The Old Testament

The books of the Old Testament are filled with endless amounts of wisdom and knowledge that can still be practically applied to the lives of Christian’s today to help them to live God-honoring lives. More specifically, idolatry, social injustice, and religious ritualism are three areas in which the Old Testament contains a wide assortment of practical knowledge that Christians can apply to their lives today. The prophets of the Old Testament such as, Zephaniah, Amos, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah were just a few of the major and minor prophets who provided Biblical scriptures in regards to God’s hated for the worship of idols, social injustice, and religious ritualism. The prophets of the Old Testament, whether they be major or minor all speak for God in numerous ways and Christian’s can gain meaningful insight on what they had to say on these three topics as idolatry, social injustice, and religious ritualism exists every bit as much today as they did in the books of the Old Testament. According to Ed Stetzer, “Believe it or not, the most common
Social injustice is simply the mistreatment of people and is absolutely not God’s intent for humanity. During the prophet Micah’s time, wicked behavior became widespread all over Israel and Judah and was not tolerated by God. “The Lord was angry that social injustice became common in Israel and Judah” (Hindson & Yates). Social injustice in the times of the Old Testament included those who were in roles of power, treated those in poverty as sources of wealth and did not pay them for their labor. Additionally they used bribery, coercion, dishonesty, legal technicalities, and even violence. In response to this sinister behavior the prophet Amos said, “Therefore because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain, you have built houses of