The Truth in Print Vol. 25 Issue 3, April 2019
A Publication of the Valley church of Christ,
2375 W. 8th Street, Yuma, AZ 85364 (928-782-5058)
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Infanticide ~ #1
Penalties, Israel’s Idolatry and Practice
Note: Before I get to our current
cultural and political state in these articles here is some Biblical history
that is all important.
Jas 2:11 For He who said, "DO NOT COMMIT
ADULTERY," also said, "DO NOT MURDER." Now if you do not commit
adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
The Penalty for Murder
When Noah Left the Ark
Gen 9:6 “Whoever sheds man's blood,
By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God
He made man.
The Mosaic Law Taught
Respect for Human Life
Exo 21:22 "If men fight, and hurt a woman with
child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall
surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he
shall pay as the judges determine.
Exo 21:23 But if any harm follows,
then you shall give life for life…
Joshua in His Farewell
Told Them You are Not Going to Serve God
· Jos_24:14 "Now
therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the
gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt.
Serve the LORD! ...
· Jos 24:16 So the people
answered and said: "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to
serve other gods; ...
· Jos 24:19 But Joshua said to
the people, "You cannot serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a
jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
· Jos 24:20 If you forsake the
LORD and serve foreign gods, then He
will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you
good."
· Jos 24:21 And the people
said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the LORD!"
· Jos 24:22 So Joshua said to
the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the
LORD for yourselves, to serve Him." And they said, "We are
witnesses!"
· Jos_24:23 "Now
therefore," he said, "put away the foreign gods which are among you,
and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel."
Israel During the Period of the “Judges” (Psa
106:34-43)
They disobeyed and did not destroy nations God commanded them, learned
their works and served
their idols (which became a snare to them) — they sacrificed their sons and
daughters to demons, shed the innocent blood of the children they sacrificed to
the idols of Canaan and polluted the land with blood.
· Served Baals (Jud 3:7, 10:6) *the god
Baal served by Canaanites, Philistines.
· Served Asheroth (Jud 3:7, 10:6) *Ashtaroth, Asheroth, Astarte
Canaanite goddess love, war, fertility.
· Served the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the sons of
Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; thus they forsook the LORD and did not
serve Him.
Samuel Was Called As a
Prophet and Judge Before Israel Had a King
· 1Sa_7:3 Then Samuel spoke to
all the house of Israel, saying, "If you return to the LORD with all your
hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths
from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only; and
He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines." ...
· 1Sa_7:4 So the children of
Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtoreths,
and served the LORD only.
Solomon’s Idolatrous
Wives Turned Him to Other gods (I Ki 11)
· Ashtoreth (1Ki 11:5)
· Milcom also Molech
(I Ki 11:5,7)
1) Milcom:
BDB Definition [H4432] = “great king”
1) the god
of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom some Israelites sacrificed their
infants in the valley of Hinnom
1a) also ‘Molech’
H4432 (I Ki 11:7) Molech = “king” > Lev. 18:21,
20:2-5.
· Chemosh I Ki 11:7
Chemosh: BDB Def.
[H3645 kemôsh] = “subduer”
1) the
national deity of the Moabites and a god of the Ammonites
1a) also identified with ‘Baal-peor’, ‘Baal-zebub’, ‘Mars’ and
‘Saturn’
1b) worship of this god was
introduced into Jerusalem by Solomon and abolished by king Josiah of Judah
(B.L. 2 Ki 23:10)
The Kingdom Was Divided
Because of These Idolatries
Ahijah and
Jeroboam
· 1Ki 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten
pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Behold, I will tear the
kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you
· 1Ki 11:32 (but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My servant
David, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all
the tribes of Israel),
· 1Ki 11:33 because they have forsaken
Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians,
Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked
in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My
judgments, as did his father David.
· Then what did Jeroboam do? He set up the two calf idols: I Ki
12:26-33.
King Ahab Followed
Later in the Northern Kingdom
· 1Ki 16:29 In the
thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri
became king over Israel; and Ahab the son of Omri
reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
· 1Ki 16:30 Now Ahab the son of Omri did
evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.
· 1Ki 16:31 And it came to
pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife
Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.
· 1Ki 16:32 Then he set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal,
which he had built in Samaria.
· 1Ki 16:33 And Ahab made a wooden image (“the Asherah,”nasb). Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to
anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
Why the Northern
Kingdom Fell to Assyria
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of
Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, 2 Ki 17:6.
· They had feared other gods, 2 Ki 17:7.
· Walked in the statutes of the nations the Lord had cast out, 2 Ki
17:8.
· Left all the commandments of God and “made for themselves a molded
image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven,
and served Baal,” 2 Ki 17:16.
· 2Ki 17:17 And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through
the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil
in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
· 2Ki 17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and
removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.
· 2Ki 17:19 Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD
their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
In Samaria Every Nation
Among the Transplants Continued to Make gods of Its Own (2 Kings 17:28-33)
A priest who had been carried captive by the Assyrians was sent to
Samaria, dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.
However every nation continued to make gods of its own and worship in the
shrines in the high places and in the cities.
· 2Ki 17:30 The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth,
the men of Cuth made Nergal,
the men of Hamath made Ashima,
· 2Ki 17:31 and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the
gods of Sepharvaim.
· 2Ki 17:32 So they feared the
LORD, and from every class they appointed for themselves priests of the high
places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.
· 2Ki 17:33 They feared the
LORD, yet served their own gods—according to the rituals of the nations from
among whom they were carried away.
Ahaz king of Judah Was
Doing This When Shalmaneser King of Assyria Took the
Northern Kingdom Away
· 2Ch 28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of
the LORD, as his father David had done.
· 2Ch 28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made
molded images for the Baals.
· 2Ch 28:3 He burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to
the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children
of Israel.
· 2Ch 28:4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places,
on the hills, and under every green tree.
Manasseh King of Judah
Seduced Jerusalem to do More Evil Than the Nations God
Destroyed Before Israel (2 Ch. 33:9)
· 2Ch 33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he
reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
· 2Ch 33:2 But he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the
abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of
Israel. …
· 2Ch 33:3 For he rebuilt the
high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he raised up altars for
the Baals, and made wooden images; and he worshiped
all the host of heaven and served them.
· 2Ch 33:4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which
the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall My name be forever."
· 2Ch 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
courts of the house of the LORD.
· 2Ch 33:6 Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the
Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced
soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke Him to anger.
* Note: He’s the king that was
taken captive by the King of Assyria to Babylon and then brought back: 2 Ch.
33:10-13.
The Book the Law That
Had Been Lost Was Found When Cleansing the Temple and Read to King Josiah of
Judah
· Josiah cleansed the temple of all the articles made for idolatrous
worship, 2Ki 23:4.
· He removed the idolatrous priests who burned incense on the high
place in the cities, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the
moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven, 2Ki 23:5.
· And he brought out the wooden image (*Ashera)
from the house of the LORD, to the Brook Kidron
outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and
ground it to ashes, and threw its ashes on the graves of the common people, 2Ki
23:6.
· He tore down the booths of the male cult prostitutes that were in
the house of the Lord, 2Ki 23:7.
· He defiled the high places where the priests burned incense, 2Ki
23:8.
· 2Ki 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass
through the fire to Molech.
Many people in America claim to believe
in God and yet stand guilty of taking innocent lives by practicing abortion and
promoting infanticide!
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