IDOLATRY

 

Today we will speak about idolatry. You may say to me immediately that you are not bowing down to an idol. Congratulation! However, please continue reading for you may need this message to give to you near relative or friend.

This message to day is part one.

Let begin with our roots. Who created us? Let us begin with the book of Bereshit/Genesis.

After Elohim created this universe, He said something very important that all of us need to know.

Then Elohim said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our Likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So Elohim created man in His own image; in the image of Elohim He created them. Then Elohim blessed them and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Bereshit/Genesis 1:26-28

At this point I must ask a question. Who created us? Who owns us? Does He have any rights over us? Please think on these things.

If you think that you just was formed out of the air, let us think about this too? Who created the air? Does anything exist without someone who has formed it? You can meditate on these issues and see what you come out with.

My answer is that the Supreme Being called Elohim, God, is the author of your life. And if He is author of your life, He has the legal right to tell you what He expects of you. Do you agree?

If you make a chair, you have the right to use this chair, to give it away as a gift, and even to destroy it if it becomes unusual, right? Therefore Elohim Yehovah has the right to tell you what you can do or what you cannot do. He suggests to you a good diet, as we read in Wayyiqra/Leviticus 11, and Devarim/Deuteronomy 14, you may want to go there and read this chapters, and find out what foods He has created for you to eat, or not to eat. Not all animals are to be eaten by men! He is so concerned about your health that He tells you exactly what is beneficial for your health.

However this may not be something you want to do. But we will talk about this later on.

Now let us read in another chapter.

And Elohim spoke all these words saying: 

“I am Yehovahⁱ your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim/Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You have no other mighty onesⁱⁱ against My face. You do not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of that which is in the shamayim above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the water under the earth. You do not bow to them nor serve them. For I Yehovah your Elohim, am a jealous El, visiting the wickedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My Commands.”

Shemot/Exodus 20:1-6 (HS)

Let me now go to the book of Yeshayahu.

Thus says Yehovah, the King of Israel, “I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no Elohim (God).

Yeshayahu/Isaiah 44:6

Knowing that He is the First and the Last, why mankind makes himself images and calls them gods?

Now let us read what He has to say about idols in other Scriptures.

Those who make an image, all of them are useless, And their precious things shall not profit; they are their own witnesses; they neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed. Who would form a god or mold an image that profits him nothing?

Surely all his companions would be ashamed; And the workmen, they are mere men.

Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; Yet they all fear, they shall be ashamed together.

The blacksmith with the tongs works one in the coals, fashions it with the strength of his arms.

Even so, he is hungry, and his strength fails; He drinks no water and is faint.

The craftsman stretches out his rule, he marks one with chalk; he fashions with a plane, he marks it out with the compass, and makes it like the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house.

He cuts down cedars fro himself, and takes the cypress and the oak; he secures for himself among the trees of the forest, he plants a pine, and the rain nourishes it.

Then it shall be for a man to burn, for he will take some of it and warm himself; Yes, he kindles it and bakes bread; indeed he makes a god and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it. He burns half of it in the fire; with this half he eats meat; he roasts a roast, and is satisfied. He even warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm, I have seen the fire.”

And the rest of he makes into a god, his carved image. He falls down before it and worships it, prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”

Yeshayahu/Isaiah 44:9-17

I had to write this passage to give you, the reader, the understanding that carved or painted images are forbidden. They are useless! One is from a tree, or clay, and another may be designed on a piece of paper. They are useless! They have no power and reveal the condition of fallen man. Man has chosen to find images who cannot rebuke them for their behavior. They imagine they are somehow in the air listen to them. They have no soul or spirit. They are physical images that cannot answer their prayers. They cannot have a conversation with them, for they have no life.

Yet so many go to a church and dip the hands in the so called holy water and make the sign of the cross, as though this is accepted by Yehovah, but it is only idolatry.

They continue in the building and make the sign of the cross and kneel and make the sign of the cross and pray to a mute piece of tree! This is man’s degradation. He has forgotten who his real Creator and Savior is.

Today I will end with the following Scripture.

For the wrath of Elohim is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be know of Elohim is manifest in them, for Elohim has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and mightiness, so they are without excuse, because, although they knew Elohim, they did not glorify Him as Elohim, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible Elohim into an image made like corruptible man-and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

Therefore Elohim also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lust of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of Elohim for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Romiyim/Romans 1:18-25

Please read and meditate on these Scriptures today. I will continue on my next message.

Seek the Creator, and be at peace today.

iYehovah is the correct name of our Creator. He spoke to Mosheh/Moses saying: Yehovah Elohim or your fathers has sent me to you. Shemot/Genesis 3:15;

I am Yehovah, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to carved images. Yeshayahu/Isaiah 42:8. Please note that the translators hide His Most Sacred Name and use the title the LORD. THIS IS A DISGRACE! I always use His correct name, and I hope you will do the same.

iiMighty ones is saying, not other elohims, or false gods.