Baal

They don't even...

You know, it's like, what Bible? And his heart is becoming changed so much that it says, by the 12th year of his reign, so four years after that, he begins to purge the area of the pagan temple, uh, uh, temples, the, the pagan, uh, uh, and, and idols and, and all the other things that are, are there in Jerusalem, probably just all over the place.

Verse four says that they, they chopped down the altars of the Baals in the presence, in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them.

And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images.

This is really incredible.

I'm not going to do that again.

But I did put into the chat, for those of you who are interested, an English translation of the first and last stanzas of the ode to Baal, which are what she uses as her epigraph.

And in these stanzas, we see the presentation of Baal, as a kind of fertility god.

He's identified with the seasons, therefore light and darkness, but also life.

Springtime, rebirth, sexuality.

you know, intercourse and rebirth is a big part of the play and the song.

We see in these lines a kind of unrestrained poetic statement about a chaotic, irrational and self-destructive world.

We see a celebration of a kind of intense animal energy of Baal.

yeah.

Well, Baal was a Canaanite Phoenician worshipper as well.

Of course he fucking was.

Oh, it's actually a

You know, she's a Phoenician.

She's a Baal worshiper.

But the king of Israel, Ahab, married her.

Be very careful before you marry.

Bloodshed satisfies fallen angels.

Baal, Moloch, Beelzebub.

There's always more to it.

It's an invisible war and it's visible.

May you who are with me, whether in London or in the utmost parts of the earth, be inflamed with zeal and fired with love.

May the water in the trenches be licked up by the flame and the whole sacrifice be consumed with heaven's own fire till the people, once deluded by Baal, shall be forced to cry, Jehovah, he is the God.

Jehovah, he is the God.

May the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ triumph in the midst of the earth and become, as it always has been, the truth by which the glory of the Lord shall be revealed.

You know, she's a Phoenician.

She's a Baal worshiper.

But the king of Israel, Ahab, married her.

Be very careful before you marry.

You know, she's a Phoenician.

She's a Baal worshiper.

But the king of Israel, Ahab, married her.

Be very careful before you marry.

And he rebuilt the high places of idolatry that his father, Hezekiah, had demolished.

And he erected altars to the Baal idols and the Baal gods.

And he made Ashtaroth.

He made all kinds of idols.