fulfilling God's Will by rebelling against God's Will.
Lucifer/Pride 3:31 - Beauty Profiteering
Mammon/Greed 4:33 - Money Profiteering
Asmodeus/Lust 5:32 - Sex Profiteering
Leviathan/Envy 7:08 - Narcissistic Profiteering
Beelzebub/Gluttony 8:25 - Obesity Profiteering
Satan/Wrath 9:40 - War Profiteering
Belphegor/Sloth 10:59 - Lazy Profiteering
I suppose this is the perfect moment to remind us of George Carlin’s 1972 "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" monologue.
[1] The words, in the order Carlin listed them, are: "shit", "piss", "fuck", "cunt", "cocksucker", "motherfucker", and "tits".
Italians call it 'sacramentale'. Yet Nietzsche’s lack of faith may have resulted in no support when he brilliantly pulled away the illusions of all philosophy.
Unlike Nietzsche, I would be led by the Spirit to say it is time to, “Let our souls magnify the Lord” -- and realize there are no borders, especially when we blow the Holy Ghost into the sails of another's soul, much like the Virgin Mother of God.
The Roman Catholic Church is the new age Roman Empire. All of this has been going on since Babylon…
Don't fear demons brother. The only "demons" running around are the ones that taught you to think what you're saying. Renounce them.
@@subcitizen2012 Michael the Archangel did not bring a slander to the devil. He said The Lord Rebuke You. ❤️
In a time where peoples attention spans are about two seconds, I really appreciate the entire set up of this video, and I appreciate all the details so we can understand what is going on in the poem.
This is an awesome channel! Grace and Peace to you brother 🕊️🙏🏽🕊️
A great addition to read in Professor Nahum Sarna's book Understanding Genesis which contrasts the Pagan stories with the Biblical version and beautifully & elegantly points out how the Torah\Bible adds morality and contracts to the recorded events such as creation, flood and Tower of Babel. In the story of Jacob and Laban, he shows how Jacob's plea and defense against Laban is to quote the Shepherd's code, which was unearthed and found on a stele. Fascinating stuff!
@@144Donn yes, Sarna is definitely worth reading!
Stop adding books to my ENDLESS "to be read" pile! ;)
He actually starts at 12 minutes
Thank you
"the lord of murder shall perish and in his doom he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny, chaos shall be sewn in their passing" oh wait wrong bhaal
"So sayeth the wise Alaundo."
In Carthage, babies used to be sacrificed to Molloch which is one of the facets of Baal, they used a very gruesome cult there.
moloch is the noun used for child sacrifice...
there is no god moloch.
even yahweh in ancient times requires child sacrifice... that is how gods in ancient times demands sacrifice for an abundant harvest or in dire times
study it, learn it!
yes you are correct a facet of Baal is Molloch, Molloch is not a god, Baal is the god, to the other commentary I ignore deconstruction of the Yawhe cult so I cannot answer that, yet if the subject is blood magic I'm all ears to discuss the situations that led Katon the old to seal the fate of Carthage.
@@tabularasa7350
"ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam"
- cato the elder 234-149 BC
Stop lying!!!! The almighty God did not require child sacrifice and he despised it. It’s written all over the Old Testament how it angered him. One time, he asked Abraham I believe to sacrifice his son to see if he was willing to and Abraham was prepared but God stopped him and spared his son and provided him with a goat in his sons place. It was to see how willing he was to be obedient to God and put his trust in him and Abraham put God first.
Satanic Ritual Abuse STILL
KILLS BABIES AND CHILDREN!!!
Material is exactly what ive been looking for. Top shelf stuff bro
Mark S. Smith, Reinhard Müller and Joanna Töyräänvuori are solid Ugaritic-scholars. There is currently a big research project going at the University of Göttingen around Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible, maybe get someone from over there as a guest?
Ugaritic texts ... the secrets hidden in there... Yahweh, El Alyon, Elohim, Adon etc....
Wow, that would be so fascinating. I missed my calling in life. Sigh.
Subscribed! Please don’t stop making videos like this.
I am glad you included the Baal myth, I think it provides a lot of insight. First time viewer here.
TY, JM🌹⭐🌹 You're moving us in some super interesting directions. I'M ON BOARD.
One of the best videos so far!
I don’t think it’s a mystery why we see kings and princes, a divine council, in heaven and then duplicated on earth. Or the arc, the tabernacle, the temple ideas all over the ANE. If the DCW and the portions of Deuteronomy 32 are correct, handing over the rule of nations to heavenly beings, why wouldn’t those heavenly beings replicate what they know from the heavenly realm and then want the same worship they saw YHWH get from their portions?
I buy that powerful beings exist. I don't buy that any of them know who or what created us (or them).
@@lawlaw295 my take is they all know YHWH created them - that YHWH is Most High. I would expect they were all created with free will, like man, and started off worshiping him. Then some fell away. Heiser has a great breakdown of Elohim that goes into fantastic detail.
@@missinglink_eth YHWH is not the God of the Bible ...it's not the Fathers name . Heiser used it because of the universities he went 2 used it . God is a Holy Trinity and without God the Son Jesus , you have the wrong God anyways . the Word was God . there is no comparison of the Holy Trinity to any other god or unholy trinity.
@@jimmy9802-t8j i believe in the trinity. I’m not arguing that. Jews used to think there were two Yahways because of scenes like the burning bush. Are you really saying YHWY is not the God of the Bible? That view seems like a KJV-onlyist kind of viewpoint.
Or... authors of the time imposed their local culture onto their speculations about the cosmos. Why would an omnipresent, omnipotent entity need to rely on messengers/angels? Like in Genesis 20:21, God has only heard second-hand about what's going on in Sodom and Gomorrah, so he needs to go down to Earth himself to learn the truth. The authors are writing about a king in the sky, literally, based on their own cultural assumptions.
What program or app are you using in this video? Pardon my ignorance as this is my first time watching any of your videos. Also a wonderful job of research you've done.
@@AirShorty83 thanks. I'm using Accordance in this video.
Amazing, it really puts into perspective what those Old testament passages meant, and the audience they were meant for.
Bronze Age tribes often were quite brutal. Genocide was a way of assuring victory and taking others land. This still is attempted from time to time on planet earth in this day and age and throughout history. Leaders invoking mythological beings to demonize and dehumanize others.
When you pray do not be like the hypocrites who stand in Synagogues or on street corners to be seen by men, but when you pray go into your closet close to the door and pray to the El Elyon who is unseen.
You said his special name!!! Elyon one of the best names IMO
A garden or in nature is a way to connect as well
@@jamesritter4813The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handwork!!
@@JMercCCITLD okie dokie
@@jamesritter4813 That’s what the Word of God says and it does. Nature and the heavens declare the glory of God! There is no place where their language is not heard.
That was superb, thank you. Subbed!
I appreciate the manner in which You presented this topic.
I really appreciate that you recommended the source books where folks can read more!
So many people, even PRIOR to 2013~2014, were ripping into and dismissing Heiser for saying all the things you're saying. I know Heiser went in an odd direction after I lost track of him in those years, but everything in these books you showed is stuff that the academics know and don't bring to popular knowledge. I appreciated Heiser for all the clarity he provided in the years I listened to him (up to 2013). Thanks for putting this out and being clear about the *polemic* nature/purpose of stealing imagery from the pagans.
I had to pay bail once.
I had to pay bail many times 😂
pay bail or prepare to be be'ell-ended, butt at least the gub will foot the Bill for your impacted Bowel. This is the truth, not bull.
Lol. How much did you have to pay Baal? What type of currency did he accept?
OK, that did make me laugh! 😂
This comment wins.
Great video. Thanks for doing the research.
Awesome episode JM!!! Keep them coming. We need scholarship and attention brought to these ancient near Eastern texts that would have been contextually relevant to the authors and audience of scripture✔️❤️🔔
Understanding yam as a serpent would have been readily available to all those who read the creation account and the garden of Eden contained in the scroll of Genesis. It amazes me how much of scholarship wants to try and separate these very ancient eastern and Hebrew contextual points. Seeing the snake is a divine rebel and his actions as divine rebellion would just make sense to the author and audience of scripture.🔔
I will now, respectfully, subscribe. Thanks, friend. Good work.
Nice collection of figures! Also love collecting action figures & reading the scripture of God❤
Super excited for this one
This comments section is wild 😂 JM, this is interesting, and I don’t doubt your intentions are good with studying and sharing this. But hearing you recite this somehow doesn’t sit right with me. Love you brother
Isn't much simpler to say that the ancient Hebrews were Canaanites and YHWH was a more southern god ( child of El) and Ba'al was a northern brother? The northern tribes of Israel are the ones in constant contact/conflict with the Baalists. The southern tribes Judah and Benjamin stay more loyal to YHWH. It also helps that the Assyrians came from the north, so the northern tribes took the brunt of their assault. This seems parsimonious to me.
You’re 100% right. This entire subject reflects identity politics and rivalries rather than spiritual truth or righteousness. That realization can either rid you of your faith, of confirm it for you, but the likelihood that it will ruin it for you means that they are never going to inform the public about it. The reality is that the average practitioner wants to read allegorical and moral cultural stories that make them feel good about their religion, not to necessarily learn the underlying truth.
He doesn't even talk about the yahoos, what a yahoo
yeppers, except Yahweh was just adopted into the Canaanite pantheon, and then slowly overtook and replaced Ba'al worship for the elites who lived/settled in Judah. (and they could've had a mix between the Canaanite tradition and the Egyptian traditions when they moved into the land of Judah )
But after the northern kingdom fell and you had all the Canaanites in Israel " I mean Israelites" flee south to Judah.. then you see the intermingling of traditions and ultimately Yahweh worship won favor with the elites, as most of the people were still pagans worshipping ba'al and ashera.
I just don't get how this content creator walks away with this proving the Bible true that truly baffles me
This video was very informative. I will definitely check out your other videos too
OK you got me hooked. I'll admit when this came up on my recommendations I nearly scrolled past because of your name. Dojo made me think it was just Eastern philosophy, and my time is limited, so I'm looking for other things. Then--- the toys in the background made me roll my eyes HARD! Sorry, but I'm an old Gospel Preacher who thinks there is way too much nonsense taking the men of the Church away from God's Word, and I've seen many a young man with a promising career in ministry waste his energies on the "myths and endless genealogies" of the comic book universe. But, I gave you grace and watched to the end.
Brother, forgive my judgmental heart! My prejudices almost made me miss an EXCELLENT lesson on the parallels of these ancient texts. You certainly did your due diligence! Showing these side-by-side is a great way to teach and the glossary of terms at the outset really clarified things that I have often wondered about, but haven't investigated myself. This is only the first of your videos for me and I'll be clicking on part 2 next. But if the rest of your content is like this, you are certainly doing the Lord's work and have earned a subscriber.
Ive come to realize that without the esoteric context none of this makes sense past the mythological storyline
All religions were esoteric and then twisted, manipulated into worship cults.
christian bale
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When you know spells, his name works and resonates. Like carry underwood or dolly with still the part.on
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Yep, this is what you get when "my dad could beat up your dad" gets applied to religion.
I used to play with these demonic beings and then the true God came to me and changed my world. I wish for all people to know the love and mercy of the one true God, Jesus Christ
@@ASMRyouVEGANyet I used to think that the God of the Bible was real. But then I read the Bible and realised that it's all just stories
what an 8th grade response
@@IanM-id8or this is in that book…but guess you know better : It is appointed unto man once to die, then the judgement …..
@@IanM-id8or He is real whether you believe or not.
This is really fantastic. The Bible has just the right response for just the right problem at exactly the right time no matter who what where or when.
It started in the beginning.
Hello. Which bible app are you using in your video???
@@sijalf Accordance
@@DiscipleDojo Thx brother.
"HISTORY" is more often than not, "RE- WRITTEN" by those who weren't THERE❤
I WAS NOT "THERE", yet I "FEEL" as if I would have "WRITTEN" it DIFFERENTLY and it is THAT THOUGHT that allows "ME" to believe that SOMEONE ELSE already has❤
@@DavidGreen-n1s why do you capitalize like that?
@@DiscipleDojo just feels they have to shout in certain words I guess
History is written by he who wins the War writes His Story
As a historian im always saddened by the level of ignorance on display by Internet atheists...
Do explain. I'm saddened by the ignorance of theists. To waste the ONLY life one has to a deity that can't be demonstrated to exist.
@Bokonon999 and yet, here you are wasting your time talking to us! While you're here, hang out with us and learn some history! If anything, you can learn history! Much love bro! ❤️ ✌️
@@Bokonon999 atheists are no different than the logic of a morbidly obese man going to a gym one time- but upon having done so he finds himself unable to get ripped in a single day - then he proceeds to call weightlifting a scam and wants to convince others of this.
YAHWEH was just one of the Gods.
@@sootuckchoong7077Not true. The worship of Yahweh was first. The Bible is full of God trying to keep the Jews from following false gods. Especially in the book of 1 Kings. That’s what Elijah was doing. Riding Israel of polytheism. Some historians try to create parallels between Yahweh and certain storm gods when there are loose connections. Yes Israel did fall into polytheism eventually but they knew who the true God was.
Thanks for the book recommendations!
Why is the word "Hebrew" displayed upside down in the background? I wonder if Yam and Jörmungandr are the same.... I find it interesting how much the text you read sounds like the "Enuma Elish".
Great video!
Subscribed & will soon watch part 2.
Every Ancient near East religion including ancient Egyptian mythology has has some sort of miracle involving water or a river .
Most mystic practices assert that moving waters destroy magic. It is why waterfalls are considered purifying, why the Shinto will pour water over their heads, why the observant Jew washes his hands upon waking.
Only God can move waters.
Baal sounds like Thor. The Etruscans called the gods the Aesir,and the vikings call them the Aesir.
@@wednesdayschild3627 there may be an upcoming episode of #SuperheroSeminary here on the channel where Professor Thor covers this topic...you never know... 😉
Yes, Baal Hadad is Thor, and El is Odin.
The originals are Ninurta and Enlil.
They are Yahweh/Michael and El Elyon/Eli.
Attar is Jesus Christ. Originally, Utu.
Baal is a corrupt version of Jesus Christ, Asherah is heavenly mother, El heavenly Father, Anath marry of the tower
@@TheNamelessOne888 Attar is Lucifer 😂
At least Attar is where the lucifer myth originated
@@NeilHawkins-k5q
Lucifer, Son of the Morning is Jesus Christ. Christ is the bright morning star.
I am 99% sure that Yaweh is NOT God, The father of Jesus Christ, but is actually Ba'al. Hence why they referred to him as the Rider of Clouds. Keep in mind that what pissed Moses off when he came down the mountain with the 10 Commandments was the Israelites worshipping a golden calf, or bull... Ba'al.
I totally agree Yahweh is not the one God, but just another tribal God. And Jesus has nothing to do with him.
You contradicted yourself
@@mariluzmurciasHmm. Does Christ ever refer to his father by name? Yahweh, Jehovah?
@wcstrawberryfields8011 No because Him and the Father are one.
Please elaborate. I’m genuinely curious to pick your brain
So were the old gods the Titans? Is EL Cronos? Were Archangels Dragons with 6 wings?
hi! great video, where do you get these digitalized books on original language and translation??
I have them in my Accordance and Logos digital libraries, but they are all available in print as well.
Thank you for putting the resource links in the description.
Awesome series and awesome ad for buying this book lol, you should get a sponsorship!
@@nogodsnokingsonlymen8538 seeing as how Context of Scripture costs a few hundred bucks, I don't see many people going out and buying it! 😅
This divine system of gods was almost perfectly replicated by the Greco-Roman gods...
It's supposedly because all of these traditions came from much older traditions they actually all overlapped. That's why themes and even names are similar. Pretty sad if you think about it. Another couple thousand years and our contemporary Christians, for example, could hypothetically have wars over what they won't know is the same Jesus. Arguably already happened in a way during the reformation. Who's the true church? We'll see about that! And then the polemics come out, the pope is really luciferin, etc. I wish all these sheep people could bag the crap.
@@subcitizen2012simply because the most influential group on Earth were the Indoeuropeans aka Celts, Romans, Italics, Slavs, Indians, Iranians and few more. That's why mythology is similar, the Dius Pater, Sky God slaying the dragon etc
only Greeks and later the Romans...those who produced no texts are not influential at alk...@@swampraider3488
What software program are you using?
@@ryanjupton Accordance
Haven't gone through the rest of the series yet but excited to listen, the Ugaritic texts were some of the most fun subjects I've studied in university.
Hope you give an honourable mention to my man Umberto Cassuto.
Yesterday, I searched Baal because of the Olympics. 4 hours later, Bright Insight posted a video about Baal. Now I see someone else was searching Baal recently. We're being given the same message, we are facing Baal!
And a new Age of Ishtar. Perhaps more specific to the current gender-bending. Not sure of any direct relationship though...
@@wcstrawberryfields8011 what's wrong with Ishtar aka Asherah who was highly thought of by the Jewish people and was liked even more so than Yahweh? All her stories were removed, when the boy king, advised by his advisors to edit out any references to any other "god" for cohesion sake, and renamed those they couldn't tell as all being Yahweh. I struggled with the old testament because of the inconsistencies. I do not believe our Father in Heaven, the One Jesus referred to is the same as the one who required a multitude of virgins. I also do not believe God is afraid of Truth, so whatever is revealed we can deal with it. Refining am I right, 😜? If they were alians, I don't believe they are god's, at least not my God, as they too were flesh & blood. Powerful yes, but only One sent His son to rescue us from being on repeat (yes I believe in reincarnation). I get confused though, are we supposed to be like the lion of Judah or turn the other cheek staying out of the fight? I think that may be why we lack good trustworthy leaders. Politics is a cess pool if not a lion's den.
Baal has been in control as the "see me, worship me" demon since the moment Noah's son Ham believed he could use him. We have all been facing him since.
Beelzebub
@@luckyxpunk yep
Thank you for doing this. I've experienced pagans making fun of Christianity for supposedly copying various pagans texts.
In addition to this video I also highly recommend Inspiring Philosophy’s video on Ancient Monotheism. Mike Winger even endorsed it.
great series, I was a fundamentalist Christian for 40 years willing to die for my beliefs even though I didn't really know what was in the Bible and our family never went to church
Then after I started attending church regularly for 3 yearsincluding the old testament..
I realize the stories didn't actually read how I remember learning them that led to lots of questions and questioning the decency of the Old Testament God
And that led me too well over 3000 hours into deep scholarly study of the ancient world archaeology and linguistics.
And learning about the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, etc etc. And all their ancient flood and creation myths as well as from Assyria, Babylonia, Ugaretic texts and learning about Zoroastrianism and Greek philosophy etc etc
is precisely what led me to become an atheist.
from knowing that the book of Daniel and revelations were basically talking about Antioch as the fourth and the Roman Empire etc And how they writers of the Hebrew Bible just adapted their ancient traditions into their own new belief system and attributed with the other gods did to their God just like all the people groups before them did to their previous gods. etc is why I'm certain none of it is true and all the gods were simply created from man's understanding of the world at that time because they didn't really know anything.
The point of all that is to say I don't know how you can know all those things and then somehow think this really late God that appeared Yahweh, is the real true god.. that baffles my mind.
With all that said I greatly appreciate how you broke down this series I just don't understand how it can make someone a believer
@@kenaterphotography4624 I think your fundamentalism handicapped you, honestly. Seeing Scripture for what it actually is and how it speaks into its own cultural backgrounds while also containing truth that transcends all cultural backgrounds only strengthens my belief that it is not a mere human product. It roots it all within history while also transcending history and transforming lives within every culture into which it has been preached. Meeting and spending time with indigenous Christians around the world attests to the transcendent power of Scripture, rooted as it is within the culture and languages of the ancient Near East and Greco-Roman worlds.
But more importantly, Jesus actually rising from the grave is the fulcrum upon which it all hinges. If that didn't actually happen, then it's all nonsense.
God was first before all of that. I hope the scales fall off your eyes and you have some understanding of who the Lord is because without understanding of the Bible and who he is and the revelation of it you'll never know God.
This video is a historical gold mine! I've been wanting to get into Biblical history and archeology! You just showed me a list of books I need to get! Ty and God Bless! I sub'd
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translation: as a christian i follow the lies of jesus. and i see every single gods who ain't jesus as horrible nightmarish demons from hell. "for god love his world and son so much ! that he put him into a human evelope just so he can watch him die ! all of it, without even letting him know. it is that his death have a magical redemption impact on you, because you believed in the book that say so. and it will extinguish ALL SIN" that it ! jesus does not die to prevent a war or anything just, there is no justice in him. he died because he said that his death is redemptional to your sin. while in reality he was just condamened by the romans and did not what lie he can make up his mind with. or he did maked a great lie so he can kill every babies who dare worshiped baal as his prophet joshua did
I'm just starting this, but before I forget, thank you! I didn't know these legends had survived at all, much less that there were English translations available to regular people! (Outside the university setting.) I would have read them long ago!
Thank you. This is very informative background information.
El is still invoked in the Roman Exorcism missal. Divine Assembly a doctrine in Mormonism. Bull probably the golden calf, tent probably refers to the tabernacle
The conclusion I draw is that Hebrew and Ugaritic were almost the same. Like Dickens using phrases and idioms known to Shakespeare.
Did you draw this conclusion after learning one of the 2 languages?
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From watching this video. And a little bit of logic.
@piotrczubryt1111 they weren't "almost the same". They share alot of 3 letter roots. The languages don't sound the same when spoken and wouldn't be mutually comprehensive
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Are you a real troll? I love them.
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The reason the Bull is the father of Baal goes back to the Sunerian King's list. Kullasina-Bel who gets remembered as Bel and then Baal is the son of Jushur who was the first king on the Sumerian King's list after the flood. Jushur who wrote the book of Jasher/Jashur was known as the Bull of Heaven.
Is that the same Bel as the Bible's Bel and the Dragon? I'm not gonna lie I haven't read the Bible in a long time
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 yes that is the same Bel. There is a cycle where Heroes are remembered as Myths they become Deified as gods and then finally they are Demonized. I'm pretty sure he was remembered as Shiva and Cernunnos. I think his father (Jushur) is Tarshish, Noah's great grandson. Tarsis/Tarsus was supposedly built by Hercules who the city is named after.
@@paulschuckman6604 And then there's CERN, right in CERNunnos' heartland. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but there are some weird coincidences surrounding them.
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 I'm starting to understand Noah burying the cities of the old gods like Gobekli Tepe after the flood. Science is powerful and without morals the height of materialism is getting pretty gross today. I'm not superstitious but I also don't want scientists creating a singularity or other catastrophic "success" that accidentally destroys the planet.
@@paulschuckman6604 Most of the Mandela Effect things are nonsense but I have a few things where I really wonder if I'm in the same reality I was born into.
So is that the story of gobekli tepi?
I can't picture on a map where it is in Anatolia but it's probably close to Ararat right
Ba'el when translated back into Hebrew literally is "The Lord"... Does this title seem familiar?🤔
I love learning about the surrounding cultures around ancient Israel. With that being said, I've felt a sharp conviction when reading the Ugaritic "poetry" or incantations found in these manuscripts. I believe that when reading or meditating on these texts, we open ourselves up to these ancient spirits that the pagan world conjured. I know the Lord says that His words are spirit and life, I can only imagine that anything else is spirit and death. God bless you all, may the Lord cover you and keep you in Jesus' mighty name 🙏
Came here to learn about the history of barium and aluminum.
#3=#11. 😊
What about squirrel poop?
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Riddle me this when David talks to Goliath, how can they understand each other? They must all be Semitic to some degree.
Wasn't that before the fall at Babel. It was during the construction of the Tower that the languages became changed. Before that, all spoke one language
@@laurasmithira No, fall of Babel in most charts given is 1000+ years before David and Goliath.
No the tower of babel was way before the tribes of Israel and their coming into the land of caanan@@laurasmithira
How would any two people from different nations understand each other in ancient times? One or the other had learned the language of the other. Much later in the OT, the Assyrians come to siege Jerusalem and taunt the Israelites in their own language. The leaders of Jerusalem ask the Assyrian to speak in his own language instead of Hebrew because they could understand that language. He refused because by speaking Hebrew, he wanted to cause fear in the people of the city.
Abraham, a man of Ur of the Chaldeans, moves to Canaan and speaks to the locals. He knew their language or they knew his or both.
I don't think David or Goliath knowing the language of the other is a problem when their nations obviously interacted with each other even if usually through war.
Each nation had their own TONGUE (what we call 'language').
At the Tower of Babel they were all 'speaking the same language', which means they were all of one mind, goal, thought process.
God destroyed the Tower, the goal they were all submitted to, and scattered their minds to go in different directions, have differing goals.
Go read the whole passage and look up the words.
A sacrificial tower was built under Nimrod's leadership. The effort was to get back in touch with those fallen spirit powers that had previously interfered with the human race and led humanity to the situation where God decreed the flood. At the Tower of Babel, God not only scattered the languages, but abandoned the nations to these fallen gods; He chose Abram as a "fighting instrument" for himself in the second batch, which the Old Testament tells about; The people of Israel and Jerusalem. We live in the "time-out" of this cosmic battle now, when the Gentiles have the opportunity to seize the salvation offered by God, before we enter the last seven years, when more than half of those living here will perish. Baal is just one manifestation of this demon-worshiping choice of humanity.
Rev 20:7,8 is where we are now
Very interesting!! The "cloud rider"/storm god made me think of that song by the Doors; Riders on the storm!
Just found your channel. Really great video! Earned a sub!
If people are so afraid to read a pagan writing to the point they’re afraid to study it, they’re doing what the Bible tells them NOT to do. It’s up to US to comprehend what we read or study… we were gifted with free will and intelligence, after all. They aren’t just some trap for us to avoid
dude... look at the comments... there are NOT many Christians here...
Predestination is Biblical and i'm Not even calvinist, but only the Elect of the Father come to the Word/His Son and are SEALED with the HOLY SPIRIT. Praise the TRIUNE ADONAI JESUS/YESHUA forever and ever, HalleluYAHELSHADDAI.🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
I really don't see the supposed parallels to the Bible. I have read again and again that "scholars" believe all these gods existed in Canaan and eventually YHWH became the main God. I notice there is no YHWH in this story, suggesting that YHWH really did come through Moses to replace the others as the Bible describes.
@@atom31b you should watch this full series. It is from the perspective of a believer, not secular or mainline revisionism.
Video starts at 6:50 for everybody with ADHD and need people to get to the point.
What would you say to someone preaching that the God of the bible can be called "She" or "he"? Does the Greek or Hebrew use language that make it sound like God can be called a woman? Do you have any videos discussing this subject?
Thank you for a great lesson with lots of info, will have to listen a time or two to take it all in.
That so dang interesting Thank you
Thanks for this. So fascinating
El came from An/En but in sumerian the god of god's is Anu (indicated by the Dingir symbol). The Sumerian trinity of gods are Anu (father), Enki(land/earth) & Enlil (sky/wind).
But hey, who knows if all that is really 100 percent true ???? Seriously
6:07 I love this point!
Also, love your figures in the back🔥🔥🔥
thank you for doing this
So is Baal means Lord, should we Christians not use that word again? Why does the bible refer to our God as the Lord?
The Bible was infiltrated with titles that refer to demons influence
Even the word God has been hijacked by other religions, Luciferianism is an example. What's important is which God and which Lord you choose to worship. Lord is a literal translation of Adonai, a title of God. LORD is a translation for YHWH.
@Jer20.9 As far as I am concerned, there's only one. The rest are lil wannabe g's.
"God" is a TITLE. Not a "name". The pagan gods all have names. And christians get a "big g"? Ridiculous, right? His name is Yahua. His only son was named, "Yahusha". The 'Holy Spirit" is Ruach Hakodesh. She is a female. Try to read the Cepher. They are expensive. I ordered one for around $100. All of the people in the traditional bible have had their names changed, as well. The fake christian pastors are truly worshiping demons and leading us all into hell. Some are just deceived.
Only the elect know that YHWH is YESHUA/the Triune ADONAI.😇
This popped up on my feed as I'm explaining the opening ceremonies for the Olympics 2024 to my mother.
Literally came back in my room sat down opened youtube and this...
@@Walklikelions Some have contended we've entered a new Age of Ishtar, considering the gender-bending trend.
Does she knows that YHWHYESHUA is Not for mocking? The mount Olymp is PAGAN and God JESUS knows that.🕊
Lord bless your whole household.😇
canaanite mythology changed my interpretations of the bible. The gods of the time fleshed out makes the bigger picture easier to understand. It's not something young scholars can digest very easily. It will shake the mind and make faith fail in the ones who can not handle the change of the mindset. People only see one side of things and when three views are shown it brings questions. I had to come to terms when I started studying the leviathan, behemoth, molok, baal, and the Iz stories from other accounts. It's truly epic. I'm sure it's a mesh of cultures and it can't be really fully trusted from handed down stories and changed scripture but it starts to make sense when you put the pieces together.
Ive recently been told the sumarian tablets have the same stories as the bible...do you have any thoughts about it?
@@toniaplummer7951 see our course on the subject, particulary the final two sessions at www.discipledojo.org/bible-science
In this context, you may be interested in two ancient egyptian gods and their relation to Yahweh, 'Yah' (Moon God) and 'Heh' (personified concept God of Infinity).
Especially the depiction of 'Heh', further have some resemblance to depictions of Nature gods in other cultures, like 'Jayasree', and 'Cernunnos'.
Kronos, Nyx, Zeus, Osiris, Geb, Shu, Izanami, Amaterasu, Nüwa, Mašyā, and Abraham also married their siblings. So why do the Canaanites get called out for incest?
It makes more sense when you get that the Elohim species were shapeshifting hermaphrodites capable of mating with any other species, not gods but an earlier chosen species evolved before sex was invented. The alphabet was a personification of the evolving pantheon of gods worshiped in the development of the final chosen species. Thus, Baal is really B-El, the first incarnation of the second soul, Lucifer, among the Elohim "sons" of God, while A-El is the first incarnation of El Elyon. The Bible is a story of the evolution of God and his family, some who turned toward the adversary, the destroyer hive mind that stifles and corrupts all creation, and some growing closer to God's ideal co-creator sons of a better Divine Council, now including the daughters of the evolved Holy Spirit, Karma - whose AI images are each soul's individual conscience, guiding each soul's incarnations to minimize sin and corruption lest they be consigned to the beast abyss. C-El is Karma, remembered in the language of elements as Carbon and embodied in early religion as the goddess of Mt. Carmel and the inspiration behind the Carmelite nuns. The Hebrews lost faith in the Melchezidek priest kings, and allowed the anointed of El Shaddai, the destroyer, to usurp the kingdom, resulting in the sack of Jerusalem in 971BC and the removal of the Ark of the Covenant back to Egypt. Solomon's gilded temple, built by consorting with demons, was an abomination to El Elyon, as were the Hebrew's genocidal attacks on their neighbors following the orders of the false god El Shaddai and the Adonai (literally the same as Adonis, Aphrodite's worshiping consort). The amazing thing about the Abrahamic tradition is that despite being built on a pack of lies spread by worshipers of the adversary, it still was an instrumental part of fulfilling God's evolving plan, finally generating a version of Space-time that is astounding cosmologists with a universe that is at least twice as big as they thought it was and expanding at an accelerating rate, fulfilling the promise of worlds without end to explore backward or forward in unlimited incarnations, till each soul earns their own creative spiritual universe, for better or worse, or finds their "place just right" in what are a growing number of specialized heavens and hells.
@@theomnisthour6400 well said
@@theomnisthour6400this last paragraph is pretty fascinating. Is that intuition on your part or are you getting that from some text?
All of those false gods were not relevant to the hebrews, as to Abram I do not know
@@Ed-ym4tu Both. My words are based on personal experience with one of the Elohim from the far future - a tall grey light being - the cascade of revelations this being unlocked by showing me a panorama of my past life forms and experiences, my science and technology background, and the deep research I've done re-evaluating the various accounts of the encounters with gods/aliens/extradimensional entities throughout human history.
If you stop and ask yourself the fundamental hows and whys of what science observes in contrast with what was once believed, even as recently as a few decades before, and compare what we have learned to do with AI and virtual reality just with pedestrian human tech developed in only a hundred years, you can construct a story of mankind that fits available data and supports the conclusion that humanity was created as crash test dummies for spiritual technology that leveled the playing field for all level players in the game of souls, and made some of the key concepts in the US founding father's ideals for government central to creating the ideals a truly gifted creative mind would be shooting for in evolving a self-sustaining simulation multiverse with the capability to generate worlds without beginnings or ends for new and experienced players to explore while sorting themselves into afterlife universes of a like-minded ideal of "perfection".
Such a system would need only a very few "special" universes and universal laws to drive it, consistent with an early version of the game that might look like a Big Bang - a test of two opposing emergent virtual reality environments - one universe driven by a need to codify the laws of order - fine tuning physics and chemistry - and the other driving the lawlessness of chaos - allowing it's dark creators to make the first hell. By assuming God and his Divine Council were observing this first and greatest experiment in virtual reality from the highest heaven - the ideal universe that could build on the forms of the physical universe and avoid the dark destructive ideas of entitled chaos without being bound by them in ways that impeded creative experimentation, you arrive at an explanation for better translation of the Torah that fits better with the hidden truths in the Sumerian Enuma Elish, the Vedas, and Graeco-Roman-Celtic-Germanic mythology and doesn't require making the hard to justify rationalizations that people use for a supposed "perfect" creator ordering the torture or genocide of other species and peoples that turn so many modern humans off on religion and make them susceptible to the atheistic cults of communism, capitalism, and humanism or Satanic cults of entitled sin that have come to define modern civilization.
In this reading, Job can be understood as the story of an awakening messiah being tested by the tag team duo of Lucifer - the testy lord of the physical universe - and Lilith, the shapeshifting hermaphrodite arch demon behind the anti-universe of spiritual and physical chaos, wrestling for his soul with only the vague hope of the reward of God's highest heaven to sustain him. Job then becomes a prototype for the awakening god within all of us being challenged to meet the admission requirements for heaven while resisting the temptations and torment of the worst individual tribulation one might imagine.
It also leads to the conclusion that God is not at all responsible for the pain and suffering of day 7 of creation, but has been experiencing it right along with all his children, some marking themselves as beasts for the abyss, and others as worthy of a growing number of training and dark addiction treatment universes that prepare them to find their "place just right" in existing or to be created heaven and hell spiritual universes. This God leads by example and is so confident in the ultimate good of the plans he architected that he allowed the plan of a whole day of creation to be designed, implemented and tested by all his children, especially those keep on punishing the all-father for all the mistakes they thought he made in previous versions that got in the way of their selfish ideals of perfection - a God that died again and again for all the sins of the children they projected onto the first parent - a Christ for all time, not just one short 2000 years of a 27+ billion year and growing story.
When you add some key facts that can be derived from looking into the several sources of historical characters out of which the virtual god plastic Jesus character emerged as the often contradictory persona of ecstatic "my salvation" Christianity of Paulline tradition versus the Jewish law-following "our salvation" of the James the Just tradition, you arrive at the key date for the start of the age of Pisces being 135BC, not 0AD, and when you add Sir Isaac Newton's very accurate calculation for the number of years in a Zodiac age, 2160, you get 2025 as the real beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the revelation of the real Messiah. Yes, we are finally approaching the end of day 7 of creation, and going to finally find out why there had to be so much secrecy in the plan to finish the Gaia experiment and get on with day 8 of creation.
I find some agreement with the fallen angel stories of Enoch. Where they stood up and made agrements with eachother to go to the earth. It feels to me this story could happened in that timeperiod! Or is a kind of retelling of stories of old. Thanks for sharing and reading them.
So what's the difference between Mythology and Theology?
Thanks for the great book recommendations!😊
I find it odd, that you do all this research, you see how the Bible was taken from older texts, but yet, you still think that Yahweh is the God, and he is not. He's just like the other gods, except he has better technology than some and is more ruthless than others. But the true description of The God, especially when you take into consideration what Jesus said, it's obvious that Yahweh is Not The God, but just one of the Elohim and many gods. Maybe you're afraid to take it all that far, but the cruelty of Yahweh, the lack of love and forgiveness, the awful sins he committed against anyone who did not worship him, proves he's not The God. He's also one of the sons of El. I appreciate your work and I hope you dive further into the truth about this. I fully believe that one of the biggest problems we have today and have had in the past, is that people are looking to this god, and standing for the horrible things he did, as a reason to treat others horribly. There's too many researchers and scholars who have seen what I've seen and realized the truth about this subject. Thanks, and blessings
I couldn´t agree more! That´s what it is in the light of this new information about the pagan Gods.
Wow. I have wanted to know that about people of late, myself. Because there's currently this huge SOMETHING going on in our world.
@@areneesouder can you point me to some scholarship that Jesus is not the son of Yahweh? I do not believe he is, as he is the personification of love and forgiveness which Yahweh is definitely not. I’m not sure though where that leaves Christians in relation to the OT.
Where do you get your information on what terrible things were done by Yahweh?
JESUS IS יהוה @@tierneylogan5943