The opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham was a celebration of the ‘diversity religion’ that dominates our land, in which every culture and religion is affirmed except ours. According to the Independent newspaper (29/7/22) the opening ceremony was a ‘love letter’ to Birmingham which also contained a message condemning anti-gay laws in Commonwealth countries.
On the other hand a correspondent to Prophecy Today said that after watching the event: “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, and am still grieving over the occult obeisance demonstrated at this travesty”.
There were many aspects that concerned readers. These included the following:
- The BBCs official commentator speaking of the elevated stage structure as Birmingham’s ‘Tower of Babel’, which was seen as a source of fire and healing and around which strange ritual dancing was enacted.
- Disturbingly eery music ever sounding forth (one clip was from Black Sabbath, the self-styled harbingers of demonic hard rock).
- Objects levitating in a darkened room, whole buildings also ‘moving’ about;
- The obscene smoke-breathing ferocious iron bull with devilish crimson eyes issuing fire, to whom all the dancers bowed in worship.
- The cross-dressing singer suspended from the heavens like some demi-god;
- The acknowledgment of the ‘holy’ Koran to draw all into recognition of the spiritual adherence of the different cultural attendees;
- No mention of the one true God, or of Birmingham’s centuries-long Christian heritage;
- Confusing ritual displays with bizarre chanting – including, for example, a werewolf-type figure, a giant ‘slug-bean’, and a hideous figurine pulled by black ‘demons’.
The centrepiece was the giant bull meant to connect to Birmingham’s Bull Ring, now a major shopping centre, but for centuries the central market going back to the Middle Ages. The creature named the ‘Raging Bull’ appeared at the end of the ceremony, a giant mechanical bull with glowing red eyes. At the beginning it was in distress and a danger to all around it. A character known as Stella, calmed the creature down and then all of the human performers gathered around the giant bull and literally began to bow down and worship it.
The bull is a symbol of an ancient deity from the Middle East known as “Baal”. In artistic depictions and archaeological finds, Baal took the shape of a bull and had associations with fertility. This god also, apparently according to Canaanite lore, defeated El and had associations with the sun and thunder. Of all the foreign gods the Israelites came into contact with, they appeared to struggle the most with worshipping this one, beginning with the Golden Calf.
Baal Hadad originated in Mesopotamia under the names Adad in the north and Iskur in the south. He is attested as early as the time of the Akkadian Empire (2334-2218 BC) but became more popular after the fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur (2047-1750 BC) during the First Babylonian Empire (c. 1894 to c. 1595 BC). It was during this time, however, that he came to be associated with the bull as his sacred animal, which would become a prominent aspect of his iconography later.
It is also interesting to note that the ancient deity known as “Molech” was also often represented by a bull. In addition to sexual rituals, Molech worship included child sacrifice, or “passing children through the fire.” Idols of Molech were giant metal statues of a man with a bull’s head. A fire was lit in or around the statue. Babies were placed in the statue’s arms or in the hole. When a couple sacrificed their firstborn, they believed that Molech would ensure financial prosperity for the family and future children.
The bull also appears in the Greek myth of Europa. In the story Europa is a beautiful woman from Phoenicia (Modern Lebanon). The Greek God Zeus was captivated by her beauty and transformed himself into a bull and carried her away to Crete. He then turned back into human form and raped her. That was how the continent of Europe got its name. Outside the EU building in Brussels there is a sculpture of the woman riding the bull / beast to connect to this myth.
Back to Birmingham, music from the satanic rock group Black Sabbath was being played as the colossal beast was being brought out. Initially the bull is raging and dangerous but the woman Stella stands before it. She then leads the cast in calming it down and turning it (according to the BBC commentary) into a symbol of love and light. Note Stella means star – there was a bit about a star / Lucifer falling to the earth in the commentary. Then all of the human performers gather around the bull and literally start bowing down to it. After the bull is calmed down, at one point three women are lifted up to ride on top of the bull.
Does this remind you of something?
‘So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.
I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marvelled with great amazement.’ Revelation 17