Denying the Practice of Idol Worship

 Denying the Practice of Idol Worship

Positive Christianity Series Episode #376 

"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked."- Psalm 1: 1

Moses reproved the idol worship that Israel was commiting while Moses was obtaining the Torah and commandments. We learn that GOD Almighty tells us to avoid idolatry because it leads to worse and worse sin. The snake does not say that the practice of idol worship wants to lead to vices and even worse sin. Since the times of Moses, we read that if Israel practiced grave sin like the idolatrous nations, individuals would be exiled from the land. We learn that grave sin devastates unrepentant individuals and also the land. If we avoid idol worship, we are able to remove lying, stealing, coveting, adultery, and murder. These types of sins want to lead to even worse sin described in the times of Jeremiah where the wicked were practicing grave sin that caused severe difficulties and destruction. Individuals practiced sorcery trying to communicate with the dead in necromancy which was forbidden by GOD Almighty. Moses instructs in a certain statute that still applies the need to deny sorcery and not partake with idolatry (we do not harm sorcerers yet leave the vengeance to King Jesus Christ. We can deny sorcery and do not kill sorcerers. We do avoid sorcerers). Necromancy and divination attempted to tempt individuals to not trust GOD Almighty by telling them to trust idols. Practicing sorcery causes negative emotions including envy and may damage individual's psyche (mind). (Solomon supposedly went mad after having practiced and written books on sorcery.) Righteous individuals denied sorcery based on idolatry and instead worshiped GOD Almighty. Jeremiah was persecuted but did not lose sanity. Jeremiah never practiced sorcery. He also converted two individuals while being gangstalked and persecuted by a lot of unrepentant individuals. The two individuals did not perish for trusting GOD Almighty.

"And when they say to you, 'Inquire of the mediums and necromancers who chirp and mutter,' should not their people inquire of their GOD. Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?"- Isaiah 8: 19 [The prophet Isaiah reproves sorcery. Isaiah describes that the dead should be respected and not be inquired of. GOD Almighty also describes how the dead can not be contacted and are in their specific abode. Saul spoke with a medium who spoke with "Samuel" yet may have been deceived. Saul then lost all strength.]

Jeremiah describes how wicked individuals were unrepentant sinners and were practicing grave sin. The grave sin had gone beyond coveting, sorcery, adultery, and murder. They had decided to speak lies to each other and plot attacks against their own bretheren. This describes how idol worship seeks to cause disunity in communities. Jeremiah described how unrepentant sinners envied and hated their own bretheren because of idolatry. Unrepentant sinners wanted to murder individuals from their own community. 

"Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer."- Jeremiah 9: 4 [Jeremiah describes negative times due to idol worship. Jeremiah persevered with faith. There is the need to persevere with healthy skepticism and not paranoia. Jeremiah's times were not good and difficult.]

Jeremiah describes how he was gangstalked and opposed by false prophets, Pashur, Shemiah, and Hananiah, and also unrepentant sinners for speaking truth and rebuking sin. Unrepentant sinners did not want to believe nor repent yet did not want others to believe or repent. Unrepentant sinners attacked foreigners, widows, and orphans describing the vileness of idol worship. In the times of Jeremiah, Judah had learned idolatry from Israel. Israel had learned idolatry from the nations. Jeremiah reproved sin and idol worship.

GOD Almighty judged unrepentant sinners and idol worship. Unrepentant sinners caused the Chaldean exile where sword, famine, and pestilence devastated the wicked. Jeremiah and the righteous survived and were able to go to Chaldea and persevere. Despite destruction for the wicked, individuals with integrity survived and prospered in Chaldea prior to being brought back to the land of Judah. GOD Almighty spared the righteous remnant who multiplied in Chaldea and returned 40,000 after 70 years. In the times of Jesus Christ's ministry preaching repentance of sin, there were more than a million individuals. We learn that sin looks to cause destruction to individuals and the land. We learn that after idolatry was practiced by Pharisees, there was sickness never seen before in Israel, division, and lack of autonomy. Individuals longed for the times of David. We learn that to persevere like David, we need the faith of David. We need to remove and avoid idolatry. David never practiced idol worship a single day of his life and that is why Israel abounded. David never practiced sorcery and persevered. David never practiced gangstalking yet persevered. David did worship GOD Almighty and was able to make a significant difference. This describes how the worship of GOD Almighty and practicing empathy improves individuals lives and also the land regenerates and heals. There is the choice to decide if individuals want to worship GOD Almighty or not.