3. What is God’s threatening
against those who sacrifice to idols?
In Exodus: “He that sacrificeth unto
any gods but the Lord only, shall be rooted out.”
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Also in
Deuteronomy: “They sacrificed unto demons, and not to
God.”
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In Isaiah
also: “They worshipped those which their fingers have made;
and the mean man was bowed down, and the great man was humbled:
and I will not forgive them.”
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And again: “To them
hast thou poured out drink-offerings, and to them thou hast offered
sacrifices. For these, therefore, shall I not be angry, saith the
Lord?”
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In
Jeremiah also: “Walk ye not after other gods, to serve
them; and worship them not, and provoke me
not in the works of your hands, to
destroy you.”
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In the Apocalypse too:
“If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark
in his forehead or in his hand, he shall also drink of the wine of the
wrath of God, which is mixed in the cup of His wrath, and shall be
punished with fire and brimstone before the eyes of the holy angels,
and before the eyes of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torments
shall ascend for ever and ever: and they shall have no rest day
or night, whosoever worship the beast and his image.”
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Ex. xxii. 20
.
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Deut. xxxii. 17
.
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Isa. ii. 8, 9
.
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Isa. lvii. 6
.
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Jer. vii. 6
.
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Rev. xiv.
9–11
.