Look Up Fellowship "And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near." Luke 21:28

After the McKinney story I wrote about had unexpectedly led me to Dionysus and disturbing information about the Cult of Dionysus, or the Dionysian Mysteries, I went back to revisit the subject one last time.

Why? Because I believe that it was a powerful message of sorts via Synchro-Pop (or the fulfillment of the prophecy of Daniel 12:4) that the "Black Awakening" is at hand just as people like Russ Dizdar and Sue Bradley have been trying to warn us. As you'll see, if it's not the "Black Awakening" then it could also be indicative of the fulfillment of the prophecy that speaks of the return of the Nephilim giants. Either way, could this be what is meant by this idea that we will soon experience a "summer of hell" worldwide?

If so, let's confront the darkness with the light every single chance we get. Let's remember who we are in Christ Jesus and the power His holy name has on that dark side of the spiritual realm. As always, let's fight any fear with faith.

So, in an attempt to apply Ephesians 5:11 and Matthew 10:16 especially if there's a chance that it could reemerge in the world on a grand scale in the days ahead, I wanted to be crystal clear about what kind of purely demonic evil we may encounter (I wrote "may encounter" because it naturally depends on where this event falls in relation to the timing of the Rapture along God's prophetic timeline).

I was originally planning to do an in-depth study on the subject, but instead will simply share some historical quotes I found about this cult inspired by Satan. Be sure to pay very close attention to not only the rituals performed and their relevance to any discussion about the Black Awakening, but also to some of the names of the people that these quotes are attributed to because I think they'll set off some bells and whistles on our prophetic radar.

Quotes that demonstrate a Satanic influence upon the Cult of Dionysus:

"And bull-voices roar thereto from somewhere out of the unseen, fearful semblances, and from an image as it were of thunder underground is borne on the air heavy with dread."
- Aeschylus/

"...The sound of the bull-roarers is believed to be the voice of Supernatural Beings; hence it is the sign of their presence among the initiates."
- Mircea Eliade, Rites and Symbols of Initiation

"The bull-roarer, which figured in the Orphic-Dionysiac ceremonies, is a religious object characteristic of primitive hunter cultures. The myths and rites illustrating the dismemberment of Dionysos and of Orpheus - or Osiris - are strangely reminiscent of the Australian and Siberian shamanic accounts".
- Mircea Eliade, Rites and Symbols of Initiation

"The notion that, by eating the flesh, or particularly by drinking the blood, of another living being, a man absorbs his nature or life into his own, is one which appears among primitive peoples in many forms. It lies at the root of the wide-spread practice of drinking the fresh blood of enemies = a practice which was familiar to certain tribes of the Arabs before Mohammed, and which tradition still ascribes to the wild race of Cahtan - and also of the habit practiced by many savage huntsmen of eating some part (e.g., the liver) of dangerous carnivora, in order that the courage of the animal may pass into them. The flesh and blood of brave men also are, among semi-savage or savage tribes, eaten and drunk to inspire courage."
- E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead

"The fertility god Dionysos (Greek Dionusos), whose cult emblem was the erect phallus, was also a god of healing, and his name, when broken down to its original parts, IA-U-NU-ShUSh...'Semen, seed that saves', and is comparable with the Greek Nosios, 'Healer', an epithet of Zeus."
- John M. Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

"Following the torches as they dipped and swayed in the darkness, they climbed mountain paths with head thrown back and eyes glazed, dancing to the beat of the drum which stirred their blood…In the state of ekstasis or enqousiasmos, they abandoned themselves, dancing wildly…and calling 'Euoi!' At that moment of intense rapture they became identified with the god himself…They became filled with his spirit and acquired divine powers".
- Peter Hoyle, Delphi (London: 1967), p. 76

"Boeotia was the main center for the propagation of the Dionysiac cult throughout Greece. Herodotus gives us a description of the Festival of Dionysos as practiced in his country. He points out that Melampus, son of Amytheon, introduced the name of Dionysos to Greece and probably got his knowledge of the worship of this god 'through Cadmus of Tyre and the people who came from Phoenicia to the country called Boeotia'. Although Herodotus was ever ready to find an oriental origin for Greek religion, similar cult practices can be seen in the Dionysiac cult and Ugaritic religious literature of the second millennium B.C. An essential rite of the Bacchic orgies was the practice of omophagia, the dismemberment of the sacrificial victim and the eating of raw flesh. A text from Ugarit reveals that the goddess Anath came upon her divine brother Baal unawares when he was beating his timbrel and perhaps singing. The goddess ate her brother's flesh 'without a knife and drank his blood without a cup'. The timbrel also was the sacred musical instrument peculiar to the bacchic festivals."
- M. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled

"Although the image [of the soul as a raven] recalls the beliefs of the primitive shamans, such tales of soul journeys - and the ability of a disembodied spirit to function independently of the constraints of the physical form - mark a significant advance in the concept of the soul. This notion of the soul freed from the body was a core belief of a cult devoted to the worship of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine."
- The Search for the Soul

"Early worshippers of Dionysos reenacted this gruesome scene by whipping themselves into a frenzy and tearing a live bull to pieces with their hands and teeth. These grisly rites, accompanied by loud music and the crashing of cymbals, were intended to propel the revelers into a state of ecstasy, a word literally meaning 'outside the body' to the Greeks. Through this ecstasy, the cultists hoped to transcend their earthly bonds and allow the soul a temporary liberation from the body. Only in this way could the soul achieve a condition of enthousiasmos, meaning 'inside the god,' which the worshipers believed was a taste of what they might one day enjoy in eternity."
- The Search for the Soul

"Unarmed they [the Maenads] swooped down upon the herds of cattle grazing there on the green of the meadow. And then you could have seen a single woman with bare hands tear a fat calf, still bellowing with fright, in two, while others clawed the heifers to pieces. There were ribs and cloven hooves scattered everywhere, and scraps smeared with blood hung from the fir trees. And bulls, their raging fury gathered in their horns, lowered their heads to charge, then fell, stumbling to the earth, pulled down by hordes of women and stripped of flesh and skin more quickly, sire, than you could blink your royal eyes."
- EuripidesThe Bacchae

"The female votaries of the phallus god Bacchus were known as the Bacchants...They were characterized by extreme forms of religious excitement interspersed with periods of intense depression. At one moment whirling in a frenzied dance, tossing their heads, driving one another on with screaming and the wild clamor of musical instruments, at another sunk into the deepest lethargy, and a silence so intense as to become proverbial. The Bacchants both possessed the god and were possessed by him; theirs was a religious enthusiasm in the proper sense of the term, that is, 'god-filled'. Having eaten the Bacchus or Dionysos, they took on his power and character..."
- John M. Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

"They wore wreaths of ivy, oak or fir, and skins of animals, and carried the thyrsos....In their ecstasy they would range through the mountains in dizzying dances, and tear some animal apart with their bare hands and ate it raw. There is no doubt that this was a communion in the god's own body and blood; indeed at one center the god was worshipped under the cult-title Raw. The inspiration of the god was believed to confer miraculous power, and, as often, as belief in miracles leads to the performance of miracles. We hear of them caught in a snowstorm so that their clothes were frozen stiff, but rescued unharmed, or falling asleep from sheer exhaustion in an enemy village during wartime, and being protect for their holiness."
- John Ferguson, An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Mysticism and the Mystery Religions

"From the time when the rites were held promiscuously, with men and women mixed together, and when the license offered by darkness had been added, no sort of crime, no kind of immortality, was left unattempted. There were more obscenities practiced between men than between men and women. Anyone refusing to submit to outrage or reluctant to commit crimes was slaughtered as a sacrificial victim. To regard nothing as forbidden was among these people the summit of religious achievement. Men, apparently out of their wits, would utter prophesies with frenzied bodily convulsions: matrons, attired as Bacchantes, with their hair disheveled and carrying blazing torches, would run down to the Tiber, plunge their torches into the water and bring them out still alight - because they contained a mixture of live sulfur and calcium. Men were said to have been carried off by the gods - because they had been attached to a machine and whisked way out of sight to hidden caves; or to submit to violation."
- Titus Livy, History of Rome, Book 39.13

"Ezekiel in describing the necromantic ritual of the witches, says they fastened 'magic bands' (kesatot) on their wrists and with them 'trapped souls like birds' (Ezekiel 13:20). This rare word is related to the Sumerian KI-ShU, meaning some kind of magical imprisonment, but we have to look to Greek for its precise significance. In the form kiste, Latin cista, it appears as a container used in certain mystery rituals of the Dionysiac cult, supposedly for the carrying of secret implements. In fact, wherever the cista is graphically represented it is shown as a basket from which a snake is emerging. Thus on sarcophagi inscribed with Bacchic scenes, the cista is shown being kicked open by Pan and the snake raising itself from the half-opened lid. The snake is an important feature of the Dionysiac cult and imagery. The Maenads of Euripides' Bacchae have serpents entwined in their hair and round their limbs, and the snake was the particular emblem of the Phyrigian Sabazios (Sabadius) with whom Dionysos is identified."
- John M. Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

"The body is disabled by paroxysms of ecstasy. Normal Judgment is, to say the least, suspended. Surrounding objects are obscured by frank hallucinations of vortexes and floodlights, or else they're transformed by luminous halos and revelatory detail. Voices from elsewhere are heard dictating instructions or secret messages. Then, there's that painful sense of the meaningfulness of everything. Seized by the immanent symbolism in the world, the subject reports talking to, seeing, or becoming God."
- David Pursh in Omni, October '93

"Osiris is he who is called Dionysos in the Greek tongue."
- Herodotus, The Histories

Thus, we've come full circle. By now it should be clear that we've stumbled upon something significant here.

I still believe that these meanings and messages found in pop culture and the most unlikeliest of places at this late and urgent hour that also seem to consistently point to the same conclusion -- the we're on the cusp of the prophesied Tribulation -- all demonstrate how much our Heavenly Father loves us.

Yes, I'm speculating here and making that conclusion on my own, but we know that He loves us so much that He doesn't want to see anyone perish so if that's true, then is it really so far-fetched to assume that God would use anything and everything within His marvelous creation to try and get the same message across? I mean, it's almost like He's trying to whack us over the head with this truth so that even those of us who love Him dearly, but maybe perhaps aren't into studying prophecy as much as we should can find the same "signs that the end times are upon us" just by noticing things like this entire series here today.

How else do we explain how an innocuous story about a former U.S. Congresswoman is not only associated with Israel (we all know how important that nation and its people are to end times events), but the name of the ship she was on as mentioned in this story has a direct connection to the god in ancient Greek and Roman Mythology (out of all the possible candidates) who directly corresponds to prophesied last days events like the Black Awakening, let alone the very same subject we've been discussing here in this forum lately?

The only way I can explain it is to say it's a supernatural phenomenon and probably evidence of God's divine providence.

Keep looking up! Lord come quickly!

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