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The 21CD Podcast — Who Is BA'AL and Why Is He Back in 2026?. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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Bald, follow this guide and to give your children to this guide to sacrifice the young and to forfeit all that is good and holy to worship this creature of hell is repeatedly shown to lead to nothing but total annihilation. And yet, bald for some reason still rolls among us in 2026. He's there with Adele rolling in the deep. And how long until we take this too far? Is abortion part of this? Is human trafficking? Part of this? The imagery of bulls in the stock market and all these weird cults. Use programs from the round with my wife. I remember the first time I heard this story of cow worship and I was so very confused. Forty days, Zalituk forgot to be forgotten by his own chosen people. Forty days. According to the Torah, the Bible and the Quran, the golden calf was a cult image created
by the Israelites when Moses was up on Mount Sinai collecting the Ten Commandments. In Hebrew, the event is known as the Sin of the calf. The story first appears in the book of Exodus. Beige has been rescued from slavery in Egypt where they saw rivers turned to blood. They saw nature revolt against the Egyptian Empire. They saw pillars of cloud and fire lead him beyond the impossible horizon and the red sea divided in half so they could pass through. They'd seen plagues descend upon a pagan empire so powerful the world had no likeness to compare it to. The Holy Ghost, also known as the Holy Spirit, a wondrous Godhead of the Trinity that had been specifically tasked with caring for God's people in the way he sees fit was the general and the campaigner of this mission. He did so through bloodshed and mercy.
In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through worthless groans. That's Romans 826. The Bible describes the Holy Spirit as an entity who has been present with the Father and the Son since before time even began. The Spirit is integral to all of the things that God has described as doing in the Bible. Exodus is one of the most incredible books ever written as the energy of the Holy Ghost is absolutely remarkable to witness. The power of it, the wrath, the nature of it. But at the same time this wonder was walking the planet. If you can't indeed call it walking, bullworship was common. It was widely practiced throughout the ancient world, in Egypt where the Israelites had recently lived according to the Exodus narrative. The sacred ape is bull was an important object of religious devotion.
Little burials of bulls indicate the ritual sacrifice was part of the worship of the early cow deities, hathor, and bot. And a bull might represent her offspring, a king who became a deity after death. He was entitled the renewal of the life of the men fight deity Pita, but after death he became Osorapis. In other words, the Osiris apis. This Osorapis was identified with serapists of the late Hellenistic period, and may well be identical with them, creating parallels to their own religious beliefs. Ancient Greek writers identified apis as an incarnation of a Cyrus, ignoring the connection with Pita. Among the Canaanites the bull was also a powerful sacred symbol. It was closely associated with L, the chief deity of the Canaanite Pantheon, and with ideas of strength, fertility, authority, and divine power.
All the things necessary for the conquering of life. Now in the biblical account Moses ascended Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, and he remained there for 40 days and 40 nights. As his absence continued, the Israelites became afraid that he would not return. So they approached Aaron, Moses's brother, and demanded that he make them gods who could go before him and lead him, because they don't know what happened to Moses, or what's taken him so long. Maybe he wouldn't return at all, they said. Poor Aaron didn't really seem to know what to do. He was sort of at an impasse here, between a rock and a hard place, a mountain, and an angry people. And he instructed the people to bring him their gold earrings and ornaments, and from this gold he fashioned a calf. And he said to the people, here you go, bitches. This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. And then Aaron went further and he built an altar in front of the calf, and he announced
that the following day would be a feast to Yahweh, and the people offered their sacrifices, they ate, and they drank, they danced, they celebrated before the image. Curiously he called it Yahweh, and this is quite confusing. There's a lot of debate on this. My personal take on it is that he was afraid of the people who were growing restless with him. And he committed what one might call a half sin. He created this idol for sure. He made it out of gold, and clearly it was indeed an idol of something that was not in the image of God. We don't really have an image of God. It was an idol. There were deities who were represented by the calf, by the calf, already in existence. With simultaneously he called it the Creator Yahweh, which is what they knew God to be named as. Maybe he was trying to trick the Israelites into worshipping the same God that had taken
them out of Egypt, but with a different face. Who knows? Regardless, it was not well received by either God or Moses. While Moses was still on the mountain, Yahweh told them that the Israelites had quickly turned away from the path that they had been commanded to follow. And God got really, really angry, and he threatened to destroy them and begin a new nation through Moses. But Moses, being the legend that he is, pleaded on their behalf, and the punishment was withheld. They were not wiped off the face of the planet. When Moses descended from the mountain, he became enraged at what he was witnessing before his very eyes, people, his people, God's people, the dancing before the golden image of a cow. And he threw down the ten commandments, the stone tablets that they were written on, and they shattered. Moses then destroyed the golden calf with a fire revenge, and he burned it.
He ground it into powder, and he scattered the powder over water, and he forced the Israelites to drink it. Afterwards, the Levites slaughtered 3,000 of them. The dead lay all about them. Their stomachs, spilling with water and gold, mixing with their blood. And after that, the remaining living Israelites were struck with a plague. Thanks to Moses, a little while later, God declared, I will bring you into a land, flown with milk and honey, but I will not go there with you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I may consume thee by the way. God was essentially restraining himself from destroying Israel. Interestingly enough, Aaron told Moses that he had thrown the gold into the fire and that the calf had somehow emerged from it all on its own. It's difficult to know if they crafted it, or if the calf crafted itself from the gold by some pagan deities doing.
But essentially, these people continually forgot their God, and repeatedly that pissed him off. And the golden calf episode, well, it ultimately became one of the Bible's most powerful stories about idolatry and spiritual betrayal. And of course, the human tendency to replace an unseen God with something visible, tangible and controllable, and for some reason made of gold. The story is mentioned in the Quran as well, which is fascinating. Even Allah hated Baal, saying, do you call upon Baal and abandon the best of your creators? But why a cow? When the Levant Hadad was introduced to Mesopotamia by the Amorites, where he became known as the Akkadian God Hadad. And Hadad was also called Ramon. He was called Pidhar, Rapue, Baal Zephan, or often simply Baal. However, the latter title was also used for other gods because Baal really just means
Lord or Master, which is why Baal throughout time has had so many different names. But the bull was the symbolic animal of Hadad. And he appeared bearded, often holding a club and thunderbolt and wearing a bullhorned headdress. Hadad was equated with the Greek God Zeus, the Roman God Jupiter, as well as the Babylonian Bell. A potserred found in Samaria was inscribed Egalia, bullcafe of YAH, suggesting that Israel may have somehow understood the calf was associated with the worship of YAH or YAHWAH, and not some Egyptian God like the Apis bull. But this very well could be due to Aaron's deception when he named the idol after their God. So this could be archeological evidence of that deception and not necessarily something other. Considerable just means Lord. Some of them may have also referred to God as Baal.
It's confusing, but I think that's actually part of this whole point being made here. At one point in the Bible, God even appears to not like being called that. So what God took the title of Lord and made it famous, and not only famous, but so famous that now it's a household name again in the modern world in the United States of America of all places. Why is there a Canaanite God from antiquity becoming commonly known in modern USA? Baal has been racking up millions of views across many platforms, YouTube, the news, movies, forums, podcasts, new calls and the reviving of old cults. He was seen at the Olympics. So who is this guy? And why is he here? He appears to not be just a bull, but a God of many, many faces and his identity adapts
to local traditions wherever you go. In Judges 213-13 we read, and the Israelites did evil on the side of the Lord and served the Baal's plural, Baal's. They foresoaked the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed in worship various gods of the peoples around them. They provoked the Lord to anger because they foresoaked him and served Baal and the ash tereths. The worship of Baal was characterized by various rituals, including sacrifices, feasts and sometimes even human sacrifice, often child sacrifice. This is proven by archaeological findings and historical records, no matter what people say, because there are still Baal worshipers in science who say that this never happened, of course. The prophets of Israel, such as Elijah, they stood in direct opposition to the worship of Baal. And one of the most dramatic confrontations is recorded in 1 Kings 18, where Elijah
challenges the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, demonstrating the power of Yahweh over Baal. Elijah has this absolutely dope sense of humor, and he was verses 450 Baal prophets of Jezebel on Mount Carmel. He Elijah is not a nice guy to these people. He doesn't seem to be a nice guy in general. Elijah is one of these examples that you don't have to be nice and accepting to be a true follower of God, and not only a true follower, but a powerful one. He was hilarious and ruthless in God's honor. He goes up here to where these 450 Baal prophets were, and he's truly scornful of these guys and God that they worship. Because no matter how much they were crying for rain, Baal just was not bringing it. He was not appearing. There was no God out here answering the cries of these 450 priests who would not shut
the fuck up and stop screaming. Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, since you're so numerous, there's so many of you. Why don't you all choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it for a sacrifice first. And then go ahead and call on the name of your God, but don't light the fire. Make him light it. And these prophets, these apostles of Baal, whatever you want to call them, they took the bull that was given to them. They prepared it for sacrifice and they called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, Oh, Baal, please answer us. Please, please, Baal. But there was no sound as was typical and nobody answered. And they were leaping around the altar that they had made hoping to something that this would end the drought that they had been experiencing and that Baal would consume this bull with fire and bring on the rain, baby. But at noon Elijah began to taunt them. He was getting tired of hearing all their screams and shouting and he was like, why don't
you scream louder? I thought she said this guy was a God. Maybe he's deep in thought somewhere. Maybe he's occupied or taken a piss. He's out on a journey and he's forgotten all about you. Maybe he's sleeping and you guys aren't loud enough. Waking him, scream louder, you pathetic fools. So they shouted louder and they began to cut themselves with knives and lances and swords. This is the moment, baby. This is the moment we separate the dogs from the boys. And if you ask me, I only got one question. Do you got that dog in you? Because it's never about the winners or the losers, but it is about the difference between those brave enough to put some action on the game and those who just want to watch from the sidelines eating off brand pizza rolls. So sit down, lock in those picks and trust that dog in you, underdog. At least you're dog. Thumbs may have lied. Bite into a stacked sandwich made with hero bread or a fully loaded bagel and the only
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And I just sit back there rolling his eyes. He goes for lunch. He brings back a sandwich. He starts eating. He's just watching these 450 assholes jumping around. Even King A-hab, the ball worshipping king at the time was here watching all of this and could hardly believe his own eyes. But midday passed, they kept on raven until the time of the evening sacrifice but there was absolutely no response. Nobody answered. Nobody paid attention. There was no rain. There was no fire. Ball was not present. And at this point, there's a bunch of Israelites who've gathered around to watch all this to see what's going to happen. And at the time of the evening sacrifice Elijah, he had built his own altar. He put his own wood on it and it was his turn to prove that ball was a raging pussy, a raging ball of bullshit you could say. And he's calling these Israelites and he's like, dump water on my sacrifice and they're
like, dude, it's a drought. We don't have water to spare. He's like, did I stutter? I said, dump me some water on my sacrifice. And so they're coming about and they're bringing barrels and barrels of water and they're soaking his sacrifice that is supposed to come a light with fire. And he looks at it. He puts his hands on his hips and he says, more water. And so they bring more. They bring more water. They soak the sacrifice. And Elijah, he approaches the altar and he says, oh Lord, God, Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, oh Lord, answer me so that this people will know that you, the Lord, are God and that you have turned their hearts back again. And no sooner than Elijah had finished his prayer, the fire of the Lord fell with a theory, with an asteroid-like impact and it consumed completely the sacrifice, the
wood, the stones and the dust and it licked up the water in the trench. And when the people saw this, they all fell face down. And said the Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God. And Elijah had them seize all the prophets of Baal and he said, do not let a single one of them escape. And then he brought them down to the Qishan Valley and he slaughtered them there, fulfilling his duty when it came to the harsh punishment for false prophets. And Baal showed not only his cowardice here by not appearing, but also his intelligence. You see, he knew this was no fight that he could win. He knew that the Creator God was watching. He also showcased another classic trait of his, his willingness to watch blood be spilled in his name, whether he appeared or not. And all throughout the world, his faces mutate, his rituals change, his names take on different sounds, but he remains to this day a watching God, okay, make no mistake.
If he does not appear that does not mean he does not exist, it just means he is not just means that he is choosing to watch his followers struggle and not show his face for fear that there is another more powerful God watching. In 1928, in modern day Syria, an ancient tomb was discovered which led to the lost city of Ugrit. This was a thriving city of great wealth and influence. It was a place of incredible knowledge as well. It contained many libraries and places of learning. Within the ruins of one of the lost libraries that was found there, there were a collection of tablets with a unique, unknown form of Kuneha form. And when deciphered, it told the story, now known as the Ball Cycle. And this was the first time in history that Ball's agenda was recognized in written form. The story goes that there was Ball, our protagonist, right, who was a boat who was on the Syrian mountain, Mount Zafon, and then there was also Yam, a God of much lower status and often not even worshipped as much as he was just simply disgust by the people around him.
And he represented the sea and other sources of water. Both of these assholes want to rule over the other gods and be the most powerful of all. Their struggle revolves around attaining the rank of the kings, the king of the gods. And the narrative portrays Yam as the candidate that is perhaps favored by the senior God, though ultimately it is Ball who emerges victorious. And in Ugaritic and Lavantine mythology, El kind of presides over a council of gods and fathered major deities like Ball and Yam and Mott. These were all his sons. And he was depicted as wise and kingly, but also occasionally vulnerable, which kind of complemented Ball's role as a sustaining warrior. I always found this an interesting interpretation of the watcher gods, all sort of competing over nature, but ultimately all created by God, the watcher angels, I should say, who came down on Mount Hermann and created the Nephilim after abducting human women and entering
into them. Now Ball Hadad opposes Yam and slays him. And then Ball Hadad with the help of a knot, who is a goddess associated with warfare and hunting and a theoret, a god of the sea and wife of El herself, they persuade El to allow him to have a palace. So Ball Hadad commissions this other god, Kothar, Waqassis, who is an architect god, who had already provided Ball Hadad with weapons. And he builds him a palace. And this so-called king of the gods, Ball, this ruler of the world seeks to subjugate Ma'next, who is the canineite god of death and the underworld. And Ma'ne sends messengers to Ball, summoning him to the underworld then. So the invitation, Ball knows, is a challenge that he cannot refuse without losing face, even though he doesn't really want to do this in the underworld.
Bite that, Ball takes his clouds and his winds and his entire retinue and he descends into the underworld, where he is slain by Ma'ne. Now a knot, the goddess of war and hunting that we mentioned earlier, she seeks retribution that is immediate and brutal. The text says that she sees his Ma'ne, the son of El, with a sword and she splits him. With a sieve, she winnowes him. With fire, she burns him. With millstones, she grinds him. In the field, she soes him. A knot essentially takes Ma'ne and turns him into an agricultural process while slaughtering him. Ball Hadad's body is recovered from the underworld and returned to Mount Zephan with the help of the sun god Shepash. Somehow Ball is brought back to life. It's a great way to get rid of the world. But the eagrantic text doesn't use a word that unambiguously means resurrect.
Ball is simply dead and then he's alive again. But the mechanism of how that happens is unclear. Some people say that a knot's destruction of a knot was the necessary act that frees Ball from death's grip. Others say Ball's return is cyclical and automatic. It's tied to the seasonal calendar rather than a single dramatic event. But regardless, he is simply found alive after Ma' is destroyed. This leads some to propose that Ball's death was more of a kind of captivity or a dormancy rather than some sort of biological cessation. Anyway, after seven years Ma'ne returns and he seeks vengeance and he demands one of Ball's brothers to feed upon. There's a gap in the text here which is followed by Ma' complaining that Ball has given Ma' his own brothers to eat his mother's sons to consume. A single combat between the two begins to break out but then the sun goddess Shepash
who had already descended into the underworld essentially or helped A' not to recover Ball's body. She upgrades Ma' informing him that his own father L will turn against him and overturn his throne in the underworld if he continues fighting against Ball. So Ma' concedes and the conflict just kind of ends. They each go their separate way. Ball Hadad remains the king of the gods. And each time Ball dies or goes silent, drought strikes the land. It's a time of famine and lack of growth. Each time he returns, reign and life appear to follow him in mythology. This is what makes him so enticing to his worshippers because he's seen as the god of life essentially. The Ball cycle is the story of life and death. It is a metaphor. If we return to the biblical narrative in the book of Revelation, the name Jezebel is contemptuously attributed to a prophetic woman of Thia Thera, whom the author through the
voice of the risen Christ accuses of leading her followers into fornication and idolatry. For refusing to repent, she's threatened with illness and the death of all of her children. Now Jezebel, which is an anglicized form of the Hebrew name, is a bell essentially, is often interpreted as meaning where is the Lord as a question. This is a phrase that is linked to Ball worship rituals directly. And as Queen, according to the Hebrew Bible, Jezebel promoted the worship of Ball and Ashera in Sumeria. And she clashed with the followers of Yahweh continually. She was killing their prophets. She was challenging all the established norms of worshipping the Creator God. Notable events in her biblical narrative include her conflict with the prophet Elijah. Like I said before, the 450 prophets of Ball that he destroyed were literally appointed
by Jezebel. If it's not obvious yet, Elijah was a certified butcher of the Lord. He had had enough of these cow worshippers and he was seeking the beef continually. And even at one point, prophesied about Jezebel's death, which was fulfilled by the way. But regardless, she made Ball the official God of the land and employed priests at taxpayer expanse who Elijah wiped out and then built massive temples and balls on her. And for a time, it appeared that there was no end to her power and her husband King Ahab's power over Israel. Jezebel was a Phoenician though. And the Phoenicians are an extremely powerful group of people with extreme knowledge in war, naval endeavors. Some say they even mined the Great Lakes of Copper. Some say they went to the Grand Canyon at one point.
Like these guys were no joke and they were Ball worshippers. Their temples are everywhere. Jezebel was literally of Royal lineage. She was the daughter of King F. Ball, which is of Ball, like named in honor of Ball. King F. Ball the first of Tyre and Sidon, major Phoenician city states. She married King Ahab of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, basically a political union that helped secure trade alliances between the nations. Now Elijah is one of those curious characters in the Bible who also never died. He was literally taken to heaven by God before death. And he had a successor named Alisha. And Elijah showed up and summoned forth an absolute unit of a man to put an end to the madness because he, like Elijah, was hungry for the barbecue all the time. He wanted all the smoke. And by the time Jehu was all said and done, this guy that he appointed to grill him up
some cow. He had killed well over 100 people and the entire lineage of King Ahab, some 70 people from that family alone. At the time of this story, though, King Ahab is already dead and Joe Ram, the son of Ahab and Jezebel is the the reigning king of Israel. But the story goes that basically this dude, Jehu, went on a certified killing spree of ball worshipers, saving the best for last as prophesied by Elijah before he was taken to heaven on what some call a UFO was golden, cherry it. And that best for last was Jezebel, who would be dispatched in dramatic fashion. Okay. Elijah had already defeated all the prophets of ball at ballbeck. And now Elijah was telling Jehu to go finish the job. It's a story that's too good to not tell. It goes that the prophet, Elijah summoned this dude from the company of the prophets and
said to him, uh, took your cloak and your bell, take this flask, olive oil and go to ram off Gilead. And when you get there, look for Jehu, the son of Jehosaphat and go to him and get him away from his companions and take him into an inner room and then take the flask, pour the oil on his head and say, this is what the Lord says, I annoying you king over Israel and then open the door and run. Don't delay. Just get out of there. So the young prophet, he went to ram off Gilead and when he got there, he found the army officers. They were sitting around because Jehu was sort of like a general. Okay. He was a leader in the army. And he said, I have a message for you, commander. And Jehu said for which of us? And he said for you, commander. So Jehu got up and he went into the house and the prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says, I annoying you king over the Lord's people, Israel, you're to destroy the house of Ahab, your master.
And I will avenge the blood of my servants, the prophets and the blood of all the Lord's servants that have been shed by Jezebel. And as for Jezebel, the dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezebel and no one will bury her. And then he opened the door and he ran. He just disappeared into the night. This is the moment, baby. This is the moment we separate the dogs from the boys. And if you ask me, I only got one question. Do you got that dog in you? Because it's never about the winners or the losers. But it is about the difference between those brave enough to put some action on the game. And those who just want to watch from the sidelines eating off brand pizza rolls. So sit down, lock in those picks and trust that. Dog in you, underdog. And let your dog. Thumbs may apply. Bite into a stacked sandwich made with hero bread or a fully loaded bagel. And the only thing you'll think is delicious. You won't think it's up to 19 grams of protein.
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Like this is a practical joke. This is something that he says, you know, you guys put me up to this. You know what he said. But they're like, dude, we don't what what are you talking about? And he's like, well, he said that I'm the king of Israel. And then J.H.'s boys are like hootin' in hollering their whistle in their proclaiming it loudly. They're like, let's go, baby. Israel's got a new king and they know it's game time. They know it's time to go. And so J.H. who's like, all right, don't let anybody leave the city because we're about to bring holy hell down on Jesuil. And we can't let anybody know that this is about to go down. And then he gets into his chariot and he rides off to Jesuil because Joram, Jezebel is son. And remember, he's the reigning king of Israel was residing there in Ahaziah. The king of Judah had gone down to see him. So he was trying to get, you know, a two for one. He was trying to get two birds with one stone, so to speak. He was trying to get that double cheeseburger.
He was trying to get that two for one deal, that two cheeseburger meal. You know what I'm saying? Boys were calling them Mr. McDonald's before it was even popular. This guy was about to commercialize the beef patty. He was bringing the fixings and he was about to invent the cheeseburger and everybody was going to love it. Certified overnight success. And in the case of Jezebel, emphasis on the suck. So it's daytime. J.H. and his dudes, they've ridden to Jesuil and when they look out standing in the tower in Jesuil sees them coming. He calls out and he says, I see some troops coming. And Joram, the king of Israel, the son of Jezebel is like, get a horseman, send him to meet him and ask, do you come in peace? So the horseman wrote off to meet J.H. and he said, this is what the king says. Do you come in peace? And J.H. who's like looking at him with this blank look in his face. He's, he's not trying to waste no time. He says, what do you have to do with peace? Fall in line behind me.
The look out reported the messenger has reached them, but he's not coming back. And so the king sent out a second horseman. And when he came to him, he said, this is what the king says. Do you do come in peace? And J.H. replied again, what do you have to do with peace? Fall in line behind me. And the look out reported again. He's reached him, but he's not coming back either. The driving is like that of J.H. Son of Nimshi. He drives like a maniac. And J.H. says this guy, hit you up my chariot. And when it was hitched up, J.H. I'm the king of Israel and Ahaziah, the king of Judah, they rode out together, each in their own chariot to meet J.H. And when J.H. And when J.H. He said himself, have you come in peace, J.H. And J.H. is just, he's like, he's frothing at the mouth at this point. He is starving.
It is lunchtime. And all he sees before him are these two kings, these fat, juicy number ones. Hot off the grill, delivered to him like a fast food drive through, ready for consumption. And him and his boys, his boys are like a packet dogs behind him. They're ready to rip, man. Ain't nobody going to leave no crumbs here. And he says, how can there be peace as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother, Jezebel, abound in this place? And then J.H. Being a pussy, he just turns around and instantly starts fleeing, calling out to his buddy Ahaziah, treachery, treachery Ahaziah. But then what is J.H. Do? Being a certified BAMP, he draws, he draws his bow and he shoots J.H. Um, between the shoulders as he's fleeing. And the arrow pierces his heart and J.H. Um, slumps down dead as a dorn ale in his chariot. But J.H. He's still hungry. He's a certified king killer and he sees Ahaziah, the king of Judah fleeing.
And he's like, oh hell no, he gives chase to Ahaziah. They end up wounding him as J.H. shouting, we're going to kill you too. And Ahaziah gets wounded in his chariot, manages to escape to Megadow, but he dies there. And then J.H. went into the city into Jezreel. And when Jezebel heard what was going down, she put on all her eye makeup. She's just big slut. She arranged her hair. She went over to the window because she's probably trying to seduce J.H. And J.H. He comes through the gate and she's looking down on him. He looks up at her because she shouts to him and she's like, have you come in peace? You zimri, you murderer of your master. And he looked up at the window and he said, who is on my side? Who? And then two or three unix looked down at him from the other window and he says, throw her down. So they throw her down. They throw her out of the window. They flip her head over heels. She falls out of the window, down to the ground and her blood spatters against the wall.
And then the horses trample her underfoot. And then J.H. went inside and he was eating and drinking. And as he's doing this, he says, take care of that cursed woman, Barrier. She was a king's daughter. But when they go out to Barrier as prophesied, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. And they went back and they told J.H. And they said, this is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah. On the plot of ground at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh. Jezebel's body will be like dung on the ground in the plot of Jezreel so that no one will be able to say this is Jezebel. And it's really funny because there actually is a debate about whether this Jezebel was who this story even says or whether this has been exaggerated, but literally in the scripture
talks about how this is going to happen. Over and over again, we see the followers of Ball getting absolutely shit wrecked. And yet over and over again, he returns. It seems that he has precious little care for his biggest fans and yet perpetually gets his ass kicked at the same time no matter how much they sacrifice for him or to him. Some God, man, afraid to show his face even before humans. But Ball, you see, he's a direct enemy of all that is good. So death is not necessarily something that he cares too much about. It's by design. He's a corruptor. He's convinced even the holiest of people, God's own on many occasions to go so far as to sacrifice their own children and mangle their bodies. He's attempted at every turn to be an imitation of Christ, a sort of lifebringer, but as displayed through all of the stories, all of the stories of his own followers, this is just a token
figure in a realm of death. Even according to the ball cycle, death sought to destroy him and saw him as a coward who could not face him. In stark contrast to that, of course, we have the story of Jesus Christ descending to hell to empty it of those who were held captive there. Jesus Peter 4.6 says, the descent of Christ into hell is the saving act of Christ to the souls and Hades between his crucifixion and resurrection. In triumphant descent, he preached and bestowed salvation to the souls held captive there since the beginning of the world. And the verse goes, for this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead so that they might be judged according to human standards in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit. But ball through Jezebel's influence and the Phoenicians, expertise in war and naval
prowess and commercial enterprises had spread other places in the world despite the desecration of their priestess, all the way to Carthage, even one of the most fantastic cities ever mentioned, but also coincidentally or not, the direct rival of the greatest empire to ever exist, the empire of Rome. And the Romans despised these ball worshippers. They stated that the Carthaginians sacrificed their own children to this livestock god. He demanded blood for the survival of kin. He demanded life for life. This in of itself is like a contradiction, the most precious of things for a landscape of barely survival. Firstborns were frequently offered to him as sacrifice by the elites. It's a complete abandoning of the natural way of things and an opposite of life. It's a total inversion of what life is. And yet ball continued his campaign of death through time.
He's a shape-shifter god. He continually changes his look. He is a manipulative god. He is a weasel and a snake. The Greeks interpreted him as Zeus. Zeus Cassios was worshipped in Syria, but was just another name for a ball of mount Safon. The Romans upon conquering Carthage, they slowly saw him turn into the god Saturn. He's a chameleon god. He has many faces. And he does this typically. It would seem through a thing called religious syncretism, which is the blending of gods across cultures. Ball survives almost since the beginning of time through this process. As one culture is killed off by another as one civilization crumbles before the ones that will come, he sort of just finds his place among the pantheon of the conquering countries gods. He returns to the stories of Solomon as Bealsabub, which is linked to the name Volzebule,
meaning Prince Bale, Lord of the Flies. He's worshiped by the Philistines in this sense. But how did he get to the United States? Is a big question that I see a lot. People are talking about him being in the Epstein files. He's being talked about by people like Tim Dylan and Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan and Timothy Alvarino just talked about him. Jonathan Khan, Glenn Beck, Candace Owens, Dinesh D'Souza and all these others that I can't remember off the top of my head. But the ancient name has suddenly become unusually visible again in American alternative political and religious media. Exactly where Ball always appears and where he loves to be. Once again, he is not just another ancient Canaanite myth, but a sort of primetime focus of modern attention. And this is not because all the sudden the people in the USA are reading history again.
This isn't because all the people in the USA are all of the sudden interested in Canaanite myth. No, that's insane. Ball's influence on Western civilization is strange and much crafter than we even realize. The West did not have to worship Ball for Ball to shape it. In many ways the opposite happened. Ball became one of the great enemies against which biblical religion defined itself. Judaism developed part of its understanding of exclusive worship in confrontation with Ball religion. So obviously Christianity inherited that conflict. Christianity transformed Ball-related names because remember he has many into demonic identities and then carried those ideas into medieval Europe. He was placed in Grimwars as demons, Protestantism then brought that worldview into America through
our founding fathers and the first of the nation where the struggle between Yahweh and Ball essentially became part of the language that Americans used to talk about apostasy and moral decline and wealth and sacrifice and even national judgment. It's also important to remember that Ball was not simply one neatly defined God. For time Western religion compressed many of these figures together into this broad image of pagan idolatry, all of these different names that he has, all of these different gods he appears as. They put all of these figures into one tightly knit image of forbidden sacrifice and spiritual rebellion essentially. But it's getting obvious to see I hope that Ball is more than just another foreign God
from some far off land. He's an archetype of evil. Israel Prosper's becomes comfortable, adopts foreign practices, turns towards these rival gods. They receive warnings and eventually they face judgment. And that pattern obviously it becomes deeply important in American religious thinking later because the Puritans often interpreted themselves as a covenant people that were similar to biblical Israel. It's become a common Christian idea, a common idea of believers in the Creator God and Yahweh and Yahshua, whatever you want to say that they are a reflection of Israel. And I think a lot of people who are believers believe that. But as part of that, you get Ball by default as an enemy. So that struggle with Ball comes along with essentially being a Christian.
And since Christianity is the largest religion in the world, it makes sense that Ball would be the largest enemy of Christianity in the world. Satan gets all the credit, right, the devil? Don't, please don't tell this guy. I know it's easier. He sounds sure. But listen, you don't want to chase another guy's picks, man. You should see the way he dresses. It's all a monthly subscription where he gets his clothes chosen for him. That's the guy you want to make the pick after? No. The picture be yours. Do something you actually believe in. And if you're on underdog and you lock in, you can let him chase your tail. Now you're a dog. Underdog. Make your pick unleash your dog. Bites into a stacked sandwich made with hero bread or a fully loaded bagel. And the only thing you'll think is delicious. You won't think it's up to 19 grams of protein, but it is. You wouldn't believe it has 11 to 32 grams of fiber, but it does.
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mentality as ancient Israel, which is interesting. Due to Christianity's tied to Judaism, their connection to ball never truly disappeared though. And it's obvious to see that now. It became embedded in American political and American religious culture. And then Christianity gave ball another form of survival by turning him into a demon, balls a boob. The deity associated with Ekron eventually becomes Beelzebub or Beelzebull, a name connected in the New Testament with the Prince of Demons and the kingdom of Satan. This is how ball entered the modern occult imagination. There's a lot of contemporary references to ball and ceremonial magic that say they draw their influence more from medieval and early modern grim wars than the ancient ball cycle found in Ugrit. The same is true in literature and entertainment.
We see this everywhere. Writers like Milton, they help to place pagan gods inside the Christian universe of fallen spirits. And then we'll see them in modern games, video games, horror stories and books and magazines and comics and television. And it continues to use the name ball as shorthand for simply ancient evil. Most Western people today, they don't really know that ball was a reindeer deity or a storm god or something like that. To them, it just means corruption, demons for bit in power, something hostile to God. And that association was built over thousands of years. That is precisely how ball works. He's a god that feasts on complacency and then is nowhere to be found when he's needed.
In America, ball also became useful as a metaphor for materialism. Ancient worshippers sought rain and crops and fertility. They wanted security and prosperity. Well, modern people don't really have a need for that in America and the USA anymore. They seek economic growth and money and status. They seek comfort. They seek a picket fence, stock holdings. And that doesn't mean that capitalism is literally a continuation of ball worship. But the comparison, especially when you think about the Phoenician Empire, it raises this uncomfortable question. What are people willing to sacrifice for prosperity? Their time, their family, their health? Would a sacrifice a little bit of morality? What about their community? At that point, ball becomes less of a historical statue that you can dig up in the ancient lands
of Canaan. And more of a symbol for the moment when material successes become sacred. We are reminded constantly again and again of how he was seen as a god of wealth and commercial prowess, thanks to the Phoenicians in Jezebel. And this is why the symbols like the bull on Wall Street are so easily drawn into these discussions too, because there's evidence that charging bull was created as an idol to ball. You know, in the in the stock world, you have the bulls and the bears, right? And the bulls is when it's doing good when the stocks are going up and the bears are when are for the stock going down. It represents this financial strength. The bull does in the in the stock world. It represents optimism, good times to come, growth, reign. But the visual parallel is still powerful because bulls have represented strength and
fertility and power for thousands of years just as, and perhaps that is why I should say that ball is represented by that as well. Why he wears the bull helm? Why he has that look to him? You can think about the Minotaur. You can think about all of these entities. You can think about some of the stories that have revolved around Epstein and his followers wearing bull masks. And when you look at occult parties, you'll often see the bull headed man here or there. Obviously, the darkest association with ball is probably human sacrifice. There's biblical texts that condemn the killing of children in connection with ball worship. And over time, I think Western Christianity reduced this extremely evil and complicated history into just something that's more simple and easy to understand. This concept that, well, yeah, pagan gods, it a man prosperity.
But eventually sexual corruption follows and children become the sacrifice. That is what became extremely powerful in American religious rhetoric, especially in regards to abortion. This is why ball and molluck, they continue to appear in these arguments about abortion and sexuality and national decline as a whole. Some Christians use them metaphorically, but a lot take the idea literally and argue that ancient spiritual powers are actually still at work here behind these modern systems. I'm one of those people. I believe that all of this is for a reason. I believe that absolutely it's not that the gods aren't here. It's not that ball is not here. It's that the modern mind has been manipulated to be godless. And because they have been manipulated to be godless, these things sound like fantasy.
They sound like what we call myth. But in actuality, the gods are still there. They have sacrificed a little bit of pride, you know, the actual sound of their names being spoken in worship. And they have decided that the power can be invisible. If the people don't believe it, we can have even more followers. If they don't believe that we're real because we're invisible, that's a worthy sacrifice. We can do away with the altars and the temples and all this kind of stuff because we still have the power. They just don't know they're really giving it to us yet. They're still worshiping us. They're just not saying our names and they're living in a way that we would have had them live even if they knew we existed. A civilization eventually reveals its gods by what it is willing to sacrifice. Some people sacrifice for rain and fertility and survival.
But modern societies, they're living in a state of comfort a lot of the time. So they sacrifice for growth and power and ideology. The names change, but the structure of ball remains disturbingly familiar. Ball is the god of complacency. He's the god people ask for when they've grown too comfortable and they want what comes next. How do we get out of this period? How do we get further than where we are now? He's the god they call when people become impatient with the creator, when they hear silence for a time and they desire advancement. That is why the story of ball is as important as it has ever been. And I even think the fact that he's just called ball is very ironic because it's literally just like saying, any god except the real one, any lord except the one that created us.
The definition of the name itself is open to ambiguity. It's a timeless title that can appear and disappear at will. Sure, Ugris is gone, Carthage is gone. The old temples are now just museums and things to go look at on foreign shores. But ball remains more than just a memory from those days from antiquity. He's real, he is not a mere trinket. He's an entity that holds a high level of authority in the ranks of hell and he's smart, he's witty, he's extremely aggressive, he's manipulative on a massive scale, he's dangerous and deadly and bloodthirsty. He feeds on the weakness of humans, he seeks out power to wrestle away from the righteous so that he can use them as tools for evil. He's endlessly adored by politicians, kings, pagans, celebrities, he's paraded about
primarily by those with power. It's obvious that he has this preferred and specifically targeted group of individuals through which he infects entire civilizations and empires. And they appear to worship him more when they are in need of some sort of step up on the way that things are going. Do you ever ask yourself why statues of demons, satanic entities, idols and mythological things are out there but you rarely ever see any statues of Jesus, Moses, Elijah going up in the town squares, going up in the city. You might see them on church properties, of course it's where you'd expect to see them, but why don't you see them anywhere else? Make no mistake, we've been living in his empire even if we're just now becoming familiar with his title. When every civilization and empire who has ever worshipped this livestock got a bullshit
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