Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
Thus, when persons bow to the dictates of any idol, whether humanistic, wooden, metallic, stone, or philosophical, the act of worship is done, and devils get the glory, for they’ve succeeded in getting such a person to obey their dictates, contrary to God’s will.
These idols were then given human, animalistic and deity characteristics. Some were designated as the protectors of water, land, seas and skies, as is to be clearly observed in the ancient Egyptian pantheon. In Egypt, when God sent Moses to meet pharaoh at the river Nile, the pagan king had gone to the river’s edge to worship.
One of the gods of the Nile was Sobek the crocodile, of which we have one million in the sunshine state. Another was Hapi who was given the designation as the controller of the annual floods. Later on, there was a fusion of Sobek and Ra, the sun god, to form a new idol called Sobek-Ra. And the list goes on and on.
Exodus 7:15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goes out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink as he comes; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
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