My Goodness:  Mom is going to make two posts in one month!  Hold on to your hats!  Here it comes!

Teaching Judges in Seminary next week.  In Judges 2, the Lord lists the pagan God's that the Canaanites worship and tempt the Israelites to worship.  So I thought I better look them up and know some background concerning the "great" Baalim.  Wow!  What you can learn from Wikipedia! (along with the Bible dictionary)
Baal is basically a Phoenician God.  He is worshipped by all the "ites" in the area but with their own spin on it and at times with other names.  He is identified as Zeus among the Greeks.  Now who was Zeus?  How did he become the head honcho of the Gods.  Killed his "evil" dad, right.   Just think about that for a moment.

Baal (the more common use of the name), was the king of the Gods who ruled over the Gods of Heaven.  (Okay, I see the Zeus similarity).  In Canaan he was also known as Hadad and was the son of...wait for it...EL!

Now doesn't that put a whole different spin on these stories of the "Gods" of the ancients.  Satan, the great counterfeiter, spreads his version of what should have happened in the pre-existence.  In his version, the Son does get the Father's glory and saves all of mankind from the fathers tyranny.

Oh, there are many things that made the worship of false Gods despicable in the eyes of Jehovah.  But this must have been the most.  Satan changes the story so that he is the winner.  No wonder Zeus and the Gods had such carnal appetites.  That was who they were, the epitome of  carnal world.

Well, hope you enjoyed my little wikipedia find today.