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4621 The Present Truth, vol. 9 July 27, 1893, page 264 paragraph 1
… , or Baal of the Babylonians. This feast, as regulated by Caligula, lasted five days; loose reins were given to drunkenness and revelry. This was precisely the …
4622 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 3, 1893, page 279 paragraph 1
… of Baal had almost entirely taken the place of the worship of God in Israel. One night Gideon, at the command of God, threw down the altar of Baal, and cut down the …
4623 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 3, 1893, page 279 paragraph 2
There was wisdom. If Baal were not a god, who should want to defend him; and if he were, he could defend himself. If he could not defend himself he was not worth pleading for, much less worshipping.
4624 The Present Truth, vol. 9 September 21, 1893, page 387 paragraph 6
… of Baal cut themselves with knives, “till the blood gushed out upon them” ( 1 Kings 18:28 ), hoping thereby to induce their god to listen to them. With the same idea …
4625 The Present Truth, vol. 9 November 16, 1893, page 516 paragraph 1
… of Baal. “And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet …
4626 The Present Truth, vol. 9 November 16, 1893, page 516 paragraph 2
… of Baal. They saw that if Baal could not protect his own altars, he was no god, and consequently could not protect them. “If he be a god, let him plead for himself.” All …
4628 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 21, 1893, page 600 paragraph 1
… of Baal. In the days of Christ the majority rejected Him, and crucified Him. In the days of Luther and the reformers the majority were Roman Catholics.
4629 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 28, 1893, page 615 paragraph 6
… of Baal, as recorded in 1 Kings 18:26-28. But God Himself has provided the sacrifice which brings the things that we ask for, and is willing and anxious to bestow …
4630 The Present Truth, vol. 10 March 15, 1894, page 163 paragraph 7
… to Baal-peor, “they ate the sacrifices of the dead.” Psalm 106:28 .
4631 The Present Truth, vol. 10 August 23, 1894, page 534 paragraph 10
… name “Baal,” whose worship was simply sun-worship, means nothing but “lord.” The sun was regarded as the chief lord of all, so that it would be sufficiently designated …
4632 The Present Truth, vol. 10 August 30, 1894, page 549 paragraph 5
… 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 …
4633 The Present Truth, vol. 10 September 20, 1894, page 597 paragraph 4
… of Baal cut themselves with knives in their efforts to get the attention of their god, when Elijah challenged them to the test before Israel. The doctrine …
4634 The Present Truth, vol. 10 November 29, 1894, page 759 paragraph 2
… to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.” Psalm 106:28. The heathen profess to hold intercourse with the dead, but the beings with whom they were really …
4635 The Present Truth, vol. 11 February 7, 1895, page 82 paragraph 11
… 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 …
4636 The Present Truth, vol. 11 April 4, 1895, page 215 paragraph 6
“How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him, but if Baal, then follow him.”
4637 The Present Truth, vol. 11 April 18, 1895, page 256 paragraph 13
… true Baal,” nor was there any attempt to turn the rites of Baal and Astarte into the service of God. The message was clear, “If the Lord be God, follow Him.” It is the …
4638 The Present Truth, vol. 11 May 2, 1895, page 278 paragraph 7
… unto Baal [sun-worship], 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 …
4639 The Present Truth, vol. 11 June 20, 1895, page 386 paragraph 12
… is Baal worship; for Baal means “lord,” which expresses the limit of the conception had by ignorant devotees of the object of their worship. They know there is …
4640 The Present Truth, vol. 11 June 20, 1895, page 386 paragraph 13
… word Baal has gone, idolatry still remains, the same now in origin, nature, and effects that it was then. Mere lord worship means Baal worship to-day, as certainly …