The Masters – Chapter 14

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?
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Chapter 14, the masters, when the people of Israel turned from God, they turned not only to the gods but to a specific kind of God.
They sacrificed to the bales and burned incense to carved images.
They turned to the Balam, who or what exactly were the Balam.
In order to answer that we must first define what exactly the gods and idols were to the people of the ancient world and what they are to us.
Now, the identity of a God with regard to the worshiper, a God or idol is that which one ultimately worships, serves and lives for it is that which one most focuses and dwells on and from which one takes the greatest joy it is that which one most reveres and is led, moved and driven by.
It is one’s ultimate reality and the purpose of one’s life.
So if one turns from God, there will always be another a God or an idol.
The Balam, the Hebrew word Balam literally means the bales.
The balam was bale in his plural form.
He had appeared in a multitude of forms and variations and was embodied by a multitude of idols.
So bail was manifested through the bales.
The word balam can also be translated as the lords, the owners and the masters.
If one turns away from God, one will end up serving the balam or one of the balam, a God or an idol that will end up becoming one’s master, one’s owner and one’s lord having turned from God, Israel became subject to the bail.
The new lords and masters. The Bible records that the Israelites served the Balam.
The Hebrew word translated as served also means to labor under to be kept in bondage, too, to be enslaved by their apostasy began with the promises of prosperity, fulfillment, and liberation, but it would end in bondage.
Lords of America.
So too for America, the lure of the balam was the promise that turning away from God would bring freedom and fulfillment.
But instead it led to enslavement to the bondage of the Balam.
And as in ancient times, the Balam appeared in a multitude of forms.
So Americans now served and were mastered by the bales of money, pleasure, success, acceptance, sexual gratification, addictions, work comfort, the internet, self fulfillment, self obsession, and countless other gods and idols.
The bales of the modern world instead of freedom.
Americans saw their culture becoming increasingly driven, restless, conflicted, obsessed and addicted.
And the further the nation moved from God, the more powerful the Balam became to America devoid of God.
The pursuit of money and success became an unbridled spirit that possessed millions with Americans devoid of God.
The pursuit of pleasure led to a multitude of addictions and self-destruction.
The altars of bail, the Israelites offered up sacrifices to the balam.
So did the Americans for the balam of money and success.
They sacrificed much of their lives for the balam of pleasure.
They sacrificed their well-being, their health, their marriages, their families and their Children.
The new modern Balam were more than ruthless masters.
They were deadly of Israel’s fall to idols.
The prophet Isaiah wrote their land is also full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands.
That was the irony of idolatry. They worshiped as gods.
The very thing that they themselves had created the work of their own hands.
They had created their own bales, the Mars Hill mystery.
When the Apostle Paul came to Athens, a city filled with gods, altars and idols.
His spirit was as recorded in the book of acts provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols.
When he later stood on Mars Hill before the city’s leaders, he addressed the worship of idols.
Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising, he was using the same argument presented by the prophets.
They were worshiping that which they themselves had devised what their own hands had made in speaking of the creation of idols.
The Apostle used the Greek word techni from that same word linked to the idols of man.
We get the modern word technology.
In other words, technology comes from a word used in scripture in connection with idols.
The high tech idol, America was largely responsible for ushering in the age of high technology and for creating the modern computer.
The computer represented the most sophisticated and advanced work of man’s hands, the most advanced form of man’s techni and in the age of apostasy, it has become among the most powerful of man’s idols and the most complex of the Balam.
Under the spirit of Bail, the Israelites worshiped and served the works of their hands.
Under the spirit of Bail America did likewise.
The ancient idols were deaf, blind and mute, unable to move or act.
But the high tech idols of the modern world were more powerful.
They could see hear and speak and do almost anything.
And each generation became more attached to them, more plugged in and more addicted to them than the generation before.
And each found it harder to break free of their spell.
The breach of reality in the pagan world.
It was not only the God who was worshiped but the idol, the image of the God, the idol and the God were one image became reality.
Reality became image. So in the pagan organization of America and modern culture, the line between image and reality was likewise breached image became reality and reality became image more and more people were living more and more of their lives in a virtual world.
A world of fabricated virtual reality, the virtual became increasingly real and the real became increasingly virtual just as truth became increasingly virtual.
American and modern culture was now saturated with a flood of images and sounds that signified nothing.
A hymn to the idol. They will become like them.
The book of Psalms reveals a profound truth concerning the dynamic between the worshiper and the idol.
Their idols have mouths but they do not speak eyes, they have, but they do not see those who make them are like them.
In other words, the one who makes serves or worships an idol will end up being transformed into its image.
So the new technological idols, the digital bales would begin altering the nature of man.
Computers began ticking on human functions, abilities and similitude.
Artificial intelligence was increasingly rivaling human intelligence and taking over its functions.
At the same time, man increasingly joined to his computer began taking on the qualities of his digital master.
The more one was joined to a computer, the more one began functioning as its appendage.
So computers became more human and those joined to them became less and less.
So as the ancient warning of scripture had foretold those who made them had now become like them.
The machine man, the line between man and machine was blurring.
There was more and more talk and experimentation involving merging man and technology, whether through digital implants or other technological enhancements of human abilities.
The line became even more blurred as people began having sexual and romantic relationships with robots.
But even this was part of the ancient mystery of paganism and the gods in paganism, man creates gods and worships the works of his hands, the creator worships his creation.
The line between creator and creation is blurred and breached.
So if technology is the creation of man, then the pagan blurring and merging of God and man will be manifested in the blurring and merging of man and his technology, creator and creation, man and machine.
The hybrid of both American and Western civilization had now created the most powerful of idols and the present generation more than any other now served its own creation.
Its new master, the techie of its own hands. It was the day of the new masters.
The age of the technological balam, an object appeared in the streets of New York City.
It was shrouded in mystery covered in a sheet. Most of the city’s inhabitants had no idea what it was.
The city would unveil it. The object was linked to an ancient God and to the dark trinity.