As Rev. O.L. Holliday’s youngest brother, the Reverand Fred C. Holliday is pastor of the Lighthouse Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, Texas USA.

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BeBe & CeCe Winans are back singing “Things”.  If you are a new Christian and are looking for uplifting music that will glorify God, check this out!

What else can anyone say about the music brother and sister duo?  Below are a couple of snippets taken from their Wikipedia bio…

BeBe & CeCe Winans is an American Gospel music brother and sister duo. BeBe (Benjamin) & CeCe (Priscilla) Winans are the seventh and eighth of “Mom” and “Pop” Winans ten children, most of whom have had successful Gospel music careers.

In 2007, CeCe Winans’ website confirmed a reunion album scheduled for a late 2009 release. The new CD entitled Still was released October 6, 2009 on BeBe & CeCe’s own record label B&C Records, distributed by Malaco. The album’s lead single “Close To You,” released June 2009, remained at #1 on gospel radio charts for several weeks. The Album reached #1 on the Gospel Album Charts, #2 on the R&B Charts and #14 at the Billboard Pop Albums. The latter position was a career high for the duo.

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Was God married? Was the Old Testament revised to hide evidence that God ruled alongside a heavenly queen?

These questions are in the news this week due to a flurry of stories about thealleged relationship between Yahweh and the Ancient Near Eastern fertility goddess Asherah. Drawing on ancient inscriptions that mention “Yahweh and his asherah,” some scholars (notably William Dever in Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel) have in recent years posited that the ancient Israelites worshipped Asherah and other deities alongside Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament. Now others have taken this a step further and claimed that Yahweh’s supposed wife Asherah was later edited out of the Bible by scribes with a monotheistic agenda.

These theories sound a bit shocking at first read, and most of the articles reporting on them this week spin them as a damaging blow to the Christian understanding of God and the Bible. But on closer examination, these theories don’t seriously challenge what the Old Testament tells us about ancient Israelite religion.

That the ancient Israelites worshiped many different gods is not news to anyone who has read the Old Testament. Although God revealed himself to His people as the one and only true God (even singling out Asherah worship for condemnation), the Israelites, surrounded by other nations that worshiped many gods, constantly backslid into idolatry. This idolatry didn’t always take the form of an outright denial of God—rather than denying Yahweh, the Israelites would often start worshipping other deities (like Asherah) alongside Yahweh; or sometimes they would worship Yahweh in a way that he had expressly forbidden. Much of the Old Testament describes the forbiddenworship of pagan gods like Asherah and the Baals and the failure of Israel’s leaders to outlaw such cults.

This was a recurring theme for the Biblical prophets. One of the most vivid passages in Jeremiah describes God’s amazement at Israel’s constant backsliding into idol worship, despite all that God had done for them:

This is what the LORD says:

“What fault did your ancestors find in me,
that they strayed so far from me?
They followed worthless idols
and became worthless themselves.
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD,
who brought us up out of Egypt
and led us through the barren wilderness,
through a land of deserts and ravines,
land of drought and utter darkness,
a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
I brought you into a fertile land
to eat its fruit and rich produce.
But you came and defiled my land
and made my inheritance detestable.
The priests did not ask,
‘Where is the LORD?’
Those who deal with the law did not know me;
the leaders rebelled against me.
The prophets prophesied by Baal,
following worthless idols.

 

So to the question “Did the ancient Israelites worship other gods, like Asherah, alongside Yahweh?” the answer is clear: they certainly did. But what is also clear is that the Bible repeatedly and unequivocally condemns this, describing these pagan gods as nothing more than lifeless idols.

To the more controversial question “Did God have a wife?” the answer is also clear: nowhere in the Bible is this even hinted at, and people who claim this was the case must posit a conspiracy theory in which huge chunks of the Bible were retroactively rewritten to falsify the record. There is no manuscript evidence suggesting an “earlier version” of Israelite history that endorsed polytheism. Scholars continue to debate the development of Israel’s understanding of God’s uniquely revealed monotheism, but the burden of proof lies on the critics to demonstrate that this is more plausible than simply accepting the Bible text we have as genuine.

But there is some nuance to this last question: the Bible clearly doesn’t teach that Yahweh had a wife, but did the ancient Israelites believe that He did? It’s not hard to imagine that some of them did. The Bible doesn’t sugarcoat the Israelites’ repeated embrace of idolatrous beliefs in contrast to the official doctrines they were taught; if the Israelites imagined Yahweh as a golden calf and set up Asherah polls in God’s temple during their flirtations with polytheism, it’s possible some of them cast Asherah as Yahweh’s divine consort as well. But whatever errant beliefs crept into Israelite folk religion, the clear and consistent teaching of the Bible is that God has neither divine rivals nor equals.

Credits:  http://www.biblegateway.com/blog/

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Another Foggy Night With The Frogs… This release date may not be accurate… we are currently verifying the release date… more to come

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Released in 1968

Come Out From The In Crowd…more to come

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Released in 1978

Reading of the Last Minutes…more to come

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Released in 1971

Soul Brother, Soul Sister, Soul Devil…more to come.

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Released in 1969

The Heavenly Home Gathering…more to come.

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Released in 1973

If You Dance To The Music, You’ve Got To Pay The Piper…more to come

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Released in 1967

In this sermon, Rev.  O.L.  Holliday, a prominent American leader of the African-American church movement in the 60′s and 70′s, draws likenesses between the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK) and the crucifixion of Christ.

ABOUT THIS ABLUM 1967

John F. Kennedy (JFK), the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.  Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade.

John F. Kennedy was a beloved President, one who brought hope for a better life to thousands of African-American communities throughout America.  His death, however, signaled the beginning of the turbulent 60′s.  His assassination was not only devastation for the nation, but for African-American, it was the loss of a  beacon of hope.

Upon Kennedy’s death, hope for a better day was perceived to be temporarily lost in many African-American communities.  These communities were looking to JFK, the leader of the free world, to champion freedom from oppression for African-Americans in America.  But, what now?

More than ever, the black church continued to offer hospice, comfort, spiritual healing, and central meeting places. When responding to media questions about sentiments of the African-American community, Rev. Holliday often responded,   “A people who saw the light of freedom and who now feel hopeless are a people in desperate despair crying out for equality.”

This sermon draws likenesses between the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK) and the crucifixion Christ.

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Reverend O.L. Holliday soared into national prominence when he recorded his sermon “How Sweet It Is” for Jewel records. Since that time, the fame and popularity of Rev. Holliday has led him across thousands of miles of sleepless, tiring travels to preach God’s Word.

So great is the popularity of Rev. Holliday, that Stan Lewis, president of the giant Jewel Record Corp., said of him, “His sermon of  How Sweet It Is will probably go down in record annals as one of the greatest sermons ever delivered and certainly one of the most popular.”

It is with great pleasure that Jewel Records Corporation presents this second sermon by the Reverend O. L. Holliday, The Assignation of John F Kennedy and Crucifixion of Jesus. We hope you enjoy it.

Don Logan

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