Demon Erasers

So before 587 B.C., the Jewish people were originally they were polytheists.

They believed they believed in worship to many different gods.

And then where does that come?

587 B.C., Jewish people at that point, they worshipped one god, but they did believe and they acknowledged other gods.

Right.

King Nebuchadnezzar conquered the Israeli people, made the majority of the Jewish people go to Babylon.

This is where they came in contact with the Babylonian versions of what were ultimately Sumerian creation stories, Adam and Eve, Noah, the flood, all of those kinds of things.

It was their belief that Enlil Jehovah had given power to King Nebuchadnezzar to conquer them, so it was their intention to rewrite these stories so that Enlil Jehovah would be seen as the one true God and that the Jewish people would only worship Enlil Jehovah, the one true God.

um the persian empire came in i think was xerxes the first came in and conquered babylon and allowed the jewish people to go back to israel and so this is what is i believe referred to as the part of the um the old testament's like the second book of prophets where it talks about the jewish people have strayed from the one you know true religion and whatnot

And so if you understand historical context, it makes perfect sense why they're saying this.

And the reason why they're saying this is because you had an entire generation of Jews that were raised in Babylon under the new Jewish religion, and they were released and they were able to go back to Israel.

Now, I think it was about 10% of the population was actually able to stay in Israel.

So these were the original Jews who had the original Jewish religion, and you had these people coming back from Babylon who were the Babylonian Jewish people, and they had this new religion.

And they were sitting there looking at the Babylonian Jews going, what the fuck are you talking about?

That's a made-up religion that you guys had in Babylon.

This is actually the original Jewish religion.

So a lot of the Babylonian Jews started to convert to the original Jewish religion because they thought that it was more authentic.

and they believed what they were saying, that their Jewish religion was corrupted by the Babylonian stories in the original version.

So this is why you have those prophets, and they were prophets of the Babylonian Jewish religion, saying that the Jewish people had strayed from the one true God.

But you go back to the historical context and the archaeological record, and it supports the fact that before the Jewish people went to Babylon, the Jewish religion was completely and totally different from what we know of it.