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WORSHIP NO IMAGE OR BOW DOWN TO THEM


I always wonder how the three Hebrew Boy's trust in God for not bowing-down  to the image that was being made by  King  Nebuchadnezzar. "There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego;  these men, O king, have not regarded thee:  they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.   Then they brought these men before the king.  Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? Now if    you
be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sack but, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the image which I have made;  well:  but if you worship not, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace;  and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.  But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up".  I discover they were  brought up in the knowledge of  their God by the parents. Parents need to brought up their children's in the fear of the Lord. Remember, "  Train up a child in the way he should go:  and when he is old, he will not depart from it".   The three  Hebrew Boy's, refusing to bow down to the golden image,  also tell that God is against His children's to worship or bow down to any image. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me.  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;  And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments".   "Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it:  for I am the LORD your God". (Daniel 3:12-18 Proverbs 22:6; Exodus 20:3-6)

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