UP (OR DOWN?) THE WINDING MOUNTAIN PATH WITH MOSES (OR AARON?) Can we tell the difference? Is there a difference?
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Much of the Bible Old Testament is Retroactive Reporting and Redaction to achieve Religious Goals that don't have much to do with actual
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In the Fall of 2015 Pastor Patrick Williams was looking at what he considered to be a CRISIS in the Foster Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church in Asheville, North Carolina. Over the course of the year some really loud music was being played by several youthful groups of musicians and singers. Their enthusiasm was directed towards praising Jesus and letting everyone know that they loved Jesus, and that Jesus was "Their Lord", but some of the older members, and those with nostalgia who were remembering church-music-as-it-used-to-be-sung were complaining. And a great many of these complaints eventually made their way to the desk and ears of Pastor Williams.
Pastor Williams found his "Golden Calf" sermon (which is always waiting there in Exodus for any minister to use), but more useful to Seventh-day Adventists than Pentecostals. He tapped the microphone to make sure he'd be heard, loud and clear, turned in his Bible, and read about Moses' displeasure with music and dancing -- Exodus 32:18 "And he (Moses) said (to Joshua), It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that SING do I hear," 19 "And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf (calves are very young, and they make a lot of noise), and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot (as does that of Pastor Williams sometimes), and he cast the tables (of stone with God's written commands) out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount." 20 "And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it." 21 "And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?" (those who consider LOUD MUSIC and JOYOUS WORSHIP a sin are free to read this into what Moses said here AT ANY TIME!) 22 "And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief," 23 "For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." 24 "And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let him break off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf." That's the Biblical point where Patrick ceased to read -- but he left us all wondering if he was appealing to the Levites in his audience (of which there are always a considerable number) to kill the others! Exodus 32:27 "And he (Moses? Patrick?) said unto them (the Levites), Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour." The next week Patrick Williams allowed the "Youth Pastor" and some of the youthful musicians to make their case, which they did most eloquently, some of them almost in tears. Several weeks later the Pastor set the allowable volume of all church music at 85 decibels.
Several months have passed, several very quite months in which, Yes, the volume level of the church music has remained quite a bit below the 85 decibel ceiling. Young people have made up less of a percentage of the audience, but, admittedly it has been Holiday Season, and I, along with many others, have had family to visit, and children who have taken the opportunity to visit me. It's January now and I've noted, somewhat to my satisfaction, that young people are more obvious than they have been for a while -- perhaps since the "Golden Calf" sermon -- and the music has gradually gotten louder again. Indeed, somebody was probably asleep at the sound console last Sabbath, and the minister's wife Maureen had a prominent part in a little play being put on up front on the pulpit. And if I'm any judge of volume -- she was speaking at least at a 95 decibel level! Holy Apis Bulls in Egypt
These were living animals, thought to be divine, with the spirits of the gods incarnating in the animals, much as Christians (most of them since the Council of Nicaea) now believe that a preexisting Divine Jesus incarnated in his (temporary) human body. "It has generally been supposed that the Israelites borrowed calf-worship from the Egyptians, a supposition thought to be supported by the fact that Jeroboam had been recalled from Egypt. But the Egyptian animal-worship was essentially different from the Semitic type, since the Egyptian worship was paid to living animals. The bulls or calves of Jeroboam the classical example in Israel were, on the other hand, intended to be symbols of Yahweh. In any case Jeroboam would not have introduced a foreign cult to strengthen his new and precarious government. The Hebrew calf-worship did not reproduce the cult of Apis and Mnevis, which were living animals, one black, the other white, dedicated to Osiris, and he was believed to be incarnated in them (J. G. Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, iii., London, 1878, 86-95, 306-307). Suggestions of bull-worship among the Hebrews are found in the horns of the altar, in the oxen under the lavers (I Kings vii. 25), and possibly in the cherubim. While examples of Hebrew bull-worship are rare, the proof of its existence among neighboring nations is abundant. In the Babylonio-Assyrian and Syro-Phenician religions, the bull represented the masculine type of divinity, as was natural to a pastoral people. The primitive Aryans also explained the heavenly phenomena by comparisons drawn from the life of their herds. The Zendavesta makes mention of "the first bull." The bull represented power and strength, and at the same time the destructive and the reproductive omnipotence of the deity. The sun-god is hardly to be recognized in the bull, as has been supposed." Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College
The SYMBOLISM of "Worshipping a Golden Calf" has been transferred mostly nowadays to valuing money and power more than other more "Human Values," Jesus Christ in some of his sayings and parables hinted at this modern usage. Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13 "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." ("Mammon" MONEY or GOLD, is like a "Golden Calf") Luke 16:9 "And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the MAMMON of unrighteousness; that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.: Luke 16:11 "If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous MAMMON, who will commit to your trust the true RICHES?" Astrology
Taurus the Bull is a Constellation of the Zodiac, and was the CULT ANIMAL of Anu (El to the Hebrews). The Pliades or Seven Sisters are near the NOSE of the Bull and are sometimes pictures as a ring through the Bull's nose by which he can be led through the sky. Since the Age of Taurus was the first Zodiac Age in the 7000 years of the Essene "Millennial Week", they assume it began with the "Creation of Adam" about 4004 BC (Ussher) and lasted until the time of Abraham in 2000 BC (Age of Aries the Ram). Aries ended with the "Birth of Christ" in 7 BC. The Age of Pisces (Two Fishes) lasted until 200 AD (but was cut short do to the Jewish Holocaust) -- and in Essene prophecy we have been in the Age of Aquarius since either 1844 or 1948, depending on your religious outlook and whether or not you are a Trinitarian. Trinitarians expect the "Heavenly Clock" to stop, and the Age of Pisces to continue on forever and ever, In Revelation 1:16 "And he had in his right hand seven stars (the ring in the nose of Taurus); and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword (the sword of Aries, the god of war): and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. (After Constantine, who worshipped the sun as "Solar Invictus" the theology of the Age of Pisces became primarily in the Western Religious World a sun theology.) After Paul (who lived earlier in Tarsus, a major exporter of Mithras cult beliefs) the symbolism of Mithras, that of SLAYING A BULL, and depending on its BLOOD for SALVATION -- filled in the gap between the Age of Paul (1st century) and the Age of Constantine (4th century).
Not having nearly enough material to "flesh out" either the story of Joseph or of Moses' God he met in the desert (who called himself I AM), the Hebrew "Redactors" discovered the story of Imhotep, and, perhaps reading Mary Nell Wyatt's Egyptian inscriptions both in the desert near the Nile, and at Saqquara, they used the I AM name, the 7 year famine, and Imhotep's skill as a physician and "Wise Man" to supply a great amount of material for the TORAH!
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Why a Golden Calf? |
WWinding Mountain Path |
Ron Wyatt's Ark Search |
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