Isaiah 44: Idolatry, Creating Other Gods
Israel had found themselves in idolatry, creating other gods. In the book of Isaiah 44, God declared these words to them: (6) “Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.” (9a, 10) “They that make a graven image are all of them vanity . . . Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? KJV
With understanding of the deity, God was strict with the people of the earth about polytheism, because they began creating gods. In Isaiah 44, again, the man took down cedars, cypress and oak and made an image. This was not just a silver statue or just a statue of stone. He pulled this altogether, then burned it down and said to this idol that was burned …show more content…
down, “I eat, I rest, I’m satisfied.”
On perspective of ‘Give Us a God’…
Each year, a pantheistic religious gathering called the Burning Man festival is held in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico.
It is complete idolatry and antichrist. An enormous statue of a man of wood is erected, and thousands upon thousands attend this bazaar event. They wear costumes, or maybe nothing at all, and all manner of ungodliness is there.
At the end of the event, they set this enormous statue on fire and burn it to the ground. Everything you want to get rid of in your life, you take to the Burning Man celebration and throw it in the fire. They have created another god out of the Burning Man ceremony. Sins are only removed by being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. “…And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” I John 2:1 KJV
The main clarification is that creating a god, one is never enough. For every new answer in life, they want a new god. Poseidon cannot do that, but Nikki can, and if Nikki does not want to do it, then Zeus tells her what to do. Then we have all of these gods moving around under the authority of one, and the people worshipping, crying, “Give us a God.”
You had to leave your First
Love
Interesting that a statement of description is currently in very important to understand why you had to leave your first love…
In Revelation 2:1-4 KJV, God declared, “Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; . . . I know thy works and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.”
There are 10 things the LORD said the Ephesians did right but one thing they had done wrong. You may think, “I’ve done things right in my relationship with my children, spouse, etc., therefore most things should be right.” We sometimes underestimate what is important in relationships. You can be doing a list of things to parade around saying, “Look, I did that and that, etc.,” but just to confirmed that still be out of sync. This is why relationships struggle, and people wake up surprised. The Ephesians had worked, labored, tried the spirits, and cast out false apostles, but they were now living in a city of polytheism.
The Residue of Another God
In Acts, the silversmith, Demetrius, a maker of statues and shrines of the goddess Diana, heard of Paul teaching and preaching Jesus Christ. People were being converted, and those selling idols were about to lose their livelihood. Demetrius incited those selling idols to put a stop to Paul, and even went to the governor about Paul. How is it a man can preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and the remission of sins through his blood, and the people want an idol? It is because of the residue of another god.
The man in Isaiah 44 took the residue of one god and made that god out of food. How is it that something we eat and need to live has become such a vain activity? It is not just a steak to eat; it is which cut do you like and how do you want the steak? And if you really want to be cool, you get the Kobe steak. The cow is massaged in its stall, making it the most tender and expensive beef in the world. Do we not worship something when we have more money going into it than into the Kingdom and devote more time to it than to the Kingdom? You make a god by replacing the God of creation with a god you have created.
Have We Lost Our First Love?
Are we trying to be made new by the power of the Holy Ghost, or are we recreating ourselves to church being social and a statement and not our lives? We have become entangled in things that seem innocent and seemingly not wrong, and we’ve developed a life around them. Satan cannot convince you God is three people or the Holy Ghost is not real, because you know better. But he can tell you devotion and recreation are what you deserve, more than re-creation and being sold out to God.
Is God in front, leading, or behind us following? Are you asking God to change your heart to your way? Have we moved God to a point where we can list the things we have done right, but we have lost our first love? Are we to a point where we understand everything but do not know how to come to an altar of prayer anymore?
Do we stand between two opinions? It is because our very nasty polytheistic nature is not satisfied at times with what God wants.
References
All scriptures in this text are quotation from the King James Version of the Bible.
“Burning Man Festival searches for new home —Associated Press via Las Vegas Review-Journal Wednesday, October 29, 1997. Reviewjournal.com 1997-10-29. Retrieved 2012-03-31. NA (No Authored)
“Burning Man 1991-1996 Burn.Life. Retrieved 2016-08-17
With understanding of the deity, God was strict with the people of the earth about polytheism, because they began creating gods. In Isaiah 44, again, the man took down cedars, cypress and oak and made an image. This was not just a silver statue or just a statue of stone. He pulled this altogether, then burned it down and said to this idol that was burned …show more content…
down, “I eat, I rest, I’m satisfied.”
On perspective of ‘Give Us a God’…
Each year, a pantheistic religious gathering called the Burning Man festival is held in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico.
It is complete idolatry and antichrist. An enormous statue of a man of wood is erected, and thousands upon thousands attend this bazaar event. They wear costumes, or maybe nothing at all, and all manner of ungodliness is there.
At the end of the event, they set this enormous statue on fire and burn it to the ground. Everything you want to get rid of in your life, you take to the Burning Man celebration and throw it in the fire. They have created another god out of the Burning Man ceremony. Sins are only removed by being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. “…And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” I John 2:1 KJV
The main clarification is that creating a god, one is never enough. For every new answer in life, they want a new god. Poseidon cannot do that, but Nikki can, and if Nikki does not want to do it, then Zeus tells her what to do. Then we have all of these gods moving around under the authority of one, and the people worshipping, crying, “Give us a God.”
You had to leave your First
Love
Interesting that a statement of description is currently in very important to understand why you had to leave your first love…
In Revelation 2:1-4 KJV, God declared, “Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; . . . I know thy works and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.”
There are 10 things the LORD said the Ephesians did right but one thing they had done wrong. You may think, “I’ve done things right in my relationship with my children, spouse, etc., therefore most things should be right.” We sometimes underestimate what is important in relationships. You can be doing a list of things to parade around saying, “Look, I did that and that, etc.,” but just to confirmed that still be out of sync. This is why relationships struggle, and people wake up surprised. The Ephesians had worked, labored, tried the spirits, and cast out false apostles, but they were now living in a city of polytheism.
The Residue of Another God
In Acts, the silversmith, Demetrius, a maker of statues and shrines of the goddess Diana, heard of Paul teaching and preaching Jesus Christ. People were being converted, and those selling idols were about to lose their livelihood. Demetrius incited those selling idols to put a stop to Paul, and even went to the governor about Paul. How is it a man can preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and the remission of sins through his blood, and the people want an idol? It is because of the residue of another god.
The man in Isaiah 44 took the residue of one god and made that god out of food. How is it that something we eat and need to live has become such a vain activity? It is not just a steak to eat; it is which cut do you like and how do you want the steak? And if you really want to be cool, you get the Kobe steak. The cow is massaged in its stall, making it the most tender and expensive beef in the world. Do we not worship something when we have more money going into it than into the Kingdom and devote more time to it than to the Kingdom? You make a god by replacing the God of creation with a god you have created.
Have We Lost Our First Love?
Are we trying to be made new by the power of the Holy Ghost, or are we recreating ourselves to church being social and a statement and not our lives? We have become entangled in things that seem innocent and seemingly not wrong, and we’ve developed a life around them. Satan cannot convince you God is three people or the Holy Ghost is not real, because you know better. But he can tell you devotion and recreation are what you deserve, more than re-creation and being sold out to God.
Is God in front, leading, or behind us following? Are you asking God to change your heart to your way? Have we moved God to a point where we can list the things we have done right, but we have lost our first love? Are we to a point where we understand everything but do not know how to come to an altar of prayer anymore?
Do we stand between two opinions? It is because our very nasty polytheistic nature is not satisfied at times with what God wants.
References
All scriptures in this text are quotation from the King James Version of the Bible.
“Burning Man Festival searches for new home —Associated Press via Las Vegas Review-Journal Wednesday, October 29, 1997. Reviewjournal.com 1997-10-29. Retrieved 2012-03-31. NA (No Authored)
“Burning Man 1991-1996 Burn.Life. Retrieved 2016-08-17