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4601 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 August 31, 1888, page 534 paragraph 18
… . The Baal and Astoreth of the Canaanites were the Jupiter and Venus of the Romans and Greeks, and every heathen nation had gods corresponding to them. The temples …
4602 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 November 23, 1888, page 713 paragraph 4
… served Baal. They forsook their God. Probably this was not done by a sudden departure. We know how apostasy comes: First it is a conviction stifled, a duty neglected …
4603 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 November 23, 1888, page 713 paragraph 5
… of Baal, or the sun, was the most abhorrent of all heathen worship. It was the lowest of all idolatry, with which was connected licentious rites of the most debasing …
4604 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 November 23, 1888, page 713 paragraph 10
The “Encyclopedia Britannica,” speaking of Baal, says:-
4605 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 November 23, 1888, page 713 paragraph 11
… of Baal-Peor ( Numbers 25 ), and in general in the Canaanitish high places, where Baal, the male principle, was worshiped in association with the unchaste goddess …
4606 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 November 23, 1888, page 713 paragraph 12
… serve Baal, and who will be like Elijah and the seven thousand who withstood the tide of idolatry? Even now if you could penetrate into the secret chambers …
4607 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 December 28, 1888, page 792 paragraph 7
… with Baal and Dagon, the Asiatic conceptions of Deity. It then says:-
4608 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 December 28, 1888, page 794 paragraph 48
… Canaanitish Baal, which means “lord.” Pharaoh knew many lords and gods, and one above all, the sun-god, which was known as “ the lord;” he knew Ra, and Osiris, and Isis, and …
4609 The Signs of the Times, vol. 14 December 28, 1888, page 800 paragraph 4
… to Baal-peor and ate the sacrifices of the dead, it means that they ate the sacrifices offered to dead heroes, whom the idols of the heathen were made to honor …
4610 The Signs of the Times, vol. 15 March 11, 1889, page 151 paragraph 51
As to the nature of sun-worship, it will perhaps be sufficient to quote what the “Encyclopedia Britannica” says of Baal:-
4611 The Signs of the Times, vol. 15 March 11, 1889, page 151 paragraph 52
“The Baal of the Syrians, Phoenicians, and heathen Hebrews is a much less elevated conception than the Babylonian Bel. He is properly the sun-god Baal Shamem …
4612 The Signs of the Times, vol. 15 March 18, 1889, page 167 paragraph 10
… unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these …
4613 The Signs of the Times, vol. 15 September 9, 1889, page 472 paragraph 52
… , by showing his lack of power? Who will say, Yes? Not one. Baal-worship would them no good, and they might better worship nothing. There was no power in Baal to reward …
4614 The Signs of the Times, vol. 15 December 9, 1889, page 632 paragraph 70
… for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings …
4615 The Signs of the Times, vol. 16 August 18, 1890, page 450 paragraph 36
… of Baal, and that of Elijah. 1 Kings 18:26-29, 36, 37. Consider the reverent calmness of the prayer of Christ at the tomb of Lazarus. John 11:41, 42. When we pray, we are …
4616 The Signs of the Times, vol. 16 August 25, 1890, page 450 paragraph 48
… of Baal, when the verdict of the jury was unanimous in favor of God. See 1 Kings 18:19-39. And so God’s dealings with men, especially as they appear in the judgment …
4617 The Signs of the Times, vol. 22 January 23, 1896, page 51 paragraph 43
… of Baal leaped and cut themselves ( 1 Kings 18:26-28 ), is work; but true prayer is not. A man comes to me and says that he is starving. Afterwards he is asked if anything …
4618 The Signs of the Times, vol. 22 July 30, 1896, page 468 paragraph 5
… acknowledged Baal. “Even so at this present moment there is a remnant according to the election of grace.” The grace of God appears to all men, and is extended …
4619 Sunday: The Origin of its Observance in the Christian Church, p. 14.3 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… was Baal, the sun, considered as the giver of light and life, the most active agent in all the operations of nature. But as he sometimes revealed himself as a destroyer …
4620 Sunday: The Origin of its Observance in the Christian Church, p. 15.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)
… ,” concerning Baal, which the reader has already learned was one of the names under which the sun was worshiped, gives the secret of the abominations of sun-worship …