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0:00God presides over the Heavenly Council among the gods.
0:03Wait, wait, among which gods?
0:05Isn't there supposed to be only one God?
0:07For more than three thousand years, translators and
0:10theologians have tried to soften these texts.
0:13We were told they were human kings, minor demons, or
0:17lifeless statues, but the original Hebrew tells a
0:20completely different story—a story of cosmic rebellion,
0:24of a divorce between God and the nations, and of an
0:27elite group of spiritual beings who hijacked human geopolitics.
0:31Today, we are going to unmask the nine generals of this rebellion.
0:35And I warn you: the last of them is the most dangerous
0:39of all, because he is the only one who did not come
0:42from outside, but was born within the chosen people.
0:45But let's start with public enemy number one: Baal.
0:49To understand Baal, I first have to explain Canaanite
0:52propaganda to you.
0:53In historical ancient texts, Baal appears with a
0:55specific title: the Rider of the Clouds.
0:59And that's no coincidence;
1:00he was the god of the storm.
1:02And in a region where it barely rains, whoever controls
1:05the rain controls life itself.
1:07His myth said that he had defeated the sea, the symbol
1:10of chaos, and Mot, the personification of death.
1:14That's why the Canaanites believed that only Baal could
1:17guarantee the return of spring each year.
1:20He, and only he, could bring life after the drought.
1:23But here's where it gets interesting: the God of the
1:26Bible enters the scene and says, "No, I am the one who
1:30rides on the clouds."
1:31If you read Psalm sixty-eight or Psalm one hundred and
1:34four, you'll see how the Bible literally takes Baal's
1:37titles and applies them to Yahweh.
1:39It's a declaration of war, as if one king dethroned
1:42another and sat on his throne in front of the entire kingdom.
1:46And now that we understand this, the story of Elijah
1:49and the prophets of Baal makes much more sense.
1:53Take a moment to visualize this dramatic scene: the
1:55prophet of Yahweh publicly challenges the hundreds of
1:58false prophets of Baal to see which God will truly answer.
2:03When we read the text, we see that Elijah's demand was
2:05for fire to fall from the sky.
2:07Up to this point, the story is just as we've always heard it.
2:11But what if I told you that, in reality, the challenge
2:14wasn't for fire to fall, but rather for lightning to strike?
2:18It's well known that when lightning strikes the ground,
2:20it often sets fire to bushes and similar things.
2:23And many theologians and scholars agree that the
2:26challenge was exactly that: for the god of lightning,
2:29the god of the storm, the rider of the clouds, Baal, to
2:32respond with what he does best—a lightning bolt from
2:36the sky.
2:37The problem was that Baal couldn't respond.
2:39But as if that weren't enough, there's one more
2:41detail—a detail that many people overlook.
2:44After the victory, Elijah ordered the execution of the
2:47four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal.
2:50It sounds brutal to us, but we have to understand what
2:52these prophets were doing.
2:54The rituals of Baal were not innocent;
2:56they weren't just simple prayers in a temple—nothing
2:59like that.
2:59Their rituals included sacred prostitution and even
3:03child sacrifice.
3:04Elijah was not executing theologians with different opinions;
3:08he was executing the operators of a system of
3:11exploitation that used religion as its justification.
3:15I've already explained the first one to you, Baal.
3:17Now let me tell you the story of his wife, Asherah.
3:20Asherah was not Baal's wife, but rather his consort.
3:23In Greek mythology, she is Asirat, the mother of the
3:27gods, and it was said that she had given birth to the
3:30seventy sons of Elba.
3:32Her symbol was the tree of life, and she represented
3:35nourishment, fertility, and maternal comfort.
3:37What did this goddess offer?
3:39Well, in the ancient mind, the father god could seem
3:42distant, strict, even frightening.
3:45Asherah was the mediator, the mother who softens the
3:47father, serving as a kind of equilibrium or balance.
3:51What's more, recent findings suggest that certain
3:53Israelites saw this goddess not as the wife of Baal,
3:57but as the wife of Yahweh.
3:59In 1975, at a site called Kuntillet Ajrud, a jar was
4:03found with an inscription that left theologians in
4:06shock: "I bless you by Yahweh and by his Asherah."
4:09This shows us the confusion that the people of Israel
4:12sometimes had, even going so far as to want to marry
4:15off God.
4:16They wanted to domesticate him, fitting him into a
4:18family structure.
4:19The war against Asherah is the war against the idea
4:22that God is lacking something.
4:23But if Asherah seduced you with the idea of family, the
4:27next goddess represents something completely different.
4:30It's not motherhood, it's desire.
4:32We're talking about Ashtoreth.
4:33Ashtoreth, also known as Astarte or Ishtar, was the
4:37dark counterpart of Asherah.
4:38If Asherah was the mother, Ashtoreth was the lover.
4:41Widely recognized as the goddess of war, sexuality, and
4:44power, she appears across Middle Eastern cultures under
4:47various names.
4:48In fact, you might know her as Aphrodite in Greece.
4:52However, despite having these different labels, her
4:55essence was always the same: the promise that you can
4:58get what you want by unleashing your desire.
5:00Her worship was both fascinating and disturbing.
5:03It combined two things that normally don't go together:
5:05violence and sexuality.
5:07She was the goddess of battle and of pleasure, which is
5:10why her followers gave the cult a perverse logic.
5:13Power is obtained by taking what you want, whether on
5:15the battlefield or in bed.
5:17In Judges 2:13, it is said that Israel abandoned Yahweh
5:21and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
5:23Notice that it's in the plural, Ashtoreths, because
5:25each city had its own version of Astarte—it was like a franchise.
5:29The basic idea of the cult was that you would enter the
5:32temple, have sexual relations with the priestesses, and
5:35in some way participate in the will of the
5:37gods—something quite disturbing.
5:39But here's the catch: the Bible, my friends, does not
5:42condemn sexual desire.
5:43In fact, the Song of Songs is one of the most erotic
5:46books in ancient literature, and it's in your Bible.
5:49What the Scriptures condemn, on the other hand, is
5:51sanctifying desire as an end in itself.
5:54Astarte says: "Your appetite is divine, satisfying it's
5:57worship, denying it is repression." Why does this
6:00matter today?
6:01Well, because we live in the civilization of Astarte.
6:04Never in history has sexual desire had so much prominence.
6:08In fact, we're told that denying any appetite is
6:10repression, and that being authentic means following
6:13what we feel and doing what we want to do, that
6:15pleasure is a right.
6:16Friends, Astarte hasn't disappeared, she just moved.
6:20Now she lives in pornography, in the ideology that sex
6:23is just fun, without consequences, and that our
6:26identity is defined by what we desire.
6:28Her temple may not have walls, but it's on our phones.
6:31Later on, we'll reveal whether it is Satan who hides
6:35behind each of these figures, or if they are truly
6:38gods, independent entities with their own agenda.
6:42We'll also look at the god who became the lord of the flies.
6:46But before we get to that mystery, we have to talk
6:49about the god who represents the system and who was
6:52humiliated in his own house...
6:54Dagon.
6:54While Baal was the god of storms and chaos, Dagon was
6:57the god of grain and civilization.
6:59He was the serious god, the institutional god.
7:02The Philistines, with superior military tech, credited
7:05him for their success.
7:07And here, a legendary Biblical duel takes place.
7:10In First Samuel chapter five, the Philistines capture
7:13the Ark of the Covenant, believing that in doing so
7:15they had managed to imprison Yahweh.
7:18They take it to their mega temple and place it at the
7:20feet of their god Dagon.
7:22The message is quite clear: your god is a prisoner of
7:25ours, our god is the boss.
7:27They close the doors of the place and there is absolute
7:30silence, but, friends, Yahweh is not a hostage.
7:33The next morning, the priests enter and find the great
7:35Dagon lying face down, prostrated before the Ark.
7:38They literally have to pick him up.
7:40Imagine that humiliation—a god who needs humans to lift
7:44him up so he doesn't look ridiculous.
7:46But the second night is decisive, because the next day
7:50Dagon is lying there again, and this time his head and
7:54his hands are cut off, separated from his body.
7:57Why the head and the hands?
7:58Well, the head represents wisdom and strategy, and the
8:01hands, power and action.
8:03God was dismantling the entire system.
8:05Yahweh was telling them: "Your religion has neither
8:08mind nor power in my presence." And the text adds a
8:11detail that might seem minor, but it's devastating.
8:14From that day on, the priests of Dagon never again set
8:17foot on the threshold of that temple.
8:19Why?
8:20Well, because the threshold was where Dagon's head and
8:22hands had fallen.
8:24That entrance became a permanent reminder of defeat.
8:27Friends, in a way, I believe Dagon represents when we
8:30put our trust in our religion, our building, our
8:33denomination, our history of success.
8:36We think that because things are going well for us and
8:38because we are successful, we have the truth, but when
8:41the real presence of God interrupts, all our human
8:44structures end up lying on the ground.
8:46So far, we've seen the storm god, the divine mother,
8:49the goddess of desire, and the god of the system.
8:52But now comes something more subtle, something many
8:55don't recognize as dangerous until it's too late: Beelzebub.
8:59If you've ever read the Bible, you've heard this name.
9:02In the New Testament, the Pharisees use it as a synonym
9:05for Satan, the prince of demons.
9:08But who was Beelzebub in his original form?
9:11To answer this question, we have to go back to the
9:13ancient Philistine city of Ekron, where they worshipped
9:17Baal Zebul, which means Prince Baal or Lord of the
9:20Glorious House.
9:20He was famous for providing very quick and direct answers.
9:24He was the god of oracles and medicine.
9:26If you were sick and wanted to know if you were going
9:28to survive, you would go to Ekron.
9:30But the Israelites did something brilliant with his
9:32name: they changed a vowel.
9:34From Zebul, which means prince, they turned it into
9:37Zebub, and Zebub in Hebrew means flies.
9:40Literally, they renamed him the Lord of the Flies.
9:44The key story is in Second Kings, chapter one.
9:47King Ahaziah falls, gets injured, and sends messengers
9:49to consult Baalzebub.
9:50Elijah intercepts him with a devastating question: Is
9:53there no God in Israel, that you go to consult the
9:56flies of Ekron?
9:57That is Baalzebub, the god of alternative answers.
10:00It's when you have a problem and, instead of praying,
10:03you turn to horoscopes, tarot cards, or try to manifest
10:06things in the universe.
10:07You're looking for truth and healing in the trash,
10:10among the flies, when you have the God of life at home.
10:12But now we're going to change the tone.
10:14We're going to leave behind the mockery, the fallen
10:17institutions, because what comes next is much more
10:19personal, intimate, and dangerous.
10:21The next god is Tammuz.
10:23To understand Tammuz, we have to look back to the
10:26origin of rebellion, because the Bible and tradition
10:29connect this god directly to Babel.
10:31It is believed that Tammuz is the original god, from
10:34whom many other gods copied.
10:36Osiris in Egypt, Adonis in Greece—all of these seem to
10:40be echoes of the very first.
10:42And what was the story?
10:43Well, a true tragedy.
10:45Tammuz was the shepherd god, a beloved young man who
10:48died prematurely and descended to the underworld, but
10:51the legend said that if he was mourned enough, he would
10:54be resurrected with the spring.
10:56I don't know if you find any echoes of the story of
10:59Jesus here, but I certainly do.
11:01The truth is that Satan is not creative;
11:03he is an imitator.
11:04He knew the prophecies and knew that one day a true
11:07Messiah would come to die and rise again.
11:09So he created a false version thousands of years
11:11earlier to confuse humanity.
11:13But the trap of Tammuz was not theological, but emotional.
11:17In Ezekiel eight, God takes the prophet to a secret
11:20vision at the entrance of the temple in Jerusalem.
11:23He says to him: "You will see even greater
11:25abominations." And what does Ezekiel see?
11:28Well, he doesn't see child sacrifices, he doesn't see
11:31sex with priestesses;
11:32he sees women sitting and weeping for Tammuz.
11:34And this is brutal, because they were physically inside
11:37the house of Yahweh, where He dwelled.
11:39Their bodies were in the temple, but their tears were
11:42for their idol.
11:42They weren't performing a violent ritual;
11:45they were feeling pity for this false god, they were
11:47connecting with his tragedy.
11:48It was a worship based on what they felt in their
11:50hearts and not on the truth of the covenant.
11:53And I believe that's the danger of Tammuz today:
11:55sentimentalism, the kind of religion that says, "If I
11:59don't feel it, it's not from God.
12:00Well, today I'm not going to pray, I don't feel like
12:03it, no, I just don't feel it."
12:04Tammuz is the god of people who want the Church to
12:07excite them, instead of letting the Word transform them.
12:10Yahweh doesn't ask for tears, He doesn't ask for pity,
12:13He asks for loyalty.
12:14But if Tammuz manipulates your emotions, the next god
12:17manipulates something even deeper: your identity.
12:20We're talking about the patriotic god, Chemosh.
12:23Chemosh was the god of Moab and, as I mentioned, he
12:26didn't just offer security and protection, but also
12:29national identity.
12:30He was the patriotic god.
12:32And we have one of the most explosive archaeological
12:34proofs in biblical history to demonstrate this: the
12:37Mesha Stele.
12:38This is a black stone that you can see today at the
12:40Louvre Museum.
12:41It was inscribed by the king of Moab and literally
12:44says: "Israel has perished forever, and I took the
12:47vessels of Yahweh and dragged them before the face of
12:50Chemosh."
12:51This is the only time in all of archaeology where a
12:54pagan king boasts of having defeated Yahweh.
12:57For a Moabite, worshipping Chemosh meant saying: my
13:00country comes first, my nation is above everything else.
13:03This stands in stark contrast to what we read in the
13:05Bible, where we see how, on repeated occasions, God
13:09punishes Israel by using enemy nations.
13:12If I had to take away one message from Chemosh, it's
13:14that God and loyalty to Him are above loyalty to our
13:18culture, our tribe, our nation, and even our political party...
13:22That Chemosh asks you to kill for your flag, but God
13:25asks you to die to yourself for His kingdom.
13:28And speaking of the abyss, we come to what, for me, is
13:31the most terrifying god of all: Moloch.
13:33His name is not a proper name, it's a title.
13:36It comes from the Semitic root 'melej', which means king.
13:40He was the entity in charge of national security.
13:42While Baal brought rain and Chemosh brought pride,
13:45Moloch brought victory in war.
13:47His logic was terrifying, but apparently effective.
13:50The value of your protection depended on the value of
13:53your sacrifice.
13:54If you wanted to win a small battle, you sacrificed
13:56something small, like a goat.
13:58But if your city was surrounded and the enemy was about
14:01to destroy you, if you were afraid of losing
14:03everything, then you had to sacrifice something big,
14:06pay the highest price, like, for example, your own child.
14:09There is a place in Jerusalem that is now a park, but
14:11was once the scene of this horror: the Valley of Hinnom.
14:15That's where the word Jesus used to refer to hell in
14:17the Gospels comes from: Gehenna.
14:19And this is no coincidence, my friends.
14:21The hell that Jesus describes to us takes its name from
14:24the place where Moloch was worshipped.
14:25And as I said, the worship of Moloch was quite terrifying.
14:28The Bible tells us in Second Kings chapter three that
14:31the king of Moab, seeing that he was losing the battle,
14:34took his firstborn son and sacrificed him on the city wall.
14:37And the text says that there was great indignation
14:40against Israel, and the Israelites had to withdraw.
14:43The ritual worked, it was frightening—fear works.
14:46But there's something else you need to know about Moloch.
14:48Archaeology found in Carthage, a Phoenician colony, a
14:52cemetery called Tophet, where there were thousands of
14:54urns containing the remains of children.
14:56The inscriptions say that they were offerings to Baal
14:59Hammon, the Carthaginian version of Moloch.
15:01Analyses showed that many of these children were
15:03between one and two years old, the perfect age for
15:06sacrifice according to ancient texts that Moloch demanded.
15:09And I don't know about you, but here I see the cosmic
15:11contrast, because centuries earlier, Yahweh asked
15:14Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, but He stopped him.
15:17Why?
15:18Well, to break Moloch's logic once and for all.
15:21God was telling humanity: "The gods of the nations ask
15:24for the blood of your children to save you, but I am
15:27the God who will provide the sacrifice."
15:30The war against Moloch is the war against the idea that
15:33we can buy power or security through suffering.
15:35Moloch tells you: "Sacrifice your child and I will give
15:38you the kingdom."
15:39The God of the Bible says: "I sacrifice my son to give
15:42you the kingdom."
15:43But before I explain the final god on our list, I need
15:46to address the central question of the video: why did
15:50the Bible treat Baal, Tammuz, Moloch, and all the
15:54others we've seen as a real threat and not just as mere superstition?
15:57To understand this, we have to completely set aside
16:00everything you learned in Sunday school.
16:02When we read 'God,' we think of the one and only
16:05creator, and that makes sense—it's the definition of
16:08the word.
16:08But in the original Hebrew, the title for God is Elohim.
16:13And Elohim is not a name, it's a title, which means
16:16'inhabitant of the spiritual world.'
16:18Yahweh is an Elohim, yes, but the Bible says there are
16:21other Elohim, and here comes the concept that changes
16:25everything: the divine council.
16:27In Psalm eighty-two, we see God presiding over an assembly.
16:31He is not alone;
16:31he is surrounded by spiritual beings.
16:34But the essential key to understanding such a
16:36complicated verse is found in Deuteronomy thirty-two
16:39eight, a verse that many modern translations have
16:42significantly softened.
16:44There we can read that when God separated the nations
16:47at the Tower of Babel, he did so according to the
16:50number of the sons of God, the Elohim.
16:53Do you truly understand what this means?
16:55Look, at the Tower of Babel, humanity rebelled and God
16:58said: "You don't want me?
16:59Fine," and he then disinherited the nations—Egypt,
17:03Babylon, and Canaan.
17:04He assigned various spiritual entities to govern them.
17:07He placed spiritual administrators over every single
17:11border, but he kept only one man and one people for
17:15himself: Abraham and his entire family.
17:18Over time, we know that Abraham fathered Isaac, Isaac
17:22fathered Jacob, who later became known as Israel.
17:25And friends, this idea changes everything, because it's
17:28not that Israel was God's favorite people—no, it's that
17:31the entire planet had been handed over to the rule of
17:34these rebellious Elohim, these inhabitants of the
17:36spiritual world.
17:38When Yahweh chooses Abraham, He says: "I'm going to
17:40start from scratch, I'm going to create my own nation
17:43in the midst of all these nations, so that from there,
17:46I can reclaim the entire world."
17:48Wait, wait, what do you mean, the entire world?
17:50Elohims who rebelled.
17:52We haven't talked about any of that.
17:53Well, you're right, let me explain.
17:55The original plan at Babel was for these beings to rule
17:58with justice under God's authority, but they became corrupted.
18:02They rebelled, and instead of guiding humans toward
18:05God, they began to demand worship for themselves.
18:08They even started to demand blood.
18:10What the Bible seems to be describing is not people
18:14worshipping lifeless statues, but rather a territorial
18:17war between Yahweh and these rebellious gods over the nations.
18:22That's why the Old Testament is so violent.
18:23Every time Joshua or David conquered a city, they
18:27weren't just taking land—they were evicting the
18:30spiritual entity that ruled over that place.
18:33But wait, wait, wait, because I know what you're
18:35thinking: David, were these real gods or just demons in disguise?
18:40Well, as we've been reading in the Old Testament, the
18:42name given to these beings is Elohim, but in the New
18:46Testament, Paul reveals their true identity in First
18:50Corinthians ten: "What the Gentiles sacrifice, they
18:54sacrifice to demons."
18:56Those gods are defiant and rebellious spirits,
18:58principalities and powers, who use culture, politics,
19:02and religion to ensnare and bind human beings.
19:05That council to which the nations were assigned and
19:08which rebelled against God, demanding worship for
19:11themselves, is who we are talking about when we explain
19:15each false god of the Bible...
19:17But there is one last god on this list, and for me, it
19:20is the most dangerous of all, because unlike Baal or
19:23Moloch, it did not come from Canaan, Moab, or
19:26neighboring nations, but was born within the very camp
19:29of God's people.
19:30I'm talking about the golden calf.
19:32And I really left it for the end because it is
19:34different from all the others, my friends.
19:35Let's put ourselves in context: Israel had just come
19:38out of four hundred years of slavery in Egypt.
19:41In that nation, divine power was represented as a young
19:44and strong bull, the god Apis.
19:46The Bible tells us that Moses goes up the mountain to
19:49receive instructions from God.
19:50They are wandering through the desert, with little
19:53water, little food, and they start to panic, so they
19:56want, they desire, to see something tangible—not just a
19:59cloud—they want to see something they can touch.
20:02And they say to Aaron: "Make us gods who will go before us."
20:06That's how they begin to build a golden calf.
20:08But pay attention to this, because when the
20:10construction of this idol is finished, Aaron says:
20:14"Israel, this is your Elohim, the one who brought you
20:17out of Egypt."
20:19They literally gave the title of Yahweh, the God who
20:22had brought them out of Egypt, to a golden statue.
20:25Now, this wasn't a change of religion;
20:27it was an attempt to redefine religion, because the
20:30golden calf was a kind of human attempt to reduce God
20:33to something we can touch, control, and understand.
20:36The real God was on the mountain, wrapped in fire and
20:39darkness, mysterious and sovereign, but the calf was in
20:42the valley, shiny, aesthetic, mute, bathed in gold.
20:46It was a pocket god.
20:47But the most tragic thing of all is that the calf
20:50wasn't a one-time mistake, because centuries later,
20:53when the kingdom is divided, Jeroboam does exactly the
20:56same thing.
20:57He places two golden calves in Dan and Bethel and uses
21:00the same words: "These are your gods, Israel, who
21:03brought you out of Egypt."
21:04The sin repeats itself because the temptation never
21:07goes away.
21:07And this is the final and greatest danger, friends.
21:10We don't need to go to a pagan temple to be idolaters;
21:13we just need to try to shape a god in our own image—a
21:16god who doesn't challenge you, who doesn't correct you,
21:19and who always agrees with you.
21:20That is not God;
21:21it's a golden calf by another name.
21:23And the truth is that we are surrounded by them;
21:25we are surrounded by Astaroth and the sacralization of
21:28desire, we are surrounded by Tammuz and how
21:31emotionalism matters more than true faith.
21:34We live in a world where the flag of our country and
21:37our political party is placed above the cross.
21:40It seems we are surrounded, as if the rebellious divine
21:42council has won, but I have good news.
21:45There was a day in history when Yahweh, in the person
21:48of Jesus, faced all of them at once.
21:50Not on a battlefield, but on a cross.
21:53Paul says in Colossians 2:15: "He disarmed the powers
21:56and authorities, made a public spectacle of them, and
21:59triumphed over them by the cross."
22:01Jesus has taken away their legal authority.
22:03Is the war ongoing?
22:05Yes, but the outcome has already been decided, so your
22:07job and mine is not to fight against the darkness on our own.
22:11Our job is to keep our faith intact, to maintain our
22:14loyalty to the one Elohim who died to save you, instead
22:17of asking you to die to save him.
22:19But the story doesn't end here, because the Bible
22:22predicts that these rebellious spirits will have one
22:24last attempt to rule the world before the end.
22:27And if you want to know how that cosmic war ends, I'll
22:30leave you with the deepest analysis we've done on
22:32Revelation right here.
22:33My name is David, greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
22:37God bless you all.

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