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The gods Pt. 4: The First Commandment

We’ve discussed that there are many different gods according to the Bible. We’ve even discussed what these gods could be and what they most certainly are not. So, the question is, if they are gods, then can we worship them? What if we don’t put them above God? Doesn’t the First Commandment allow the worship of other gods as long as we worship the LORD above all? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture for the answers to these questions and more in her video, The gods Pt. 4: The First Commandment.

Exodus 20:3
Genesis 17:17-18
Malachi 3:14
Genesis 45:7
Malachi 3:1
Exodus 23:13
Exodus 20:8
Psalms 77:11
1 Timothy 2:5-6
Colossians 2:13-15
Proverbs 18:10
Exodus 34:5-8
Exodus 23:13
Deuteronomy 4:19-20
Exodus 12:49
Acts 10:34-35
John 15:18-19
Genesis 12:1-3
Joshua 24:1-3
Acts 17:22-34

The gods Pt. 4: The First Commandment

What Does The First Commandment Say?

³You shall have no other gods before me.
Exodus 20:3

⁷You shall have no other gods before me.
Deuteronomy 5:7

You Can’t Serve More Than One Master

²⁴No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
Matthew 6:24

¹⁶Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Romans 6:16

¹⁹What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. ²¹You cannot drink the cup of the LORD and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the LORD and the table of demons. ²²Shall we provoke the LORD to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
1 Corinthians 10:19-22

¹⁴Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? ¹⁵What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? ¹⁶What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God;
2 Corinthians 6:14-16

There Is Only One God Deserving of Worship

⁵For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶who gave Himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
1 Timothy 2:5-6

¹³You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim ¹⁴(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), ¹⁵lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
Exodus 34:13-16

The gods Pt. 3: Demons

In the first two parts, we discussed that other gods are real as well as what those other gods are, the Host of Heaven. But does that mean that only the Host of Heaven are the gods? Are any other beings the gods? When Moses and the Israelites left Egypt, they were warned of worshiping the gods of the people in Canaan. What were they worshiping? Who were the gods of Canaan? Are the gods also demons? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find the answer to these questions and more in her video, The gods Pt. 3: Demons.

Deuteronomy 12:29-31
Psalms 82:1-4
Jeremiah 19:4-5
Deuteronomy 32:15-18
Psalms 106:36-39
1 Kings 18:26-29
2 Kings 21:2-6
Isaiah 47:13

The gods and Demons

Demons

First Mentioned

¹⁵But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation. ¹⁶They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. ¹⁷They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded. ¹⁸You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
Deuteronomy 32:15-18

According to God, demons are not gods. They are strange ‘gods’ that came recently, gods that the Israelites’ ancestors never knew.

How Demons Were Worshiped

³⁷They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; ³⁸they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. ³⁹Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
Psalms 106:37-39

²⁵Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are many, and call upon the name of your god, but put no fire to it.” ²⁶And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made. ²⁷And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.” ²⁸And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
1 Kings 18:25-28

The gods Pt. 2: The Host of Heaven

In part one, we searched through Scripture and found that the gods of old are real. We found that God even brought judgment on the gods of Egypt. This then begs the question, if the other gods are real, what are they? What are the gods? Who are the gods? What does the Bible say what the other gods are? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture for the answer in her video, The gods Pt. 2: The Host of Heaven.

Deuteronomy 10:17
Psalms 82:6-7
Deuteronomy 4:15-20
Exodus 12:12
Genesis 1:14-19
2 Chronicles 32:9
Joshua 10:12-15
1 Samuel 31:10-13
2 Chronicles 21:8-10
Judges 5:20
Amos 5:25-27
Isaiah 14:13
Joel 2:10-11
Joel 3:13-16
Matthew 24:29-31
Deuteronomy 17:3

The gods Pt. 2: The Host of Heaven

What are the gods?

The Host of Heaven Rule The Day and The Night

⁸the sun to rule over the day, for His steadfast love endures forever; ⁹the moon and stars to rule over the night, for His steadfast love endures forever;
Psalms 136:8-9

The Host of Heaven Are Punished On The Day of The LORD

⁴All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
Isaiah 34:4

²⁵And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, ²⁶people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ²⁸Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
Luke 21:25-28

The Host of Heaven are the gods of old. They are the ruling powers that are shaken when the LORD returns for His people and then brings His wrath upon the earth and heaven.

The Sons of God Pt. 2: The gods

In the book of Genesis, we have an account of mysterious beings referred to as the Sons of God (Elohim). These beings came down and slept with human women and, as a result, had supernatural children. In part one, we explained that these beings recorded in what some refer to as The Genesis 6 Experiment weren’t just the righteous sons of Seth, but they were actually celestial angels. So, if they were angels, why didn’t God just refer to them as angels? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture for the answer in her video, The Sons of God Pt. 2: The gods.

Genesis 6:1-4
2 Peter 2:4-10
Jude 5-7
Job 1:6-12
Psalms 78:23
Isaiah 24:18
Genesis 6:1-4
Mark 12:24-27
1 Corinthians 15:51-58
Luke 20:34-40
Daniel 10:13
Jude 9
Psalms 82
Daniel 10:10-14
Job 38:4-7

The Sons of God Pt. 2: The gods

First Appearance of the Sons of God (Elohim)

Genesis 6 Experiment

¹ When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, ²the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. ³Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” ⁴The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 6:1-4

Genesis 6 took place, not because mankind’s DNA needed to be corrupted or even because of some experiment. It took place because of the lust of the celestial beings.

One of the First Things the Sons of God (Elohim) Did

⁴Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. ⁵Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? ⁶On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, ⁷when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:4-7

The Sons of God (Elohim) were from before the foundation of the earth was laid. That means they were created at the same time Heaven and its entirety was created. Therefore, they are celestial angels created in Heaven on the first day before the earth was even formed.

What Was the Purpose of the Sons of God?

What are the Sons of God?

¹ God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: ²“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah ³Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. ⁴Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” ⁵They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. ⁶I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; ⁷nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.”
Psalms 82:1-7

The Sons of God, according to God Himself, aren’t just regular celestial angels, they are the gods. The gods of old. The gods that other nations worshipped and bowed down to. In Psalms 82, God Almighty refers to the Sons of Elohim as the Sons of the Most High. When did this take place?

⁶Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. ⁷The Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” ⁸And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”
⁹Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? ¹⁰Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. ¹¹But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.” ¹²And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
Job 1:6-12

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The gods Pt. 1: Are Other gods Real?

Throughout the world, there are approximately 4,200 religions. There are thousands of deities in Hinduism alone. If people all over the world are worshipping all of these different gods, but there’s only one God, who or what are they worshipping? Are other gods even real? Are Christians really just atheists who believe in one more God than regular atheists? Does the Bible talk about other gods? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture for the answers in her video, The gods Pt. 1: Are Other gods Real?

Genesis 31:19
Exodus 12:12
Exodus 20:1-3
Revelation 17
Revelation 19
Ephesians 6:11-13
Ephesians 1:15-23
Deuteronomy 10:17
Luke 1:5-25
Daniel 11:36
Psalms 82:1
Verse 6-7
Ezekiel 28:9-10
Hebrews 9:27

The gods Pt. 1: Are Other gods Real?

gods (deities) in the Bible

The Old Testament

¹¹In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. ¹²For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. ¹³The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:11-13

¹⁶Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. ¹⁷For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. ¹⁸He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:16-18

The New Testament

²⁴No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve [Yahweh] and [Mammon].
Matthew 6:24

⁴Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” ⁵For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
1 Corinthians 8:4-5

The Bible is filled with the story after story of the deities of old. They are all throughout our Bible. Why? Because they really exist. They really have power. They are real. They aren’t a fantasy or a fairy tale. They aren’t even mythology, as we see them throughout our Bible. So, no, Christians who take the Bible as the unchanged literal Word of our LORD and believe all that is in it are not atheists. They acknowledge that these other religions have power and have a spiritual hand guiding their beliefs. Even though they believe these things, the difference between them and those who practice these religions is that the Christian only worships one. The Alpha and the Omega. The King of kings and LORD of lords. The Beginning and the End. He Who Was, Who Is, And Who Is To Come. Yahweh.

Who Is Abaddon? Pt. 1: The Angel of The Bottomless Pit

⁵They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. ⁶And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. ¹¹They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.

Revelation 9:5-6; 11

Imagine being on earth during those days when people will seek death, but death will flee from them. How do people not die? Who is this being that it can very well stop people from dying? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find out more about the ominous being whose name is also Apollyon in her video, Who is Abaddon?: The Angel of The Bottomless Pit.

Revelation 9:1-12
Revelation 7:1-4
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Revelation 14:1-5
Revelation 11:1-4
Isaiah 14:12
Revelation 11:7-8
Revelation 17:12-14
Isaiah 14:12-20
Revelation 17:9-13
Luke 10:19
Revelation 17:8
Daniel 7
2 Thessalonians 2

Who Is Abaddon?

The Angel of The Bottomless Pit

¹ And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. ²He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. ³Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.
⁴They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. ⁶And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
⁷In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, ⁸their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; ⁹they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. ¹⁰They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.
¹¹They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
¹²The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.

Revelation 9:1-12

Recognizing the Enemy Pt. 3: Baal and Asherah

According to the Bible, the ancient Israelites continuously fell prey to the worship of Baal and Asherah (Ashtaroth). They did many abominations in the eyes of the LORD, but have we thousands of years later done the same? Do we know what our enemy looks like? Can we spot them in a crowd? Or are they able to blend in, going unnoticed and unopposed? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he opens our eyes to the spiritual and physical presence of two notorious spirits from the days the judges that are still present in our world today in the final message of his three-part series, Recognizing the Enemy Pt. 3: Baal and Asherah.

Jeremiah 7:8-10
1 Kings 18:26-28
2 Peter 2:1-3

The Baal Arch

London, England
April 19-21, 2016
The UN’s General Assembly calls International Mother Earth Day, and just before the Beltane celebration

City Hall Park, New York
September 2016
The UN General Assembly celebration

Dubai
February 2017
The World Governments Summit
In 2016 Forbes published an article entitled Nine Reasons Dubai Could Be The Most Important City of the 21^st Century

Florence, Italy
In March of 2017 and stayed until April 2017
The first ever G7 Cultural Summit, G7 and not G8 since Russia was dropped. The culture ministers from the US, Germany, Japan, France, UK, Italy, and Canada were all in attendance.

The National Mall in Washington DC
In September of 2018
The UN General Assembly.

baal arch in london — Baal Arch erected in London

Baal and Asherah in the Bible

Who is Baal?

Baal in the Bible is a god that blatantly tries to merge himself with Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹⁶And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ ¹⁷For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
Hosea 2:16-17

The people of Israel were mixing Yahweh, the one True God, The Great I Am, with the false god, Baal. Going as far as to even call Yahweh, ‘My Baal.’

Who is Asherah?

When the worship of Asherah or Ashtaroth is mentioned in the Bible, it is in connection to the Asherim.

²⁵That night the Lord said to him, ‘Take your father’s bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it ²⁶and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.’ ²⁷So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.
Judges 6:25-32

They would carve a wooden pole and then proceed to either place in the Temple of Baal, on the rooftops, or near the houses somewhere. Now when it comes to Baal, we see that a pillar or an arch represents Baal. And the interesting thing about this is that Ashtaroth is female, while Baal is male. It would make more sense for Baal to be represented by the pole or pillar and Ashtaroth represented by the arch. Could this tie into the sexual immorality that was a part of the worship of both Baal and Ashtaroth?

For more on Baal and Asherah and their description in the Bible, check out our video on the notorious duo.

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Baal and Asherah

Throughout the Old Testament, we see the Israelites succumb to the worship of both Baal and Asherah. They followed in the footsteps of the people that God drove out before them. Thousands of years later, in today’s society, are we doing the same thing? Have we fallen prey to this evil duo’s tricks, not even realizing that we are worshiping these ancient spirits? Join ArieRashelle as she dissects the Bible to find any similarities between the ancient practices of Baal worshipers and today’s culture in our video, Baal and Asherah.

1 Kings 18:17-19
Judges 6:25-30
1 Kings 14:22-24
Isaiah 17:7-8
Isaiah 27:9
2 Kings 23:5
2 Chronicles 34:4
1 Kings 18:28-29
Hosea 2:16-17
Jeremiah 23:26-27
Jeremiah 19:4-5
Genesis 9:12-17
Jeremiah 32:25
2 Kings 10:26-27
1 Kings 19:1-3

Baal & Asherah

Baal and Asherah were two giant stumbling blocks for the people of Israel. All through the Old Testament, the people of Israel fell into Baal and Asherah worship, and it is no different for us today. We may not sacrifice our children on altars for everyone to see; instead, we sacrifice them behind closed doors at a doctor’s office and call it healthcare and freedom. Ever wonder why if you try to fight for the rights of the unborn, you are accused of ‘starting a war on women’?

America has fallen into the same traps that the people of Israel did thousands of years ago. Spirits never die; they just evolve with culture. We no longer call out to Baal as we slice our arms hoping he will respond; instead, we do it behind closed doors so that we can ease the pain. We’ve bought the lie that if we cut ourselves, we are numbing the pain. All we’re doing is causing ourselves more pain, both mental and physical.

Now What?

The only thing that can save us now is prayer and fasting. We have to break down the strongholds that hold our nation. We have to pull down the veil that these spirits have blinded our people with.

¹⁴if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14

Seek the LORD, and He will forgive our sins and heal our land. Lift your children up in prayer daily. Pray a hedge of protection around you and your family. God is faithful, cry out to Him, and He will hear you. Seek Him, and you will find Him. Bring your petition before the LORD.

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