A famous preacher once said that “a ship in the water is alright but water in the ship isn’t.”
Today we live in Babylon. It is not Ancient Babylon of course, however the pagan hedonistic, materialistic, idolatrous, multi-faith, immoral, violent, and pleasure loving lifestyles that characterised Ancient Babylon are a plague in western democracies today, especially in those nations that were historically associated with Biblical Judeo-Christianity.
When the LORD gave Moses the Ten Commandments He put Idolatry at the top of the list. In fact God chose to found a nation through Abraham, a nation that would be free from idolatry and be His nation and that He would be their God and reveal Himself through them to the pagan nations steeped in idolatry.
Ultimately through Israel the LORD would bring into the world the Messiah, the Eternal Word of God Himself as a flesh and blood man, one who was fully human and fully divine to bring salvation for Israel and for the whole world (Matthew 1:21) (John 1:1-3,14-15, 29) (1 John 2:2).
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