Robert, Restless and Always Reforming

Who are these idols Baal and Molech whom they sacrifice there children to? They are part of the pantheon of Canaanite religion that the Israelites had succumbed to. It was a semetic fertility cult in which they would worship and appease these God’s in order to obtain prosperity in the harvest.   Baal was the primary [...]

Child Sacrifice to Molech The sin of sacrificing the innocents on the altar of prosperity is a familiar sin in the pages of scripture. All we have to do is look at the people of Israel. It began when Solomon who built a place for Molech (I Kings 11:7-8). The Semitic cult of Molech was [...]