Living With Idols (Revelation 17:1-18:24)
Sermon for Milledgeville & Whitestown UMC Living With Idols ( Revelation 17:1-18:24 ) Billy Idol’s wife gets very upset when he’s behind on yardwork. In the midnight hour, she yells: mow! mow! mow! Why did the little cloud idolize the big cloud? Because its the raining champion. What exactly is an idol? Why is idolatry so offensive to God? In the Bible an idol is a statute made of wood or stone, or gold or silver, which depicts a god or goddess. Many foreign gods were popular in the nations near Israel. Haddad was depicted as a Bull, a god of the Akkadians, Assyrians and Arameans. Baal was a Canaanite god also depicted as a bull. Dagon, worshipped by the Philistines, resembled a fish. Anubis, the Egyptian god of the underworld, had the head of a jackal. Diana was depicted as a woman with a crescent moon crown. Israel was influenced by cultural and political forces that led them into the worship of pagan deities. Solom...