Horns Of The Altar Quotes

though books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and wicked spirits! in books dwell all the demons and all the angels of the human mind. it is for this reason that a a bookshop -- especially a second-hand bookshop / antiquarian - is an arsenal of explosives, an armory of revolutions, an opium den of reaction. and just because books are the repository of all the redemptions and damnations, all the sanities and insanities, of the divine anarchy of the soul, they are still, as they have alwasys been, an object of suspicion to every kind of ruling authority. in a second-hand bookshop are the horns of the altar where all the outlawed thoughts of humanity can take refuge! here, like depserate bandits, hide all the reckless progeny of our wild, dark, self-lacerating hearts. a bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. of all the 'houses of ill fame' which a tyrant, a bureaucrat, a propagandist, a moralist, a champion of law and order, an advocate of keeping people ignorant for their own good, hurries past with averted eyes or threatens with this minions, a bookshop is the most flagrant. ~ autobiography

A halo? Won’t that get in the way of your horns?” She extended her index fingers on either side of her head. “I’ll just wear my halo at a cocky angle over one horn. It’ll be sexier that way. You won’t know what hit you.

to be the next evolutionary step for mankind. This super man is now only tuned into the resonance of Lucifer himself.

I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live maggots in amber, there are shells of worms in the rock and moths flapping at my eyes. A wind from no place rises. A sense of the real exults me; the cords loosen: I walk on my way.

consider an atheist to be empowered by a religious spirit that enforces the religion of self (which is the fuel that invigorates the transhumanist movement). This is a perfect example of the Antichrist spirit,

Psalms 118 25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. 27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. 28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee. 29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted, liminal spaces, at a very narrow remove from the atavistic Wild. Arcadia is not the realm even of Giorgione and of Claude, with its cracked pillars and thunderbolts, its lurking banditti; still less is it Poussin’s sun-dappled and regularised realm of order, where, although the lamb may be destined for the altar and the spit, all things proceed with charm and gravity and studied gesture; least of all is it the degenerate and prettified Arcady of Fragonard and Watteau, filled with simpering courtier-Corydons, pallid Olympians, and fat-arsed putti. (It is only family piety that prevents me from taking a poker to an inherited coffee service in gilt porcelain with bastardised, deutero-Fragonard scenes painted on the sides of every damned thing. Cue Wallace Greenslade: ‘… “Round the Horne”, with Marie Antoinette as the dairymaid and Kenneth Williams as the manager of the camp-site….’) No: Arcadia is the very margin of the liminal space between the safe tilth and the threatening Wild, in which Pan lurks, shaggy and goatish, and Death proclaims, from ambush, et in Arcadia ego. Arcadia is not the Wide World nor the Riverbank, but the Wild Wood. And in that wood are worse than stoats and weasels, and the true Pan is no Francis of Assisi figure, sheltering infant otters. The Wild that borders and penetrates Arcady is red in tooth and claw.

John Fire Lame Deer, a Lakota medicine man, wrote gut-wrenchingly about what the bison meant for his people, and what happened when they were destroyed: The buffalo gave us everything we needed. Without it we were nothing. Our tipis were made of his skin. His hide was our bed, our blanket, our winter coat. It was our drum, throbbing through the night, alive, holy. Out of his skin we made our water bags. His flesh strengthened us, became flesh of our flesh. Not the smallest part of it was wasted. His stomach, a red-hot stone dropped in to it, became our soup kettle. His horns were our spoons, the bones our knives, our women’s awls and needles. Out of his sinews we made our bowstrings and thread. His ribs were fashioned into sleds for our children, his hoofs became rattles. His mighty skull, with the pipe leaning against it, was our sacred altar. The name of the greatest of all Sioux was Tatanka Iyotake—Sitting Bull. When you killed off the buffalo you also killed the Indian—the real, natural, “wild” Indian.

Milgram came to believe that much of that sentiment was true, and that “the essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person’s wishes, and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

The Internet is shaping your life, spying on you, and making judgments about your posts and pictures. Eventually, it will have the connected drone power to act upon any and all inferences it may make about you and your loved ones. Those who now build the soft and hard architecture that feeds this rising image of the Beast probably have no concept of the terrifying potential they are programming into it. It will not fully rise until the Antilamb is granted the power to give it life, but the Internet is stirring with disturbingly powerful panoptics.

February 6 Are You Ready to Be Offered? I am already being poured out as a drink offering. 2 Timothy 4:6 (rv mg) “I am now ready to be offered”(kjv). It is a transaction of will, not of sentiment. Tell God you are ready to be offered; then let the consequences be what they may, there is no strand of complaint now, no matter what God chooses. God puts you through the crisis in private, no one person can help another. Externally the life may be the same; the difference is in will. Go through the crisis in will, then when it comes externally there will be no thought of the cost. If you do not transact in will with God along this line, you will end in awakening sympathy for yourself. “Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.” The altar means fire—burning and purification and insulation for one purpose only, the destruction of every affinity that God has not started and of every attachment that is not an attachment in God. You do not destroy it, God does; you bind the sacrifice to the horns of the altar; and see that you do not give way to self-pity when the fire begins. After this way of fire, there is nothing that oppresses or depresses. When the crisis arises, you realise that things cannot touch you as they used to do. What is your way of fire? Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

When you see a consistent pattern of denying the truth, such as a leader’s refusal to say that Jesus Christ is the “Way, the Life, and the Truth” and that there is no other way into heaven except through faith in Jesus Christ, this presents a serious problem. In addition, if that Christian leader is continually saying things or making statements which are in direct contradiction to clear biblical truth, this can be evidence of apostasy.

Thus speaks Christ our Lord to us: You call me Eternal, then do not seek me. You call me Fair, then do not love me. You call me Gracious, then to not trust me. You call me Just, then do not fear me. You call me Life, then do not choose me. You call me Light, then do not see me.

You call me Lord, then do not respect me. You call me Master, then do not obey me. You call me Merciful, then do not thank me. You call me Mighty, then do not honor me. You call me Noble, then do not serve me. You call me Rich, then do not ask me. You call me Savior, then do not praise me. You call me Shepherd, then do not follow me. You call me the Way, then do not walk with me.

You call me Wise, then do not heed me. You call me Son of God, then do not worship me When I [sentence] you, then do not blame me.

April 24 MORNING “And because of all this we make a sure covenant.” — Nehemiah 9:38 THERE are many occasions in our experience when we may very rightly, and with benefit, renew our covenant with God. After recovery from sickness when, like Hezekiah, we have had a new term of years added to our life, we may fitly do it. After any deliverance from trouble, when our joys bud forth anew, let us again visit the foot of the cross, and renew our consecration. Especially, let us do this after any sin which has grieved the Holy Spirit, or brought dishonour upon the cause of God; let us then look to that blood which can make us whiter than snow, and again offer ourselves unto the Lord. We should not only let our troubles confirm our dedication to God, but our prosperity should do the same. If we ever meet with occasions which deserve to be called “crowning mercies” then, surely, if He hath crowned us, we ought also to crown our God; let us bring forth anew all the jewels of the divine regalia which have been stored in the jewel-closet of our heart, and let our God sit upon the throne of our love, arrayed in royal apparel. If we would learn to profit by our prosperity, we should not need so much adversity. If we would gather from a kiss all the good it might confer upon us, we should not so often smart under the rod. Have we lately received some blessing which we little expected? Has the Lord put our feet in a large room? Can we sing of mercies multiplied? Then this is the day to put our hand upon the horns of the altar, and say, “Bind me here, my God; bind me here with cords, even for ever.” Inasmuch as we need the fulfillment of new promises from God, let us offer renewed prayers that our old vows may not be dishonoured. Let us this morning make with Him a sure covenant, because of the pains of Jesus which for the last month we have been considering with gratitude.

Cernunnos is a horned god associated with nature and animals.  His name is usually translated as “Horned One”, and he is also known as “Lord of all Wild Things”.  There was dispute about his name, as it is derived from a piece of altar found in Notre Dame (Paris) dating to 17 CE which reads ERNUNNO, and depicts a bull-horned god, not the stag-horned god of the Gundestrup Cauldron.[202]

Gladly I close this festive day, Grasping the altar's hallow'd horn; My slips and faults are washed away, The Lamb has all my trespass borne.

then Sardis would seem to be an allusion to the Reformation and its entrails; however, Sardis is presented as having only a “name,” yet is dead. “I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended,

for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six. (Rev. 13:11–18, emphasis added)

was in 1869 by Swiss physiological chemist Friedrich Miescher. Since that time, our understanding of DNA continues to grow through a wellspring of new research and discoveries. The amount of information that can be stored in our DNA is mind-boggling. Susan

rights, and ecosystem rights, all ideas newly enshrined in the constitutions of Switzerland (where one now must harvest

MGM’s 1956 science fiction film, Forbidden Planet. This cult classic movie centers on a rather eccentric but brilliant scientist named Dr. Edward Morbius (played by Walter Pidgeon) and his innocent teenage

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has proposed adding a caveat that true life must demonstrate the ability and/or potential to evolve along Darwinian guidelines.

Steven A. Benner, founder of the Westheimer Institute of Science and Technology and the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, synthetic biology must be considered a viable contender for “life” as we know it:

Evolutionists believe that all life on earth “evolved” from nonliving matter, which (either spontaneously or after being acted upon by an outside force) gave rise to self-replicating molecules. These

Now, I won’t dwell on this, but it is interesting to note that ARPAnet is an anagram of “pan tare.” Pan, a mythological, goat-legged creature, was reputed to rape women and commit all manner of adulterous and lecherous acts. Pan has now come to serve as a prefix meaning “everywhere at once” or “worldwide,” as in “pandemic.” Tares are weeds and were used by Jesus as representing the evil that the enemy has sown in a field:

Called in verse 2 “the prince of Tyre,” the one referred to in the passage is surely not an earthly ruler but one with greater longevity:

Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee. With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast

therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be appalled

legal eagles will peck each other to death debating the rights of the world’s newest “netizens.

Blue Brain Project, an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level.

God’s answer for iniquity is: (1) repentance, (2) application of the blood of Jesus, (3) meditation on God’s Word, and (4) implementing God’s Word until it is encoded into our DNA and the Holy Spirit has “bent” us back toward righteousness.

Epigenetics may occur during life or begin in the womb when chemical changes brought on by the mother’s activity affect the genetics—

my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams…. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Acts 2:17–18, 21, emphasis added)

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,

their death by starting a grass fire. The escaping animals would flounder in a swamp or rush headlong off a cliff, as at Ulm Pishkun, outside of Great Falls, Montana, only to plummet to a horrible and lingering death from broken bones and damaged internal organs. And what about the natural respect for life and the “peaceful” Indians? We hear of Custer’s cruelty and murderous rampages against helpless and innocent Native Americans, but Indian wars between Iroquois and Huron, Comanche and Chickasaw were equally vicious

saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, that had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he hath power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

genome have marked vast sections of it as junk DNA; this is scientific jargon for “they don’t have a clue what it does”), we are also discovering that DNA can be altered. This was alluded to in the quote included

This is as good a place as any to apologize for my use of masculine pronouns for God in the previous sentence. You’ll notice that wherever I can, I avoid the use of masculine pronouns for God because they can give the false impression to many people today that the Christian God is a male deity.[105]

These lectures are called “Understanding Theology.” As I read, I came upon this quote: “The conscience is what is left of the image of God in us, incapable of saving us and yet leaving us without excuse.”[91

within man and replace it with the image of the Beast (possibly a resequencing of man’s DNA to form a new and superior species)? Man would have no more conscience. It would be impossible to respond to the gospel and repent. Men and women would be unredeemable. People will

Become true Bereans. Get deeply involved in the Scriptures and conduct your own research. Religious spirits love quick answers—Scriptures out of context that are nothing more than pretexts. Most of all, these spirits hate detailed examination. For the praying man or woman, the facades of these religious spirits are easily pierced and the deceptions quickly exposed. Become a deep thinker and a devout seeker of the face of God. A spiritual person can quickly see through the fruitless environments that religious spirits create!

NOTHING in Scripture allows for setting up websites, blogs, or other mediums to PUBLICALLY and routinely lambast believers with accusations—that is the job of Satan and his followers! He is the father of lies and the “accuser of our brethren…which accused them before our

Thus, with sin redefined and evil eliminated as a “metaphysical reality,”[231] the gospel was compromised and the church complicit. It could then pray reverently with the Führer:

Instead, they were enraptured by Hitler’s acclamation:

As in the Yale University experimentation, most subjects in the Sheridan-King research illustrated high levels of distress during the ordeal, yet 50 percent of the male subjects and 100 percent of the females obeyed the authority figure and continued to “electrocute” the puppy

Thankfully, there are other church members, pastors, and leaders who, as sincere believers, have become increasingly aware of this sinister invasion into organizations by daimonions and in recent years have made special efforts to teach their congregations how to identify the differences between “religious spirits” and true Christianity.

Genetically engineered with a specific cellular combination by powerful fallen angels (whom the Sumerians called “flying geniuses”), these remarkable living constructs, not made in the image of God, were specifically designed for demonic inhabitation.

They may begin walking differently, thinking differently, and behaving in ways no longer atypical of known creation.

It will not conflict with political objectives because positive faith goes hand in hand with constructive political ideology. The manifesto

To be “the best Christian one can be” will appear synonymous with being the perfect US citizen. Fear will lead families to betray one another:

stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.[223]

The state dictated the role of the church. Furthermore, it mandated that any criticism of the state would not be tolerated.

As to Nietzsche, he famously asserted a philosophy known as the will to power.

like Ulrich von Hutten [1488–1523, an outspoken German scholar, poet, and reformer],

is the primary reason Islam hates Americans. Islam views the church’s toleration of secular society as an abhorrent mixture of the sacred and profane—not so much an expression of political unity, but a compromised expression of religious weakness. Subsequently, the more Islam frightens

Theology became applied psychology.

include a kind of “evil genetic combination” that leads to lower inhibitions involving criminal activity and murder.

manmade tool used to hew stone for an altar, which would thus “pollute” the altar—an important point as we consider Nimrod later. Finally,

The command in order to be redeemed, thus become part of God’s eternal family, is: “Believe”: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Rom. 10:9–10). All who are redeemed constitute the church of Jesus Christ, and this is the church we are concerned about in particular. It is this body of true believers that collectively and individually is under assault by the forces of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

That pouring out of God’s anger won’t happen until the church is removed. However, there is almost certainly a heavenly decision that has already been made, and is even now in the process of implementation. It is likely the decision to either take corrective measures as in God’s past dealings with America in order to get this nation back on the moral course to complete its work in His grand prophetic design, or to give rebellious masses what they more and more demonstrate they demand. They demand freedom to choose what is right in their own eyes.

us, as Oswald Chambers entitled his book of devotions, do “our utmost for His highest

because most of these PC types are socialist-leaning globalists who want us to be citizens of the world rather than citizens of a sovereign nation. Hyphenating,

Worldview—the Christian worldview—is all-important in God’s economy. God’s worldview is, as legendary football coach Vince Lombardi once put it in talking about winning, not everything. It is the only thing!

doubt that the 112th pope from the time he wrote the predictions is a strange pope to be sure.

In his interview with the CNBC business news channel, Obama was asked about Francis’ recent comment that the Catholic Church has become too “obsessed

Sure sounds good, doesn’t it? Unity—that’s the ticket for the coming Antichrist system. Unity means to embrace all belief systems as acceptable

Jesus Christ, as the way, the truth, and the life, and as the only way to God the Father, you see, is too harsh, too…well…exclusive.

talking about the proposition—actually, the firmly held belief by these noted prophecy teachers, apparently—that following the Rapture, those who accept the mark of the Beast will still have a chance to be saved—that is, go to heaven. This is their claim, and it has raised

We are cleansed of all sins, past, present, and future, through the shed blood of our Lord, who died for us and rose again on the third day. But,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the most noteworthy theologian who saw Hitler for what he was—a mass murderer. Eventually he lost his life for participating in an assassination attempt on Hitler. He is the most famous Christian martyr of the twentieth century, although only one of millions as we have learned that the martyr death toll in the last twenty years may now exceed the total number of martyrs since the first century.

quick search of Internet videos[156] reveals some truly disturbing behavior—hysterical laughing, uncontrollable shaking, indecipherable babbling, and altered states of consciousness induced through repetitive, rhythmic music—celebrated as the work of the Holy Spirit. The fact that there are no precedents in the Bible for such behavior apparently doesn’t concern people who are so eager to touch the

An example is seen in an Arabic version of Matthew 28:19 from “baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” to “cleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit.” As we have seen above, familial and biological

Francis Schaeffer, the greatest evangelical theologian of the last century, wrote these words in his book, The Great Evangelical Disaster:

and I was deeply intellectual. I had read and understood Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, George Orwell’s 1984, and the books written by Fabian socialists Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, John Maynard Keynes, etc. I had met Dr. Timothy Leary, the Harvard LSD guru, and Ken Kesey, who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I had seen the “great white light,” felt “cosmic consciousness,” and had undergone many other Eastern mystical experiences.

is a call for genuine spiritual discernment! God has given us a powerful tool for exercising discernment, and that tool is the entire Word

Jesus Christ warned that the great sin of the evangelical church is accommodation to the spirit of this age and failing to stand for clear biblical truth.

It is terribly unfortunate that an ardent antitheist like Hitchens understands Christianity better than a so-called minister. However, this is representative of the polarization inherent in the postmodern project.

all that matters is God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.” Zepps followed up by asking if that included homosexuals. “Absolutely,” Osteen insisted. “I believe that God has breathed his life into every single person. We’re all on a journey. Nobody’s perfect.”[131] Osteen pastors a congregation of forty

The electronic culture is now dominated by pornography, corruption, thievery, and crass commercialism that threaten to undermine the last vestiges of civilized behavior. The mind of this generation is all but enslaved to its seduction.

Recently, the mega ministry World Vision has announced that it now is allowing employees to be involved in homosexual “marriages.” The purpose of this, according to Richard Stearns, president of the US branch,

They spoke to a tree and said: “Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned their back unto me, and

Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar” (Psalm 118:27). You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents—burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose—the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God.

By the time of the Mosaic covenant, the peace offering (Lev 17:11ff.) was the divinely prescribed means of maintaining a harmonious relationship between God and his covenant people. The sin offering (Lev 4) dealt with sin as a barrier between the worshipers and God. This sin offering was a slaughtered bull, lamb, or goat with which the worshiper had identified himself by laying his hands on its head. When the blood of the victim, signifying its life (Lev 17:11), was daubed on the horns of the altar, symbolizing the presence of God, God and the worshipers were united in a renewed relationship.

The heart itself is no safe sanctuary for sin to sit in. The word will take it thence—as Joab from the horns of the altar—to slay it.

THE MARTYR AND THE CHAIN. "When Hooper, the blessed martyr, was at the stake, and the officers came to fasten him to it, he cried, 'Let me alone; God that hath called me hither will keep me from stirring; and yet,' said he, upon second thought, ' because I am but flesh and blood, I am willing. Bind me fast, lest I stir.'" John Hooper (1495-1500 – 1555) was an Anglican English Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester. An advocate of the English Reformation, he was martyred during the Marian Persecutions. Some plead that they have no need of the holdfasts of an outward profession, and the solemn pledges of the two great ordinances, for the Holy Spirit will keep them faithful; yet surely, like this man of God, they may well accept those cords of love wherewith heavenly wisdom would bind us to the horns of the altar. Our infirmities need all the helps which divine love has devised and we may not be so self-sufficient as to refuse them. Pledges, covenants, and vows of human devising should be used with great caution; but where the Lord ordains, we may proceed without question, our only fear being lest by neglecting them we should despise the command of the Lord, or by relying upon them we should wrest the precept from its proper intent. Whatever will prove a check to us when tempted, or an incentive when commanded, must be of use to us, however strong we may conceive ourselves to be. "Bind the sacrifice with cords, even with cords to the horns of the altar." Lord, cast a fresh band about me every day. Let the constraining love of Jesus hold me faster and faster. "Oh, to grace how great a debtor, Daily I'm constrained to be!  Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to thee.

The only altar at which he worshiped was that of Apollo the Giver of Life, at Delos, which is at the back of the Altar of Horns, because wheat and barley, and cheese cakes are the only offerings laid upon it, as it is not dressed by fire, and no victim is ever slain there, as Aristotle tells us, in his Constitution of the Delians.

Other deities from the African continent gained a foothold in Rome: Jupiter Ammon, a god from Cyrene, was there chiefly through iconography, in the forum of Augustus (in memory of Alexander, the haunting model of universal monarchy), but also on funerary altars where his head with ram's horns safeguarded the tomb. Septimius Severus consecrated a 'gigantic' temple (DC, 77, 16, 3) to the gods of his homeland, Leptis Magna 'the Great': Hercules and Liber who represented the Punic Melqart and Eschmoun. The Virgo Caelestis, 'evoked' in 146 bc by Scipio Aemilianus, also enjoyed the favour of Septimius Severus, whose coinage shows the goddess on a lion's back, like Cybele in the Circus Maximus.

The Genius populi Romani holds the patera for libations (sometimes in front of a lit altar) and the horn of plenty; these were attributes of the piety and felicity that symbolised Rome's vocation embodied by the emperor Pius Felix, two titles that had been added to his description since the time of Commodus.

In the Old Testament, Aaron the High Priest represented all of the children of Israel. Therefore as a representative of the entire nation of Israel, the High Priest transferred all their sins by laying both his hands on the head of a goat, and by drawing the blood of the animal by slitting its throat, and then putting its blood on the four horns of the altar of burnt offering. He thus offered the sin offering of the Day of Atonement before God on behalf of all the people. In the New Testament, it was none other than John the Baptist who was the representative

Revelation 9:13–16 (NLT): Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice speaking from the four horns of the gold altar that stands in the presence of God. And the voice said to the sixth angel who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River.” Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were turned loose to kill one-third of all the people on earth. I heard the size of their army, which was 200 million mounted troops.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying to 4:1 tell the children of Israel, “If a soul sins against any of Yahweh’s commandments through ignorance of the things that ought not be done, and does any of them, 4:2 or if the anointed priest sins and brings guilt upon the people, let him bring a young bull without blemish for a sin offering to Yahweh. 4:3 He shall bring the bull to the door of the tabernacle and lay his hand upon the bull's head, and kill the bull before Yahweh. 4:4 The anointed priest shall take the bull's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation. 4:5 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle the blood seven times before Yahweh in front of the veil of the sanctuary. 4:6 The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the tabernacle, then pour all the blood of the bull at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle. 4:7 And he shall take from the bull all the fat for the sin offering— the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is upon the innards, 4:8 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, which he shall take away with the kidneys, 4:9 just as it was taken from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings— and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering. 4:10 The skin of the bull, and all his flesh, and his head, and his legs, and his innards and his dung— 4:11 the whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on a wood fire. Where the ashes are poured out, he shall be burnt.

There have been many cases reported in which a child was given up at birth and raised by another couple, yet the same generational tendency toward a particular sin would manifest itself in the child. Such cases form an opposition to the theory that behavior is based solely on the home environment.

men,

the next smallest court, the Court of Priests. This was where the animals were cut and bled and burned on the large horned altar of unhewn stones that stood before the Temple, while a chorus of priests played their instruments and sang hymns of praise to the deity. A bronze laver stood nearby for what appeared to be cleansings. The Temple façade stood sixty feet high behind the altar, with its golden roof visible from anywhere on the entire temple mount.

There is nothing pleasanter than all this, although a man when so treated does feel himself to look like a calf at the altar, ready for the knife, with blue ribbons round his horns and neck. Crosbie felt that he was such a calf, — and the more calf-like, in that he had not as yet dared to ask a question about his wife’s fortune.