I will give a little analysis of tonight's presidential debate tomorrow and in meantime here is a post from 1/2/21:
The calf of Samaria started back in Exodus 32 with the golden calf. It was the main idol of Baal worship.
Hosea 13:2: [2] And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
"So you’ve got this idol-worshipping program going on and it’s going on in Hosea 10 in Beth-aven:
[5] The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
[6] It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
“If you go to Hosea 8: [4] They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
[5] Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
[6] For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
[7] For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
[8] Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
“When you read commentaries they read that word ‘Beth-aven’ and start looking for it and there’s no place that they know of that’s called Beth-aven," explains Richard Jordan.
“Look at Hosea 10: 8: [8] The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
“That term ‘Aven’ there, the word itself means ‘emptiness, vanity, wickedness.’ ‘Beth’ means ‘the house,’ and ‘aven’ means ‘of the sin of Israel.’
“The calves were at Bethel but Bethel, the house of God, has now become Beth-aven, the house of wickedness.
Verse 15: [15] So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
“The place where Jacob had spent the night--saw the ladder and so forth and got up the next morning and said, ‘This is the house of God; this is the gate of heaven’--has been corrupted into the very seat of the satanic religion. That’s how thoroughly Israel had been corrupted spiritually.
Verse 5: [5] The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
“So they’re going to lose it all; it’s going to be wiped out. The people are going to see the great loss of it for them. When it says the priests ‘rejoiced on it,’ you see how that’s past tense? They used to rejoice in it because it made them rich; it made them powerful, but now it’s gone.
“When it says “for the glory thereof,’ that’s sarcasm. It didn’t have any godly glory but it had man-made glory. God took the glory off of Israel and He wrote ‘Ichabod’ over the nation Israel. He’s going to take the false glory the priests and people attributed to Beth-aven and write ‘Ichabod’ over that too.
“Verse 6: [6] It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
“Even the calves are going to be carried away to the Assyrian; going to be given to king Jareb. They made a covenant with the Assyrian that he would deliver them and keep them safe and it winds up he’s going to betray them; come in and take them and all that stuff’s going to be carried off as a present to make him wealthy. That’s exactly what the Antichrist is going to do with them.
“Notice it says, ‘Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.’ Where did the destruction come from? From following their own way; rejecting God’s Word and walking in their own way.
“Look at it in history over in II Kings 17: [10] And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
[11] And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
[12] For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
[13] Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
[14] Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
[15] And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
[16] And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
“I mean, they just sunk down into the lowest pits of this stuff. They were going to do what they wanted to do, God’s Word be hanged.”
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For Asian religions, 2021 is a year of the Ox, starting from February 12th, 2021 (Chinese lunar New Year Day) and lasting until January 30th, 2022. The recent zodiac years of Ox sign are: 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021, 2033…An Ox year occurs every 12 years.
From Japan Times website: "According to Jeffrey Kotyk, a researcher of foreign astrology in medieval east Asia at the University of British Columbia, each earthly branch of the Chinese zodiac is connected to a time of day and a direction. The ox’s time is 1 a.m. to 3 a.m., while its direction is northeast.
"During these hours, it is believed that 'even plants doze' and 'ghosts and goblins appear to scare men away' . . . The awakening of the spirits in the hours of the ox is linked to the fact that the direction of the ox is called the 'Gate of Demons.'
"In Chinese astrology, the northeast (the cardinal direction shared by the ox and the tiger) is 'considered the origin of bad influences,' Jolivalt says. It is for this reason, he adds, that temples were built to the northeast of Japan’s capitals, to protect them from harm."
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"What you see throughout the Old Testament is a lot of oxen worship and it's no secret what it is," says Columbus, Ohio Preacher David Reid. "It's because a cherub fundamentally can be described in Scripture as an 'ox.'
"Now, in what countries are cows considered sacred? Our gut reaction is to say India, but really they are almost everywhere. Wikipedia says, 'Cattle are considered sacred in world religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and others. Cattle played other major roles in many religions, including those of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Israel, ancient Rome, and ancient Germany. Ancient texts such as Rig Veda, Puranas highlight the importance of cattle.[13]'
"Why is the ox worshipped almost everywhere? Because he is 'the god of this world,' and what Satan has done is tricked the vast majority of humanity into worshipping him.
"We know from the Book of Ezekiel that cherubs have four wings and four different faces. They're not a little baby with two wings who looks small and cute; they're fundamentally different creatures and we've already seen that Satan is a cherub.
"Ezekiel 1:3-11: [3] The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
[4] And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.[5] Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
[6] And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
[7] And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
[8] And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
[9] Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
[10] As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
"Now, look at what Ezekiel 10 does: [14] And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
"The list is different from what we saw in Ezekiel 1. Notice verse 15: [15] And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
"What that verse tells you is this creature is the same one that's in Ezekiel 1, even though the description is different.
"If man equals man, lion equals lion, eagle equals eagle and they're the same creatures, what does ox have to equal? Cherub. Simple process of elimination.
"What we've established beyond a doubt here, because Ezekiel 1 and Ezekiel 10 told you that those were the same creature, is that Scripture is using the word 'ox' to approximate cherub.
"So what implications can we learn from that? What happens in Genesis 3:14: [14] And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
"Boy, that's a strange saying. Why would you curse a snake above all cattle? Why would you curse a heavenly being above all cattle unless that being could be described as cattle, a cow, an oxen? That's why that's there.
"Here's a question for you. Why did Aaron make a molten calf as opposed to a molten kangaroo? Why didn't he make a molten aardvark? Or a molten donkey?
"Exodus 32:4: [4] And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
"Was he possibly paying homage to someone? What did Jeroboam do? What God decides to do after King Solomon's reign is split the kingdom of Israel into a northern kingdom and a southern kingdom. Jeroboam takes the top 10 tribes and forms Israel. He doesn't want his people going down to Judah to worship because he knows if the northern tribes did so they would view Judah as the legitimate home of their religion.
"I Kings 12:28: [28] Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
"Who did he make their gods? Calves.
"Now, what did Samaria do? Hosea 8: [5] Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? [6] For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
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