Exodus 32:25 And when Moses
saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame
among their enemies:)
To explain further, in ancient Greece and Rome orgia was a sacred
word denoting worship in the mystery cults such as that devoted to Dionysus. It
included dancing, singing, and drinking as well as promiscuous sexual behavior.
You cannot underestimate the sexual perversion of ancient religion after the
Flood. The ancient Egyptians practiced every kind of perversion in their
religion.”
In ancient Near Eastern religion the sex act was important to the
worship of heathen gods. Temples were attended by heterosexual and homosexual
prostitutes. Throughout the Bible this was condemned and amazingly this
behavior was brought into God’s temple, making it a house of prostitution like
the pagan world around them.
Deuteronomy
23:17 There shall be no whore of the
daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite
of the sons of Israel.18 Thou shalt not
bring the hire of a whore, or
the price of a dog, into the
house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy
God. [dog in this context is slang for a homosexual temple prostitute
or sodomite]
God
gave mankind over to this perversion because of the wickedness of their hearts.
Do you see how we in America are returning to that?
With regard to idolatry please note the warning Moses gave
in Deuteronomy, chapter 4.
Deuteronomy 4:1 ¶ Now
therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I
teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land
which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I
command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the
commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because
of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath
destroyed them from among you. 4 But ye
that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and
judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the
land whither ye go to possess it. 6 Keep
therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the
sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this
great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath
God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things
that we call upon him for? 8
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so
righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul
diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest
they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons,
and thy sons’ sons; 10 Specially the day
that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto
me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that
they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and
that they may teach their children. 11
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned
with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
12 And the LORD spake unto you out of
the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude;
only ye heard a voice. 13 And he
declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten
commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of
stone. 14 And the LORD
commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do
them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves;
for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in
Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude
of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the
earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on
the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19
And lest thou lift up thine
eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars,
even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve
them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole
heaven. 20 But the LORD hath taken you,
and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto
him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
You remember discussing Baalpeor, don’t
you? The entire incident suggested the degradation of the Israelites downward
into the prevalent religious impulses of the day.
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