Concerning God’s covenant with Israel, one of the foundational principles we learned in Deuteronomy 12 is that when the Lord offers a covenant to a nation (or a person), it is perfectly okay to decline that offer. That’s right. Whether a nation or an individual decides to accept God’s invitation to enter into a relationship […]

God doesn’t give us a clear reason why there was to be only ONE PLACE for all of Israel to sacrifice. Possibly one of the reasons is that the Lord wanted His People to do things in complete opposite fashion of what the pagans did. And here’s the thing. We do know that the Wilderness […]

“Break down their altars, smash their standing-stones to pieces, burn up their sacred poles completely and cut down the carved images of their gods. Exterminate their name from that place.  “But you are not to treat Adonai your God this way.  Rather, you are to come to the place where Adonai your God will put […]

“You must destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, whether on high mountains, on hills, or under some leafy tree.”-Deuteronomy 12:2 Verse 2 refers to something that was very common among the pagan religions. It talks about altars of sacrifice being set up in groves of evergreen trees. Or […]

“Here are the laws and rulings you are to observe and obey in the land Adonai, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess as long as you live on earth.  You must destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, whether on high mountains, on hills, or […]