{"id":7504,"date":"2015-11-20T07:52:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=7504"},"modified":"2015-11-20T08:28:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:28:50","slug":"laban-and-his-modern-day-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/20\/laban-and-his-modern-day-babylon\/","title":{"rendered":"On Laban and His Modern-Day Babylon the Great Counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Genesis 31:19,<\/b> <b><i>Household idols. <\/i><\/b>Heb. <i>teraphim<\/i>, from <i>rapha<\/i> meaning \u201cto heal, make healthful.\u201d The ancient pagans viewed these idols superstitiously as good luck charm for good health and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/20\/laban-and-his-modern-day-babylon\/idol-20425501\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7509\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7509\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Idol-20425501-257x300.png\" alt=\"Idol 20425501\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Idol-20425501-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Idol-20425501.png 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But there is more. In ancient Babylon, each family had a shrine where it worshipped its household gods, which were in the shape of clay figurines. These family gods served as guardian angels of the home, and would be left to the eldest son, who, acting as the family high priest, would perpetuate the family\u2019s idol worship after the father\u2019s death. The theft of these household idols left Laban in a very agitated state in that he was willing to pursue Jacob to retrieve them, by force, if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is that these gods conferred the right of primogeniture (to the firstborn son), and acted as a title deed to the father\u2019s inheritance. Thus, Rachel must have stolen her brother\u2019s inheritance thereby making Jacob the legal heir of Laban\u2019s estate (<i>Manners and Customs of Bible Lands, <\/i>pp. 119\u2013120, by Fred H. Wight; <i>TWOT<\/i>, p. 980).<\/p>\n<p><b>Genesis 31:43<\/b>, <b><i>These daughters are my daughters. <\/i><\/b>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 <i>teraphim<\/i> (Gen 31:19, 34\u201335). Is there a modern counterpart to this? Does modern Babylon want to control and possess the wives and children of redeemed Israel, indoctrinate them in its pagan religious system and then keep Jacob\u2019s modern descendants from returning to their spiritual and physical homeland and birthright inheritance, and from returning to the Torah-faith of their fathers?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/20\/laban-and-his-modern-day-babylon\/idol-money-20329954\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7510\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Idol-Money-20329954-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"Idol - Money 20329954\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Idol-Money-20329954-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Idol-Money-20329954.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are governmental systems (e.g., public education and Child Protective Services, social welfare programs, various government regulations that have greatly diminished or eliminated many of our personal freedoms), socio-political organizations (e.g. ACLU, UN) and greedy corporate systems (banking systems that enslave people through debt, corrupters of our food supplies that destroy people\u2019s health, pharmaceutical companies and the mainstream medical establishment that enslaves people\u2019s minds and bodies through drugs) modern-day Labans who want to kill, steal and destroy for the benefit of money and power?<\/p>\n<p>Revelation 18:13 says that Babylon the Great traffics in the souls of men. This speaks at <!--more-->some level of the modern day enslavement of men\u2014of their religious expression, freedom of thought and action.<\/p>\n<p><b>Laban and Balaam. <\/b>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 (<i>Targum Jonathan<\/i>) equates Balaam with Laban, while other scholars view Balaam as Laban\u2019s grandson. Both were involved in a mixed-religious system\u2014some 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? Is not religious Babylon of today, out of which YHVH is calling his people (Rev\u202f18:4), just that\u2014a mixture of truth and pagan lies? How else, for example, do we account for the name of the Christian festival called <i>Easter <\/i>or <i>Ishtar<\/i> 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 <i>Seder<\/i> plate? All these are symbols of pagan sex worship. 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), to separate themselves from that which is unclean or not kosher (2\u2009Cor 6:17)? 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Heb. teraphim, from rapha meaning \u201cto heal, make healthful.\u201d The ancient pagans viewed these idols superstitiously as good luck charm for good health and prosperity. But there is more. 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