For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
A thousand may fall dead beside you, ten thousand all around you, but you will not be harmed.
And everyone who commits an offense against one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a donkey's millstone would be hung around his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.”
As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
Satan is the god of this world.
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1 John 5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
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John 16:11 Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged.
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John 12:31 The time for judging this world has come, when Satan, the ruler of this world, will be cast out.
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1 John 4:4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Ancient Jewish History: The Cult of Moloch
Introduction
Evidence concerning Moloch worship in ancient Israel is found in the legal, as well as in the historical and prophetic literature of the Bible. In the Pentateuch, the laws of the Holiness Code speak about giving or passing children to Moloch (Lev. 18:21, 20:2–4) and the law in Deuteronomy speaks of "passing [one's] son or daughter through fire" (18:10). Although Moloch is not named in the Deuteronomy passage, it is likely that his cult was the object of the prohibition.
The author of the Book of Kings speaks about "passing [one's] son and daughter through fire" (II Kings 16:3 [son], 17:17, 21:6 [son]). II Kings 23:10 speaks about "passing [one's] son or daughter through fire to Moloch." Some scholars interpret the phrase lә-haʿavir ba-esh, as a reference to a divinatory or protective rite in which children were passed through a fire but not physically harmed. However, the same phrase lә-haʿavir ba-esh is found in an unmistakable context of burning in Numbers 31:23.
Other biblical texts refer to the sacrifice of children. Psalms 106:37–38 speaks of child sacrifice to the unnamed idols of Canaan. In prophetic sources, Jeremiah 7:31 and Ezekiel 20:25–6 speak disapprovingly of sacrificing children to Yahweh (for the "bad statutes" referred to by Ezekiel, see Ex. 22:28–29; but see Friebel); Jeremiah 19:5 speaks of sacrificing children to Baal; Ezekiel 16:21, 20:31, 23:37, 39 of sacrificing children to unnamed divinities; as does Isaiah 57:5. In none of these is there a mention of Moloch. Only in Jeremiah 32:35 is Moloch mentioned by name and there he is associated with Baal.
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