Deuteronomy 4:19-20

You notice that? Man will worship something. God is warning here that every man has the capability of creating his own god. It is not just those heathens over there. Every man has the capability and when we begin to understand the spirit of the law and that God wants us to worship Him in spirit and in truth, this begins to get very personal because we can carry an image, a false image of God wherever we go. We do not have to carry a leering statue with us of some kind of Buddha. That thing came out of a man's mind anyway. Might be a little more difficult to remember if you have to carry it around in your memory, but it is there nonetheless.

But you understand that regardless of what a man would make would be a lie. When God gave the pattern for the Tabernacle first and then the Temple after that, there were no representations of God at all. Even the original instructions regarding the altar were that that altar upon which the sacrifices would be made was to be made either from simple turf, just like you would rip sod off the ground, and stack it up and make an altar on which you would offer an animal. It was either made out of simple turf or it was made out of uncut stone. You see, the idea of being altar, a place of worship, a place of sacrifice, a place a person comes to commune with his God, the inference is inescapable that God is saying that everything man touches, he perverts, he twists it, he makes it dirty. Spiritually, I am talking about. And that if God was going to be worshipped, it was going to be with truth, with stones that were not cut. Something that a man had not put his hand to and ruin.

Deuteronomy 4:15-19

You notice that? Man will worship something. God is warning here that every man has the capability of creating his own god. It is not just those heathens over there. Every man has the capability and when we begin to understand the spirit of the law and that God wants us to worship Him in spirit and in truth, this begins to get very personal because we can carry an image, a false image of God wherever we go. We do not have to carry a leering statue with us of some kind of Buddha. That thing came out of a man's mind anyway. Might be a little more difficult to remember if you have to carry it around in your memory, but it is there nonetheless.

Deuteronomy 4:19

The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia declares that the six-pointed star—according to the star-worshipping Rosicrucians—was known to the ancient Egyptians. The religion of the ancient Egyptians is known to have consisted preeminently of sun-worship. Moses sternly warned the Israelites against worshiping the sun, moon, stars, and all the host of heaven.

Moses' warning was emphatic. The prohibition of making and worshiping any image of that which is in heaven above emphasizes the stars and implies also the other celestial bodies.

Deuteronomy 4:19

Sadly, whatever God tells the offspring of Jacob to do, they feel an overwhelming compulsion to do the opposite. The lion’s share of mainstream, nominal Christianity has embraced Sunday as its so-called Sabbath or day of rest and moreover observe, like the ancient priests of Baal, an annual Easter Sunrise service—which our Lord considers an abomination.