“Some believe this was an image of a false god (such as Baal or Ashtoreth). Others believe that it was an image representing Yahweh. Either way, God strictly forbade such an image, whether it was meant to represent the true God or not.” (Guzik)
”Thus he returned the silver to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a molded image; and they were in the house of Micah.“
Judges 17:4 NKJV
“By his fallen nature, man wants to make God into his image. Many religious people carve their own concept of God and assume that this is the God of the Bible. It takes effort to understand and accept the God of the Bible.
The sense of this passage is that Micah did all this easily. It wasn’t hard to have an idol made in Israel at that time. This shows how Israel’s society was bent towards idolatry.” (Guzik)
Idols
”You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;“
Exodus 20:4 NKJV
”you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,“
Exodus 20:5 NKJV
Idols come easily to us and can consist in many forms such as a smart phone, a television, money, a house, a car, and the list goes on. The Lord knew our human frailty, our weakness to serve other gods, which is why He commanded us not to make a carved image.
If you examined your life today, what are you putting above the Lord your God?
Blessings
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