Some of this stuff here..
"He passed over the houses of the Hebrews, who had painted the doors of their houses with lamb's blood at His command. Thus did the Angel of Death know to leave those houses alone."
These guys sacrificing shit, eh.. and doing occult stuff with blood.
Then this Angel of Death.. I'm there.. is that the grim reaper. No, it's not.
No, the Grim Reaper and the Angel of Death are not the same; they are related but distinct figures. The Angel of Death is a figure found in various religions like Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, often seen as a divine messenger or agent. The Grim Reaper is a personification of death itself that originated in 14th-century Europe during the Black Plague, typically depicted as a skeletal figure with a scythe, and has become a symbolic, rather than a strictly religious, figure.
Angel of Death
Religious figure: The Angel of Death, such as Azrael in Islam and Judaism, is an angel serving God's purpose.
Role: Takes souls to the afterlife, sometimes causing death as part of divine will.
Appearances: Varies across religions, including being a named angel like Azrael or Yama, or even a group of angels.
Grim Reaper
Personification of death: A symbolic figure that embodies death itself.
Role: Typically appears at the moment of death to collect souls, but does not necessarily cause the death. Appearance: Most commonly depicted as a cloaked, skeletal figure carrying a scythe, a common image from 14th-century Europe.
Relationship between the two
The Grim Reaper can be seen as an evolution or personification of the concept of the Angel of Death, especially as the figure was adapted in Western folklore and popular culture.
In some interpretations, the Grim Reaper is a specific manifestation of a religious Angel of Death, but the terms are not interchangeable across all beliefs.
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What else did we have here.. the part where it's "ok" if they go do services for "heathens", if they can't make money and are going to be homeless. They for sure must of been sacrificing kids, is my guess. It's like Moloch.
Nevertheless, the priests of Israel often did indulge in impious deeds. Most notably, they frequently accepted money in exchange for performing rites to heathen gods. Although Jehovah may have looked down upon such behavior, it was considered quite normal in Israel, especially when times were hard financially.
In Louis Ginzberg's The Legends of the Jews, the author writes about a certain Levite priest, the grandson of Moses. Early on, the lad was told by his grandfather that if a priest cannot earn an acceptable living serving Jehovah, it is better to supplement one's income by serving heathen gods for heathen clients, rather than begging for handouts from fellow Israelites. As Ginzberg writes:
From his grandfather he had heard the rule that a man should do 'Abodah Zarah' for hire rather than be dependent upon his fellow-creatures. The meaning of 'Abodah Zarah' here naturally is 'strange,' in the sense of 'unusual' work, but he took the term in its ordinary acceptation of 'service of strange gods.'
The worship of strange gods is often referred to in the Old Testament as "whoring," This may be because heathen religious rituals often involved rites of "sacred prostitution," with the use of "temple prostitutes" who were paid for their services. In these cultures, as in the Jehovahite tradition, there was quite a significance placed on the relationship between the services of the priests and the money they were paid to perform it. Simply put, the tithes paid to the priests, along with the prayers, animal sacrifices, and other rituals, in a way provided the energy (spiritual and otherwise) upon which the priesthood operated. The money paid by the congregation to the priests was a financial sacrifice to the god's they were servicing.
This is illustrated by the fact that such strange rites often involved the worship of religious idols made out of gold and silver that had been donated to the cause. In The Book of Judges, we read about Micah, the Levite priest. Micah performed services towards a handful of religious idols that he had crafted out of silver given by his mother Delilah specifically for this purpose. By donating this silver, she was providing a seed upon which Micah's lucrative priesthood would grow. Then he was able to charge believing heathens money to perform rites on their behalf in homage to these idols.
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Re-read that section again, while eating. This part where it talks about Belial:
The same principle is demonstrated in the story of the golden calf in Exodus. The story says that this item was fashioned by the high priest Aaron from the golden jewelry donated by the public. Thus it "contained," spiritually, the covenant between these people and Belial, the deity it represented.
You could say that the covenant was bought with the price of that gold. This was why, afterward, Moses had them drink the gold as a punishment. He wanted them to internalize the curse that Jehovah had placed upon them for worshipping the calf.
Occult
The 17th-century grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon mentions Belial, as does Aleister Crowley's Goetia (1904) and Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible (1969). In The Satanic Bible, Belial is listed as one of the Four Crown Princes of Hell, and the third book of The Satanic Bible is The Book of Belial.[32]
What are these priest guys doing dealing with this shit. That's witchcraft. They're probably sacrificing who knows what. It's not just animals.
Some of this stuff here..
"He passed over the houses of the Hebrews, who had painted the doors of their houses with lamb's blood at His command. Thus did the Angel of Death know to leave those houses alone."
These guys sacrificing shit, eh.. and doing occult stuff with blood.
Then this Angel of Death.. I'm there.. is that the grim reaper. No, it's not.
No, the Grim Reaper and the Angel of Death are not the same; they are related but distinct figures. The Angel of Death is a figure found in various religions like Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, often seen as a divine messenger or agent. The Grim Reaper is a personification of death itself that originated in 14th-century Europe during the Black Plague, typically depicted as a skeletal figure with a scythe, and has become a symbolic, rather than a strictly religious, figure.
Angel of Death
Religious figure: The Angel of Death, such as Azrael in Islam and Judaism, is an angel serving God's purpose.
Role: Takes souls to the afterlife, sometimes causing death as part of divine will.
Appearances: Varies across religions, including being a named angel like Azrael or Yama, or even a group of angels.
Grim Reaper
Personification of death: A symbolic figure that embodies death itself.
Role: Typically appears at the moment of death to collect souls, but does not necessarily cause the death. Appearance: Most commonly depicted as a cloaked, skeletal figure carrying a scythe, a common image from 14th-century Europe.
Relationship between the two
The Grim Reaper can be seen as an evolution or personification of the concept of the Angel of Death, especially as the figure was adapted in Western folklore and popular culture.
In some interpretations, the Grim Reaper is a specific manifestation of a religious Angel of Death, but the terms are not interchangeable across all beliefs.
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What else did we have here.. the part where it's "ok" if they go do services for "heathens", if they can't make money and are going to be homeless. They for sure must of been sacrificing kids, is my guess. It's like Moloch.
Nevertheless, the priests of Israel often did indulge in impious deeds. Most notably, they frequently accepted money in exchange for performing rites to heathen gods. Although Jehovah may have looked down upon such behavior, it was considered quite normal in Israel, especially when times were hard financially.
In Louis Ginzberg's The Legends of the Jews, the author writes about a certain Levite priest, the grandson of Moses. Early on, the lad was told by his grandfather that if a priest cannot earn an acceptable living serving Jehovah, it is better to supplement one's income by serving heathen gods for heathen clients, rather than begging for handouts from fellow Israelites. As Ginzberg writes:
From his grandfather he had heard the rule that a man should do 'Abodah Zarah' for hire rather than be dependent upon his fellow-creatures. The meaning of 'Abodah Zarah' here naturally is 'strange,' in the sense of 'unusual' work, but he took the term in its ordinary acceptation of 'service of strange gods.'
The worship of strange gods is often referred to in the Old Testament as "whoring," This may be because heathen religious rituals often involved rites of "sacred prostitution," with the use of "temple prostitutes" who were paid for their services. In these cultures, as in the Jehovahite tradition, there was quite a significance placed on the relationship between the services of the priests and the money they were paid to perform it. Simply put, the tithes paid to the priests, along with the prayers, animal sacrifices, and other rituals, in a way provided the energy (spiritual and otherwise) upon which the priesthood operated. The money paid by the congregation to the priests was a financial sacrifice to the god's they were servicing.
This is illustrated by the fact that such strange rites often involved the worship of religious idols made out of gold and silver that had been donated to the cause. In The Book of Judges, we read about Micah, the Levite priest. Micah performed services towards a handful of religious idols that he had crafted out of silver given by his mother Delilah specifically for this purpose. By donating this silver, she was providing a seed upon which Micah's lucrative priesthood would grow. Then he was able to charge believing heathens money to perform rites on their behalf in homage to these idols.