Armageddon... a Lamb stood on it and with him 144,000! (Rev. 14:1)

Text: "And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations." Leviticus 17:7 ;  Quote:    (7) And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils. —The word ( sēirim ) here translated "devils," literally denotes hairy or shaggy goats , and then goat-like deities , or demons . The Egyptians, and other nations of antiquity, worshipped goats as gods. Not only wan there a celebrated temple in Thmuis, the capital of the Mendesian Nomos in Lower Egypt, dedicated to the goat-image Pan, whom they called Mendes, and worshipped as the oracle, and as the fertilising principle in nature, but they erected statues of him everywhere. Hence the Pan, Silenus, satyrs, fauns, and the woodland gods among the Greeks and Romans; and hence, too, the goat-like form of the devil, with a tail, horns, and cloven feet, which obtain in medie...

Text: "The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest." Isaiah 34:14 Quote: [...] C’est aussi vers le même temps que la forme corporelle du diable devient quelque chose d’arrêté: c’est celle des anciens faunes et satyres, le front cornu, la bouche lippue, la peau velue, une queue, le pied fourchu du bouc ou le sabot du cheval. Réville, Albert, Histoire du diable: ses origines, sa grandeur et sa décadence , Strasbourg: Treuttel et Wurtz, 1870, pp. 36-37 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/histoiredudiable00rv Book Images:

Text: "The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest." Isaiah 34:14 Quote: [...] The devil has his phases according to the style of the architecture to which he belongs: he is Byzantine or monstrous at Constantinople and Jerusalem; ugly but human in Rome, among the Latins; animal, yet his brute form modified by his human form among the Romans; human, but taking the forms of the beast among the Goths; and finally, with the Renaissance, returning to an ancient Satyr, which has the feet and horns of a goat, but the body and head of a man. ["A time came," says M. Reville, "when the idea that the devil had a distinct bodily shape became settled; and this form was that of the ancient fauns and satyrs, with hoofs, protruding legs, hairy skin, tail, cloven foot or ho...