Bible Study #5 - Part One

A STUDY ON IDOLATRY IN ITS MANY BIBLICALLY UNLAWFUL FORMS (INCLUDING HOMOSEXUALITY, COVETOUSNESS AND OTHER SINS WHICH BRING ON THE WRATH OF YHVH)

Proverbs 28:9 “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law [#8451], even his prayer shall be abomination.”

“When Moses was given the law upon Mount Sinai, it wasn't the origin of divine law, but it was what you might call a codifying of the law, reducing it to a systematic statement. The Bible recognizes that God's law was to some extent known earlier than that. Genesis 2 verses 16 and 17 records the first commandment: … In Genesis 26 verses 3 to 5, God says this to Isaac: ‘Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father’ - now note this –‘because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments [#4687], my statutes [#2708; from #2706], and my laws [#8451].’“ (Pastor Comparet, The Laws of God”)

“[Yahweh] always has a good reason for what He tells us to do. The Bible never argues with you about the reasons for its laws; it just states the laws. There is always a good reason, if you will look for it.” (Pastor Comparet, “Who are the Jews?”)

We first learn of Almighty God’s commands with Adam in the Garden of Eden. His commands (#6680, “[intensively] to constitute, enjoin”) of YHVH are collectively known as His law [#4687]. YHVH’s commands have always been given with our best interests at heart (they continue to be in effect to this day), so that we could avoid His “indignation and wrath,” along with “tribulation and anguish (i.e. calamity).” Adam and Eve, the progenitors of our Caucasian race, sadly did not obey the LORD God’s commands and committed idolatry, consequently bringing a curse on our race. Pastor John Weaver, in “The Idolatry of Statism,” teaches that idolatry is any and every attempt by a person to be guided by his or her own word rather than by the Word of God; to be governed by his or her own will rather than the will of God; and to be governed by his or her own law rather than the law of God. He brings out in Genesis 3 that Adam and Eve were idolaters because they were going to do whatever they wanted to do, ignoring God’s will, word, and law which He had given them. (The serpent’s temptation was “… ye shall be as gods …”) Adam and Eve denied the sovereignty of God, the authority of God, Pastor Weaver continues in this sermon. They lived however the way they wanted to. Modern day men and women who rebelliously and wickedly substitute their wills, words, and laws for God’s are equally idolaters. --

Genesis 2:15: And the LORD [#3068, YHVH] God [#430] took the man [named Adam in Genesis 2:9], and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16: And the LORD God commanded [#6680] the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. …

Genesis 3:1: Now the serpent [Satan] was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2: And the woman [named Eve in Genesis 3:20] said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6: And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. …

Genesis 3:14: And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16: Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18: Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20: And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21: Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22: And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24: So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

YAHshua is the Creator of the world (John 1:1-18 & Colossians 1:12-20). In Romans 1:18-2:9, the apostle Paul states that all of the creation of the world, which is referred to as the “creature” in Romans 1:25, is shown and understands that there is the supreme God and that He has eternal power. They are without excuse when they reject Him. (Mankind and angels are included in YAHshua’s creation.) This section of scripture also reveals that when people turn away from the Almighty, He (through their lusts) gives them up to uncleanness (physical or moral impurity). They have rejected His Godhead in unrighteousness. They have changed His truth (as shown in the Bible and in His creation) into a lie, holding it back instead of revealing it to others. When these rebellious sinners reject God, they always commit idolatry. When they take pleasure in their indecent, foolish, delusional and idolatrous lusts, YAHshua gives these idolaters up to them as part of their necessary, binding judgment by Him.

These lusts listed in these scriptures include: fornication, which is harlotry (i.e. prostitution, adultery, incest, homosexuality, or to figuratively practice idolatry); wickedness (depravity, i.e. specially malice, which is a desire to inflict injury or suffering on another); covetousness (avarice, fraudulency, extortion); maliciousness (‘badness, i.e. [subjectively] depravity, or [actively] malignity, or [passively] trouble”; desire to inflict injury or suffering on another); envy; murder; debate (quarreling, wrangling); deceit; malignity (bad character; deep-seated, completely concealed, and virulent disposition to injure and often instigate harmful acts); whisperers (secret calumniators); backbiters (“talkative against, i.e. a slanderer”); haters of God (impious); despiteful (“an insulter, i.e. maltreater”); prideful; boasting; inventing evil things; willful and obstinate disobedience to parents; without understanding (“unintelligent; by implication, wicked”); covenantbreakers (treachery in regard to compacts, not keeping one’s word on a matter); without natural affection (“hardhearted to kinsmen”); implacable (trucelessness, unable to devote or sacrifice in order to make a truce); or unmercifulness (all being, figuratively, a form of idolatry). These impious, unjust, implacable sinners (male and female) will experience God’s judgment through His passionate and slaughtering indignation, wrath, pressing tribulation, and calamity. --

Romans 1:18: For the wrath [#3709] of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness [#763] and unrighteousness [#93] of men, who hold [#2722] the truth in unrighteousness;
19: Because that which may be known of God is manifest [#5318] in them; for God hath shewed [#5319] it unto them.
20: For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain [#3154] in their imaginations [#1261], and their foolish heart was darkened [#4654].
22: Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23: And changed the glory of the uncorruptible [#862] God into an image [#1504] made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24: Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness [#167] through the lusts [#1939; from #1937] of their own hearts, to dishonour [#818] their own bodies between themselves:
25: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature [#2937] more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26: For this cause God gave them up unto vile [#819] affections [#3806]: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature [#5449]:
27: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned [#1572] in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly [#808], and receiving in themselves that recompence [#489] of their error [#4106] which was meet [#1163].
28: And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate [#96] mind, to do those things which are not convenient [#2520];
29: Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication [#4202; from #4203], wickedness [#4189], covetousness [#4124], maliciousness [#2549]; full of envy, murder, debate [#2054], deceit, malignity [#2550]; whisperers [#5588; from #5587],
30: Backbiters [#2637], haters of God [#2319], despiteful [#5197], proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient [#545] to parents,
31: Without understanding [#801], covenantbreakers [#802], without natural affection [#794], implacable [#786], unmerciful:
32: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Romans 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man [#444, human being], whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2: But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
3: And thinkest thou this, O man [#444], that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4: Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
5: But after thy hardness and impenitent [#279] heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath [#3709] against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6: Who will render to every man [#1538] according to his deeds:
7: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
8: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation [#2372; from #2380] and wrath,
9: Tribulation [#2347] and anguish [#4730], upon every soul of man [#444] that doeth evil [#2556],…

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