Page 64 - Attractive Deception - The False Hope of the Hebrew Roots Movement

I Kings 11:4-5
For it came about when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his
heart was not wholly devoted to Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father had been. For
Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians...

How serious a matter was this to Yahweh? It was very serious.

I Kings 11:31-33
Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon
and give you ten tribes (but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake
of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel), because they have forsaken
Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and
Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon...”

Yahweh said “You shall have no other gods before Me.” One understanding of the first of the Ten
Commandments is “You shall have no other gods in My presence.” Nevertheless, the Hebrews of
the Old Covenant, and the Christians of the New Covenant, have consistently merged the profane
worship of the Baals and Ashtoreth with that of Yahweh and His Christ.

Judges 2:11-13
Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and they forsook
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other
gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to
them; thus they provoked Yahweh to anger. So they forsook Yahweh and served Baal and the
Ashtoreth (Ishtar/Astarte/Easter).

They served Baal and Ashtoreth. Today the churches have an obelisk atop the building, denoting
Baal worship, and their most holy day of the year is Easter, which is a Germanic form of the name
Ashtoreth. Nothing has changed. Satan remains as successful as ever in bringing the profane into the
house of God.

But what of those Christians who are turning away from mainline denominational Christianity to
Hebrew Roots? Are they more successful in separating themselves from apostasy and from
embracing Satanic names, rites, and symbols? As we have observed in our look at the Jewish
Festival of Lights, also known as Hanukkah, those adopting this “Hebrew” festival have not avoided
the deception and corruptions of the adversary. They have been plied with false explanations for
these symbols and rites, explanations that Satan reserves for those who are deemed to be unworthy
of the truth, “a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.”

The following questions beg to be answered, “If a Christian is offended by the poster which appears
at the head of this chapter, a poster that combines images related to Satanic worship with Scriptures
that speak of the worship of Yahweh, then why are they not incensed every time they drive down the
street and see a church building with a steeple? Why are they not incensed every year when
Christians replace the crucifixion of Christ that occurred at the Biblical Passover with the name of
the pagan goddess of fertility, Easter? Why are they not provoked to jealousy when the Lamb of God