Demonic Names in the Book of Mormon Part 1
Over the past month I’ve received numerous requests asking when, or if, we’d ever talk about our series, Demonic Names in the Book of Mormon – so here it is! Look for the new updates on the day of posting and be sure to share these with the Mormon you know!
While studying some points of interest in Masonry, I came across some names within their books that sounded familiar to me.
The familiarity became abundantly clear when I opened the Book of Mormon. I began researching some of the names in the Book of Mormon and their meanings. I compared them with the Bible, bible dictionaries, and even Webster’s dictionary.
I found 57 names of people and places that are demonic or names of false gods and their derivatives, however I have chosen to narrow this down to three names that I thought was most relevant.
Someone mentioned to me in a recent letter to Saints Alive that what I see as wrong or demonic is not necessarily demonic to that person. We need to take a firm stand against this rationalization. Truth is not relative. The following names of places and/or people are demonic or ungodly and the LDS Church has twisted their meanings into something other than what they truly are.
Ammonites–
Biblical meaning of people: These were a nomadic people that were descendants of Lot’s incestuous relationship with his youngest daughter. Genesis 19:38: ‘And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day’. According to Unger’s Dictionary of the Bible, the Ammonite’s deity was Molech.
Book of Mormon’s definition of Ammonites: They observed the laws of Moses and looked forward to the coming of Christ. Alma 25:15-16. Their origin is actually from the Lamanites; Alma 24:17-8.
Mulek
Biblical meaning: This is a derivative of Molech. In Leviticus 18:21 it says; ‘And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD’. Molek is found in Strong’s Concordance and in Hebrew it means the chief deity (king) of the Ammonites. #4427-4432 gives the definitions and derivatives of this name.
Book of Mormon’s definition: Mulek was land in the north that God prospered and appointed. Mulek was a son of Zedekiah. Helaman 6:10.
Sidon
Biblical meaning: This is a land that was possessed by the Cannanite cults. Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. Their goddess was Ashtoreth. 1 Kings 11:5. They brought nothing but misery to Israel. Jesus referred to the iniquities of the Sidonians in Matthew 11:21-3; ‘Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you’.
Book of Mormon’s definition: In 84 BC, Alma began baptizing the people in the river of Sidon. Alma 4:4. Sidon was also the river where the Nephites defeated the Amlicites & the Lamanites. Alma threw their bodies from the banks into the river so that they could cross to the other side. Alma 2:17, 27, 34-5. It says that the land where Sidon was became peaceful and prosperous.
In the book, Discourses of Brigham Young on page 257, he states; “I hope to see the time when we shall have a reformation in the orthography of the English language, among this people, for it is greatly needed. Such a reformation would be a great benefit, and would make the acquirement of an education much easier than at present.”
It’s obvious that this is exactly what they have done. Read, study, decipher what words and their origins mean. It is vital that we understand what we read and not take it for granted that what we read is always true. The only book that we can take for face value is the Bible.
I ask that you join me in prayer for the Mormons. I am praying Isaiah chapter 61 for them. And remember what it says in 2 Timothy 3:16; ‘All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness’.
PS: As you’ll see in the comments from our original posting, people still had a lot to say! 🙂 We’re grateful for the Christians who responded to what they also know as truth – PTL!
With Love in Christ;
Michelle
Michelle, you are simply out of your mind. A true biblical scholar would never make these connections. That’s probably why you only bring a handful of folks out of the church in a given year while we bring in over 300,000.
Who said that she “made them up”? Have you researched other material than what the Mormans tell you? If so prove to her exactly what you are saying is made up. We would all like to know!
Jesus in the New Testament gospel of John said in the 10th chapter 16 verse that he will go and find His lost sheep. That he will speak to them…
“And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
This brings up questions about sheep, who they are, and where they are?
Jesus also said in Mathew 15:24 “But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
The above testimony of Mathew is interesting, because “God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son” (see John 3:16), but Jesus said, “I’m not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel”…
In Ezekiel 34, it is clearly Jesus speaking to Ezekiel about His Sheep, and just where those sheep are on planet earth, and the Prophet Ezekiel is writing down what Jesus tells him to write:
Ezekiel 34:6
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
Then Jesus says in the 11th through 13 verse:
11 For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
OK anybody who’s studied the “great tribulation” know’s what the “cloudy and dark day is”. Right?
13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
Reverting back to the Gospel of John chapter 10: 24-26, Jesus states that many of the Jews in Judea were not His sheep:
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
OK: We do know some of the Jews were Jesus’s sheep, because they wrote the Bible. There are records of Jews whom followed the Christ.
In Isaiah 2:3, the prophet agrees that the Jews wrote the Bible saying: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Please note in Zechariah 1:17 Zion is a separate location form Jerusalem. Also note that the ” for out of Zion shall go forth the law… This is the Bible speaking, telling mankind there will be Revelation from God given from two different place on earth. “For out of Zion shall go forth the law”… So the question becomes, where is Zion, since it’s not Jerusalem?
Zechariah 1:17
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
We know in Isaiah 64th chapter, 10th verse pertaining two Holy city locations:
“Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation”.
We know also in the 12 chapter of Book of Revelations the woman (New Testament church) whom brought forth the man child, was attacked:
12 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
And we know according the Revelations 12, that the woman fled and the decendants of the woman, fled into the wilderness for 1260 days…
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
And we know that the Dragon created a false church of Christ- we know this because of Pauls letter to the Corinthians stating:
2 Corinthians 11:
14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
We know in Galations 1:8, that Satan started a false church in the New Testement time period, therefore the Apostles words said:
Galatians 1:8
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
We know in Revelations 14:6 and Angel shall once again preach the everlasting gospel.
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
And Jesus said in Matthew 24:14
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Now here is the crux of the matter. Just before the great tribulation, an angel will will fly through the midst of heaven, with the everlasting gospel to preach to mankind on the earth, then as Jesus said, the “then shall the end come”.
To get a better picture of what this angel message looks like, let’s turn to Zecharia. Where a young man recieves a message from an angel:
Zacharia 2:3-4
3And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
4And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
Going back to Revelations 12
The Eagle a symbol of the United States of America
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
The Serpent Attacked the Woman with a false gospel (flood)(defiled water)
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
The earth opened her mouth and swollowed the flood of defiled water:
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
The Dragon Perpares to make war with the woman and the remnant people who fled from Ancient Israel 2000 years ago… We now live in the USA-and our bible proves who we are… We’re sheep, just like the Lamanites.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
But how did the earth open her mouth to help the woman?
Truth to Come Forth out of the Earth
Psalms 85:11
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
A dead people to speak from the dust
Isaiah 29:4
4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
A Sealed Book to Come Forth
Isaiah 29:
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
A Warning to Sincere Believers in Christ- warning about a Conspiracy to Corrupt the Work of the Sealed Book
Isaiah 29:
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Habakkuk 2: Confirms the Vision is written:
2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
To Which Daniel 12:4,8,9 Confirms:
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
To Which Further Identifying Marks of the Book shall Speak Of:
Ezekiel 37
15 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
OK let’s begin to sum up some things.
Jesus said there are other sheep besides the Jews.
Jesus said his sheep were scattered all over the earth.
Jesus said He would bring his sheep and they would hear his voice.
Jesus Sheep will be delivered during the Tribulation.(Dark and Cloudy day)
Jesus was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
The woman (the church) was nearly persecuted to death-her decendants fled
The woman and her decendants fled to another land-who’s symbol is the Eagle.
The dragon spewed out a flood after the woman.
A flood is defiled water.
Please note Jesus is the clear and clean water.
The earth opened her mouth and swollowed the flood.
Truth shall spring out of the earth-rightiousness shall look down from heaven.
A sealed book shall come out of the ground.
An angel not only preaches the everlasting gospel-but delivers message to young man (Joseph Smith)
Isaiah prophecies a long dead people shall speak out of the dust, and a sealed book shall come forth, also called the vision.
Habukkuk agrees and calls it a vision written upon tables.
To which Daniel the Prophet agrees, saying the book is sealed, and that it shall come forth in a time when much learning is happening.
To which Ezekiel testifies there will be two records, one for Ephriam Book of Mormon, and the Bible the testimony of the Jews.
Ezekiel also says no more shall their be Two Kindgoms-the Kingdom of Israel that was divided at the time of King Solomons son, when the 10 tribes rebelled, they went to Samaria, only to idol worship and be scattered by God amoungs all the nations of the earth.
The house of Israel to be gathered together during the tribulation.
Don’t forget, the nearly the whole Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints rebelled against Joseph Smith… Yes, they lied about Joseph Smith, and blamed him for the sins of their creation. This is a valid, court of law recored fact.
OK now what is un christian, and unbilbical about anything I have just said?
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The subject is not “lost sheep” but ungodly names. Also, you are not clear but running in circles here. The point is??? State simply, please, in 4 lines.
thanks for your wise input Miss Sue! We’re praying this man will find the time to diligently study like he did replying, albeit, poorly.
Michelle
Every verse of scripture is filled with spiritual meat and milk (1 Peter 2:2). Other parts of scripture are filled with historical data (names, places, dates etc). I say, stay focused on the spiritual milk and meat (spiritual starvation)), of each Bible verse rather than the date that something happened, For example, I could care less whether Colossians 3:17 was written in july or January; whether it was in a letter to the Corinthians or to the Colossians.
Michelle, your reasoning is faulty. Just look in history, there was York, for instance, in England. People came from the Old World, and brought some of their place names with them: Example: New York. If you read the Book of Mormon more carefully, you would know that it was about a small group of people that left the area of Israel in antiquity, and brought the knowledge with them (of the Biblical scriptures, which had the names of people and places in Israel). You are implying that these ancient people had no right to name a new land, or people, after the former.
Mulek also, is not the same as Molech (fire-type god). Did you know that the name of prince Mulek, is related to the word Melech/ Melchi which means King in Hebrew?