Question: What was interesting with Baal that Israel went back into worshipping Baal again and again instead of Yahweh?

Google: What were the consequences of Baal worship?

In the end, the Baal fertility cult had such a negative impact on the Covenant that Israel had with God, that Israel was ejected out of the Promised Land and deported into the Babylonian Exile as seen in the book of Jeremiah.

Baal was more fun to worship. He didn't require any reading or studying of Scriptures, and he wanted them to drink as much fermented wine as they wanted.

In fact, "Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him” (1Kings 16:33).

In the Bible, Baal is the name given to several different deities who are designated as false gods or idols. However, it is most often used to describe the specific Canaanite-Phoenician god of fertility and rain. Additionally, Baal is associated with Beelzebub, demons, and the devil; and at its worst, child sacrifice!

Why did the worship of Baal appeal to the Israelites so strongly? The worship of Baal was so appealing because of his "power". For those who worshipped him, he was the god of storms and rain. Israel had faced many droughts, and the prophet Elijah, had prophesied that there would be a three year-long drought.

The Priests of Baal are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible numerous times, including a confrontation with the Prophet Elijah (1Kings 18:21–40), the burning of incense symbolic of prayer (2Kings 23:5), and rituals followed by priests adorned in special vestments (2Kings 10:22) offering sacrifices similar to those given to honour the Hebrew God. The confrontation with the Prophet Elijah is also mentioned in the Quran (37:123–125)

1Kings 18 records an account of a contest between the prophet Elijah and Jezebel's priests. Both sides offered a sacrifice to their respective gods: Ba'al failed to light his followers' sacrifice while Yahweh's heavenly fire burnt Elijah's altar to ashes, even after it had been soaked with water. The observers then followed Elijah's instructions to slay the priests of Baʿal,[57] after which it began to rain, showing Yahweh's mastery over the weather.

It is to be especially noted, that Elijah is to be sent to Earth again just prior to Christ Jesus' 2nd Advent, when He will set up the "Kingdom on Earth" (The Millennial) and Rule with His Father from Jerusalem.

Brad E. Kelle has suggested that references to cultic sexual practices in the worship of Baal, in Hosea 2, are evidence of an historical situation in which Israelites were either giving up Yahweh worship for Baal, or blending the two. Hosea's references to sexual acts being metaphors for Israelite "apostasy”.

Beelzebub or Beelzebul was identified by the writers of the New Testament as Satan, "prince" (i.e., king) of the demons; and is the seen evidence of how far Satan is allowed to go, in the influence of the minds of men, in his attempts to eventually "be as God"!

This was/is the reason for the "Son of God's" Sacrificial death on the Cross of Calvary; see link below.

Satan's Contest with God (Study)

Son of Abraham, Son of God! (Study)

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