Thursday, December 15, 2016

YOU Shall Have NO Other Gods BEFORE ME

Exodus 20:1-5b

AND GOD (GOD Almighty) SPOKE ALL THESE WORDS, SAYING: “I AM THE LORD Your GOD, WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF The Land OF Egypt, OUT OF The House OF Bondage.  YOU Shall Have NO Other Gods BEFORE Me.”

“YOU Shall NOT Make For Yourself A Carved Image, 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; YOU Shall NOT Bow Down TO Them NOR Serve Them.  FOR I, THE LORD Your GOD, AM A JEALOUS GOD.”

[See also: Deuteronomy 5:6-9b]

Exodus 32:1-2, 4, 24

Now, WHEN The People (The Children OF Israel) SAW THAT Moses DELAYED COMING DOWN FROM The Mountain, The People Gathered Together TO Aaron, AND SAID TO Him (Aaron), “COME, MAKE Us Gods THAT SHALL GO BEFORE Us; FOR AS FOR THIS Moses, The Man Who BROUGHT Us UP OUT OF The Land OF Egypt, We DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAS BECOME OF Him (Moses).”

AND Aaron SAID TO Them, “Break Off The Golden Earrings, Which ARE IN The Ears OF Your Wives, Your Sons, AND Your Daughters, AND Bring Them TO Me (Aaron).”  AND He (Aaron) RECEIVED The Gold FROM Their Hand, AND He (Aaron) FASHIONED IT, WITH an Engraving Tool, AND MADE A Molded Calf.  THEN, They SAID, “THIS IS Your God, O Israel, THAT BROUGHT YOU OUT OF The Land OF Egypt!”  AND I (Aaron) SAID TO Them, ‘Whoever HAS ANY Gold, Let Them BREAK IT OFF.’  SO, They GAVE IT TO Me (Aaron), AND I CAST IT INTO THE FIRE, AND THIS CALF CAME OUT.”

Exodus 34:11-16

OBSERVE WHAT I (GOD Almighty) COMMAND YOU (The Children OF Israel), THIS DAY.  Behold, I AM DRIVING OUT, FROM BEFORE YOU, The Amorite, AND The Canaanite, AND The Hittite, AND The Perizzite, AND The Hivite, AND The Jebusite.  TAKE HEED TO Yourself, LEST YOU Make A Covenant WITH The Inhabitants OF The Land, WHERE YOU ARE GOING, LEST IT BE A SNARE IN Your Midst.

“BUT, YOU (The Children OF Israel) SHALL DESTROY Their Altars, BREAK Their Sacred Pillars, AND CUT DOWN Their wooden Images (FOR YOU Shall Worship NO Other God, FOR THE LORD, WHOSE NAME IS JEALOUS, IS A JEALOUS GOD), LEST YOU Make A Covenant WITH The Inhabitants OF The Land, AND They PLAY The Harlot WITH Their Gods AND Make Sacrifice TO Their Gods, AND One OF Them INVITES YOU AND YOU EAT OF His Sacrifice, AND YOU TAKE OF His Daughters FOR Your Sons, AND His Daughters PLAY The Harlot WITH Their Gods AND Make Your Sons PLAY The Harlot WITH Their Gods.”  “YOU Shall MAKE NO Molded Gods FOR Yourselves.”

[See Also: Deuteronomy 7:1-5 and Deuteronomy 12:1-4]

Deuteronomy 16:21-22

“YOU Shall NOT Plant FOR Yourself ANY Tree, AS A Wooden Image, NEAR THE ALTER, WHICH YOU BUILD, FOR Yourself, TO THE LORD Your GOD (GOD Almighty).  YOU Shall NOT Set Up A Sacred Pillar, WHICH THE LORD Your GOD HATES.”

Judges 2:7-8, 11-13

SO, The People (The Children OF Israel) SERVED THE LORD (GOD Almighty) ALL The Days OF Joshua, AND All The Days OF The Elders, Who OUTLIVED Joshua, WHO HAD SEEN ALL THE GREAT WORKS OF THE LORD, Which He (GOD Almighty) HAD DONE FOR Israel.  Now, Joshua, The Son OF Nun, THE SERVANT OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), DIED When He (Joshua) WAS One Hundred AND Ten (110) Years Old.

THEN, The Children OF Israel DID Evil, IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), AND Served The Baals; AND They FORSOOK THE LORD GOD OF Their Fathers, WHO HAD BROUGHT Them OUT OF The Land OF Egypt; AND They FOLLOWED Other Gods FROM AMONG The Gods OF The People, Who WERE All Around Them, AND They Bowed Down TO Them; AND They (The Children OF Israel) PROVOKED THE LORD (GOD Almighty) TO ANGER.  They FORSOOK THE LORD (GOD Almighty) AND Served Baal AND The Ashtoreths.

Judges 3:5-8

THUS, The Children OF Israel DWELT AMONG The Canaanites, The Hittites, The Amorites, The Perizzites, The Hivites, AND The Jebusites.  AND They (The Children OF Israel) TOOK Their Daughters TO BE Their Wives, AND GAVE Their Daughters TO Their Sons; AND They (The Children OF Israel) SERVED Their Gods.  SO, The Children OF Israel DID Evil, IN The SIGHT OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty).  They (The Children OF Israel) FORGOT THE LORD Their GOD, AND Served The Baals AND Asherahs.  Therefore, THE ANGER OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) WAS HOT AGAINST Israel, AND He (GOD Almighty) SOLD Them (The Children OF Israel) INTO The Hand OF Cushan-Rishathaim, King OF Mesopotamia; AND The Children OF Israel Served Cushan-Rishathaim Eight (8) Years.

Judges 10:6

THEN, The Children OF Israel AGAIN DID Evil, IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), AND Served The Baals AND The Ashtoreths, The Gods OF Syria, The Gods OF Sidon, The Gods OF Moab, The Gods OF The People OF Ammon, AND The Gods OF The Philistines; AND They (The Children OF Israel) FORSOOK THE LORD (GOD Almighty) AND DID NOT SERVE Him (GOD Almighty).

1 Kings 11:1-2, 4-8

BUT King Solomon Loved Many Foreign Women, as well as The Daughter OF Pharaoh: Women OF The Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, AND Hittites, FROM The Nations OF Whom, THE LORD (GOD Almighty) HAD SAID TO The Children OF Israel, “YOU Shall NOT Intermarry WITH Them, NOR They WITH YOU.  SURELY, They WILL TURN AWAY Your Hearts AFTER Their Gods.”

FOR IT WAS SO, WHEN Solomon WAS OLD, That His Wives TURNED His Heart AFTER Other Gods; AND His Heart WAS NOT LOYAL TO THE LORD His GOD, AS WAS The Heart OF His Father, David.  FOR Solomon WENT AFTER Ashtoreth, The Goddess OF The Sidonians, AND AFTER Milcom, The Abomination OF The Ammonites.  Solomon DID Evil IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), AND DID NOT FULLY FOLLOW THE LORD (GOD Almighty), AS DID His Father, David.  THEN, Solomon BUILT A High Place FOR Chemosh, The Abomination OF Moab, ON The Hill THAT IS East OF Jerusalem, AND FOR Molech, The Abomination OF The People OF Ammon.  AND He (Solomon) DID LIKEWISE, FOR ALL His Foreign Wives, Who Burned Incense AND Sacrificed TO Their Gods.

1 Kings 11:33

THEN, Ahijah TOOK HOLD OF The New Garment THAT WAS ON Him (Ahijah), AND TORE IT INTO Twelve (12) Pieces.  AND He (Ahijah) SAID TO Jeroboam, “TAKE FOR Yourself Ten (10) Pieces, FOR THUS SAYS THE LORD, THE GOD OF Israel: ‘Behold, I WILL TEAR The Kingdom OUT OF The Hand OF Solomon AND WILL GIVE Ten (10) Tribes TO YOU (BUT He SHALL HAVE One Tribe, FOR The Sake OF MY SERVANT, David, AND FOR The Sake OF Jerusalem, The City WHICH I HAVE CHOSEN, OUT OF All The Tribes OF Israel), BECAUSE They (The Children OF Israel) HAVE FORSAKEN Me (GOD Almighty), AND Worshiped Ashtoreth, The Goddess OF The Sidonians, Chemosh, The God OF The Moabites, AND Milcom, The God OF The People OF Ammon, AND HAVE NOT WALKED, IN MY WAYS, TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT, IN MY EYES, AND KEEP MY STATUTES AND MY JUDGMENTS, AS DID His Father, David.

1 Kings 15:11-14

Asa DID WHAT WAS RIGHT, IN THE EYES OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), AS DID His Father, David.  AND He (Asa) BANISHED The Perverted Persons FROM The Land, AND REMOVED ALL The Idols, THAT His Fathers HAD MADE.  Also, He (Asa) REMOVED Maachah, His Grandmother, FROM BEING Queen Mother, BECAUSE She (Maachah) HAD MADE AN OBSCENE IMAGE OF Asherah.  AND Asa CUT DOWN Her OBSCENE IMAGE AND BURNED IT, BY The Brook Kidron.  BUT, The High Places WERE NOT REMOVED.  Nevertheless, Asa’s Heart WAS LOYAL TO THE LORD (GOD Almighty) ALL His Days.

[See Also: 2 Chronicles 15:10-17]

1 Kings 18:17-19

THEN IT HAPPENED, When Ahab SAW Elijah, That Ahab said to Him (Elijah), “Is That YOU, O Troubler OF Israel?”  And He (Elijah) answered, “I Have NOT Troubled Israel, BUT YOU (Ahab) AND Your Father’s House HAVE, IN THAT YOU HAVE FORSAKEN THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) AND Have Followed The Baals.  Now therefore, Send AND Gather All Israel TO Me (Elijah), ON Mount Carmel, The Four Hundred and Fifty (450) Prophets OF Baal, AND The Four Hundred (400) Prophets OF Asherah, Who EAT AT Jezebel’s Table.”

2 Kings 21:7

He (Manasseh) EVEN SET A CARVED IMAGE OF Asherah, THAT He (Manasseh) HAD MADE, IN THE HOUSE OF WHICH, THE LORD (GOD Almighty) HAD SAID TO David AND TO Solomon, His (David’s) Son, “IN THIS HOUSE AND IN Jerusalem, WHICH I HAVE CHOSEN, OUT OF All The Tribes OF Israel, I WILL PUT MY NAME, FOREVER.

2 Kings 23:4, 13

AND The King (Josiah) Commanded Hilkiah, The High Priest, The Priests OF The Second Order, AND The Doorkeepers, TO BRING OUT OF THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) All The Articles That WERE MADE FOR Baal, FOR Asherah, AND FOR All The Host of Heaven; AND He (King Josiah) BURNED Them, OUTSIDE Jerusalem, IN The Fields of Kidron, AND CARRIED Their Ashes TO Bethel.

THEN, The King (Josiah) DEFILED The High Places THAT WERE East OF Jerusalem, Which WERE ON The South OF The Mount OF Corruption, Which Solomon, King OF Israel, HAD BUILT FOR Ashtoreth, The Abomination OF The Sidonians, FOR Chemosh, The Abomination OF The Moabites, AND FOR Milcom, The Abomination OF The People OF Ammon.

Jeremiah 7:16-18

“THEREFORE, DO NOT PRAY FOR THIS People (The Children OF Israel), NOR LIFT UP A CRY OR PRAYER FOR Them, NOR MAKE INTERCESSION TO Me (GOD Almighty); FOR I WILL NOT HEAR YOU.  DO YOU NOT SEE, WHAT They DO IN The Cities OF Judah AND IN The Streets OF Jerusalem?  The Children Gather Wood, The Fathers Kindle The Fire, AND The Women Knead Dough, TO Make Cakes FOR The Queen OF Heaven; AND They Pour Out Drink Offerings TO Other Gods, THAT They (The Children OF Israel) MAY PROVOKE Me (GOD Almighty) TO ANGER.”

Jeremiah 44:15-19, 24-25

THEN All The Men, Who Knew That Their Wives Had Burned Incense TO Other Gods, WITH All The Women, Who Stood BY, A Great Multitude, AND All The People Who Dwelt IN The Land OF Egypt, IN Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying: “AS FOR THE WORD THAT YOU (Jeremiah) HAVE SPOKEN TO Us IN THE NAME OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), We Will NOT Listen TO YOU (Jeremiah)!

BUT, We (The Children OF Israel) WILL CERTAINLY DO, Whatever Has Gone Out OF Our Own Mouth, TO Burn Incense TO The Queen OF Heaven AND Pour Out Drink Offerings TO Her, AS We HAVE DONE, We AND Our Fathers, Our Kings AND Our Princes, IN The Cities OF Judah AND IN The Streets OF Jerusalem.  FOR THEN, We (The Children OF Israel) Had Plenty OF Food, WERE Well-Off, AND SAW NO Trouble.

BUT, Since We (The Children OF Israel) STOPPED Burning Incense TO The Queen OF Heaven AND Pouring Out Drink Offerings TO Her, We (The Children OF Israel) HAVE LACKED EVERYTHING AND Have Been CONSUMED BY The Sword AND BY Famine.”  The Women also said, “And When We Burned Incense TO The Queen OF Heaven AND Poured Out Drink Offerings TO Her, Did We Make Cakes FOR Her, TO Worship Her, AND Pour Out Drink Offerings TO Her, WITHOUT Our Husbands’ Permission?”

Moreover, Jeremiah SAID TO All The People AND TO All The Women, “HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), ALL Judah, Who ARE IN The Land OF Egypt!  THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF Israel, SAYING: ‘YOU AND Your Wives Have Spoken WITH Your Mouths AND Fulfilled WITH Your Hands, SAYING, “We Will SURELY KEEP Our Vows That We Have Made, TO Burn Incense TO The Queen OF Heaven AND Pour Out Drink Offerings TO Her.”  YOU WILL SURELY KEEP Your Vows AND PERFORM Your Vows!’

Fellow Believers, Please Forgive The Length OF This Message, BUT IT’s A VERY IMPORTANT POINT.  As We Can SEE, Mankind Has Struggled TO WORSHIP GOD Almighty, Consistently.  Jeremiah POINTS THIS OUT, CLEARLY, AS The Women Brazenly Stated, They would NOT listen to Jeremiah, and They would NOT Worship THE LORD GOD Almighty, AS COMMANDED, INSTEAD They Would Worship “The Queen OF Heaven” (FALSE god AND FALSE Idol), BECAUSE When They DID, EVERYTHING WAS GREAT, IN Their Own Eyes, that is.

We Can SEE THIS TODAY.  People Who Claim They Do NOT Need GOD Almighty, IN Their Daily Lives, BUT ALSO, People Who Worship FALSE gods AND FALSE Idols, AND LISTEN TO FALSE prophets, FALSE teachers, AND FALSE believers, THROUGH FALSE gospels AND FALSE doctrine.

Satan AND His Followers (fallen angels and demons) Have Consistently ATTACKED Mankind (The Seed OF Eve), THROUGHOUT The Centuries, Trying TO Influence Our Free Will, INTO Worshiping Satan (Indirectly OR Directly), INSTEAD OF GOD Almighty!  Now, HERE IN The End Times (The Last Days), Satan’s ATTACK Has Become Even More INTENSE AND IT Will Continue TO Intensify, UNTIL He (Satan and His Followers) IS DEFEATED, Once and For All, BY Jesus Christ.

The Being Caught Up Together May Occur IN The Next Millisecond.  SO, There IS NO Time TO Waste, GET OUT There, Show YOU Care, AND Share The Gospel OF Jesus Christ.

“SUDDENLY, We (Believers) WILL BE NO MORE; FOR Jesus Christ HAS TAKEN Us!”

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