Doggone if atheists don't worship Fish-god Dagon!

The “lust of the flesh,” as Paul calls it, is a common trait of humanity and people sell themselves for it; betray themselves into the hands of the enemy. “In the terms of Esau, it would be for a bowl of pottage,” explains Jordan. “What a sad thing. It’s the thing that had infiltrated Israel and was embraced by them.”

“II Kings 17: 32 says, ‘So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.’

“They had all these church buildings with images that expressed false doctrine and that’s how they feared the Lord. You say, ‘How can you do that?!’ Verse 33 says, ‘They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.’

“They embraced ecumenicism. They said, ‘We’ll have the God of Israel and we’ll have the god of this guy and that guy, and we’ll put it all together and that’s how we’re going to serve God.’

“What did God tell them in the first commandment? ‘No other gods besides me.’ No. 2, ‘Don’t have any images made from those other gods to represent them. You represent me; you are my image in the earth!’

“Who’s God’s image in the earth? He made man in His own image. Man was God’s representative in the earth. That’s why Jesus Christ is called ‘the image of God.’ He’s the second Adam; the last Adam. True humanity. When I think of that, I start wanting to jump up and run the benches. I know, this is the Midwest; we’re calmer than that.

“What they’re doing is worshipping this ‘host of heaven’; this satanic program and all the various forms and components of it. There are all kind of various components to the idolatrous system that Israel embraced and you see it ALL through their history—this false religion.

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“We talk about denominations in Christendom and every religion has various denominational things. They’re all kind of denominations in idolatry; all kind of different religious names.

“Jeremiah 8:2, talking to Israel, says, ‘And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.'

“They’d rather DIE than change! Moses told them, ‘I set before you life and death; choose life!’ They say, ‘We’ll choose death.’ They chose error instead of truth. How’d they do it? They rejected the counsel of God and chose the counsel of false religions.

“But you notice how he talks about it in verse 2? WHOM they love. Not WHAT, not IT, but WHO. When they’re worshipping this ‘host of heaven,’ worshipping these images, it’s really the spirit BEHIND them; the satanic entities behind them that inspire the doctrine they’re teaching. They loved them; they served them. They walked after them. You know why you walk after and serve something? Because you love it! They LOVE darkness rather than light.

“Zephaniah 1:4 says, [4] I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests.

“Notice the different gods have NAMES to them. That’s the different denominations among the pagans! In your Old Testament, God calls Himself ‘the God of Israel’ over 200 times. Not ‘the god of the land’; the God of Israel. But they got one to fit anything you desire.

“Zechariah 13 tells you what God will do with them in the kingdom. When Jesus Christ comes back and throws all these dudes out--doing what God did with them in Egypt--verse 2 says, ‘And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.’

“Notice it’s not ‘cut off the name,’ but cut off the NAMES plural. All the different manifestations; something to fit everybody’s desire. You know, you go to Baskin-Robbins and they’ve got 38 different kind of ice cream. All they need is chocolate and if you had another choice, maybe strawberry or butter pecan. But people have all different tastes. That’s why they have all these different gods. Different things people love; seduce them into it.

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“I want you to look at one in particular. There is a manifestation of a particular god that Israel had to deal with that is a modern secular religion of our day.

“The nation Israel was conquered about 1,000 B.C. by the Philistines. I Samuel 4:21 says, [21] And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

“God literally wrote I-chabod across the tabernacle of God and the nation of God because the ark was departed.

“I Samuel 5 says, “ ‘And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod.
[2] When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.’

“You ever sing that song, ‘Here I raise my Eben-ezer, hither by thy grace I come’? That’s a Bible term; a place of significance in the Bible. They took it from a place of blessing, where God’s blessing resided, and took it to Ashdod. Why there? When the Philistines took the ark of God they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.

“The name Dagon, that god, the first part of that name means ‘fish.’ Dagon was the fish god. You ever see the pope when he comes in with that hat (called a mitre) where the top looks like a fish mouth? That’s the hat of Fish-god Dagon. Get the book ‘Two Babylons,’ by Alexander Hislop, and he’s got wood carvings and pictures of it from 1,000 B.C.

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“What Catholicism does is, when Rome would take over a country, they would do what Israel did. They would assimilate all their gods and all their paraphernalia into the worship of Christ. That’s why I keep telling you that modern Christendom is just a plagiarized form of Old Testament Judaism. They’ve made all the mistakes Israel made and they assimilate that.

“That’s why when you study Baal worship in the Bible, you see over and over and over and over and over again what you see in Catholicism, whether it’s Roman Catholicism, Eastern Catholicism or the Protestant versions of Catholicism. The symbols, so the pope wears the fish god’s hat in his ceremonies.

“Now, it’s important to understand who Dagon was because Dagon, the god of the Philistines . . . they take the ark of God and place it before Dagon. They’re adding them together. They’re ecumenicists. They’re going to put Israel’s ark in with their god and they’re all going to be TOGETHER.

“Nebuchadnezzar did that. He’d take the things out of the temple of God and put them in his temple. Why? Any time you see the ecumenicists get together, that’s what you’re dealing with. ‘Let’s mix truth and error; let’s put God and the gods together, because they’re all equal.’

"Watch what happens: ‘[3] and when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

“Dagon has hit the ground and he’s bowed down to the earth before the ark of God! I don’t know about you, but if I had set my god in front of the ark and now he’s bowed down to Him, I might get the idea that my god, the stone, thinks that’s who I should be worshipping. Right?

“Well, they set him up in his place again. Picked him up, he can’t even get up himself. That’s what Isaiah says about how stupid it is to worship false gods. If my god couldn’t get up himself, wouldn’t you get the idea that maybe you’re on the wrong team?! But if you live in darkness and that’s who you love, because you love what he lets you do, you make excuses for him.

“Verse 4: [4] And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

“I mean, the dude’s done come to pieces! The guy’s fallen apart--his head, his hands. They loved, they served, they took his advice (his counsel, his thinking) and did what he said, and it’s all gone to pieces!

“You know what happens when you follow Dagon? Everything’s going to go to pieces before the ark of God. Now, while you’re all by yourself and don’t have the truth of God around, it might be okay. That’s why men love darkness rather than light.

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“Dagon was the Babylonian god of fertility and nature. He was said to be the son of Baal; the son of God. He was the personification of the primordial waters, or the primordial soup, that man evolved, or emerged out of. That’s why he’s represented in idolatry as half-human, half-fish.

“You can go on the internet and look up pictures of Dagon that look like what Walt Disney animates as the Little Mermaid. You know what they’re doing? They’re inculcating into the minds of people—children and adults . . . You have this lovable little half-fish, half-woman, and you don’t know where it came from.

“Listen to me, Dagon was the god of evolution. The teaching, the idea behind Dagon was the religion of evolutionism that’s taught in the government schools and in religion all over the world.

“When you hear atheists protest over somebody teaching Jesus Christ in the government schools, they’re literally pulling their tongue out of their own mouth because what they want taught as fact is the ‘theory,’ the call it, of evolution, which is really the religion.

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“The Babylonian doctrine, or teaching, of evolution demonstrated by Dagon was picked up by the Greek philosophers. The religion of evolution didn’t begin with Charles Darwin.

“Just go look up the history of evolution. The Greeks had no term for evolution but they used the term ‘emanation.’ Faels asserted that all things originated from water. Eximenes called ‘air’ the principle of all things. They considered individual beings and the phenomenal world as the result of evolution, development.

“The Epicureans and Stoics they had the rudimentary suggestions of the 

Darwinian Theory whereby things are adapted to a certain end by a sort of natural selection. That didn’t start with Darwin. Darwin took the Greek philosophy, looked for it in nature and applied it to it.

“You come to guys like Plato and Aristotle and they used the Teleological addition. They say it didn’t just mechanically get done but it was overridden by a deity and they came in with the theistic evolution.

“Anaximander taught life originated from the moisture that covered the earth before it dried up. It was dried up by the sun. The primordial soup man emerged from—you know, first he was a tadpole swimming in the sea, then he . . . you know the stuff.

“Bodies come into existence out of atoms and ultimately entire worlds appear and disappear from and to eternity, over and over and over. Organic beings from what is inorganic moisture, earth, or slime.

“You read that stuff and say ‘Wow,’ but the Greek philosophers are the people who set the tone for Western culture and they had the idea that all living organisms lived in an evolutionary hierarchy.

“Aristotle called it ‘the great chain of being,’ and man is at the top. They expressed that stuff before the time of Christ so don’t give me this about evolution being all brand-new and ‘something they just found.’

“You know what it is? Dagon falls down before the God of the Bible and his head falls off. It’s mindless, brainless, religious fanaticism. That’s all it is. The worship of the ‘host of heaven’ didn’t stop two millenniums ago; it permeates the world out there and comes right in to where you are today.”

(to be continued tomorrow)