#2 – Forgiveness / Baal

America is a nation that was founded on Godly principles.
Impure Spirits – Unholy Spirits – Trace it back to the Old Testament.
Baal
Mt. Sinai, 10 Commandments, The Bull to Worship
Moses / Joshua – Joshua

Joshua 23: ⁷ Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them.

Joshua 24: ¹⁴ “Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. ¹⁵ But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Judges 3: ⁷ The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

Baal’s primary mission… to cause an America who once knew God to forget God. He has been successful, hasn’t he?

How did he succeed? In the 1960’s he was able to remove prayer from the schools as well as teaching the bible.

The future of America is its children. By infiltrating the schools, Baal could take hold of America.

1980 saw the 10 commandments removed from the school walls, followed by state, county, and city government.

Once successful at removing prayer from school, Baal followed up with newspapers, magazines, television, politics, the church house.

WE HAVE BECOME ALIENATED FROM GOD.
Baal has taken over America.

Baal was a god of prosperity.
The Almighty God
The Almighty Dollar
December, 1989 – New York City, the financial district.

The Bull Market

It came at 11 ft. tall, 16 ft. long, and weighed 7,000 lbs.

It was a giant bull, representing prosperity, the sign of Baal.

George Washington said if America ever turned away from serving God, its blessings would be removed.

We in America no longer serve the Almighty God, but we serve many gods.

When the people of Israel turned from God, they turned not only to the gods but to a specific kind of god:

Hosea 11:2 says they sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to the carved images. The Baals, Baalim – many gods.

The Israelites “served” the Baalim.

Serve means to labor under, to be kept in bondage to, to be enslaved by.

So Americans now served and were mastered by the Baals of money, pleasure, success, acceptance, sexual gratification, addictions, work, comfort, the internet, self-fulfillment, self-obsession, and countless other gods and idols—the Baals of the modern world.


It says this about Israel in 2 Kings 17:14-16, ¹⁴ But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

¹⁶ They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.”

The Arch came to America in September 2016.
Weighed 11 tons and stood 20 feet high made of Egyptian marble.

In 2015 Isis invaded Palmyra and destroyed the Arch.

The officiant dedicated the new congress to the pagan god Brahma.

January, 2021 – Democrat Rep. Emanuel Cleaver opened the 117th Congress in a prayer — of sorts — to “the monotheistic god, Brahma, and god known by many names by many different faiths.” And then he wrapped with “amen and a-woman.”

The door was opened in 1962 to Satan.

Ephesians 6: ¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. ¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Puritan leader John Winthrop said this: But if our hearts shall turn away, so that we will not obey, but shall be seduced, and worship other Gods, our pleasure and profits, and serve them; it is propounded unto us this day, we shall surely perish.

It is not too late for America to turn back to the Lord, but we are not going to do so sitting in our recliners and doing nothing.

Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing.”

Don’t shake your fist to heaven and say, “God why don’t you do something?”

He’ll tell you, “I did, I created you!”