THE TRIAL OF STEPHEN THE MARTYR

Acts 7.42-43
42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel,
have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of
forty years in the wilderness?
43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your
god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry
you away beyond Babylon.

51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always
resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the
prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them
which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have
been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by
the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

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As it is probably known to the reader, Stephen, one of the seven
disciples anointed by the apostles of Jesus Christ, was stoned immediately
upon this.

There was not real reason for gnashing their teeth in rage, for he
exactly quoted prophet Amos 5.25-27

It appears that already prophet Amos and Stephen the martyr tried
to put an end to the sacrifice to Moloch (which later turned into the
sacrifice for the god of fortified places of Daniel 11:38 and into
Moloch of medicine, science and technology).

Amos 5:25-26 KJV
25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness
forty years, O house of Israel? 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle
of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye
made to yourselves.

Moloch is the god - in fact demon - of Amonnites, which had (mostly firstborn) children led to the horned statue and burned.

Both the five or six pointed star of Remphan, and Chiun are originally
Saturn, as it is believed by the Bible scholars. While Saturn was
venerated as connected with fertility and harvest in Roman tradition,
and Saturnalia invoved banquets and masters serving their slaves,
the associated Greek deity Chronus was associated with eating his
own children.

What Stephen the first martyr actually said that the Hebrews started sacrificing to golden calf and Moloch already in the desert, when holy
Moses went up on the mount Horeb.

Apostle Paul confirms in 1 Corinthans 10:20 that those who do not
sacrifice to God fo Abraham, sacrifice to demons:

1 Corinthians 10:20 KJV
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice
to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship
with devils.

in the LORD God Merciful, Almighty, Longsuffering (God of Abraham),
God Almighty (El-Shaddai), Merciful (El-Rahum), Longsuffering (Erek Appayim),
God All-Seeing (El-Roi - Genesis 16:13), All-Hearing (Yishma-El - Genesis 16:11),
God All-Knowing (El-Deowt - 1 Samuel 2:3),
in Lord Jesus Christ holy name and
in the Holy Ghost of God holy name
Amen

a disciple

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