2Ki 17:”12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.”
32 Idolatrous Practices
(Behind Images #6)
The practice of veneration of images are not commanded by God but was only commanded by man. Idolatry is forbidden in many places of Scriptures. But, are you doing these to images, idols, or statues when it pertains to spiritual things or faith?
The use of images could be for many reasons which may include arts or purposes of display, business, collections, films and many others. But find out from the 32 things which the Lord does not want you to do with images and learn that those things were forbidden.
It is FORBIDDEN
1.To make: “Thou shalt not make unto 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 water under the earth.” Exo.20:4 (See also: Deut. 27:15)
2. To have: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exo.20:3
3.To worship: “For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:” Exo.34:14 (See also: Isa.46:5-6)
4.To trust:“They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.” Isa.42:17(See.Ps. 115:4-8)
5.To place inside the house: “The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.” Deut.7:25-26
6.To fall down:“Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.” Isa.44:15 (See :Isa.46:5-8)
7.To serve them: “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;” Exo.20:5 (See Ps.97:7-5)
8.To Erect standing images:“Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.” Lev.26:1
9-10. To make a vow or swear to them, not even to mention: “That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto.” Jos.23:7 (See also: Jer. 5:7) (See:Deut.18:20; Exo.23:13 mentioning their names depends upon your motives.)
11.To dance before them: “And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.” Exo.32:19
12.To Kneel:“But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.” Rom.11:4 (See: Php.2:5-11)
13.To make altar for them: “But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.” Deut.7:5
14.To give flower: “Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God..:” Acts14:13-15
15.To fear them: “For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman,with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.” Jer.10:3-5
16.To Sacrifice: “He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.” Exo.22:20 (See: Exo:22:20; Deut.32:16-17; Ezk.23:39; Ps.16:4; 1 Cor.10:19-21)
17.To offer incense to them:“He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.” Isa.66:3(See:Hosea 11:2)
18.To Make Business or gain: “For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen; Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:” Acts19:24-26 (See.Deut.7:25)
19.To Portray/Draw for purpose of worship: “So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.” Ezk.8:10
20-21. To praise and sing to them: “They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.” Dan.5:4(See: Isa.66:3; Exo.32:18-20)
22.To kiss them:“Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.” 1Kng.19:18(See:Hosea 13:2-4)23.To bow: “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;” Exo.20:5(See.Exo.20:4-5)
24.To carry them: “They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.” Isa.46:6-7
25.To follow with our eyes: “Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.” Ezk.20:24 See:18:12,15
26-27.To talk and to Pray to them: “What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.” Hab.2:18-19 (See:Isa.44:17-18; Isa.45:20;Ezk.21:21)
28.To have in heart: “Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;” Ezk.14:4 (See.verse 2-8)
29.To raise hands to them: “If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.” Ps.44:20-21
30.To rejoice for them: “And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.” Acts 7:41
31.To celebrate with feast: Rev 2:14 “But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.” (Rev 2:20)
1Co 10:19-20 “ What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.”
32.To make ornament: “As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.” (Ezekiel 7:20,Also Isa.30:22)
Make sure you do not do any of these to an image or idol. (Read K9-K10)
Scriptures quoted from the KJV.
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