{"id":15916,"date":"2019-12-07T08:52:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=15916"},"modified":"2019-12-07T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:56:05","slug":"is-modern-babylon-with-its-labans-holding-you-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/07\/is-modern-babylon-with-its-labans-holding-you-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Is modern Babylon with its &#8220;Labans&#8221; holding you back?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"832\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Book_of_Genesis_Chapter_31-1_Bible_Illustrations_by_Sweet_Media.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Book_of_Genesis_Chapter_31-1_Bible_Illustrations_by_Sweet_Media.jpg 832w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Book_of_Genesis_Chapter_31-1_Bible_Illustrations_by_Sweet_Media-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Book_of_Genesis_Chapter_31-1_Bible_Illustrations_by_Sweet_Media-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Book_of_Genesis_Chapter_31-1_Bible_Illustrations_by_Sweet_Media-416x300.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Jacob and his family fleeing Laban and Babylon<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genesis 31:43,<\/strong> <strong><em>These daughters are my daughters. <\/em><\/strong>Laban claims that Jacob\u2019s wives and children belonged to him. Laban was also steeped in the idolatry of Babylon having in his possession idols or images called <em>teraphim<\/em> (Gen 31:19, 34\u201335), which were legal symbols of his wealth, since they were actual title deeds to his property. The gods of one\u2019s property also acted as good luck charms insuring the land\u2019s prosperity. This is a picture of social and economic grip that end times Babylon attempts to exert upon the modern descendants of Jacob. What can we learn from this lesson in Jacob\u2019s life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modern Babylon and its Labans want to control and possess the wives and children of the end times saints or the redeemed Israel of Elohim (Gal 6:16). This it does by attempting to indoctrinate them in its pagan religious system, and then by keeping Jacob\u2019s modern descendants (Christians and Jews) from returning to their spiritual and physical homeland and birthright inheritance, and from returning to the Torah-faith of their fathers. Aren\u2019t governmental institutions (e.g. public educational institutions and state and federal Child Protective Services agencies, social welfare programs, various government regulations that have greatly diminished or eliminated many of our personal freedoms along with Elohim-given parental rights), socio-political organizations (e.g. ACLU, UN, many NGOs) and greedy corporate systems (e.g. banks and financial institutions) that enslave people through debt, corrupters of our food supplies that destroy people\u2019s health into our foods (e.g. the additions of chemicals preservatives and taste enhancers, genetically modified food, the use of chemical pesticides that find their way into the foods we eat), pharmaceutical companies and the mainstream medical establishment that enslaves and destroys people\u2019s minds and bodies through drugs the modern-day Labans who want to kill, steal and destroy for the benefit of money, power and control? Affirmatively yes!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Revelation 18:13 says that end times Babylon the Great will traffic in the bodies and souls of men. This is likely a reference to the trafficking in human body parts (for medical purposes, no doubt) and the enslavement of men\u2019s hearts and minds (through drugs and chemicals).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of these things speak at some level to the modern day enslavement of people including their religious expression, freedom of thought and action.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In these end times, the saints of Elohim must protect themselves and their loved ones from the idols and the evil machinations of the Elohim-hating, devil worshiping idolators around them, even as Jacob, in order to protect his loved ones, had to flee Babylon and Laban.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us not forget John\u2019s closing words in his first epistle: \u201cLittle children, keep yourselves from idols\u201d (1 John 5:21). An idol is anything that gets between us and Elohim, and which moves us downward and away from him on our spiritual path instead of upward and closer to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Laban and Balaam. <\/strong>It is quite possible that the false prophet Balaam, who heard from YHVH and had a sense of righteousness, though was still steeped in paganism, was a descendant of Laban. Both Laban and Balaam were from Aram (part of greater Babylon) and only 280 years separated them. One of the Aramaic Targums (<em>Targum Jonathan<\/em>) equates Balaam with Laban, while other Jewish scholars view Balaam as Laban\u2019s grandson. Both were involved in a mixed-religious system in that they had some truth and some error, some good and some evil. This is the nature of religious Babylon (meaning \u201cmixture\u201d or \u201cconfusion\u201d). A mixture of what? Of good and evil. Remember the tree by that name in the Garden of Eden? Who was the one who enticed man to indulge in that fruit in rebellion to YHVH\u2019s commands?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even today, Satan the serpent is at the helm of spiritual Babylon trying to lure people into his system of good and evil. Like the tree of knowledge, the religious Babylon of today, out of which YHVH is currently calling his people (Rev\u202f18:4), is just that\u2014a mixture of truth and pagan lies. How else, for example, do we account for the name of the Christian festival called <em>Easter <\/em>or <em>Ishtar<\/em> named after the Babylonian sex goddess of fertility? Or how else do we account for the Christmas tree phallus symbol that also originated from Babylonian sex worship? Or how about the Easter egg (an ancient Babylonian fertility or sex symbol) or the egg on the Jewish Passover <em>Seder<\/em> plate? All these are symbols of pagan sex worship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As YHVH called Jacob away from Babylon back to Beth-el (the House of El), and as YHVH turned Jacob\u2019s heart back to the ways of his fathers, is not the same YHVH likewise now calling his people to come out of religious Babylon (Rev 18:4; Jer 6:16), to separate themselves from that which is unclean or not kosher (2\u2009Cor 6:17)?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, YHVH is pleading with the modern descendants of Jacob (redeemed Israelites or the Israel of Elohim, Gal 6:16) to not succumb to the lying forked-tongued Labans and Balaams of today who always over-promise and underdeliver, and who would, through deceptive lies and allurements, pull Elohim\u2019s back into their religious system that is a mixture of truth and error. Elohim is urging his people to remember the good, ancient and blessed paths of the Torah of Moses his servant and to listen to the spirit of Elijah, which is calling the children\u2019s hearts return back to the Hebraic fathers of their faith (Jer 6:16, 19; Mal 4:4\u20136).<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'Is modern Babylon with its \\&quot;Labans\\&quot; holding you back?',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/07\/is-modern-babylon-with-its-labans-holding-you-back\/',contentID: 'post-15916',suggestTags: 'Babylon,Laban',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 31:43, These daughters are my daughters. 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