The call to avoid idolatry is a call to exclusive devotion to God, recognizing I Am Who I Am as the ultimate source of life, purpose, and fulfillment. It is a reminder to guard one’s heart against anything that might usurp God’s rightful place. I Am Who I Am is all around you, not limited by space, time, gender, location or objects. If you think you will be answered when you pray to an iron, wooden, stone or any other picture or object you are wrong. Pray to I Am Who I Am, and you will be heard.
The Old Testament is replete with admonitions against idolatry, beginning with the Ten Commandments. In Exodus 20:3-5 , God commands, “You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God.
Prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah also spoke vehemently against idolatry. Isaiah 44:9-11 highlights the futility of idol-making: “All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame. Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?”
Idolatry is portrayed as a fundamental breach of the covenant relationship between God and His people. It is seen as spiritual adultery, a turning away from the Creator to worship created things. The consequences of idolatry are severe, often leading to spiritual blindness, moral decay, and divine judgment.
Today many idols are available. Objects of stone, wood, iron in the form of statues, pictures or other forms are used to gain advantage. They all are superstition. It is not necessary. And why? Pray to I Am Who I Am, and you will be heard. Warlord Putin and his priests pray to pictures in order to justify their mortal sins of violence. They commit idolatry. Faithful President Zelensky will gain peace by the Glory of I Am Who I Am.
Remember King of Judah Hezekiah (701 BC) and the killing of the Assyrian army by I Am Who I Am. Faithful Hezekiah purified and repaired the Temple, purged its idols, and reformed the priesthood. In an effort to abolish idolatry from his kingdom, he destroyed the high places (or bamot) and the “bronze serpent” (or Nehushtan), recorded as being made by Moses, which had become objects of idolatrous worship. In place of this, he centralized the worship of God at the Temple in Jerusalem. Hezekiah also defeated the Philistines, “as far as Gaza and its territory.