Isis, the 'ideal mother and wife'

Nobody looks at the real war; the war behind the scenes that even Israel, as it struggles for its existence in the Middle East today, doesn’t know it’s fighting.

In the Book of Daniel, a major prophetic book discerning future events, you read about the Medes and the Persians, and the Kurds are the modern-day Medes. The nations that made up the Media-Persian Empire still exist.

“Iran today is a powerbroker in the Middle East and yet it’s not an Arab country; the Iranians are Persians,” says Jordan. “The point in Daniel is there’s a spiritual element to the behind-the-scenes conflict and that’s really the real problem. There’s a connection between the spiritual world and the affairs of this earth. There’s a connection in the Bible between what happens in the angelic world, and the angelic conflict, and the affairs of men on Planet Earth.”

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Nobody mentions it in the media, but Isis was the name of the ancient Egyptian goddess whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

“She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature and magic,” informs Wikipedia. “The worship of Isis . . . continued until the suppression of paganism in the Christian era. The popular motif of Isis suckling her son Horus, however, lived on in a Christianized context as the popular image of Mary suckling the infant son Jesus from the fifth century onward.

About.com says, “Because Isis' name means, literally, ‘throne’ in the Ancient Egyptian language, she is usually represented with a throne as a depiction of her power. She is often shown holding a lotus as well. After Isis was assimilated with Hathor, she was sometimes depicted with the twin horns of a cow on her head, with a solar disc between them."

Of course, Satan has been represented by a calf, bull, beast of the field, etc., throughout the Bible. He seeks to take the throne of God.

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“In the Bible, every time you see God presented as a woman, it’s a bad deal,” says Jordan. “Jeremiah 44:18 says they ‘left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven.’

“You read that and you say, ‘How’d she get in there?’ It’s an ancient pagan goddess and it isn’t anything brand-new or especially compelling. In fact, the concept of God as mother is an ancient tradition in many religions. In Hinduism, they call her Kali.”

Kali is said to embody all fear and is defined by blackness and destruction, and feeds on death and required blood sacrifices. The severed head she holds in idol representations is said to hold the fate of all the living. Her garland of skulls is meant to show the inseparableness of life and death.

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Any peripheral examination of goddesses in Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Nordic mythology, instantly shows their intrinsic connection to the demonic influence of Satan.

“Ancient legend told how Isis (Egyptian goddess whose cult spread across the Mediterranean) scoured Egypt to collect the pieces of her brother Osiris’s body after he had been dismembered by their evil brother Seth. Magically restored and revived, Osiris descended into the Underworld to rule the kingdom of the dead,” reads a Barnes & Noble reference book on mythology.

“The Greeks knew of the legend as early as the fifth century BC. They saw parallels between the story and that of their nature goddess Demeter, who could not rest until her daughter Persephone was rescued from the Underworld, after she was kidnapped by Hades, its god, who wanted her for a wife.”

Hades, regarded as king of the Underworld, is said to have had as his companion the popular goddess Hecate, who was associated with ghosts, black magic and crossroads.

Another book passage tells of the goddess Night who “gave birth to many of the evils that cloud the lives of gods and humans, including Doom, Death, Misery, Resentment, Deceit and Strife; Strife herself went on to give birth to further afflictions, such as Murder, Carnage, Battle and Lawlessness.”

Indeed, Homer, the Greek epic poet credited with writing the Iliad, has in his account of creation how a goddess, taking the form of a dove, lays a huge egg fertilized by her partner, a giant serpent.

“Everything in the universe hatched from this primal egg," Homer explains. As we all well-know, Satan appears as a serpent to deceive Eve in the Garden of Eden.

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Dave Hunt writes in his bestseller book A Woman Rides the Beast, “Religion must, in fact, not only be involved in Antichrist’s new world government, but it must be preeminent, for Satan . . . is ‘the god of this world’ (II Cor. 4:4) and desires its worship with a passion.

“ . . . Religion was always the dominant element in ancient world empires, including the four depicted by Nebuchadnezzar’s image and Daniel’s four beasts. Priests, soothsayers, and sorcerers were the closest advisers to rulers for thousands of years, and in most instances were the real power behind the throne, manipulating sovereigns by their ‘magic’ and devious counsel.

“Science itself had its roots in occultism, beginning in astrology and alchemy. Materialism, skepticism, and atheism are of fairly recent origins and will be submerged in the tidal wave of renewed interest in ‘spirituality,’ which is already gathering momentum exactly as Jesus foretold for the last days (Matt. 24:4, 5, 11, 24).”

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The Book of Daniel makes clear that in the interpretation given Daniel by God to explain Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, the four parts to the funny-looking, gold-headed image depict the four world empires as: Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece and Asia.

In a nutshell, that means the Antichrist, or the “little horn” of Daniel 8:9, will emerge from one of the ancient Greek empire’s four sections represented by Egypt to the south, Greece to the west, Syria to the east and Asia Minor (or present-day Turkey) to the north. He, in fact, arises from Turkey.

In correspondence with Daniel 7, John relays in Revelation 13 that he “stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
[2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”

The great sea is the Mediterranean Sea and when it says Satan gave the Antichrist “his seat and great authority,” Satan’s seat is in Pergamos, not Europe. This is today’s Turkey, the land bridge between Europe and the Middle East and Europe and the East. Constantinople and Istanbul are the same city.

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“There are things that have happened in the last couple of years that for 1500-1800 years weren’t there,” says Jordan in an old study. “Israel was not a nation; they are now.

“But, you see, if the Arabs went in there and just wiped them out tomorrow, that wouldn’t disturb me because what’s happening now, there’s no verse that’s been fulfilled. Maybe it’s a foreshadowing, but maybe it’s not.

“I don’t know of any prophetic Scripture about the ‘last days’ that you can look at and say, ‘That verse has been fulfilled.’ All the verses about Israel being in the land—okay, they’re in the land, but in those verses, He says, ‘I will gather you.’

“Well, if you know how Israel got put back into the land and made a nation and so forth, with the Balfour Declaration and all that stuff, boy, there was more UNgodliness than godliness in any of that!

“Now, God works through all kind of means, but I don’t know about that particular thing.

“They’ve certainly been re-gathered in unbelief, and that’s the way Scripture says it would be re-gathered. They will not only have to be in the land, they’ll have to be in control of Jerusalem—they’ll have to have a temple, so on and so forth.

“Maybe some of that is a foretaste, but then if I tell you it is, and they got wiped out, what’d I do to Bible prophecy? I said it didn’t come through. So I can’t guarantee it. Sure, I’d be happy if it was. I’m not trying to throw cold water on something,  I’m just saying you got to be careful because you can’t just assume they can’t get wiped out.

“People used to talk about Russia coming down and invading them. Well, that’s not what Ezekiel 38 and 39’s about, but when we were scared of Russia, it made good press.

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“In the 21^st Century, people who prognosticated what’s going to happen in the next 100 years (which is a stupid thing to do but people do it) said there are three potential places for there to be world wars.

“One is in the American West. You know it was just a little over 100 years ago there was the Mexican-American War and we took possession of Texas to California.

"Our country’s only been here a couple of hundred years so we think of it as monolithic, but it’s not necessarily that settled, so there’s that potential. That’s not a very big potential, but that’s one of the places they say.

“I was in Arizona last fall and I listened to one of these whack-jobs on the radio, and some guy calls in and he’s just hollering, ‘That land belongs to us; we need to take it back!’ He was a Mexican Independent, whatever. And the commentator did something I thought was brilliant.

“He said, ‘Let me get this right. You want to give New Mexico and Arizona back and what you want is for the Mexican government to run this part of the world and have the Mexican economy?’ The guy says, ‘Oh no, I don’t mean that!’ and the conversation just kind of faded away.

“The other place (predicted) was Poland, northern Europe, but in third place was Turkey.
 

“Turkey is the secular Islamic state that is very westernized. That part of the world has a tempestuous history and when I read about that I said, ‘Whoa, considering the things the Scriptures say will happen in the last days in that part of the world’ . . . You see, if I’m looking for something, I’m looking there because I know the Antichrist has to do these certain things, and has to be in control and things of that nature.”