not a b c’s created by debbie chaney. cut down your father’s altar to baal cut down the...
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Not A B C’s
Created by Debbie Chaney
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Cut down your Father’s altar to Baal Cut down the Asherah pole Build an altar to the Lord
- on the hilltop- lay the stones carefully- sacrifice a bull- use the pole for fuel
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Gideon took 10 helpers and did it- Cut down Baal’s altar- Cut down the Asherah pole- built an altar to the Lord
At night tho’, cuz he was afraid …
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Baal was a Canaanite god of weather, war and fertile land
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Asherah was represented as a nude woman
Her power was over reproduction Therefore, her statues (poles) were often
made to represent large reproductive organs
Often made of tree trunks, or cones of stone
Her poles were considered sacred poles …
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Baal worship involved all kinds of perverted, sexual practices and orgies
Baal worship involved ritual prostitution of men and women, with both men and women
Baal worship encouraged adultery, shameful practices, brutality, filth, and immoral indulgence
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On a hill, surrounded by a 150 x 200 foot wall,
with open sky above Within the walls were 10 stone pillars, 5-11 ft. high
Where Baal worship took place
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The High Place (for Baal worship)
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Found in the ruins of several high places were large quantities of grossly exaggerated sex organs
These were designed to excite people
by archeologists
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Baal worship involved child sacrifice Found under the debris of a “high place” were
jars of remains of children who’d been sacrificed to Baal
Killed in worship to Baal
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This part of Baal worship involved –
When a house was built, a child was sacrificed and it’s body was built into a wall or door frame to bring good luck
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God wanted His people, Israel to be free of these gross sexual practices
God wanted his people to be free from child sacrifices
God wanted His people to be free from idolatry
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What God asked him to do was go against the flow of the entire culture!
Sexual excitement Immoral practices Child sacrifices False gods Cut them out! Build an altar to the Lord (seek God’s
ways)
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Gideon took 10 helpers and did it- Cut down Baal’s altar- Cut down the Asherah pole- built an altar to the Lord
At night tho’, cuz he was afraid …
Remember
this slide?
Now you understand
what Gideon actually
did
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God wants you to go against the flow of the entire culture!
The sexual excitement The immoral practices The child sacrifices (sacrificing time & energies on perverted
things) The false gods we serve Cut them out! Build an altar to the Lord (seek God’s ways)
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CUT SIN out of your life BUILD a personal relationship with Jesus
through daily prayer, study & accountability
C – Cut out sin B – Build A – an Altar to the Lord