Read: Ezekiel 18:1-19:14, Hebrews 9:1-10, Psalm 106:32-48, Proverbs 27:10
They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder. They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the Lord’s sight. (Psalm 106:38-39)
Relate: Sacrificing children to the idols of Canaan. It sounds so ominous, doesn’t it? Why on earth would anyone take their child and allow it to be killed to satisfy some foreign god? Who would want to worship something so evil? The fact is, the sacrifice is the end result of worshiping the idols of Canaan. Nobody was thinking, “Hey, lets go out and kill a baby today. Sound like fun?” It was more along the lines of, “We worshiped this god and she gave us a baby. We can’t keep it so lets give it back.”
The gods of Canaan were gods of fertility. Celebrating one…
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