"There are those who worship God, but serve Baal/ Lucifer. Such worshippers were of the house of ancient Israel. Today, you'll find them in churches. Isn't it astounding how many professed Christians are serving Baal/Lucifer in the 'Christian' church when the focus should be on Elyon/Yeshua?" (TNDL)
Here there are some historical informations about the Truth of these words !!!
The primitive serpent-worshippers of Canaan against whom Moses cautioned the children of Israel, were the HIVITES. This word, according to Bochart , is derived from Hhivia, a serpent: the root of which is Eph or Ev--one of the variations of the original Aub. EPHITES or EVITES, being aspirated, would become HEVITES or HIVITES--whence comes the word OPHITES, by which the Greek historians designated the worshippers of the serpent. The Greek word Οφις, a serpent, is derived from Oph, the Egyptian name for that reptile ; the same as Eph. The Hivites who were left "to prove Israel ," inhabited Mount Lebanon, "from Mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath." The children of Israel intermarried with them, "and served their gods." These were called BAALIM, which being in the plural number, may mean the god BAAL or BEL, under different forms of worship; of which that of the serpent was one; as we have seen under the article "Ophiolatreia in Babylon."The extent to which this worship prevailed, may be estimated by the fact of its surviving to the time of Hezekiah, when the Jews "burnedincense" to the brazen serpent which had been laid up among the sacred relics, as a memorial of their deliverance from the serpents in the wilderness. Hezekiah "removed the high places, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for UNTO THOSE DAYS the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehustan ,"--i.e. a piece of brass, by way of contempt.But the worship of the serpent was not so easily suppressed in Canaan. The Jewish polity being broken up, the lurking ophites crept out of their obscurity; and in the second century brought dishonour on the Christian religion, by claiming an affinity of faith with the worshippers of JESUS. ( D. T.)
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