“For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous
God…When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have
remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven
image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD
thy God, to provoke him to anger:” Deuteronomy 4:24 – 25
God is “a consuming fire” means - God is a fire that consumes or devours something – however, here God is consuming people. If you listen to people i.e. some “Christians, Pastors, and church membership” you hear a lot about how God is supposed to be a lover of all mankind and there is no hate or anger in Him. But, I want to draw your attention to God’s anger and His anger with people. God is a lover of some people but not all, those whom have been saved by His love and grace cannot experience a greater love, ever. God chose before the foundation of the world to send His beloved Son Jesus Christ to this world to save a people whom He chose. “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” Romans 9:21 God elected to hate Esau, God had no reason to hate Esau except that he was a sinner from birth and God hates sinners. Esau was a sinner created by God to be a “vessel unto dishonor”. “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” Romans 9:13 God also hates the ways of sinners, and what God seems to hate the most is “false graven images” and God said people would “shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image”. So, let us understand what a false graven image is. A false graven images is something to worship other than the True God, or His True Son. I defined it this way to make it pinpoint what God is talking about, He is talking about Himself. This is why, God inserted “a jealous God” because He is jealous when He is disrespected. All honor and glory belong to God. But people have an unction to worship things instead of God. Some people worship nature, dolls, statues, photos, crosses, or etc. etc. etc... God has no holy images on this earth, we are to worship Jehovah God and His blessed Son Jesus Christ and them only. God is a Spirit and He must be worshiped spiritually, or in you heart. “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:24 God is not worshiped with photos and crosses, those are only false graven images. Crosses are cursed because everyone who is crucified has been cursed. “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:” Galatians 3:13 Jesus Christ was cursed with death because of our sins, to what glory is the cross? It is an object that is falsely worshiped by those who have them, they are not to be worshiped. A Christian nor a church building has any reason to worship a cross or even have one, we should be worshipping the man that died on the cross and not the cursed tool used to kill Him. Let us look at the words “false Image” what exactly was the cross Jesus was crucified on? The word “cross” is defined as a stake or post (as set upright), that is, (specifically) a pole. Is a “pole” what you are worshipping, no it is not, you are worshipping an image we consider a cross. No one knows what the pole looked like that Jesus was actually hung on. Besides, where did God instruct believers to worship objects, and if you say you do not worship it then why do you have a cross? The easiest “false graven image” that people worship is images or photos of Jesus Christ. This is a complete false worship of a person in a photo whom you have no idea who it is. Please understand, THERE ARE NO IMAGES OF Jesus Christ! No not one single image, every image of Jesus Christ if a false graven image, period. It matters not what the image is a photo or a statue or anything else it is not of Jesus Christ, and there are no images of God or the Holy Spirit, remember God is a Spirit not a man. God said we are not to “make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing” What does anything mean – it means anything related to God, Jesus, heaven, angels, or anything that has anything to falsely worship, period. Whether you realize it or not it is these things God said would destroy true worship of God and cause God to anger. You “shall corrupt yourselves… and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger” If you need an image to remind you of God then you have a serious spiritual issue. If you need a tool outside of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to witness for Christ, then you have a serious witnessing issue. God said all we need is the gospel, God never told us to use crossed or photos to witness this is the corruption of them. Neither one is of God or of Jesus, they are both false images. Besides of the fact that Jesus died on a cross or that some fool painted an image of a person, what significance are they? God said they cause corruption, and I would rather trust God than man. Angels are false images, and are not to be worshiped, at all, ever! “And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things…Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.” Revelation 22:8 - 9 How dare a Christian ever worship anything but God and Jesus Christ, and if you do, remember you are provoking God to anger. And last, if you say you are not worshiping them, then why do you have them?
God is “a consuming fire” means - God is a fire that consumes or devours something – however, here God is consuming people. If you listen to people i.e. some “Christians, Pastors, and church membership” you hear a lot about how God is supposed to be a lover of all mankind and there is no hate or anger in Him. But, I want to draw your attention to God’s anger and His anger with people. God is a lover of some people but not all, those whom have been saved by His love and grace cannot experience a greater love, ever. God chose before the foundation of the world to send His beloved Son Jesus Christ to this world to save a people whom He chose. “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” Romans 9:21 God elected to hate Esau, God had no reason to hate Esau except that he was a sinner from birth and God hates sinners. Esau was a sinner created by God to be a “vessel unto dishonor”. “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” Romans 9:13 God also hates the ways of sinners, and what God seems to hate the most is “false graven images” and God said people would “shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image”. So, let us understand what a false graven image is. A false graven images is something to worship other than the True God, or His True Son. I defined it this way to make it pinpoint what God is talking about, He is talking about Himself. This is why, God inserted “a jealous God” because He is jealous when He is disrespected. All honor and glory belong to God. But people have an unction to worship things instead of God. Some people worship nature, dolls, statues, photos, crosses, or etc. etc. etc... God has no holy images on this earth, we are to worship Jehovah God and His blessed Son Jesus Christ and them only. God is a Spirit and He must be worshiped spiritually, or in you heart. “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:24 God is not worshiped with photos and crosses, those are only false graven images. Crosses are cursed because everyone who is crucified has been cursed. “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:” Galatians 3:13 Jesus Christ was cursed with death because of our sins, to what glory is the cross? It is an object that is falsely worshiped by those who have them, they are not to be worshiped. A Christian nor a church building has any reason to worship a cross or even have one, we should be worshipping the man that died on the cross and not the cursed tool used to kill Him. Let us look at the words “false Image” what exactly was the cross Jesus was crucified on? The word “cross” is defined as a stake or post (as set upright), that is, (specifically) a pole. Is a “pole” what you are worshipping, no it is not, you are worshipping an image we consider a cross. No one knows what the pole looked like that Jesus was actually hung on. Besides, where did God instruct believers to worship objects, and if you say you do not worship it then why do you have a cross? The easiest “false graven image” that people worship is images or photos of Jesus Christ. This is a complete false worship of a person in a photo whom you have no idea who it is. Please understand, THERE ARE NO IMAGES OF Jesus Christ! No not one single image, every image of Jesus Christ if a false graven image, period. It matters not what the image is a photo or a statue or anything else it is not of Jesus Christ, and there are no images of God or the Holy Spirit, remember God is a Spirit not a man. God said we are not to “make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing” What does anything mean – it means anything related to God, Jesus, heaven, angels, or anything that has anything to falsely worship, period. Whether you realize it or not it is these things God said would destroy true worship of God and cause God to anger. You “shall corrupt yourselves… and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger” If you need an image to remind you of God then you have a serious spiritual issue. If you need a tool outside of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to witness for Christ, then you have a serious witnessing issue. God said all we need is the gospel, God never told us to use crossed or photos to witness this is the corruption of them. Neither one is of God or of Jesus, they are both false images. Besides of the fact that Jesus died on a cross or that some fool painted an image of a person, what significance are they? God said they cause corruption, and I would rather trust God than man. Angels are false images, and are not to be worshiped, at all, ever! “And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things…Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.” Revelation 22:8 - 9 How dare a Christian ever worship anything but God and Jesus Christ, and if you do, remember you are provoking God to anger. And last, if you say you are not worshiping them, then why do you have them?
