Shedim

NOTES:

Cahn, Jonathan. Return of the Gods. Christma Media. Kindle Edition

G ods and idols of the nations that the people of Israel turned to when they turned away from God. Word only appears twice in Hebrew scriptures:

D euteronomy 32:17 Demons

P salm 106:36-37 Destroyers

R oot word Shud - to act violently, to lay waste, to devastate, that which brings destruction.

I n ancient Babylonian writings the word speaks of spirits, protective or malevolent. A malevolent spirit would lay waste and devastate and bring destruction.

J ewish scholars rendered the word daimonion. From that we got demon. a spirit, a principality, an occult entity. Only used to signify spirits of evil. Spirits of light are called angels / messengers. Spirits of darkenss are called demons.

P auls words in 1 Cor 10 are very similar to Deut 32 and Psalm 106. However it is now speaking of pagan’s sacrificing to the demons.

T hey were everywhere in the anceint worlds

K nown as:

1. E nlil of Sumer
2. R a of Egypt
3. A marok of the Artic
4. K ukulkan of Central America
5. W otan of northern Europe
6. D ionysus of Greece
7. O batala of Africa
8. T iamat of Babylon
9. B ixia of China
10. O ro of Polynesia
11. A hura Mazda of Persia
12. P erun of Russia
13. S hamash of Assyria
14. Dagda of Ireland
15. Juno of rome
16. Shiva of India
17. Jupiter
18. Apollo
19. Vesta
20. Bacchus
21. Inanna
22. Python - Act 16:16
23. countless multitudes of others

The Dark Trinty of Israwel’s fall seduced America

1. The Possessor - Baal, caused America to believe that departing from God would bring it freedom.
2. The Enchantress - Ishtar convinced it that if it abandoned its moral safeguards for instant gratification and sexual abandon, it would find fulfillment
3. The Destoryer - Molech promised to grant it the blessing of an unhindered life if it would only allow him to take away the children.

14 Mapped Links

↑ Shedim
→ Anu
→ Ashtaroth
→ Baal
→ Bull
→ Ereshkigal
→ Eros
→ Marduk
→ Molech
→ Ninshubar
→ Possessed
→ Serpent
→ Tammuz

← The Dragon's Prophecy

14 Unlinked Mentions

• BP: Heaven and Earth Class
• Unit 4: A Tour of the Cosmos 39 Session 16: The Waters Above and Below 39 Session 17: The Dragon in the Waters 42 Session 18: The Dry Land 49 Session 19: Reflections on Where All Creation is Headed 54 Session 20: God as Refuge and Rivers as Life 55 Session 21: Jesus and Living Water 58 Session 22: Ancient Cosmology in Psalm 36 59
  • Eventually, the gods all develop with Ea and his son Marduk at the head of the pantheon. Tiamat threatens to take over with her chaos waters, and she becomes a giant sea dragon. Marduk battles and destroys her, using half her body to make the waters above and the waters below.
  • Monumental carving from the Assyrian Nimrud palace in Iraq (ca. 870 B.C.). The deity Ninurta is the storm god arriving to banish the lion- dragon from his land.
  • |The Biblical text shows awareness of a tradition and adapts/ transforms it in light of biblical monotheism|Creation as the result of a battle with the chaos monster; the water- dragon is not a true rival to Yahweh, but a rebel creature|
  • Session 17: The Dragon in the Waters
  • A tanin, like the one created on day 5, is a mythical sea dragon throughout the Bible. What does the tanin symbolize? What’s the significance of it being high lighted on day 5?
  • The Dragon in the Waters
  • Used to refer to the mythical sea dragons elsewhere in the
  • However, other texts in the Hebrew Bible describe creation as a cosmic victory of Yahweh by shatter ing the heads of chaos dragon.
  • Dragon smashing in Babylonian and Canaanite cosmology
• BP: Noah to Abraham Class

1. Creation formed from battles with the chaos-water dragon

• Isaiah 51
• 7“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My Torah: do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.
• Piercing a dragon!
• Lucifer
• There is a main adversary, usually referred to as dragon or serpent. And many satans/adversaries and stars (aka lucifers). Revelation 12:4 The DRAGON sweeps a third.
• Malachi 1
• YLT
• 3 Is not Esau Jacob's brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.