The Possessor – Chapter 09

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 nine, the possessor.
He was the king of gods leader of spirits and he would become the chief enemy of the God of Israel.
Lord of the clouds. He was the God of fertility.
His worshipers prayed to him to make fertile the soil and cause their crops to grow.
They called him Lord of rain. Master of the waters that caused the earth to bear fruit.
He was the God who rode on the clouds, the Lord of storms.
He was the one who hurled down bolts of lightning on the earth.
If he prospered the land prospered, if he languished, so did the people. He was a warrior.
He would enter into battle with his fellow gods over and over again.
In the end though he would reign supreme over his pantheon, it was the role he played with regard to the nation of Israel for which he is most known and notorious.
And it was that role that concerns us with regard to the mystery, the master.
He was called Baal or bail chief God of the Canaanite pantheon.
His name can be translated as Lord owner and master.
The Bible speaks of both Bale and the balam or the bales. He was one.
And at the same time, many nations, regions and cities each had their own bales.
There was bail, Hadad Bail, Herman, bail, Tamar bail Pior and Bail Zafon.
Among many others, even families had their own personal bale clay figurine idols of the omnipresent deity.
The alternate God.
It was not long after the Israelites settled the promised land that they began turning away from God.
Then the Children of Israel did evil in the sight of the lord and served the bales and they forsook the Lord God of their fathers who had brought them out of the land of Egypt.
And they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them and they bowed down to them.
Bail promised the Israelites fertility, fruitfulness, increase gain and prosperity.
Thus, as they began cultivating the land, the temptation to invoke his powers proved more and more compelling.
Many Israelites turned away from God to follow him.
He was so prominent that when the Bible mentions his name, along with those of other foreign gods, he is almost always mentioned first to the people of Israel.
He was the head of the other gods and was himself the quintessential other god.
In the ninth century BC, the worship of Bail had made such inroads into Israel’s culture and state that those who refused to join it were persecuted, hunted down and killed.
It was over the worship of Bail that the prophet Elijah rose up against the apostate King Ahab and his co regent Jezebel.
Years later, after the nation’s destruction, the scriptures would cite Israel’s worship of Bail as central among the reasons for the calamity.
No other deity was so connected to Israel’s falling away from God and its subsequent destruction as was Bail, Bale and Zeus in later days, Bail in his incarnation as Bail Shamim or Bal Shaman was identified with the God, Zeus head of the Greek pantheon.
An ancient nabit text says this, they regarded as God, the Lord of Heaven, calling him Bio Aim, which is in the Phoenician language, Lord of Heaven.
And in Greek, Zeus siac writers referred to Bail Shami as Zeus Olympio, both gods appeared as idols standing in the same position with arms lifted up and ready to hurl a thunderbolt to the earth.
Zeus was presented as Zeus Belus and Jupiter as Jupiter Belu, which could be translated respectively as Zeus Bale and Jupiter Bale.
And so when the gods were cast out of the Greco Roman world, Bail Shami or Jupiter Belus was one of the exiled deities, the anti gad to the nation of Israel.
Bail was the embodiment of paganism and of all pagan gods.
He was the epitome of all that was not God and all that war against him.
Bail was the other God, the substitute God.
The instead of God, he was Israel’s anti-god, he was the God that Israel turned to when it turned away from God, he was the God who separated Israel from its God who drew it away, who made it forget the God of its foundation?
So if Bale was the God of the turning away, the God of the falling, the apostasy God, what would happen if he returned to the modern world?
What would happen if he came back to possess a nation, a civilization?
What would happen if Bale came to America?