Do not trust in deceptive words and say, "This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!" If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever. But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. " 'Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, "We are safe"--safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the LORD. " 'Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
The modern day Baal is a re-emergence of the old with many other new names.It is the same Baal, in disguise. Remember, it emerges from the same sinful nature of the Devil sowed into mankind through the first Adam and Eve. Baal corrupts. Baal defiles. Baal is detestable in the sight of the LORD. Don't be fooled, it's the age-old Baal you are facing today! Baal is the cause for all the sins in this world. Where is it headquartered now? What is blindly 'burning incense' to Baal? How else is the influence of Baal all over the world? Who is involved? Who is the 'big boss' for this? What is being defiled by Baal? Why you should never be defiled by it, if you truly belong to the Lord Jesus Christ? What are the consequences of being part of Baal? How detestable is Baal in the sight of the LORD? Why were the LORD's people, who bore the Name of the LORD, punished so severely in the Old Testament times? How will the punishment be today, if one 'burns incense' to Baal? The answers are all there! The LORD has been watching you closely. He knows every move you make to pervert and corrupt this world against the LORD. He knows what you have been up to all this while. You can fool sinful men like you, but you can never fool the LORD. He has taken into account what you have been doing, though you have committed them secretly. You defile almost everything in this world. You defiled the justice of God. You have defiled the righteousness of Christ. You have defiled the Name of the LORD. You have no fear of the LORD at all. You keep saying that what you have been doing is right, when you know it is all wrong.You keep practicing evil stubbornly and rebelliously. You are hardened in your sins. Change your ways before you are destroyed, forever and ever!
Romans 1: 21-31
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
