GOD'S MINISTRY
THROUGH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OF
BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Revs. Mr. and Mrs. H. Dean Daniels
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ANOTHER REVELATION AND WARNINGS – PART II
PAGAN SUN WORSHIP AND CATHOLICISM
THE MONSTRANCE and the WAFER GOD
Ex 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Ex 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: ...
Note that the commandment of God forbids making and bowing down to images. Among pagans, perhaps the most common form of idolatry is sun worship, and the above prohibition would clearly exclude bowing down before images of the sun or moon (things in the heaven above). But then God gets even more explicit:
Deu 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
Deu 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
Deu 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in
Deu 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Jer 8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
Jer 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Jer 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
With that in mind, lets’ look at solar and lunar images directly associated with the Catholic Mass.
Here is Pope John Paul II holding what is called a Monstrance or Ostensorium. It is used to display a round wafer of bread, called the host, which is used in what is called the Mass, Lord's Supper, Communion or Eucharistic meal. The Catholic believes this wafer of bread actually turns into the actual body of Christ when consecrated during the Mass
The Roman Catholic Church even admits the Monstrance to be the sunburst, the Babylonian sun god Shamash!
"During the baroque period, it took on a rayed form of a sun-monstrance with a circular window surrounded by a silver or gold frame with rays."
Source: The Dictionary of
the Liturgy by Rev. Jovian P. Lang, OFM.,
published and copyrighted © 1989 by Catholic Book Publishing Co.,
Monstrance
in the
In fact, according to the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia-the most appropriate form (for the monstrance) is that of the sun emitting its rays to all sides (Instructio Clement., 5). [See Altar Vessels: Ostensorium]
Notice the letters SFS in the small sunburst blaze on the large close up of a Monstrance above? Each of the letters is a universal symbol for the number 6 in the pagan mysteries, so to the pagan it reads 666! The number 666 is also associated with what is called the "magic square of the sun". The practice of equating names and letters with numbers is called gematria.
The letter F:
The Hebrew letter Vau (V) has a value of 6. The English letter F is a descendant of Vau and retains the same value. The letter F is also the 6th letter of the English alphabet. In pagan numerology the letters F, O, and X have the value of 6.
The Greek symbol Digamma also looks like the letter F and has a value of 6.
The letter S:
The Greek equivalent of Vau is the letter Stau, which looks like an S, and it also has the value of 6.
Sources: The Modern Numerology by John King, published by Blandford, Copyright © 1996, ISBN 0-7137-2560-5, page 121 / Behind Numerology, by Shirley Blackwell Lawrence, published by Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc., Copyright © 1989, ISBN 0-87877-145-X, page 93 / Jesus Christ Sun of God, by David Fideler, Copyright © 1993, published by Quest Books of Wheaton Illinois and Madras India, ISBN 0-8356-0696-1, page 27.
And the flaming Sacred Heart located just below the SFS is actually symbolic of Baal / Tammuz!
The priest (here the Pope) sometimes holds up the sunburst monstrance with the host encased for the congregation to adore and venerate. Virtually any time the monstrance, a pagan god sun symbol, is viewed by the congregation, they kneel in submission. A Catholic cannot walk past this sun god symbol without acknowledging it by kneeling and or making the sign of the cross with their hands.
Remember God's commandment forbidding bowing down to images? How can the Catholic justify bowing down before a sun god image in veneration? They will tell you that they are paying homage to the host, bread they believe has actually turned into the actual body and blood of Jesus after being consecrated by a priest. Since the wafer, they believe, has been transformed into God Himself, it is the round wafer god inside the sunburst monstrance that they bow down to in worship, not the sunburst monstrance. However, the round wafer of bread itself is also a sun god symbol, which is sometimes made quite obvious in Catholic representations of the host in various forms of artwork.
Above
is the huge processional monstrance of the Cathedral of Toledo, Spain, made of
gilded solid silver and solid gold, being paraded through the streets for
public display on the festival of
The great monstrance of the cathedral of Toledo, which is more than twelve feet high, and the construction of which occupied in all more than 100 years, is adorned with 260 statuettes, one of the largest of which is said to be made of the gold brought by Columbus from the New World.
Source: Catholic Encyclopedia Online, Ostensorium (Monstrance).
Above
is the general sunburst pattern used to symbolize the host, the supposed
"true body" of Christ. This design has also
been adopted by the “Jesuits” as their symbol. The IHS is thought by
some to represent the first letters of each word in the Latin phrase Iesus
Hominum Salvator (Jesus Saviour of Men), although according to the Catholics
themselves they actually represent the first three letters of the name "Jesus"
in Greek .(spelled in Greek iota-eta-sigma-omicron-upsilon-sigma). The pagan
though, would quickly see the same sun god disk symbol associated with many
pagan deities of
Above is a statuette of the Egyptian goddess Isis. Her
headdress shows the sun god disk within the horns of an Apis bull, symbology
which is virtually identical to that of the sunburst monstrance. Also of note,
in
The Egyptian pharaoh also claimed to be the embodiment of Horus on earth, much like the pope claims to be the infallible Vicar of Christ on earth.
The
Apis bull, as depicted in this Egyptian statuette, is likely to be the pattern
used for the golden calf the Israelites made at
UBI PETRUS - IBI ECCLESIA
Where Peter is, there is the Church
This
is the reverse side of a medal commemorating the Catholic Eucharistic Congress
held in
The Worship of Baal is Sun god Worship
Below is an artifact unearthed in
the holy of holies of the pagan temple in the Canaanite city of
"Of special interest is a square basalt altar for
burning incense. On one of its sides, a circle with a cross in the center – the
divine symbol of the Canaanite storm god – is carved in low relief."
"It is a basalt offering table, pillar-shaped, with a carved symbol of the storm god Baal on its side. That symbol was a circle with a cross in the center," the plus type cross is the Satanic symbol of the god Baal.
2 Ki 23:3 And the king [Josiah] stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
2 Ki 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
2 Ki 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Ki 23:6 And
he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without
Baal Worship in
Source: Holman Bible Dictionary, Computer version, entry on Baal by James Newell.
BAAL
AS A DEITY
In many Chanaanite, Phoenician, or Palmyrene shrines, the sun was the god Baal, worshipped as sun-god and later the sun became known as Old Saul and is still being worshipped as such.
Catholic Sunburst Eucharist Host
Here the Eucharistic host, as Catholics call it, has
actually been made as a sunburst (note the flames around the edge). This
sun-god symbol, after consecration, is called the true body of God, to be adored
and bowed down to and worshipped by the laity, especially when displayed inside
a sunburst monstrance. Note the similarity to the symbol of Baal from Hatzor:
a cross within a circle.
Above
is a pagan Canaanite cultic pillar or "matstsebah", also found in
excavations of the city of
Deut
Above is Pope John Paul II celebrating Mass, elevating a large host for adoration. Note the similarity with the pagan Canaanite pillar and the plus symbol of the god Baal on the front of the Popes garment, located on the front of his neck collar and displayed on the front of his body and sleeves of his cape!
Do you think this is what Jesus had in mind at the Last Supper? No, when He "broke bread" He handed His disciples a torn fragment of unleavened bread, that symbolized His sinless broken body on the cross, but this is NOT what is conveyed with a pressed, round, intact and unbroken wafer that has been so commonly used.
Now, a Catholic might respond: the manna that fell from heaven was ROUND:
Ex 16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Voila! The round disk-like wafer
host of the Mass is a copy of God's manna!
No! Not, so fast. Note that scripture give us a description of manna in size, shape, color and taste:
Ex. 16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Ex
Num 11:7 And the manna was as coriander seed [in size and shape], and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium [white].
Num 11:8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
Psa 78:24 78:24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
The size and shape of manna
Exodus
In Psalm 78 manna is further described as the grain or corn of heaven. In Strong's the word in Psalm 78 is:
H1715. dagan, daw-gawn'; from H1711; prop. increase, i.e. grain:--corn ([floor]), wheat.
Manna, therefore, was small and round like a ball, similar to a small seed grain.
The
color of manna
The meaning of bdellium is somewhat
uncertain, however, similar words in other languages favor identification with
a resinous gum. In droplet form, the gum may have the appearance of a pearl,
white. Exodus
The
taste of manna
Ex
Num 11:8 ... the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
As described in the Bible, manna resembled Coriander in size and shape: it was like a grain, like a small white round ball-like seed which was collected, ground up, and baked to make cakes, like wheat is ground to make bread. So, no, the Catholic wafer host does not imitate manna in either size or shape.
Here are Catholic Web pages advocating that churches begin a program of perpetual 24 hour adoration (worship), of the wafer host:
You might call this the perpetual worshipping of "God in (of ?) the Sunburst Monstrance".
Here are additional pictures of monstrances online.
The
Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano
The last item is quite
extraordinary. In the 8th century, it is alleged that the host and wine turned
into actual living flesh and blood during a Mass, which it is said, remain well
preserved in a monstrance in
Here they attempt to explain and elaborate on such "inexplicable miracles".
Above
is a photo of a stele from
Above
is a close-up of a monstrance, and inside the glass enclosure is a crescent,
upon which the round wafer god host is placed, a virtual duplication of the
symbology of the Canaanite and Chaldean stele shown above. Many monstrances use
this crescent, which is officially called a "lunette" or
"luna" (moon), to hold the round wafer host. The sun disk in the
crescent moon is a quite common symbol for pagan religions, to include
Worshipping the Eucharist as God
Above on the left you see the pagan sunburst wafer god, inscribed with IHS and the cross, is portrayed above the cup of wine. This is the door to a place where the wine and wafers are stored. Above on the right, you see a similar carving depicting angels kneeling in idolatrous adoration or worship of the wafer god and wine. The plus cross is easily seen above the cup. The picture is displaying two angels worshipping the god Baal.
In case you think the word "worship" is an exaggeration on my part, please note this paragraph from the new Vatican Catechism of the Catholic Church: (Italics present in the original text)
1378 Worship of the Eucharist. In the liturgy of the Mass we express our faith in the real presence of Christ under the species of bread and wine by, among other ways, genuflecting or bowing deeply as a sign of adoration of the Lord. "The Catholic church has always offered and still offers to the sacrament of the Eucharist the cult of adoration, not only during Mass, but also outside of it, reserving the consecrated host with the utmost care, exposing them to the solemn veneration of the faithful, and carrying them in procession."
Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church, published by Ligouri Publications, English translation © 1994 by the United States Catholic Conference, Inc.--Libreria Editrice Vaticana, bearing the Imprimi Potest of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, page 347.
And note this decree concerning the
Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist from the thirteenth session of the Council
of Trent,
Chapter V
THE WORSHIP AND VENERATION TO BE SHOWN TO
THIS MOST HOLY SACRAMENT
There is, therefore, no room for doubt that all the faithful of Christ may, in accordance with a custom always received in the Catholic Church, give to this most holy sacrament in veneration the worship of latria, which is due to the true God.
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Revs.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Dean Daniels Sui Juris