Their are multiple doctrines as to what God the golden calf was an image of, and the one I ignorantly promoted it as being was Yahweh, but through further prayer and research, I must say that doctrine is absolutely false. Amazing how it is soon forgotten that Israel was surrounded by the idolatrous Egyptians who were very heavy into sun worshipping. Which means that, Israel understanding of calendation was according to the way of the idolatrous Egyptians, which we see as the Most High prepares to bring them out, he gives them a new month. This month was to be the beginning of months, that was to be the first month of the year unto them, thus did he re-educate them and give unto them his Calendar for their observance of his Sabbaths and feast days. So lets dive right into the book of scriptures, and once again lay the truth butt naked till its shivering cold in your hearts and minds.
Question: So what happened when Moses was gone longer than expected?
Exodus 32:1 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
FYI: When Moses didn't return at the time the people had considered him to, they assume he might have been consumed by the fire they seen top of the mountain, or he might have died seeing as how he was gone so long without having anything to eat or drink. So they grew impatient with waiting on Moses to bring them commandments of the Most High, and therefore desired to establish their own worship, which stem from after the manner they learned in Egypt. Therefore, they came unto Aaron who was the chief authority during the absence of Moses, and was like make us gods to go before us, signifying they desired an image that represented divine presence. This key for understanding in our time, because the keeping of Sunday as the Lord's day, is upholding the image of the beast.
Question: So what happened next?
Exodus 32:2-4 - And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
FYI: Israel was very familiar with the worship of the Egyptians, which is why many have claimed this calf as being an imitation of the ox worship in Egypt, but really it was more of the Egyptian diety Apis, the calf, in whom which Israel was very familiar with and had grew accustom to worshipping. When faced with the question of why the calf didn't appear in the appropriate symbol of the god it represented, theologians have given many false accounts for justification. While knowing themselves, that the calf represented the divinity in the character of Saturn, which one of his names is Apis, just as the Egyptian divinity Osiris was mystically represented under the form of a young bull or calf. So as your beginning to see, the Romans worship of Saturn goes all the way back to the days of the ancient Egyptians. So as I stated before, Israel exodus out of Egypt was still fresh, so the calendation of the Most High was new to them, so they reverted back into the same Egyptian calendation that the Most High had just brought them out from under.
FYI: What you must understand about that calendation, is that prayer to the planets on their respective days, was part of the worship of the heavenly host or bodies, which this form of astro-theology is what religion was built from, which why each has a respective day in worship they worship on, all from a continuous weekly cycle. So when Aaron says tomorrow is a feast to the Lord, he is not talking about the Most High God of Israel, but rather the diety in which the calf was a symbol or imitiation of, such as Apis which is Saturn. So that feast took place on Saturn's Day, which they considered to be the "Lord's Day", from which the Pagans worshipped their gods on Saturn's Day. This was the Jews first beginning of worshipping Saturn's Day as being the Lord's Day, outside of when they were in bondage in Egypt, which you see today those professing to be Jews, still observe Saturn's Day. Examine the Golden Calf image below:
See they will have you examine the key features of the Sphinx and other Egyptian artifacts and treasures, but yet they never have you to do the same to the golden calf, why? Simple, because you would discover the hidden diety worship which they purposely used another animal image to represent instead of a direct symbol of that God's divinity. So hear you see the Egyptian bull calf diety of Apis aka Saturn, which you would clearly recognize upon close examination of its key features with one standing out loudly in particular, which is the solar disc between its horns, can you smell Saturn? Israel continued falling away was mostly because of their worship of Saturn, not Yahweh, which the Most High made another reference back to this event through the prophet Amos.
Question: What was said through the Prophet Amos about this event?
Amos 5:26 - But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
FYI: 5522 is the reference number for the word tabernacle here in this precept, which you get the word "Sikkuth", which means - an (idolatrous) booth -- tabernacle. What made it an idolatrous tent or booth, was that it was in reference to a foreign god, in which they carried around as being their Moloch. Understand that, the term "Moloch" in its usuage here, is in reference to King, thus implying they regarded their foreign god which they made for themselves, as being their King. This was total rejection of the Most High who made them for himself, to be their King, as they kept the adominations of the Egyptians before their eyes, as the prophet Ezekiel once declared. The precept gave way to something very key here, when it stated "and Chiun your images, the star of your god", thus signifying this Chiun their images, was the diety in which they worshipped, the star of your god, signifying the images were their symbol of that diety. When you go to the Strong's Concordance number 3594 for the word Chiun, you get the meaning - From kuwn; properly, a statue, i.e. Idol; but used (by euphemism) for some heathen deity (perhaps corresponding to Priapus or Baal-peor) -- Chiun.
FYI: Note that it says for some heathen deity, thus implying that the "who" of worship, was unknown, but remember I told you before that when faced with the question of why the calf didn't appear in the appropriate symbol of the god it represented, theologians have given many false accounts for justification. While knowing themselves, that the calf represented the divinity in the character of Saturn, well lets go to the Lexicon Strong's Concordance and see what it says in regards to this unknown diety. So when you go the Lexicon Strong's Concordance number 3594 for the word Chiun, you get this meaning - 1) probably a statue of the Assyrian-Babylonian god of the planet Saturn and used to symbolise Israelite apostasy. Whoa wait a minute, its says probably a statue of the Assyrian Babylonian of the planet Saturn? Amazing because when in worship of Saturn and keeping of his Saturn's Day, this was done when Israel was in a state of apostasy, which is the state of having rejected the spiritual order of the Most High, in favor of another god's spiritual worship and beliefs.
FYI: Which as I said before, the Romans worship of Saturn goes all the way back to the days of the ancient Egyptians, which in part 1 was it shown how Julius Caesar reformed the calendar, basing it on the Egyptian solar calendar of 365 days, which you see your still under, thus showing the Gregorian Calendar as a mere extension. As I said beginning this note, that Israel was surrounded by the idolatrous Egyptians who were very heavy into sun worshipping. Which means that, Israel understanding of calendation was according to the way of the idolatrous Egyptians, which we see as the Most High prepares to bring them out, he gives them a new month. This month was to be the beginning of months, that was to be the first month of the year unto them, thus did he re-educate them and give unto them his Calendar for their observance of his Sabbaths and feast days. Thus showing and proving, that if the Most High gave them a different calendar than the Egyptians, so that they would be able to keep his
Sabbaths and feasts and holy days, then how can you do so today when the Gregorian Calendar is an extension of the Julian Calendar which was reformed based upon the Egyptian solar calendar? Wow, I know right!
FYI: Which makes you wonder, how is it that you say religion is darkness, but yet claim the Seventh Day Adventist religion has the light of knowing the Most High's day as you do in the light, without calling to mind light doesn't have fellowship with darkness. Hmmm, so the Most High woke them up to give them truth of his Sabbath, but yet left them in darkness to worship him on his Sabbath, but requires you to worship him in Spirit and in truth? This should show you that you have been deceived, you have the Christians that keep Sun day Sabbath, the Jewish who keep a Friday 6pm to Saturday Sabbath, but yet you say they are the synagogue of Satan, but yet you keep the same Sabbath as they do. So let me guess, the Most High woke them up to give them truth of his Sabbath, so that when you finally wake up and come into the truth, you could spark a flame at their candle and be in the truth, while they remain in darkness as the synagogue of Satan? Better swallow your pride and wake up, you have the Nation of Islam who keep a Friday Sabbath, and you have the Pagans and Witches that keep a Saturday Sabbath. The idolatry that Israel brought with them out of the land of Egypt, was the worship of Saturn on his day, which is the
same worship those professing to be Israel today, are partaking in weekly like crack.
Question: What did Jeroboam
1 Kings 12:27 - If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
FYI: Jeroboam knew that in the temple there in Jerusalem, did the law of the Most High require that 3 times a year, shall all males go up to Jerusalem, and at other times were the people required to go, when they had occasion to offer sacrifice, which was forbidden from doing anywhere else. He like that government today, feared the people hearts would turn back to the Most High, if they heard the priests and prophets of the Most High, and would keep the Most High service and obey his law and accept him as their King once again. Which the government knows this today, which is why I'm having to reveal their deceptions in notes like this, because they have put out false prophets in place, to make the people believe they are servants of the Most High, to keep them further in darkness and from ever having their hearts and minds conditioned to return back to the Most High. Like Jeroboam, they fear losing their kingdom and power, so they had to take some steps toward making alterations in spiritual worship, so that the people would stay under subjection faithfully.
Question: So what steps did he take toward keeping Israel deceived and under subjection?
1 Kings 12:28 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
FYI: Wow, so he took counsel with his principal men, and sought to renact the general worship which they had at Sinai after coming out of Egypt, by using Aaron's words. So Jeroboam set them up back with the Apis (Saturn) calf worship of the Egyptians, which he then instituted feasts in his own times different from those apointed by the Most High, which the government has done today, and which the so called Hebrew Israelites are doing today, which is why they all have different times and dates as to when they keep them. He gave them certain objects to be of devotion, and ran game on them to think it would be both inconvenient and oppressive to them to have to go up to Jerusalem to worship, so he took them back into worship of Saturn. He had knowledge of what judgments came upon their forefathers for this form of worship, otherwise he would not have used the calves and the same words of Aaron. He wanted to give them a false representation of the true Most High, by appointing unto them feasts as the Most High did, but doing so not on the calendar of the Most High's, but rather his own timing in his mind, just as it has been done today unto the people, thus showing there is nothing new under the sun.
Question: What else happened, did he stop there?
1 Kings 12:29-32 - And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
FYI: So he chose to put them in the Southern and Northern parts, which he cleverly chose Bethel because he knew its name signified the house of God, and had been a sacred place, where Jacob more than once enjoyed the divine presence. So this goes to show that, location is very key when taking steps toward altering spiritual worship, which is the establishing churches, which is the church side of the matter. As where this also goes to show, with Jeroboam appointing times to observe things of spiritual matter and concern, alteration of the calendar is very key when taking steps toward altering spiritual worship, which this is the establishing of the political aspect, which is the State side of the matter, thus do you get in our times today, Church and State. So these are the steps you take in order to keep the people with idolatrous worship, which mainly begins with a counterfeit calendar, such as your Gregorian one today as shown in part 1.
The following drawing below of a stick calendar found at the Baths of Titus (constructed A.D. 79 – 81) provides further proof that neither the Biblical Sabbath nor the day of Christ's resurrection can ever be found using the Julian calendar, which the present Gregorian Calendar in use today, is an extension of. So understand that the center circle contains the 12 signs of the zodiac, corresponding to the 12 months of the year, and the Roman numerals in the left and right columns indicate the days of the month, and across the top of the stick calendar appear the seven planetary gods of the pagan Romans. Notice Saturn's Day was the first day, not the seventh as it is proclaimed today, and also notice Sun-day as being the second day, and not the first as it is proclaimed today.
Saturday, (or dies Saturni – the day of Saturn) was the very first day of the week, not the seventh, which as the god of agriculture, he can be seen in this preëminent position of importance, holding his symbol, a sickle. Next, on the second day of the pagan planetary week, is seen the sun god with rays of light emanating from his head, which they refuse to proclaim that Sunday was originally the second day of the planetary week and was known as dies Solis. That brings us to the third day of the week which was dies Lunæ (day of the Moon – Monday). The moon goddess is shown wearing the horned crescent moon as a diadem on her head. The rest of the gods follow in order: dies Martis (day of Mars); dies Mercurii (day of Mercury); dies Jovis (day of Jupiter); and dies Veneris (day of Venus), the seventh day of the week. Also know that, when the use of the Julian calendar with its recently adopted pagan planetary week spread into northern Europe, the names of the days dies Martis through dies Veneris were replaced by Teutonic gods. Mars' Day became Tiw's Day (Tuesday); Mercury's Day became Woden's Day (Wednesday); Jupiter's Day became Thor's Day (Thursday); and Venus' Day became Friga's Day (Friday), which shows you the influence of the pagan astrological day names are still in use.
In Babylon he was called Ninib and was an agricultural deity. Saturn, called Cronus by the Greeks, was, at the dawn of the Ages of the Gods, the Protector and Sower of the Seed and his wife, Ops, (called Rhea by the Greeks) was a Harvest Helper. Saturn was one of the Seven Titans or Numina and with them, reigned supreme in the Universe. The Titans were of incredible size and strength and held power for untold ages, until they were deposed by Jupiter.
In Hindu mythology and Astrology Saturn is called Shani. Shani is embodied in the planet Saturn. Shani is the Lord of Saturday; the word "Shani" also denotes the seventh day or Saturday in most Indian languages. Shalom