STATUE OF LIBERTY
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
June 14, 2010
The Statue of Liberty (SL) was given to the U.S. by the Grand Orient Freemasons of France, who had helped bring about the French Revolution of 1789. Their Masonic lodges were infiltrated by the Illuminati, which was founded on May 1, 1776 by Adam Weishaupt whose philosophy was “do what thou wilt.” This is also what the serpent told Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the serpent represented Satan/Lucifer (praised by Masonic leader Albert Pike).
What does this mean in terms of Biblical End Times? Revelation 13:18 refers to the number of the Beast to come as 666. The key to understanding this may be in 1 Kings 10:14 and 2 Chronicles 9:13, which indicate 666 was the weight of talents of gold that was brought each year to Solomon, who would worship Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians. In Benjamin Disraeli’s Coningsby: Or the New Generation (1844), the key character is Sidonia, who says: “So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” In Revelation, the final battle takes place at Armageddon. This is, in a worldly sense, the final battle for world control, for who will control the world government, which could be brought about through world trade. This is because in Solomon’s time, he fortified Gezer, Hazor, and Megiddo. The Har (Mount) of Megiddo could be called Armageddon, and through this fortification, Solomon controlled the Via Maris and world trade, thereby controlling the world of his day.
In a spiritual sense, Astarte was the Phoenician goddess Ashteroth, the female half of Baal (New Agers refer to a future of androgyny or of yin/yang). Human babies were sacrificed to Baal (like abortions today) under Ahab, who had married Jezebel, the daughter of the Sidonian (Phoenician) king, Ethbaal. But like the battle between the God of Elijah and the prophets of the Phoenicians’ Baal during Ahab’s time, Baal (Satan) symbolically rises like the Phoenix from the ashes to do battle with the actually-risen Lord, Jesus Christ, Who is victorious.
In Part 1 of this series, I referred to an engraving placed on St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City (NYC) in 1997 showing the city being destroyed relevant to St. John’s Book of Revelation in The Holy Bible. St. John the Divine Church has been called “the Cathedral of Socialism” relevant to the former cathedral Dean 1972-1997 James Parks Morton’s affinity for Bauhaus. And the planned world government to come will be Socialist, a synthesis of Western Capitalism and Eastern Communism.