The Molten Beast – Chapter 12

Is it possible that behind what is taking place in America and the world lies a mystery that goes back to the gods of the ancient world…and that they now have returned?
The Return of the Gods is the most explosive book Jonathan Cahn has ever written. It is so explosive and so revealing that no description here could do it justice. Jonathan Cahn is known for revealing the stunning mysteries, many from ancient times, that lie behind and are playing out in the events of our times. But with The Return of the Gods , Cahn takes this to an entirely new level and dimension.
The Return of the Gods , Cahn takes the reader on a journey from an ancient parable, the ancient inscriptions in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia that become the puzzle pieces behind what is taking place in our world to this day, specifically in America. Is it possible that what we in the modern world take as nothing more than ancient mythology could actually possess a reality beyond our fathoming?

Chapter 12, the molten beast, Bale was the God of prosperity.
As the Lord of rains and fertility, he represented increase gain and profit.
The belief that he could bring fruitfulness to one’s fields and vineyards was among the strongest of his appeals and weapons in his battle against the God of Israel, American idols.
The lure of Bail had always been a present danger in American culture for any nation so blessed with material prosperity as was America, there would always be the risk that its prosperity would become an idol and that it would turn to the God of increase and gain.
But with America’s departure from God. In the late 20th century, the Spirit of Bail became ascendant.
Unlike the ancient apostasy, the spirit would not be centered on the fruit and yields of the earth, but on their modern equivalent financial seeding and yield, monetary profit increase and gain.
It had the trappings of a new religion, a cult of success and a doctrine of materialism and greed in the scriptures.
God is called the Almighty. In a revealing choice of words, America dubbed its own currency, the Almighty dollar.
The spirit of Bale could not be contained in the halls of business. It was everywhere.
Americans pursued money served, money were driven by money and worshiped money.
As much as the ancients had worshiped their idols. American life became increasingly monetized.
The spirit of Bale even went to church as in ancient times when Bale worship was added to the worship of God.
So now the doctrines of bail, the pursuit of material prosperity and personal gain and success above all things invaded the sanctuary.
And so what could have been a protection and antidote against the invasion was compromised.
The bull guard Bale was typically portrayed as a bearded and helmeted figure holding a spear of lightning in his upraised hand.
Some of his images show the horns of a bull coming up from his head or helmet.
Bale’s preeminent symbol was the bull. The bull embodied his power and his connection to fertility.
So his idols came in the form of the helmeted man, but also in the form of a bull of metal or clay.
It was America’s financial realm and in particular, its stock market and more in particular Wall Street that epitomized the unadulterated pursuit of money.
It was there that the spirit of bail as it related to a nation’s yield and prosperity most clearly manifested.
The prosperity of the stock market had long been tied to the prosperity of America as a whole.
It was therefore striking that the symbol that had come to embody the prosperity of the stock market and America was the bull.
Of course, the bull did not come to Wall Street because anyone was seeking a connection with bail.
Nevertheless, it did come. And the fact that the symbol of American prosperity was the same ancient symbol of national prosperity.
And that it was so without any conscious intent is even more striking.
If the American stock market appeared heading toward increase gain and prosperity, it was the market of the bull, the bull market.
So Bale’s ancient symbol became not only an American symbol, but one that embodied the same realm and dynamic as it had in ancient times, the eagle and the apostasy.
But the appearance of the bull in ancient Israel was a symbol as well of something else.
A nation’s apostasy from God, more specifically, the bull was the symbol of a nation that had once known God that had once been consecrated to his ways, but now had forgotten him.
It was the sign of a nation that had rejected him to follow other gods.
So it was in ancient Israel.
And so it would be again in America, the younger version of the bull was also critical in Israel’s history.
The Hebrew word egl refers specifically to a young bull, a male calf, also known as a bull calf in Israel’s apostasy from God at Mount Sinai.
The people created a golden eagle, a bull calf.
So the calf or young bull became the symbol of national apostasy, the sign of a nation’s departure.
Centuries later, Jeroboam, leader of the rebellion that split the kingdom of Israel in two, erected two golden calves, one at each end of his kingdom.
He then called his people to worship them as their gods.
The bull or bull calf again became the sign of a nation’s fall from God.
The apostasy at Sinai and of Jeroboam involved an image of molten metal.
So too, the worship of Bale involved the making of molten bulls for the purpose of worship.
So Israel in its fall from God worshiped bulls and calves of molten metal.
After the destruction of Jeroboam’s kingdom, the writers of second kings would write.
So they left all the commandments of the Lord, their God made for themselves a molten image and served Bale.
Thus the sign of a nation that has left his commandments, his word and ways is the appearance of the molten image and specifically the molten image of a bull or a young bull, the bull calf.
If America was now the nation that was departing from God.
And if the spirit of Bail had now come to Indwell, it is it possible that the sign of Bail would follow if the image of a molten bull was to appear in America and be linked to the same spirit to which it was joined in ancient times, the spirit of materialism and gain it would be a sign of a nation that had once known God but had turned away and was now worshiping another God bail materialization.
The sign appeared, the site of its materialization was the financial district of New York City just outside the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street.
It appeared in December of 1989. It was massive 11 ft tall and 16 ft long. It weighed £7100.
It was a molten image in the form of a giant beast, a bull, the sign of bail, it would later be moved to a location where it could stand as a permanent landmark of New York City, but it would remain in the city’s financial district not far from the Stock exchange and the most massive and concrete symbol ever to represent Wall Street.
Thus, the sign of bail, the God of increase and gain would be linked to the New York Stock Exchange, America’s House of Increase and Gain.
The image was described as a symbol of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity.
The words themselves were a modern recasting of the power of the ancient God though meant to encourage the nation.
The sign was menacing. The bull’s nostrils were flaring as if ready to attack.
One observer described the molten creature as an angry, dangerous beast.
Another described it as embodying an aggressive or even belligerent force.
The other image on the day it appeared on Wall Street, the bull was not alone.
There was another image overlooking it. It was the statue of the nation’s first president George Washington.
The bull appeared on the ground on which America came into existence as a constituted nation.
It was there that Washington was sworn in as the nation’s first president.
After being sworn in, Washington delivered a prophetic warning, he said in effect, if America ever turned away from God and his eternal loss, its blessings would be removed.
It was an echo of Winthrop’s earlier warning against ever turning to other gods our pleasure and profits and now standing across from the statue that commemorated the day and place in which Washington gave that prophetic warning against turning away from God was the sign that the nation had done exactly that it had turned away from God, the American bail.
So the sign of bail that had once appeared in the high places and sacred pagan grounds of the Middle East now appeared in America as in ancient times, it appeared in molten metal.
In fact, the ancient bowls of bale were often of molten bronze.
So the bull that appeared in New York City was also of molten bronze.
It was the American incarnation of bail.
It was as well the American version of the golden calf, the ancient biblical side of a nation that had once known God and had fallen away and that another God had mastered it.
In ancient Israel, the molten bull constituted a tangible image and sign of the possessing God.
But his impact and effect upon the nation was much deeper.
What about the return of bail to the modern world? What was his deeper impact on America and the West?
It is that to which we now go as we uncover the pagan organization of America and modern civilization.