The first of the Ten Commandments of God is most important; for if this first commandment is not believed, then people will not trust in the remaining nine commandments, which means they will not trust in God.
An image of God is something that is a reflextion or a representation of God, such as a statue, a wood carving, a portrait, or a photograph, which is something to believe based on sight and not by faith, and therefore people believe that even the image hears their prayers and receives their worship.
In like manner, people can believe that a person can be the image of God, or the representative of God on earth, and the person is even considered to be holy; thus the person is worshipped because people believe he is God.
If you look at man's creation of religions, you will see images or idols within these religions. Such beliefs are called idolatry, or the worship of idols. Many religions also have holy men that people worship, along with the idols, and they can also worship an image of the holy men.
Paganism is idolatry: the worship of images as the god or gods of people.
At the top of idolatrous worship is the sun; for sun worship is the common theme throughout paganism because worship of the sun is the opposite, or substitute, for the worship of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Sun gods are common throughout paganism and many names are given to the sun god across religions and cultures, and all of the names are male names.
Thus we arrive at sundials, for sundials were invented to track the time of the sun in order for people to know the position of the sun god from sunrise to sunrise. Because the sun is light, pagans believe that the sun is the giver of life; and if they please the sun, then the sun will please them.
When Antichrist stands up the rule the earth, millions of people upon the earth will believe that he is the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, because of the great deception that has been dispensed by deceivers among us; for the minds of people have been trained and conditioned to believe in idols, or images of gods, over the past 2000 years. This, then, should not be a great mystery: for all the education that people have today, billions of people are still pagans; for their belief is based on sight and not by faith.
As it is written about the Antichrist of the future:
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast: saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (Revelation 13: 13-15)
Even now, there are people in Christian churches and Christian religions that worship idols: images of gods made with the hands of men; and they also worship a man, whom they consider to be holy; and though he is presenting himself to be an image of Christ, he is worshipped as Christ, because the people are still pagans: for their belief is based on sight, and not by faith.
Jesus said this time would come upon the earth.
Amen.
An image of God is something that is a reflextion or a representation of God, such as a statue, a wood carving, a portrait, or a photograph, which is something to believe based on sight and not by faith, and therefore people believe that even the image hears their prayers and receives their worship.
In like manner, people can believe that a person can be the image of God, or the representative of God on earth, and the person is even considered to be holy; thus the person is worshipped because people believe he is God.
If you look at man's creation of religions, you will see images or idols within these religions. Such beliefs are called idolatry, or the worship of idols. Many religions also have holy men that people worship, along with the idols, and they can also worship an image of the holy men.
Paganism is idolatry: the worship of images as the god or gods of people.
At the top of idolatrous worship is the sun; for sun worship is the common theme throughout paganism because worship of the sun is the opposite, or substitute, for the worship of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Sun gods are common throughout paganism and many names are given to the sun god across religions and cultures, and all of the names are male names.
Thus we arrive at sundials, for sundials were invented to track the time of the sun in order for people to know the position of the sun god from sunrise to sunrise. Because the sun is light, pagans believe that the sun is the giver of life; and if they please the sun, then the sun will please them.
When Antichrist stands up the rule the earth, millions of people upon the earth will believe that he is the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, because of the great deception that has been dispensed by deceivers among us; for the minds of people have been trained and conditioned to believe in idols, or images of gods, over the past 2000 years. This, then, should not be a great mystery: for all the education that people have today, billions of people are still pagans; for their belief is based on sight and not by faith.
As it is written about the Antichrist of the future:
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast: saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (Revelation 13: 13-15)
Even now, there are people in Christian churches and Christian religions that worship idols: images of gods made with the hands of men; and they also worship a man, whom they consider to be holy; and though he is presenting himself to be an image of Christ, he is worshipped as Christ, because the people are still pagans: for their belief is based on sight, and not by faith.
Jesus said this time would come upon the earth.
Amen.
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