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Daily Text
I will stretch out my hand upon . . . them that worship, that swear to Jehovah and swear by Malcam. -Zeph. 1: 4, 5, AS
We cannot mix the things of God with those of worldly religion and at the same time gain divine approval. It did not gain his approval when Jerusalem apostatized from the revealed worship of Jehovah God and religiously held to his name but at the same time swore by false gods. So, he warned of the day of his wrath. At the foot of Mount Sinai Moses' brother Aaron yielded to the voice of the people who wanted visible gods and he made a golden calf. Then, in the spirit of calf worship in Egypt which they had left, the Israelites said; 'These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' Aaron built an altar on the calf and proclaimed; 'Tomorrow shall be a feast for Jehovah.' (AS) It turned out to be a wild, boisterous corruption of morals. Jehovah burned with indignation at this attempt to link him with demon worship. He had 3,000 feasters executed. W 11/1
Monthly Theme
TRANSMITTING THE TRUE RECORD
JEHOVAH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book." That was in 1513 B .C. It is the first divine command to write, and it indicates Jehovah's purpose to have important matters recorded. Memorial of them was not to be entrusted to oral transmission subject to corruption by fallible human memory. The ...
