Idolatry, Our Selfish Thoughts

Creation Date: 11-Jul-2019
that Leads to Our Destruction

Last updated: 4-Oct-2024
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Sections

1 A False Worship is what the Satanic World Teaches
2 Scriptural Reference against Idolatry, the Worship and even Speaking the Names of fake gods.
3 Commandments Not to Participate in  Idolatry
4 Examples of Idolatry
5 Israel Worship of Foreign gods in the Groves, Trees, and High Places
6 Sexual Activities Can Be Idolatry

A False Worship is what the Satanic World Teaches

There is only one God and there are no others.  Our God absolutely requires a relationship with Him that is worship which is perfect shared love as detailed in the Worship topic.

Our relationship with God should be a moment by moment trust and love for Him that:

This is an excerpt from the Worship topic:

The Satanic World tries to teach everyone falsely how worship is to be conducted, which is always going to be against God.  It seems to this author, that when

  • Seeing a movie, or
  • Reading about

a pagan culture along with modern-day non-Christian religions, the worship of their god or gods is the opposite method of the God of the Bible. 

As an extreme example, the ancient Mayans and other similar religions in the American Continents did many barbaric rituals that included human sacrifices.  Their worship consisted of:

  1. Repeating mantras and prayers over and over.
  2. Have the potential of a fear of their lives suffering calamities if they do not conduct worship in the specific method.
  3. Often require difficult and painful methods for everyone.
  4. Are told to give their lives, or murder others that included their own children, as a sacrifice to appease the gods.

These four methods have also had their purposes to:

  1. Obtain some sort of reward with crops growing, or
  2. Hunting being successful, or
  3. Have eternal life, or
  4. Not having the pagan god killing them.

This view of worship of the pagan gods has had an influence in many religions of today that include openly known Satanic Cults.  The results have people that do not know the God of Christianity:

  1. Incorrectly the belief that the true and only God is mean, always angry and does not love anyone.
  2. Incorrectly the belief that worship to the true and only God does not benefit anyone because bad things always happen.

Scriptural Reference against Idolatry, the Worship and even Speaking the Names of fake gods.

The examples of the Israelites from the Old Testament, in times when they collectively abandoned God, had idolatry occurring with false and fake gods are given for us to learn from.  They were identified and a focus in a place identified as the "groves".  In our current time in history, the ancient evil practices are still occurring in different forms and places, but are ostensibly almost identical in the purpose of idolatry.

God, through the prophets, spoke to Israel to stop the evil worship and practices that includes sex, torture, and murder.  The people that rejected the True and only God, are the "created evil", which is often misunderstood.  When there is rejection of God, then is the creation of evil occurs, even at the smallest of actions as as read in John 15:5, and God always uses all events for His Glory and His Purposes.

Isaiah 45:5-8 5 I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.
Exodus 34:14 13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: 14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; 16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. 17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
1 Thessalonians 5:14-18 14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. 15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.16 Rejoice evermore. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
John15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Commandments Not to Participate in Idolatry?

Any Christian that is vaguely familiar with the Ten Commandments, should know know the first five commandments are dealing with our position and relationship with God.

The following are excerpts from the Ten Commandments topic:
 
Exodus 20 Verse: Commandment  
Verse 1-2   1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery."
3 1 You shall have no other gods before me."
4-6 2 4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments
7 3 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain."
8 - 11 4 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven* and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."
12 5 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you."
  • The First and Second are related to one another.  We are not to worship false gods and make images of what we would perceive is the real God or any false god to worship.  Jesus Christ, when He was on the earth, did not set up images of Himself or even God the Father.  Additionally, in the entirety of the scriptures, there was never any images or statues set up to have worship directed towards because that would have people's attention going to the wrong place.
  • The Third, Fourth and Fifth are related to one another.  We are to be ambassadors of God and must act accordingly.

There are other scriptural references that reinforce the commandments not to have

In Christianity, there are many people that most likely have positive intentions to honor our God, but are doing things that are not to be done such as making statues and having paintings of Jesus Christ for the glory of the earthly item.   Also there is one Christian Denomination that puts Jesus Christ's earthly mother Mary in the same level of high regard as God which is absolutely wrong. 

Jesus Christ is God, fully God, and God with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.  Mary is a human-being only and not to be held in the same regard

Note that this author recognizes that symbols such as:

are absolutely honoring to God.  In many places, throughout history, there were people that were unable to read and the use of icons and painting were visual aids in the proliferation of the Word of God with God's involvement in our lives.

The difference between the use of religious items is when any of us substitute in place of God something that honors the physical earthly item, statue, or place as requiring worship.  As and example when visiting Jerusalem, which is God's City on Earth albeit a battle ground from those who hate God, is to be considered a place that has honored God at different points in history, nothing more, that should make us recognize God in a more significant way.  Some people state they feel a sense of peace when visiting Israel as if it is going home after being gone for a long time.

Deuteronomy 5:6-8 6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Exodus 23:13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

Examples of Idolatry


The following is an excerpt from the Four Greatest Sins topic:

Idolatry by worshipping or consulting anything that is presenting itself in place of the Holy Triune God of the Scriptures when knowing who the true God is.  In other words, worshiping a false god by participating in any communications with Satanic Forces such as:
(a) Using Spirit Mediums
(b) Consulting Fortune Tellers, Psychics, Sorceries, Witches and Warlocks
(c) Conducting a Séance (also Remote Viewing)
(d) Trying to speak any type of incantations
(e) Using a so-called magical recipe
(f) Putting reverence or believing in power obtained in:
     * crystals,
     * holy-water,
     * man-made shrines,
     * astrology
(g) Any form of Necromancy.
(h) Any form of
     * hero worship
     * worship of people that are performers such as actors, musicians, and sports figures
     * worship of imagery of people that are in photos and media (which includes pornography)
     * Sex outside of a covenant bond / in marriage of two people.

All of these points of 1.a through 1.h are against the First and Second Commandments. 

Note that idolatry does not equate to a lose our Salvation as some pastors have incorrectly stated that Hebrews 6:4-8 will cause a permanent forfeiture of Salvation, as it is impossible to lose Salvation, but we can suffer consequences in our Earthly lives with protection by the Holy Spirit hindered, and loss of rewards in Heaven.  See lose our Salvation topic for more on Hebrews 6:4-8 and additional information.  We cannot lose our Salvation! 
 

An example of over looked, not equated, or unknown examples on how we may be involved in idolatry:

All of us have seen documentaries about pagan worship of strange gods, where people would:

* Paint their bodies
* Wear strange clothes and feathers on their heads
* Dance in strange celebrations that often included sexual aspects.
* In the scriptures there are the references to cultures, like Molech in Leviticus 18:21 that sacrificed babies, and in archeology like the Mayan religious practices that included human sacrifice of adults.

Today we have people attending sporting events, music concerts, political events, and protests:

* Wearing paint on their faces
* Clothes with insignia, murals that depict death and destruction of figurative sportive adversaries and real death of others
* Destroying of property
* Glorifying of sexuality
* Celebrating human achievements that are against Godly prohibitions.

All human beings, and even the animals, are created by God to worship and give God Glory by having His Love for us manifested in our lives.  When we don't worship God then we will worship:

(a) Ourselves
(b) Wealth, beauty, sex, food, alcohol, drugs, and eventually the Satanic Demonic Spiritual Realm
(c) Human-made objects that are suppose to give us power by us holding the object as a counterfeit spiritual source of power

all of which will eventually having us profane God, destroy ourselves, and eliminate God's influence with protection for our spiritual inner being.

Israel Worship of Foreign Gods in the Groves, Trees, and High Places

In specific periods of the existence of Israel as a nation, there were Israelites that worshiped foreign gods such as Baal and Asherah (unfortunately has to be mentioned for the reader which consisted of:

Many Biblical Scholars have taken the correlation of the scriptural references to the worship of foreign gods in idolatry, that has these points:

  1. The Israelites and other nations participated in the practices initially because of the carnality of lust and sexual desires as it was sex without commitment and without any responsibility to take responsibility for women along with even underage girls and boys that were theorized as being enslaved into servitude.
  2. There were Israelites that first did not participate in the worship or activities occurring at the Groves, that were usually on high hills or mountains, but watched from a distance as the Israelite hid behind landscape and were sexually stimulated.
  3. The other nations and Israelites that participated in the worship were seduced into the practices because of all human-beings desires for selfishness and self-fulfillment where sex, the gift from God in a marriage, was used in perversion to stimulate into delusional beliefs from the sexual climaxes that would influence attendances and the deception that there was power in the fake god.
  4. The wickedness was so evil that even God, who knows all things, could not let the understanding of the evil come into His Heart of Love (Jeremiah 7:31).
Exodus 34:14 13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: 14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; 16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. 17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Judges 3:7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
1 Kings 15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
1 Kings 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
2 Kings 13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
2 Kings 17:10-12

2 Kings 17:16-17

 10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger: 12 For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

16 And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
Jeremiah 7:29-31 29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

In modern-times, we all have similar activities going on that many people do not understand is still occurring but in different forms.

  1. Pornography is the worship of the human-body in sexual activities and an entry point for most that leads to deviant sexual desires and adultery.
  2. While many understand that Abortions are occurring all over the Earth at staggering numbers, there is also the
    (a) abduction,
    (b) transport,
    (c) torture unto death,  (Extreme example: History records in World War II's German concentration camps, the Nazi German leader Heinrich Himmler would sometimes sexualy climax watching the gassing unto death of people in the gas chambers.)
    (d) sexual torture,
    (e) harvesting of body parts (mostly organs),
    (f) and worse
    occurring by the millions of people today.  This author stumbles across investigational reports that list the details which this author will NOT give links as it inadvertently gives glory to the Satanic World.  This is so prevalent, that if the reader wants a small sample then do a Internet search of human-trafficking of read the topic on "Racism, Slavery, Subjugation, Abuse".    

Sexual Activities Can Be Idolatry

The following is an excerpt from the topic on sex:

A very subtle temptation that all of us are potentially capable of wrongfully desiring and participating, is the use of sex to feel worshipped or worship someone along with possibly many others.  We sometimes hear in confessional types of interviews with people in elite positions of power, sport figures or actors which describe the elation of euphoria that they became addicted to when having sexual experiences with their employees or fans because it was in a position of being worshiped.

As Christians know, the scriptures are clear about the use of sex is to be in a relationship between a husband and wife, where there are many potential consequences for the incorrect use of sex, which are partially discussed in the topic on Adultery that deals also with committed relationships between two people who aren't married.

The act of feeling worshipped or giving worship in a sexual experience, is something that seems to be never discussed in the Christian community's commentaries, sermons and Bible Studies, which is why it is important to have this part of this topic.  Some points:

  • Sexual activities with the intent of having someone be worshipped during the process is an entry for Satanic Oppression for the Christian or Possession for the non-Christian.
  • It is Lucifer and the Satanic Realm's goal to get as many people as possible to participate in sexual conquests and sexual experiences outside of a marriage because this potentially leads to a form of idolatry by the glory given to the act of sex rather than the intent to share love with their spouse.

Sexual experiences, between a man and woman in a committed relationship, will be guided by God to experience all of the positive benefits that do not include wrongful worship that are only to be given to God.

What To Read Next?

Our Fallen Nature Peaceful People Belief and WWII is a foreshadowing of the Tribulation Period, Worship  What is Salvation?  Is it possible to lose Salvation?  We have eternal life.  Evolution is not real.  When a Christian suffers is there benefits from it.  Rewards in heaven.  Do we Tithe?  What does the 3rd Commandment tell us?  What is Grace and Mercy?  Is there an Age of Accountability?  Is there a place of unending punishment and exile form God?