By Jim Stockstill
Arch of Baal: Gateway of Evil
Part 1
June 1, 2022
The Doom of Babylon
Revelation 17:1-6 “1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the judgment and doom of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters [influencing nations], 2 she with whom the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality, and the inhabitants of the earth have become intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” 3 And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was entirely covered with blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls, and she was holding in her hand a gold cup full of the abominations and the filth of her [sexual] immorality. 5 And on her forehead, a name was written, a mystery: “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES (false religions, heresies) AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” 6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints (God’s people), and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus [who were martyred]. When I saw her, I wondered in amazement!”
The Seat of Satan
Revelation 2:12-13 “12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; 13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and you hold fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.”
- Pergamos [G 4010]: (2 X’s): Height or elevation
- Satan [G 4567]: The accuser, the prince of evil spirits, the inveterate adversary of God and Christ
- Seat [G 2362]: Throne
- Dwelleth [G 2730]: Dwell or settle
The Third Term
The 2008 Democratic Acceptance Speech, at the Denver Bronco Stadium was on a stage that Obama had built which is a replica of the Pergamon Altar. Pergamon, or Pergamos, was an ancient Greek city located in modern Turkey [Bergama]. Among the ruins of the ancient city, which were excavated by the German government from 1879 to 1886, one can see the base of the altar of Zeus, a theater, the agora, a gymnasium, and several temples.
As he gives his speech, he leads the audience in the chant, “Yes we can.” When these words are played backward, you hear “Thank you Satan.” When Obama was speaking, there was a large tv screen showing the images of the event. It was located directly below this statue of the white horse and was visible to everyone.
The White Horse
Revelation 6:2 “I looked, and behold, a white horse, and the one who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.”
The chant, “yes we can,” is vocalized at the replica of the Seat of Satan
Psalm 83:2 “For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, and those who hate You have exalted [lifted the head] themselves.”
Politicians
Psalm 81:15 “Those who hate the Lord would pretend to obey Him, and their time of punishment would be forever.”
Isaiah 14:12 “How you have fallen from heaven, You star [shining one] of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who defeated the nations!”
Luke 10:18 “And He said to them, I saw Satan falling like a lightning [flash] from heaven.”
- Lightning [G 796]: bright shining
Barack Obama [Denver, CO]
- Barack [H 1300]: Lightning, flash like lightning
- The only way a Jewish Rabbi can say in Hebrew that Satan is Lightening is to say, “Satan Brack.”
- Obama [H 1116/G 5313]: the heights, on high – elevation.
The One World Freedom Center: replaced the Twin Towers
God’s Anger with Arrogance
Isaiah 9:8-10 “The Lord sends a word against Jacob, And it falls on Israel [the ten northern tribes, the kingdom of Ephraim]. 9 And all the people know it, That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria [it’s capital], Who say in pride and arrogance of heart: 10 “The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild [all the better] with ashlar (hewed stones); The sycamores have been cut down, But we will replace them with [expensive] cedars.”
On June 14, 2020, Barack Obama signed the 11,000-pound steel beam atop the One-World Freedom Center, which was built to replace the Twin Towers that were destroyed on 9/11.
WE remember!
WE rebuild!
WE come back stronger!
Baal Worship
Baal was considered the supreme deity in the Canaanite religion and led a council of lesser gods. The word Baal means lord, owner, master, husband, and this spirit seeks to exert control and ownership of people. The spirit of Baal controls and empowers leaders and others to enslave people. Remember Jezebel.
Jezebel (Princess of Sidon [modern day Lebanon] and High Priestess of Baal Worship) had instituted Baal and Asherah worship as the State religion in Israel (1 Kings 16:31). Baal was considered the God of weather and fertility and it was believed that the hot summers and lack of rain meant Baal was displeased and needed to be resurrected from the underworld to provide rain. Baal could be appeased in three ways:
- Child sacrifice
- Unrestrained sexual immorality
- Pantheism – worship of creation over the creator where the environment is more important than people
One of the consequences of this activity was unexpected pregnancies but that is not a problem for Baal as he will accept any child as a sacrifice. The arms and lap of Baal were lit with fire and the babies were placed in the fire as the drums were playing to drown out the cries of the child. The larger issue is not that the culture worshipped Baal, but that God’s people had also become loyal to Baal while attempting to worship Yahweh as well.
Arch of Palmyra
The Monumental Arch of Palmyra (Arch of Victory) was a Roman ornamental archway in Palmyra, Syria. It was built sometime during the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus and was designed to connect the main street of the Colonnade and the Temple of Bel. In 2016, a replica was erected by UNESCO in London’s Trafalgar Square to commemorate World Heritage Week. Since then, it has been set up in many other cities around the world, including New York City, Dubai, and Florence (Italy).
Promoters try to tell us that this is not a “religious” matter but a matter of “culture” and “world heritage.” This just shows their intent to bring their pagan culture to the world. Their crowning achievement, if they were to succeed, would be to legalize and then normalize child sacrifice as part of our world heritage. Religion is the basis of culture. One cannot eliminate religion without eliminating its culture.
The Arch, reproduced from a 3D printer, is 2/3 the size of the original. The New York Post says that the Institute for Digital Archaeology ultimately hopes to put 1,000 of these arches in cities all over the globe.
Baal worship is not something that we should be celebrating as a society, especially in a “so-called” Christian nation. Nevertheless, we are surrounded by 21st-century Baal worship. Unrestrained, legalized, sexual immorality, abortion and extreme environmentalism called climate change is nothing more than Baal worship under a new name called progressivism. There were very good reasons why the God of the Bible found it so incredibly repulsive. We know that there were usually lots of people gathered, often on a high hill (like a theatre or stadium) to observe public sex, just as Hollywood promotes the same in movies, on television, and the Internet.
New York City, NY
Temple of Baal arch arrives in New York as America’s turn away from God continues
The Harbinger author Jonathan Cahn unveiled the arrival of the Temple of Baal Arch replica arriving in New York City. After a showcased event in London, the monument was erected in The Big Apple, a short distance away from Ground Zero.
Cahn explained in his WND article that “Israel’s defiance of God was linked to a specific entity – the god Baal. Baal was the god to whom they sacrificed their children, before whom they practiced sexual immorality and called good ‘evil’ and evil ‘good.’ Baal was the god in whose name Israel persecuted the prophets and the righteous of their day.”
“It took place on a rainy Monday afternoon, September 19, 2016. It happened in the city of the harbingers of judgment – New York City. No one who erected it or who unveiled it had any idea what they were doing – just as with the harbingers – but they did it anyway.”
- “This arch that led to the Temple of Baal was reproduced down to the smallest detail and erected in New York City,” details Cahn. “It was erected in the park outside City Hall. It sat covered in a giant sheet to keep it cloaked until the time of its unveiling. Seats were set up around the veiled arch so that leaders and dignitaries could watch. “Before the moment of unveiling, a live band began playing Middle Eastern music. As one listened to the drumbeat, one could imagine similar music being played as worshipers ascended the ancient Temple of Baal.” Jonathan Cahn
Washington, DC
Previously, it has spent time in London, New York City, and Dubai – known as the Arch of Palmyra, the original was destroyed by ISIS in 2015, so, of course, internationalists decided to rebuild it and turn it into a traveling roadshow. The fact that Baal – also known in the Christian world as Beelzebub – was another name for Satan, did not raise many questions. He is the Bible’s anti-God – mentioned more often in Scripture than any deity other than the God of Israel.
And just like ancient Baal worshippers, we are a society that is engaged in child sacrifice. We call it “abortion,” but the motives are still the same. If an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy comes along, we have a mechanism “for getting rid of it,” just like they did. Since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, we have slaughtered more than 58 million of our children. I would venture to say that the ancient Baal worshippers never got quite that much blood on their own hands.
Deuteronomy 12:29-31 “30 When the Lord your God cuts off from you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and live in their land, 30 be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from your presence, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?’ 31 You shall not behave this way toward the Lord your God, because every abominable act which the Lord hates, they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire for their gods.”
Deuteronomy 32:16-17 “16 They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods and with repulsive acts, they provoked Him to anger. 17 “They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods whom they have not known, new gods who came lately, whom your fathers never feared.”
So, if there are evil spirits associated with this Baal idol, then the establishment of a Temple of Baal would provide an open door for these spirits in Israel. It is also not a coincidence that Jezebel built these temples in Israel’s two government cities [places of power] where Satan could maximize his influence.
Babylon H 894 (12 X’s in NT): Confusion by mixing.
Babylon G 897 (12 X’s in NT): Confusion, allegorically, of Rome as the most corrupt seat of idolatry and the enemy of Christianity
Modern Babylon: Hillah is a city in central Iraq situated on the Euphrates River,
As depicted in moves such as Spectre (007), Hydra, the “High Table” (John Wick), and Illuminati (Dr. Strange), Babylon has Tenacles everywhere.
Bond: Mr. White
https://youtu.be/7TG6R36bkgs?t=57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TG6R36bkgs
Bond: We are everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NVfY_C9Erk
Dr. Strange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puQ9sclthaU
Characteristics of Babylon
Both physical and the end time spiritual land: Babylon
Babylon and the Babylonian System
- Physical
- Political
- Financial
- Religious
Physical Babylon:
Isaiah 14:4-9 “4 You shall take up this [taunting] parable against the king of Babylon and say, How the oppressor has stilled [the restless insolence]! The golden and exacting city has ceased! 5 The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the [tyrant] rulers, 6 Who smote the peoples in anger with incessant blows and trod down the nations in wrath with unrelenting persecution [until] he who smote is persecuted and no one hinders any more. 7 The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; they break forth into singing. 8 Yes, the fir trees and cypresses rejoice at you [O kings of Babylon], even the cedars of Lebanon, saying, since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us. 9 Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead) below is stirred up to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the shades of the dead to greet you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it raises from their thrones [in astonishment at your humbled condition] all the kings of the nations.”
The Devil, Lucifer, or Satan [HaSatan (Hoss a tawn)] is the King of Babylon
Isaiah 14:12-15 “12 How have you fallen from heaven, O [b]light-bringer and daystar, son of the morning! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened and laid low the nations [O blasphemous, satanic king of Babylon!] 13 And you said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit upon the mount of assembly in the uttermost north. 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol (Hades), to the innermost recesses of the pit (netherworld, the region of the dead).”
Many heads and many tentacles
Nebuchadnezzar: Physical Land
2 Kings 24:10-15 “10 At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it, 11 and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it. 12 Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles, and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner. 13 As the Lord had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures from the temple of the Lord and the royal palace and cut up the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the Lord. 14 He carried all Jerusalem into exile: all the officers and fighting men, and all the skilled workers and artisans—a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest people of the land were left. 15 Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the prominent people of the land.”
Political Babylon
On October 24, 1945, the United Nations was formed from the ineffective League of Nations. There are 193 member states and two observer states: the Holy See and Palestine. In the Drums of War, I was shown this gathering of nations is a trojan horse in the United States.
Genesis 10:8-10 “8 Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty man on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore, it is said, Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord. 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia].”
- Nimrod [H 5248] (4 X’s): Rebellion
His Kingdom or the Babylonian system is going to represent rebellion against God.
- Genesis 11:4 “And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top reaches into the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the whole earth.”
Daniel 2:1 “Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him.”
- Daniel 2:26-28 “26 The king said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen and its interpretation?” 27 Daniel answered before the king and said, “As for the secret about which the king has inquired, neither wise men, sorcerers, soothsayer priests, nor diviners are able to declare it to the king. 28 However, there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter [end] days.”
- Daniel 2:31-33 “31 You, O king, were watching, and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary radiance, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome. 32 The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly, and its thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.”
- Daniel 2:37-38 “37 You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the honor; 38 and wherever the sons of mankind live, or the animals of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has handed them over to you and has made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.”
Therefore, as written, Nebuchadnezzar is the head of the Political Babylonian System.
Financial Babylon
Revelation 18:1-3 “1 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated from his glory. 2 And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a resort and dwelling place for demons, a dungeon haunted by every loathsome spirit, an abode for every filthy and detestable bird. 3 For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the excessive wealth of her luxury and wantonness.”
Religious System
Demands worship of itself
Daniel 3:1-5 “1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits [ninety feet] and its breadth six cubits [nine feet]. He set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, the governors, the judges and chief stargazers, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and lawyers, and all the chief officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had [caused to be] set up. 3 Then the satraps, the deputies, the governors, the judges and chief stargazers, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and lawyers, and all the chief officials of the provinces were gathered together for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 4 Then the herald cried aloud, You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, 5 That when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, dulcimer or bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.”
Revelation 13:13-15 “13 He performs great signs (startling miracles), even making fire fall from the sky to the earth in men’s sight. 14 And because of the signs (miracles) which he is allowed to perform in the presence of the [first] beast, he deceives those who inhabit the earth, commanding them to erect a statue (an image) in the likeness of the beast who was wounded by the [small] sword and still lived. 15 And he is permitted [also] to impart the breath of life into the beast’s image so that the statue of the beast could talk and cause to be put to death those who would not bow down and worship the image of the beast.”
As with Nebuchadnezzar, the end-time Religious System will demand worship.
Next Broadcast
- End time spiritual land – We had covered briefly the Daughter of Babylon before; I will show in Scripture it is an end-time nation – the spiritual land of the Daughter.
- We will continue with Babylon and show the Spiritual Characteristics of the Babylonian System.
End time spiritual land – the daughter of Babylon
Jeremiah 50:1,12 [hindermost H 0319 – the end the latter the last] of the [nations]
Genesis 49:1 Jacob in the last days [0319 – last days]
Combine the two Jer and Gen and it would read the “last of the nations” an end-time nation
Isaiah 47:1 – daughter of Babylon
Isaiah 47:5 – the Lady of Kingdoms
Jeremiah 50:2 Babylon is taken
Jeremiah 50:3 a nation from the north against her
Jeremiah 50:15 vengeance of the lord – scriptural for the end-time tribulation
Jeremiah 50:16 in the time of harvest [Matthew 13:39 sowed them is the devil harvest is the end of the world
Jeremiah 50:42 daughter of Babylon – cruel and will not show mercy o daughter of Babylon
Jeremiah 51:1 raise up against her a destroying wind
Jeremiah 51:11 the vengeance of the Lord
Jeremiah 51:33 Lord of Host, God of Israel daughter of Babylon
Isaiah 14:4 term for the Kingdom of Darkness
Isaiah 14:12 did weaken the nations
End of first segment
Spiritual Characteristics of the Babylon System
Described as a whore
Isaiah 47:1 and 3 uncovered nakedness is associated with sexual immorality
Genesis 9:21
Leviticus 20:17 his sister’s nakedness
Revelation 17:1 a great whore
Revelation 17:5 mother of harlots
Associated with being the glory of Kingdoms
Isaiah 13:1
Isaiah 13:19 the glory of kingdoms
Associated with be the Lady of Kingdoms
Isaiah 47:1, 5 the lady of kingdoms
Babylon does not think it will be destroyed
Isaiah 47:7 and you “said” I shall be a lady forever
Isaiah 47:8 I AM and there is none beside me, I shall not be a widow or loss of children
Babylon does not believe she will be judged (experience judgement)
Revelation 18:2 and 7 – I sit as a queen and shall see no sorrow
Babylon is associated with a land of pleasures
Isaiah 47:1, 8 you who are given to pleasures
Babylon is associated with deceit
Isaiah 21:2,3 and 9
Treacherously (H 898) to act treacherously deceitfully
Babylon trust in her wickedness and thinks no one sees – does what she does and get away with it
Isaiah 47:1, 10
Babylon is associated with idols and graven images
Isaiah 21:9
Jeremiah 50:2 and 38
Babylon is associated with witchcraft and sorceries
Isaiah 47:1, 9
Sorceries will not be able to save her
Isaiah 47:1, 12, 13, 15
Babylon means confusion by mixing Good and evil
Genesis 11:5, 8, 9 Babel (894), confounded (1101)
Hosea 7:8 mixed (1101) among the people
Isaiah 47:6 God’s people are in bondage – task masters [beginning of teaching]
Jeremiah 50: 1, 33 God’s people oppressed, took captive
Isaiah 14:4 – oppressor (5065) in Babylon
I Samuel 14:24 distressed (5065)
Exodus 3:7 5065 – translated as taskmaster – will occur in Babylon (oppression and distress) spiritually how God sees it.
NOTE: G numbers listed below refer to Strong’s Greek Lexicon: example – G1722
1Pe 5:13 –
The church that is at G1722 Babylon, G897 elected together with G4899 you, salute G782 you; G5209 and G2532 so doth Marcus G3138 my G3450 son. G5207
Rev 14:8 –
And G2532 there followed G190 another G243 angel, G32 saying, G3004 Babylon G897 is fallen, G4098 is fallen, G4098 that great G3173 city, G4172 because G3754 she made G4222 ➔ all G3956 nations G1484 drink G4222 of G1537 the wine G3631 of the wrath G2372 of her G846 fornication. G4202
Rev 16:19 –
And G2532 the great G3173 city G4172 was divided G1096 into G1519 three G5140 parts, G3313 and G2532 the cities G4172 of the nations G1484 fell: G4098 and G2532 great G3173 Babylon G897 came in remembrance G3415 before G1799 God, G2316 to give G1325 unto her G846 the cup G4221 of the wine G3631 of the fierceness G2372 of his G846 wrath. G3709
Rev 17:5 –
And G2532 upon G1909 her G846 forehead G3359 was a name G3686 written, G1125 MYSTERY, G3466 BABYLON G897 THE GREAT, G3173 THE MOTHER G3384 OF HARLOTS G4204 AND G2532 ABOMINATIONS G946 OF THE EARTH. G1093
Rev 18:2 –
And G2532 he cried G2896 mightily G2479 with G1722 a strong G3173 voice, G5456 saying, G3004 Babylon G897 the great G3173 is fallen, G4098 is fallen, G4098 and G2532 is become G1096 the habitation G2732 of devils, G1142 and G2532 the hold G5438 of every G3956 foul G169 spirit, G4151 and G2532 a cage G5438 of every G3956 unclean G169 and G2532 hateful G3404 bird. G3732
Rev 18:10 –
Standing G2476 afar G3113 off G575 for G1223 the fear G5401 of her G846 torment, G929 saying, G3004 Alas, G3759 alas, G3759 that great G3173 city G4172 Babylon, G897 that mighty G2478 city! G4172 for G3754 in G1722 one G3391 hour G5610 is G2064 ➔ thy G4675 judgment G2920 come. G2064
Rev 18:21 –
And G2532 a G1520 mighty G2478 angel G32 took up G142 a stone G3037 like G5613 a great G3173 millstone, G3458 and G2532 cast G906 it into G1519 the sea, G2281 saying, G3004 Thus G3779 with violence G3731 shall G906 ➔ that great G3173 city G4172 Babylon G897 be thrown down, G906 and G2532 shall be found G2147 no more G3364 at all. G2089
Isaiah 9:8-21
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
“8 The Lord has sent a word against Jacob [the ten tribes], and it has lighted upon Israel [the ten tribes, the kingdom of Ephraim].
9 And all the people shall know it—even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria [its capital]—who said in pride and stoutness of heart,
10 The bricks have fallen, but we will build [all the better] with hewn stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put [costlier] cedars in their place.
11 Therefore the Lord has stirred up the adversaries [the Assyrians] of Rezin [king of Syria] against [Ephraim], and He will stir up their enemies and arm and join them together,
12 The Syrians [compelled to fight with their enemies, going] before [on the east] and the Philistines behind [on the west]; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, [God’s] anger is not [then] turned away, but His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].
13 Yet the people turn not to Him Who smote them, neither do they seek [inquire for or require as their vital need] the Lord of hosts.
14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail [the highest and the lowest]—[high] palm branch and [low] rush in one day;
15 The elderly and honored man, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
16 For they who lead this people cause them to err, and they who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up (destroyed).
17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will He have compassion on their fatherless and widows, for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this, [God’s] anger is not turned away, but His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].
18 For wickedness burns like a fire; it devours the briers and thorns, and it kindles in the thickets of the forest; they roll upward in a column of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is darkened and burned up, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no man spares his brother.
20 They snatch in discord on the right hand, but are still hungry [their cruelty not diminished]; and they devour and destroy on the left hand, but are not satisfied. Each devours and destroys his own flesh [and blood] or his neighbor’s.
21 Manasseh [thirsts for the blood of his brother] Ephraim, and Ephraim [for that of] Manasseh; but together they are against Judah. For all this, [God’s] anger is not turned away, but His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].”
Hebrew Numbers
The first nine letters of the alphabet correspond to the Hebrew numbers 1-9. The next nine letters to the tens units (10-90), and the last 4 letters of the Hebrew alphabet to the first four hundreds (100-400).
Numbers over 10 are formed by combining letters, whose numerical equivalents are added together, rather than used symbolically. For example, the Roman numeral 11 is formed by combining 1 and 1 who together form a symbol for 11. In Hebrew, however, 11 is indicated by the combination of the letters א, whose value is 1, and י , whose value is 10. Together they add up to 11 – י”א . In this vein, 12 = י”ב = 13 , י”ג and so forth.
Two notable exceptions are the numbers 15 and 16, which instead of being formed by adding 10+5 and 10+6, are written as 9+6 and 9+7. This convention is because the 10+5 and 10+6 combination of Hebrew letters would result in spelling G-d’s name, something Jews traditionally avoid. Thus, 15 = ט”ו and 16 = ט”ז
This system of adding numbers/letters to show a number larger than 10 requires 27 letters. The Hebrew alphabet has only 22. What do we do?
We use the last letter of the alphabet – ת which stands for 400 – in combination with the other letters whose values are in the 100s, to make up the numbers from 500 to 900.
To show that the letter combinations are in fact used as numbers, you insert gershayim – similar to a quotation mark – before the last letter in the combination.
A single geresh is used after a single letter when it is being used as a number.
Thousands are often indicated by a single letter, followed by an apostrophe (a geresh). For example:
The Hebrew year 5773 (2012-2013 in the Gregorian calendar) is written like this: ה’תשע”ג
The ‘ה with the geresh indicates 5000, followed by 400 (tav) + 300 (shin), then 70 (ayin) and 3 (gimmel). The 5000 is often dropped when writing the year, so you will usually see dates written simply as תשע”ג. (Source)
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