Make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. —Ex. 23:32, AS.

Jehovah God backs up his pure worship. His great adversary, together with all the demons under him, endeavors continually to work impurities into it and adulterate it and make it hypocritical so that even Jehovah God will reject it and abandon it to be destroyed. So, there is a contest of gods or mighty ones over the issue of religion or worship. There can be no compromise between true Christianity and the religion of this world. Before bringing the Israelites into the land of Palestine which he had promised them, God made this matter perfectly clear to them. At the beginning of their forty-year journey there he said to them: 'They [the pagan inhabitants] shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.' (Ex. 23:33, AS.) In the face of that divine statement, who can object to the slogan that false, worldly religion is a snare, and is worked as a racket? W 11/1