- One of the universal forbiddings in Scripture – perhaps even the chief forbidding in Scripture is against idolatry.
In the Law we have the text read this morning (Ex. 20:3-6) but there is also a text like Leviticus 19
4“ ‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.
In the books of history
II Kings 17 – “They built for themselves high places in all their cities . . . . They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree; and there they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD had carried away before them.” (verses 9-11). Further, they “followed idols, became idolaters, and . . . made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal” (verses 15-16)
In the Wisdom Literature Psalm 135
15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands. 16 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see. 17 They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.
In the Prophets
The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. Jeremiah 7
History NT Books
Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. Acts 17:16
Paul’s Epistles
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I Cor. 10:4
John’s Epistles
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. I John 5:21
Peter’s Epistle’s (I Pt. 4:3)
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
Apocalyptic But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Given the prevalence of the warnings against Idolatry in Scripture and given the proneness of men to continually make idols we can understand why Calvin said that the human heart is an idol factory.
The idolatry warned against can be a literal image crafted and shaped and religiously bowed down to or idolatry can be an idea that is lifted over God or a desired emotion
Ill. – Existentialists – meaningful experience
Or Idolatry can involve a person or people that is / are lifted up as God.
Ill. — Hirohito (Emperor of Japan)
So, before we go any further let us get a clear definition on what idolatry is.
“The belief that the cause, meaning and purpose of the whole cosmos can be found in the created order itself as that created order is located in an object, idea, person, or institution with the resulting consequence that that which is taken up as an idol is worshiped by those who have taken it up.”
We can condense that even more to make it more pithy and so memorable. Per. Dr. Joe Boot,
Idolatry occurs when an aspect of creation is exaggerated, absolutized and then is made the foundation of the explanation for everything else.”
So, for example, in Romanticism, Transcendentalism or Existentialism it is mans emotive center that is exaggerated, absolutized and then made the foundation of the explanation of all reality. What man feels or intuits is made God and becomes the foundation of the explanation for everything else. We get catchy phrases like … “The heart wants what the heart wants,” or “If it feels good do it,” and some wait all their lives for a “meaningful experience.” Much of the early drug culture was about finding this idol of experience in the “trip.”
In Rationalism (Enlightenment) it is man’s autonomous reason that is exaggerated (blown up like a balloon), absolutized, and then made the foundation of the explanation of all reality. In Rationalism God’s revelation is no longer considered and man’s fiat Word as an idol is that which legislates all reality.
In Nihilism it is man’s despair that is exaggerated (blown up like a balloon), absolutized, and then made the foundation of the explanation of all reality. In Darwinism it is man as matter in motion that is exaggerated (blown up like a balloon), absolutized, and then made the foundation of the explanation of all reality. And on and on it goes.
Ancient mariners had to navigate by the North Star. What modern man has done in rejecting God is that he has pulled down the North Star and placed a new North Star of his own making to be that reality by which he can both deny God by and by which he can now navigate his life without God. That new North Star is some aspect of the creation exaggerated, absolutized and so given a Transcendence that is not inherent to it, and made the foundation of the explanation of all reality. (i.e. – It becomes the prism through which all reality is translated through).
This is Idolatry.
Having laid this out so far do keep in mind that those people you know who don’t own Christ (and many who do own Christ unfortunately) are all idolaters. If you are not worshiping the God of the Bible you are worshiping some idol. No neutrality. No one lives in a vacuum where they live a worship-less life. Every one has a god or god concept in their lives. God is an inescapable concept.
We see then that in Idolatry that which is created is treated as that which is the creator and is treated accordingly. Idolatry is to prioritize the created over the Creator and then take that which is created and live one’s life in service to it.
Now we turn to idolatry because you and I are living in a unique time because we are currently living in an age when corporately, as a people group, we are being encouraged to own another God. Now the case might be made that we are simply changing one idol out for another but that we are being encouraged to own a different idol is clear for those with eyes to see.
Remember we said that idolatry is worship. As such wherever you find worship going on of something or someone besides the God of the Bible there you find idolatry.
Well, we are seeing the demands for worship everywhere in the last few weeks. You’ve seen the photos. You just didn’t realize you were looking at idolatry.
There they were – our Congressional leaders – bowing and kneeling in the Capital Rotunda to the new Idol… the Black Marxist. There they were in the Street rallies bowing and even splaying themselves out prostrate on the Street to identify with the new black Marxist God. Our women folks likewise, both individually and as groups, are being approached and asked to bow before the Idol of the new black Marxist God and are doing so repenting of their false guilt. There they are – our Police Chiefs and Police forces in different places around the country bowing before the new black Marxist God in town. I think it is obvious to say this bowing and scraping and kneeling and repenting, and confessing is all a matter of idolatry. There is a new God in town and that new God is to be worshiped.
It is all a very religious exercise. There is a new God in town and with the new God come all the accouterments that go with a new religion. One has the sacred category which is occupied by the Holy Marxist minority community. They are the new “people of god.”
One has the unclean category – the Lepers if you please — which is filled with people who point out the irrationality of the new Idol in town. The lepers are unclean and must be treated as those who are to be outside the camp.
You have the sinner category filled with Biblical Christians who refuse to own this new idolatry. They can yet repent and be part of “god’s people.”
You have the Prophets / Priests who represent this new God … Raz in Seattle … Sharpton … Don Lemon. Wherever you find someone who is WOKE in leadership there you find a Priest of this new god in town. However, the upper echelons of Priesthood belongs uniquely to minorities, feminists, or perverts.
You have the false prophets who say they are Christian Ministers but who are in service of this new Idol and idolatry. You remember in the OT that many Prophets would come forth claiming they spoke for Jehovah but were indeed false prophets.
If you throw a dart blindfolded you will hit one. Matt Chandler, Al Mohler, Tim Keller, John Piper, Ron Burns, David Platt, J. D. Greer, J. Ligon Duncan… I could go on for pages … there they are all seeking to lay upon Biblical Christians false guilt with a narrative that is demonstrably false. They are idolaters and are pressing God’s people to call idolatry “Christianity.” The God of the Bible will remember these men.
You have a martyr class … George Floyd, MLK, Malcolm X. Wherever you see a minority killed there you find a martyr for our new idolatry.
It’s all there. We are building a religion bent on worshiping a new God in town and for those who will not bend the knee to this new idolatry … well, the new Sans-culotte class has a plan for us.
And what of this new idolatry? Well, like all idolatry it is the anti-thesis of Biblical Christianity. It sees man as big and God as small. It is characterized by people who have no regard for History or facts. This is the way it is with idolatry. Idolatry is not a fact based enterprise. If we are going to have gods who are not gods and if we always get our definition of reality from our idols than false gods are going to produce false realities and eventually those false realities will become so common place that real reality will strike people as structurally odd.
With a new Black Marxist God will come a new history. As history is the story told by God every new god … (every idol) has his own history and his own facts. In this new Black Marxist God history we know that the Christian white man especially is the devil and the devil has to be destroyed. In this new Black Marxist God history white privilege is the original sin.
We see this motion of idolatry in all the pulling down and destroying of the old statuary – much of it honoring the White Christian men of the West who served the God of the Bible and who built this country. (Columbus, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Texas Ranger Capt. Jay Banks, Presidsent Jefferson Davis). What you are seeing with all the removal of the Statuary is the destruction of the new devil per the new history of the new idol god.
And keep in mind this is all promissory. What is being done to all that statuary is promissory of the desire to do to those who still honor that old statuary and what it represents of the past. The destruction of white heroes of the past is promissory of the elimination of those living whom those statues represent. There is a new god in town. Out with the old adherents of the old god and in with the new adherents of the new god. If White people don’t repent then white people will be killed. If White people do repent then white people will become hewers of wood and drawers of water.
We could go on and on down this chain of reasoning. A new God means a new way of salvation. In what we are seeing the new way of salvation means repenting of Biblical Christianity. No Biblical Christian who does not make the black Marxist as his god can be saved. Further, if we will be saved by this new idol then we must do self-atonement. We must atone for our past sins and the sins of our Fathers by going about in sackcloth and ashes and mouthing the praises at every turn of the new idol in town. Atonement now requires the white man’s move towards masochism as we own all the (pretend) sins that all white men have ever done. In order to be saved and atone for our sins we must denigrate and denounce our Christian Fathers and their Christian ways. In order to be saved and atone for our sins we must denounce the atonement found in Jesus Christ as recorded in the Scriptures.
A new god means a new law system. Every new idol has his own law system. The God of the Bible gave us the true law system in the 10 commandments and the general equity of the judicial law. The new idol requires common ownership of goods. The idol requires a transfer of wealth from the White man to the black Marxist. We call it Reparations. The last figure I heard was 13 trillion dollars. The magazine Christianity Today latest issue headlined our need to give up reparations. The new law system criminalizes the White Christian and criminalizes the law system of the White Christian.
A new God means a new law system.
“All who are content with a humanistic law system and do not strive to replace it with Biblical law are guilty of idolatry. They have forsaken the covenant of their God, and they are asking us to serve other gods. They must be called out of their idolatry into the service of the living God.”
R.J. Rushdoony
Don’t you see… this is all the result of Idolatry. There is a new God in town and everyone will play by his rules. This is not about equity… justice … truth. This is about “top rail on bottom and bottom rail on top.”
And let me round off here by saying … “we deserve this.” God has been patient with Christians in America for decades. But we have rebelled against Him at every turn. We have prioritized our gaining of wealth and materialism at the expense of knowing God. We have become like the Money-Changers we allowed in preferring to be like International Bankers as opposed to being like God. We have sent our children out to the houses of Baal to be educated and then are surprised when they come back to us as children of this age – Whores and worthless men who really are probably better off in their Mother’s basements playing video games.
We deserve this. We, for generations have sown the wind and now we are reaping the whirlwind. God’s judgments are all together just.
However, it is not too late to repent. It is not too late to own the God of the Bible and His Christ. Not to late to prioritize knowing God and His Christ. Not to late to rescue and keep our and God’s covenant seed. Not to late to become epistemologically self conscious and so think God’s thoughts after Him and so fight the idols of this age.
God is patient not wishing any of His people would perish.
Won’t you enter with me in a life long pursuit of Repentance?
Only in such a way can we slay the current growing idolatry in our midst.
“A new god means a new law system. Every new idol has his own law system.”
And a new language to go with it. If one doesn’t speak that language, one becomes a threat and therefore demonised. Technocratic language designs the youth, especially the gamer community to speak cryptically. One cannot tell whether the ‘individual’ (depersonalized person) is a technocratic keyboard warrior or a dissident. Bitchute seems to be chuting the cattle, ” is a strongly built stall or cage for holding cattle, horses, or other livestock safely while they are examined, marked, or given veterinary treatment”. When God’s people have become His enemies, I tend towards hyper-vigilance.
My answer to this psychotic-genocide is to habitually pray imprecatorly into even evil deed I see; a prequisite for keeping the warrior prepped with sanity.
Masking has always been part of social media culture, so wearing masks outside is just an extension of disguise. The architects seem to want to blend disguises, to further prevent unity of teams. No-one knos who to trust in future seems to be their goal.