2005.07.D.05b Obelisk Created by James3 on 9/8/2019 1:34:14 PM Obelisk
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With all the information available can anyone still plead ignorance?
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[1] 1966 - “Babylon Mystery Religion” by Ralph Woodrow Evangelistic Association, Inc. “Among the ancient nations, not only were statues of the gods and goddesses made in human form, but many objects that had a hidden or mystery meaning, were a part of the heathen worship. An outstanding example of this is seen in the ancient Obelisks.
Diodorus spoke of an Obelisk 130 feet high that was erected by Queen Semiramis in Babylon. [ Encyclopaedia of Religions, vol. 3, page 264]. The Bible mentions a Obelisk-type image approximately nine feet in breadth and ninety feet high. ‘The people … fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up’ in Babylon . But it was in Egypt, an early stronghold of the mystery religion that the obelisk was best known.
Many of the Obelisks are still in Egypt, though some have been removed to other nations. One is in Central Park in New York, another in London, and others were transported to ROME.
[One is in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in the parking area of the Dolphinarium, my comment].
Originally, the Obelisk was associated with sun-worship, a symbol of “Baal”[which was the title of Nimrod]. { The Concise Oxford Dictionary comments on this name “Baal” as follows- ‘Phoenician and Canaanite god ; false god ; [ ME, f. Heb. Ba’al Lord ]}. The ancients- having rejected the knowledge of the true creator- seeing that the sun gave life to plants and to man, looked upon the sun as a god, the great life giver. To them, the Obelisk also had a sexual significance. Realizing that through sexual union life was produced, the phallus [the male organ of reproduction] was considered [along with the sun] a symbol of life. These were the beliefs represented by the Obelisk. [Ancient Pagan and Christian Symbolism, p. 99].”
Are they mentioned in the Bible? Yes. [return to the above reference].
“The word ‘images’ in the Bible is translated from several different Hebrew words. One of these words, matzebah, means ‘standing images’ or Obelisks . Another word is hammanim which means ‘sun images’, images dedicated to the sun or Obelisks .
In order for the Obelisks to carry out their intended symbolism, they were placed upright – erect. Thus they pointed up – toward the sun. As a symbol of the phallus, the erect position also had an obvious significance. Bearing this in mind, it is interesting to notice that when divine judgement was pronounced against false worship, it was said that these images [Obelisks] ‘shall not stand up’, but would be caste down .
When the Israelites mixed heathen worship into their religion in the days of Ezekiel, they erected an ‘image of jealousy in the entry’ of the temple [ Ezekiel 8 ; 5]. This image was probably an Obelisk, the symbol of the phallus, for [as Scofield says] they were ‘given over to phallic cults’. [Scofield Reference Bible, p. 847].
Placing an Obelisk at the entrance of a heathen temple was, apparently, not an uncommon practice at the time. One stood at the entrance of the temple of Tum and another in front of the temple of Hathor, the ‘abode of Horus’ [Tammuz]. {Encyclopaedia of Religions, vol. 3, p. 33.”
Two red granite Obelisks stand at the front entrance of the church in Graaff- Reinet. See picture.
“The red granite Obelisk that stands at the entrance of St. Peter’s in Rome is 83 feet high [ 134 feet with its foundation] and weighs 320 tons. At great expense the Roman emperor, Caligula, in 37 – 41 AD brought this Obelisk from Heliopolis, Egypt, to his Circus on the Vatican Hill, where St. Peter’s now stands. Heliopolis is but the Greek name of Bethshemesh, which was the centre of Egyptian sun-worship in olden days.
In the Old Testament, these Obelisks that stood there are mentioned as the ‘images of Bethshemesh’. .
Like the Obelisk, pagan columns were often regarded as ‘mystery’ Forms of the phallus. In the vestibule of the pagan temple of the
goddess at Hierapolis, an inscription referring to the columns reads : ‘ Dionysus, dedicated these phalli to Hera, my step-mother’.
[Hasting’s Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, article ‘ Phallicism’]
Is it just per chance that “Hera” and “Here” sound almost the same? What does the Heavenly Father command in the Bible concerning
these “images” Obelisks? Exodus 23 : 24. “…. But thou shall utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images”.
Repeated in Exodus 34 ; 13. ; Deut 7 : 5 ; Deut 12 ; 3 and many other places in the Scriptures.
The churches have sadly failed to destroy the obelisks or sun pillars of sun-worship. They have kept on erecting new ones. However, this will continue only till the time of the end-time, as we read, “the Asherim and the sun images shall rise no more”, [Isaiah 27 ; 9]. Indeed the Heavenly Father Himself will destroy them in the end-time, “and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars out of the middle of you, and you shall no more worship the work of your hand”. [ Micah 5 ; 13].
Any Encyclopaedia or Oxford Dictionary will confirm the design of an “Obelisk”.
In a supposed Bible believing world with thousands of denominations all proclaiming to preach the truth – what is wrong and how much other error exists?
Sadly this is only the tip of the ice-berg.
However, the Almighty Heavenly Father has given us a wonderful promise in the Book of Daniel chapter 12 verse 4.
“But thou O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end : many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased”.
With modern means of transport, telephones, internet etc, people certainly are able to move about and communicate. Information can now easily be forwarded around the world in seconds. This knowledge of the truth will set people free.
HalleluYah
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