THE PERIL OF IDOL WORSHIP

in #steemchurch6 years ago

When God wanted to guard the Israelites from idolatry. He said to them, " You shall not make anything to be with Me - god's of silver or god's of gold you shall not make for yourselves". They were in danger of imitating the example of the Egyptians, making for themselves images to represent God.
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God wanted His people to understand that He alone should be the object of their worship. When they would overcome the idol - worshiping nations around them, they were not to preserve any of the images of their worship, by destroy them completely. Many of these heathen god's were very costly and of beautiful workmanship, which might tempt those who had witnessed idol worship, so common in Egypt, even to regard these senseless objects with some degree of reverence. The Lord wanted His people to know that it was because of idolatry of these nations, which had led them to every degree of wickedness, that He would use the Israelites as His instruments to punish them and destroy their gods.
After Moses had received the judgement from the Lord and has written them for the people as well as the promises on condition of obedience, the Lord said to him, "Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nada and About, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. And Moses alone shall the people go up with him"
So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and shall the judgements. And all the people answered with one voice and said, 'All the words which the Lord has said we will do' Exodus 24:1-3
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Moses had written, not the Ten commandments, but the judgement that GOD wanted them to observe and the promises conditional on their obedience to Him. He read this to the people, and they pledged themselves to obey all the words that the Lord has said.
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Moses then wrote their solemn pledge in a book and offered a sacrifice to God for the people, "Then he took the Book of the covenant and read in hearing of the people" And they said 'All that the Lord said we will do, and be obedient'. And Moses took the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with according to all these words. The people repeated their solemn pledge to the Lord to do all that He had said and to be obedient (Exodus 24:7,8)

Conclusion
The Lord said do not worship any other God apart from me, for I am the alpha and the omega, and when we obey his commandments he has promised us an eternity

Thanks, this is @bigssam from #teamghana
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