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Vatican Nativity Scene "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."  Exodus 20.3-4   The second commandment includes making or using any religious icons, images, sculptures made of clay, stone, wood, metal, or other materials. Simply put, God strictly forbids it. The same prohibition is repeated in Deuteronomy 4.15-18. Scripture calls these images idols, and those who use them are called idolaters.  Yes, even in the New Testament! How serious is this matter? According to 1 Corinthians 5.11 no idolater should be admitted to a church, and according to Ephesians 5.5 no idolater has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and ...

"Jeremiah has always a fascination to Christian hearts, because of the close similarity that exists between his life and that of Jesus Christ. Each of them was "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief"; each came to his own, and his own received him not; each passed through hours of rejection, desolation, and forsakeness. And in Jeremiah we may see beaten out into detail, experiences which, in our Lord, are but lightly touched on by the evangelists... ...There is an especial message in the ministry of Jeremiah for those who are compelled to stand alone, who fall into the ground to die, who fill up what is behind of the sufferings of Christ, and through death arise to bear fruit in the great world of men, which they passionately love. 1 "THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME" (Jeremiah 1:4, 12, 13)      If the days of David and Solomon may be compared to spring and summer in the history of the Kingdom of Israel, it was late autumn when our ...