<TITLE>12. Par 93-103</TITLE>L-93 Then they made an offering. Then when he got hisself all worked up into this emotion, he goes up again before the idol. And this time the pagan priest had brought him down some--some food and drink, and set it at the feet of the idol. And then... (Now, I'm--got it wrote out here on this page, I'm reading it right off. See?) And he would go down to the foot of this idol, and take some of this drink offering and sip it, and nibble a little bit on the food, and then pour it upon the feet of the idol.
What was he doing? Having communion with devils, communing with devils, gods and goddesses. Just a--a figurative type of the Christian communing with Christ, eating the communion. That was the kind that the first church, or the first pilgrims of the Gospel that came to Rome found, was in these people in this kind of a worship.

L-95 Baal was the most noted god of all the age of the idols, was Baal: B, double a, l. He was a sun god. And then he had a--a wife, the moon god, goddess, Ashtoreth, I-s-h-t-r... Ashtoreth. And it's also pronounced, A-s-t-a-r-t-e, "Astarte." It's on the Roman coin. She was called the goddess, moon goddess, or "queen of heaven, mother of gods," the moon god. And the sun god was Baalim.
Well, nearly all the pagans worshipped that sun. Even the Indians was doing the same thing when--when we come--found America here--when America was founded. Come... The fathers came here; they found that they were still worshipping the--the sun, because in this, they worshipped...
That's the way they were worshipping the gods and goddesses in Rome, when the Christian arrived at Rome.

L-98 Now, in my travel, I have noticed that idolatry hasn't changed. And neither has true Christianity changed. They both hold their places, and will until the coming of the Lord Jesus. On this I'd like to speak just a little bit so you get an idea of it. And if you're spiritual, you surely will catch it.
Because that Baal was the sun god, well, the cakes that was made... As Jeremiah said here, we spoke of a few moments ago, the women had made cakes unto Baal, the sun god. 'Cause you find out a little later on, that--down in the chapter, if you read it, that they said, "If we don't worship Baal, then our crops fail, because Baal was the god of fertility." In other words, "We know that the sun makes the crops to grow."
But the prophet told them, "It's because you've forsaken God. That's the reason your crops don't grow."
But they worshipped Baal. Said, they'd worship, make offerings to him.

L-102 Now, if Baal is a round god... Now, catch this word by word, and you'll get the rest--the ending of this message. God was a round god, a sun god. They had great big brass plates that would reflect the sun and look like fire. And then the bread that Jeremiah said here that they... The women would bake these cakes unto Baal, that it was made round like the sun. Well, then it was laid upon the altar, the pagan altar for the communion, and made round like the sun or like the moon, because it was the sun god or the moon god.

L-103 The Baalim was... and we... Said, "It was a god of all fertility; he makes everything to grow."
Now, the early church come facing this when they come into Rome. And it is said and believed by the Roman church, or by the church today, or the Roman Catholic church, which is called Catholic.
We're all catholic. We are the catholic church. We are the apostolic catholic. The "catholic" means "universal." And we are the universal Church of the apostolic faith. Yes, sir. There's a difference between the two churches; one of them was catholic, universal, apostolic; the other one was Roman Catholic.


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