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Modern
Religious Idols and False gods, Part 5 Posted
by Michael Bunker editor@biblicalagrarianism.com
The
false god named “Peace: Comfort and Provision”
“Therefore
thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be
replenished from the east, and are
soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the
children of strangers. Their land also is full of silver and gold,
neither is there
any end of their
treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is
there any end of
their chariots: Their land also is full of idols; they worship the
work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: And
the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself:
therefore forgive them not. Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the
dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. The
lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall
be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. For
the day of the LORD of hosts shall
be upon every one
that is proud and
lofty, and upon every one
that is lifted
up; and he shall be brought low: And upon all the cedars of Lebanon,
that are
high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, And upon all the
high mountains, and upon all the hills that
are lifted up,
And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, And upon all
the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. And the
loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men
shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
And the idols he shall utterly abolish. And they shall go into the
holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the
LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake
terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, which they made each
one for himself
to worship, to the moles and to the bats; To go into the clefts of
the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the
LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake
terribly the earth” (Isa 2:6-21)
May 11, 2009 - This
will be the first of at least two parts under the sub-category of
“Peace” as a Modern religious idol or false god. In this
part we will look at one of the most deceptive and understandable of
all idolatries, the false idea that because a society lives in
relative comfort and safety and with ample provision, it necessarily
follows that that society is in good stead with God, and is not under
His judgment and condemnation. This is to say that - because all
seems
to be fine and dandy with us, God must therefore be pleased with us.
Contrarily, the Bible teaches us that quite often, when a society is
at its zenith, when it seems that comfort and plenty will abound
forever, when all appearances are that “to
morrow shall be as this day, and
much more abundant”
(Isaiah 56:12), that this is the time when judgment and destruction
are likely at the very door.
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