End-Time Apostasy, Idolatry in the Christian Churches, #5(1)

End-Time Apostasy, Idolatry in the Christian Churches, #5(1). Notice this, and wake up and know that it is an idol — and if you are sensible, you will take it off and throw it down the toilet, or take a hammer and smash it, even if it is made of gold. Because that idol means death for you, because of that idol […]

Notice this, and wake up and know that it is an idol — and if you are sensible, you will take it off and throw it down the toilet, or take a hammer and smash it, even if it is made of gold.

Because that idol means death for you. Because of that idol, the Lord says you are His enemy, and because of that idol you and your children, your grandchildren, and your great-grandchildren are cursed.

If you love your children, repent of those idols. If you love the Lord and do not want to die, repent of those idols — that idol is a cause of death for you.

I already mentioned the idol of sports, the cross, the family — if the family takes first place before God, it is an idol. If we love our children, our spouse, or ourselves more than we love God, that is idolatry.

For many, their idol is themselves. For example, for satanists, their number one idol is themselves — they worship themselves.

But there are many who, out of ignorance, also have themselves as their idol, because in their life there is the ego, the "I want," the "I think," and doing their own will — all of that is more important to them than God, and than doing the will of God. That is idolatry.

Many Christian believers understand the idolatry that operates in other churches and in other religions — for example, the idolatry that exists in Buddhism and in Catholicism — but very few Christians discern and understand the idolatry that operates in the Christian church.

Satan is a liar and the father of lies, and he is well camouflaged within the Christian church, seeking to turn hearts and souls away from the Lord.

Idolatry in the Christian church is very extensive, so we will be exposing the most common forms and describing some of their characteristics.

Idolatry is one of the most abominable sins before the Lord; it is something very serious. The Lord will judge idolaters, including the nations that do not repent of practicing it. Satan seeks to make the world believe that idolatry brings no consequence to your life — the devil is a liar. Outwardly, in the physical, apparently nothing happens, but in the spirit it brings death, and in the near future, if a person does not repent of practicing it, they will be judged, and there will be eternal death, weeping, and gnashing of teeth.

Using the Word of God, we will expose some of these idols. Many times people think an idol is only an image or a statue, and certainly that is one kind of idolatry, but there are other kinds of idolatry.

The Word says in 1 Samuel 15:23: "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king." Stubbornness — wanting something by force, becoming obsessed with something according to our own will and not the will of God — is idolatry. Here it speaks of a kind of idolatry that is not something physical, but a behavior.

The Word says in Acts 17:16: "While Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry." Here Paul was visiting the city of Athens, and he saw that in the city there were many statues, images, saints, things that people venerated.

Some religions say, "We are not idolaters, we only venerate the Virgin" — but to venerate a thing is idolatry. Having a detailed image made by man and giving it special value is idolatry; it is abominable before God.

Colossians 3:5: "Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry."

Here we have another form of idolatry — being greedy, loving material things, wanting more and more, is a form of idolatry. From this we realize that there are different kinds of idolatry: there are statues, images, but also behaviors like stubbornness and greed.

The Word of God says in Exodus 20:3-6: "You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."

Here the Word is more precise: you shall not make an image of anything that is in the heavens. Who is in heaven? The Lord and His angels are. And the Word says you shall not make an image of anything that is in heaven — it means we must not make images of the Lord, nor of His angels. Nor shall you make an image of anything that is under the earth, nor of the waters. If we make images of spiritual beings, we are sinning against the Lord — images of a false Jesus are idolatry, because that is not the Lord; that is an idol created by man. But here the Lord does not only say not to do it — here He says He will visit the iniquity of the fathers unto the third and fourth generation of those who hate Him. The Lord tells us in this word that if someone makes an image of something that is in heaven — which includes the Lord, or the angels, or supposedly the Virgin — that person is being disobedient before God.

The Lord says that those who do that hate Him.

I want you to pay attention where it says, "I punish the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation, of those who hate me." Here the Lord is saying that children will be cursed because of the idolatry of their parents — those who have images are evil before Him, they are iniquitous, and God will punish the children unto the third and fourth generation, meaning the grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren will be cursed. Many of us were cursed, and even because of us, because we had some image, our own children have already been cursed.

Babylon, the spirit that operates in the Catholic Church, has taught the men of the earth to fornicate; it taught everyone, especially Latinos, to have images, and by doing that we ourselves cursed our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren, and our great-great-grandchildren — four generations cursed.

And if our children have images too, another generation is added.

The point is, that is how there are families that have been cursed since colonization — that is where fornication, adultery, incest, and all the other sexual sins come from, along with addiction, and the premature death of many children, because of idolatry.

But the Lord is good and merciful — if we understand that we have sinned against Him, having been idolaters out of ignorance, and we have sinned before a Holy God who abhors idolatry, we all have the opportunity to repent of that sin, and everyone who repents and turns away from evil finds mercy.

The Word says in Revelation 2:14: "But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold to the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication."

Also, a doctrine different from the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the disciples and apostles, is idolatry.

Being part of a church that holds a different doctrine, one not from the disciples of the Lord, no matter what it may be, is idolatry.

1 Corinthians 12:2: "You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led." Mute idols — those that people worship and that do not speak. But the true God, even though we do not see Him with our eyes, He does speak, because He is alive; He is seated on His throne; He is King of kings and Lord of lords. The true God does speak — He does hear us, He does see us; He is the Creator of all things.

Galatians 4:8-11: "Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are not gods. But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain."

Observing days, months, and years that the world observes — every month there are different celebrations, they observe certain days, almost every month, or every two months. In all the nations there are holidays — they call them holidays, but in church they call them holy days, meaning they are days of worship. But who is worshiped on those days? The one who currently controls this world for just a little while longer — Satan. The Word says that worshiping those seasons, worshiping those dates, is a form of idolatry, by participating in the world's celebrations.

Galatians 4:8-11 — that they turn again to slavery, because by celebrating the world's feasts, the world's holy days, there are powers of darkness that receive worship through it, and through those celebrations they gain power over people's lives, to enslave them. So much so that Paul says, "I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain" — meaning, in vain I have preached the word to you, in vain you claimed to have received Jesus — because if you continue celebrating pagan things, if you continue celebrating and observing the days, the months, the days you consider special, that is a form of idolatry. If God did not make something holy, if God did not sanctify a day for us, it is not holy, because God is holy, and what He sanctifies is holy — but who is man, or who is the prince of this age? Satan, supposedly sanctifying one or several days of the year. A day is holy only if God has sanctified it — anything else is blasphemy, false worship, idolatry.

1 Corinthians 10:7: "Do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

Here the Word tells us of another form of idolatry — being lazy, doing nothing, and being focused on games — is a form of idolatry. Games, even sports, are a form of idolatry: basketball, soccer, baseball, football, boxing — all of these things are a form of idolatry.

For a person to become a professional competitor — do you know how many years they have to spend practicing? The daily hours — they practically have to put their whole heart into it. But behind that, there is more to it. Look at a person kicking a soccer ball — they get paid 20, 30, 40, 50 million; for throwing a ball into a basketball hoop, 30, 40, 50 million a year; for hitting a ball with a bat, 50, 60 million.

The world loves its own. But a person who is a disciple of Jesus Christ, as I am, and whom God uses — even to raise the dead, to heal those with HIV, and if He suddenly gives us more authority and we heal those who are mentally ill, those who have autism — we are hated.

To the world, we are not worthy of even a single offering — the world criticizes us; if someone asks for an offering, people say, "Oh look, he's asking for money."

But for the one who kicks a ball, people spend 70 dollars and wear that person's jersey number — they pay 70 dollars for a jersey, 25, 30, 40, 50 for a cap, 200 for a pair of shoes if they have them — and that does not bother them at all.

Because the world loves its own, because it is an idol of the world. But the one who serves Christ, whom God uses to save souls, to heal the sick — no, that they will not support.

Because they are idolaters of the world — it is idolatry, sports are idolatry, it is something valued even more than the things of God.

Those of us who serve Christ, especially if we are true disciples, are hated, criticized, blasphemed, humiliated, despised — the world curses everything about us. We are not considered worthy of anything — if we work, that is bad; if we serve God and work, they criticize us; if we serve the Lord full time and pray a lot, they also criticize us, saying we pray too much, that we should not pray so much; if we raise up the sick, if we heal — no, that is not to be done, that is bad.

The point is that for those of us who serve God, everything we do is seen as bad by the world — everyone opposes us, everyone tries to criticize us. But their idols, sports — oh, that is good. Sports are an idol; it is something the heart enjoys very much, being involved in sports.

There are churches where people go to the service, but if the service starts at eight at night, for example, and if the soccer game starts at nine, they practically want to end the service quickly so they can go watch the game — that is idolatry, the world's idolatry, it is an idol. And here the Word says, "the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play" — being caught up in playing, doing nothing but wasting time, is a form of idolatry.

If we love God, and we understand that souls are lost, we would say, "Lord, here I am. Lord, in what way can I contribute my small part? In what way, Lord, can I be useful to advance your kingdom? Lord, here I am."

Those who present their body to those things — who are focused on drinking, and playing, and doing nothing — well, what fruit is there? Sitting down to drink, to eat, and to play is basically living a life without purpose; it is a form of idolatry. Because that way no fruit is produced — to bear fruit, we have to be focused on the Lord, instead of just sitting down to eat, drink, and play.

We have to be focused on reading the Word, on praying and fasting. We have different options — if instead of sitting down to eat, drink, and play, we sit down to pray, to read the Word of God, to pray and to fast, then we will bear fruit; there we are not being idolaters, because now we are placing our heart, our focus, on the Lord Jesus Christ.

One of the characteristics of idols is that they are mute — they do not speak. Idols can also be an object, an animal, a bird, a reptile, a thing, a tree, a stone. Idols can also be the desires of the heart — whatever we love more than God, whatever takes first place in our heart, that is an idol. An idol can be one's children, one's wife, one's husband.

Many churches say the first ministry is marriage, is the woman — and that is a lie, that is idolatry. The Word says that God called the church first to apostles — the first ministry in the church belongs to the apostles. But the church of the world says, "No, apostles do not exist" — the devil makes the world twist everything, even the churches, through idolatry. So the first ministry is not the family. Of course, the family is very important, and we must love the family, and we must take care of the family, and we must preach to the family, but the Word says we cannot serve two masters.

The Word clearly says that whoever loves father, son, or daughter more than Him is not worthy of Him — whoever loves his wife more than Him is not worthy of Him.

The Word says that whoever loses his father, his mother, his children, his wife, for His sake, will receive a hundred times more in this present age, and afterward eternal life.

So how is it that marriage is supposedly the first ministry? The Word commands us that, when the situation comes, however it presents itself, we must be able to leave them for the sake of Christ — even our own life, we cannot love more than God. Our first ministry is to give our heart to Christ, with all our heart, and to hold Him above all things, even above ourselves.

But if we place marriage in first place, we are already idolaters of marriage. Even placing marriage in first place is idolatry; placing children in first place is idolatry; placing one's husband in first place is idolatry. The Lord Jesus Christ has to be in first place, even before our own life — whoever loves himself more than the Lord is an idolater, an idolater of himself, a lover of himself.

Ezekiel 14:5: "That I may take hold of the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from me by their idols."

That is one of the characteristics — something that happens when there is idolatry: the heart is estranged from God, because behind those idols there are demons who have spiritual power, and whoever sins, whoever commits idolatry, commits a sin, and whoever sins becomes a slave, and that slavery leads the person's heart to be estranged from God. Idols also make people foolish.

The Word of God says that, because of idols, the mind, as it were, gets blocked — spiritually, there are demons who actually block the mind, and then people cannot understand the Word.

That is why many who believe they are fine before God — I say "believe they are fine," and I say it because in reality I want each of you to examine yourselves — believe they are fine before God, and say to Catholics, "You are an idolater because you have the Virgin, because you have this" — and certainly those who idolize the Virgin and such things are idolaters.

Idols dull the mind — Catholics, for example, cannot understand you, because they are dulled by those idols, as the Word says here.

In Jeremiah 50:38 it says her waters will dry up, because it is a land of idols, and they are insane with their idols. See — "they are insane with their idols," meaning those idols make the mind foolish.

The point is, then you explain to them, "Look, the Word says do not have that Virgin, do not do this," and they cannot understand it — they cannot understand it because they are dulled by those images.

But that also happens with those who claim to be Christians, who judge Catholics — then if someone comes along and says, "Look, this too is idolatry — this celebration of Christmas, celebrating Santa Claus — Santa Claus is Satan — and by celebrating it, you are an idolater too."

And that is how many other idols are put upon them, as we will be discussing right now, and they cannot understand it, because these idols they worship also have their minds dulled.

So, to be free of this slavery, a great deal of humility of heart is required. Those idols put a person into slavery, because they dull the mind, they blind the eyes — they do not understand. But God gives grace to the humble, who, even though they do not understand whether something is idolatry or not, even though they may disagree with some of the things I am sharing with you today — if you disagree, I understand that you do not understand it — but blessed are the humble, who, even though they do not understand, give themselves the opportunity and pray, and ask God:

"Lord, is he right, or is he wrong?"

Because of idols, society is in darkness — the evil that exists in the world comes through idolatry, because through idolatry, room is given to the devil; it is an invitation to demons, it is what gives this dimension room for them to exercise their diabolical will — that is idolatry.

Psalm 106:36: "And they served their idols, which became a snare to them."

In other words, because of idolatry, everything is in ruin — idolatry is the problem of society.

Now I am going to mention to you some of the idols that operate in the Christian church — one of them I already mentioned earlier, but I will mention it again.

Images of a false Jesus. Look at the profiles of ten people you know who say they are Christians, and many of them will have an image of a false Jesus. Is the Lord in heaven? Yes, the Lord is in heaven.

Do you think those images that are used to represent the Lord are not an idol? They are a digital idol.

For example, in countries like Brazil, I believe they have an enormous false Jesus — a huge statue of a Jesus — that is an idol.

But that same image they also have as a photo, they have it digitally, they have it on their profile, in videos — it is an idol. And by having that image, supposedly representing God, they are being idolaters. They are sinning greatly before God.

The image of the eagle — many supposed prophets — you will notice they have an eagle on their profile, because supposedly the eagle is the spirit of prophecy. It is an idol. That eagle does not speak; what that eagle represents is demons.

So that supposedly their ears will be opened, supposedly giving them a word — but the Word commands, "you shall not make images," and now they have an image, supposedly of an eagle, representing God.

The image of the dove, which many suppose represents the Holy Spirit — what they are actually receiving there is a false spirit.

Having images of sheep, supposedly representing the Lord — having a physical image is a type of idolatry. Images of a large hand, supposedly representing Jesus Christ, is idolatry — that image is idolatry.

Recently I was ministering to someone, and a demon manifested itself called "the hand" — "the powerful hand of Jesus." And when the demon manifested, the person I was ministering to saw a large hand that was basically gripping the person, because it was the hand of a demon called "the hand of Jesus," "the powerful hand of God" — for people who supposedly believe in "the hand of God," and they make an image representing God as a hand.

Now, there is a demon that enters through those images — when people have those images, they are inviting demons in. Those images are a portal for darkness, that gives the devil a place over their lives.

Romans 1:23: "And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things." An image of a corruptible man — that is how they exchange the glory of God.

Recently I looked at the TikTok profile of someone I know, who has supposedly been in the Gospel for many years, and I was surprised — there were images there, hundreds of videos, and I only took a quick look, but I saw many images, many videos he had, and all of them had images of a false Jesus. In the little I saw, I could tell that many of the "Jesus" images he had were totally different — even those Jesus figures in those images had different faces; they were clearly different men.

It is like saying, "Look, that is Pastor Francisco" — and one is white, another is dark-skinned, another has long hair, another is bald, another looks totally different — one looks Chinese, another looks Japanese, another looks Indian, another looks Latino — and people say, "Oh look, that is Pastor Francisco." That is madness — how can there be ten of him, unless there are ten different pastors all named Francisco? But they cannot all be the same person if they have different faces — one with a Chinese face, another with a Japanese face, another with an indigenous face, another with a Latino face. That is exactly the kind of foolishness the devil uses to deceive.

Those idols make people foolish — certainly the Word that says idols make people foolish makes a lot of sense, because it takes being spiritually foolish to believe that those 20, 30, 40, 50 images are supposedly all Jesus, and they even have different faces — that is madness, that is foolishness, that is idolatry, that is not Jesus. That bears witness that this Word is true: that they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the image of a man.

Romans 1:23: "And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man."

And that is exactly what happens — they exchange the image of an incorruptible God, a God who is eternal, who does not decay, who has no end of days, for the image of a man, to whom they give long hair and a little beard — "Look, this is Jesus" — then they put up another man with a different beard — "Look, this is Jesus" — then another man — "Look, this is Jesus." So they end up with thousands of "Jesus" figures.

No wonder the Word says, "Many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ."

Idolatry is a sin unto death. Those demons make the person foolish and cause them to keep doing these foolish things — a whole array of images, also in the form of birds — there they have the eagle, the dove, and they put a light on the dove to represent the Holy Spirit. That is not the Holy Spirit — it is a blasphemous spirit.

Through that unclean bird that they have there, many demons enter — a false spirit of error, because the Word commands us not to have images of anything that is in heaven. Jesus Christ is the Holy Spirit — they are the same person — but He is in heaven. We should not have an image of the Holy Spirit.

The fact that the Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove does not mean that God is an animal, that God is a dove. God is not a dove. God is God — eternal, incorruptible.

Do they not realize that they blaspheme when they say the Holy Spirit is a dove? Do they not realize what kind of blasphemy that is before God — an incorruptible God now being called a dove, an animal, a creature that He created as a bird for us to eat? Birds were given to us to eat, and now they say God is a bird. He told Peter, "Rise, kill, and eat," and now what He created is now supposedly what He is.

They also have a sheep, and supposedly an eagle — those are idols of the world, idols in the Christian church. Because of things like that, the wrath of God comes. That bird is an idol, that dove is an idol, those men supposedly depicting Jesus — they represent so much evidence that the Word of God is true.

That they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image made like man, or birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Isaiah 46:7: "They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands; it will not move from its place. Even though one cries to it, it cannot answer, or save him out of his trouble."

Many still carry an idol, making a kind of sacrifice by walking, supposedly carrying the cross, or carrying one of those plaster Jesus figures. Oh, what foolishness — how the devil mocks people! The devil puts people to work and makes them feel good, while through it he is going to destroy their soul.

Deuteronomy 7:5: "But thus shall you deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire." The Lord commanded that those images, those carved images, be burned in the fire. But now people have them digitally, they have them in every way, and they share them with joy, not knowing that image represents the destruction of their soul.

Not knowing that because of that image, God says they hate Him. Not knowing that because of that image, their children are in trouble. That because of that image they worship, that they share with such joy, they are cursed — themselves, their children, their grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren, unto the fourth generation, says the Lord. Cursed for having those images.

The candelabra — many people have that candelabrum, which I know they place a special value on.

Any object — whether stone, a leaf, a tree, water, the sun, the moon, the stars — whatever you give a special spiritual value to, is an idol.

There is only one God, one path that leads us to the narrow gate, which is Jesus Christ. The pentagram, the star, which appears on so many flags — it is on most of the flags of the world.

Here in the United States, in China, in many countries, images of the sun and the moon are also an idol. The star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is an idol. That represents an idol.

It is an occultist symbol, a symbol that is a portal for the devil. It is a symbol of worship to Satan. It is a symbol used extensively for witchcraft, to curse the church.

In Amos 5:26: "But you carried the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun, your images, the star of your gods, which you made for yourselves." The star of your gods, which you made for yourselves — it is no coincidence that the star is now used to represent gods. Look into it — go to Google, look at the flags of the world, and start counting how many flags have a star.

You will be surprised that most of them do. What do China and the United States have in common? What do China and Iran have in common? Or China and Israel? Do they have something in common? What do the stars have? Do they have those idols? Why? Because Satan is the god of this age, and because this world is under him, even the flags represent him.

Even on the flag there is worship to Satan. Satan is in charge — even on the flag that star says, "Satan is here, in charge."

This world, this place, is under the dominion of Satan. That is what that flag means — that idol the flag carries, the star.

That is what "the star of your gods, which you made for yourselves" means, says the Word in Amos 5:26. That star is for the gods that the world made for itself — it is idolatry. Ezekiel 6:4: "Your altars shall be desolate, your sun images shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols."

The image of the sun. Some flags too, you will notice, have an image of the sun or the moon, because that is also a way of worshiping Satan. Satan is cunning.

The Word clearly says, "your sun images." In some countries, like Mexico, the sun is worshiped.

But also in many Latin cultures in the past, especially in the time of the indigenous peoples, they worshiped the sun. And really, cultures all over the world worshiped the sun, the moon, the stars, and the god of agriculture, and things like that.

Christian music in this time is also a form of idolatry. And famous Christian artists are also idols. Many people go to church mainly for that.

If the church has a good band, they go for the entertainment. They go because they want to go like it is a concert. They want to be in that atmosphere of excitement, where there is music.

And if they bring in a famous artist, the church fills up. People still pay up to 100 dollars to get in — supposedly to worship God.

But to give a voluntary offering — "oh no, I can't." But if they bring in a famous artist and there is a cover charge of 100 dollars, or 50, to get in, then yes, they will pay it. Are they worshiping God, or are they worshiping the artist? They are worshiping the artist.

They are worshiping the music. They are worshiping themselves, just like the world does. Those in the world pay just the same to admire a famous artist.

Why? Because they like the music. It is something that pleases the flesh. So many supposedly worship God through music.

But in reality, through the music they worship the artist, they worship the music itself because they like it, and they worship themselves. It is a form of entertainment, which is another idol of entertainment. Many people, because of soap operas, or Nintendo, or video games — that is why they cannot serve God, because their time is spent on that.

Their time goes into those activities — that is their idol, entertainment. Another idol of the world, once again, is culture, national pride — that is a form of idolatry.

If you are beginning to understand a little that Satan is the god of this age, and that our nation and all the nations, even in their flags, are worshiping Satan…

I will not even mention fornication, adultery, theft, rape, lies, wooden idols, and the various digital idols that belong to the whole system, which is the Antichrist.

How abominable all of our nations have become, from the smallest to the greatest — they are abominable before God at this moment. Practically speaking, we are now living in Sodom and Gomorrah — homosexuality, abortions, and now even in schools they want to teach children that there are more genders, that there are I do not know how many genders.

The Word says that God made us male and female, but now supposedly there are around four more genders, I do not know how many, and many of our nations accept all of these things — they are abominable before God.

What reason is there to have what is called pride, if these things are abominable before God? So culture, national pride, is a form of idolatry, because if they are abominable before God, if they are doing everything the devil desires, if practically all of our nations represent Sodom and Gomorrah at this time…

Family fornicating with their own family — all of these things can be seen throughout our whole society, and if these things are happening, and we are proud of our nations, we are saying we worship the Devil, because our nations represent the Devil at this time.

All of them are full of evil, full of iniquity. I do not know what country you are from, but if anyone believes their country is holy, that their country really is different — if I am mistaken, because your country is different, because in your country there is no fornication, no adultery, no theft, no murder, no rape, no idols — if your country, its flag, and its whole system are not of the Antichrist, let me know, tell me, "Pastor, you were wrong about my country, because my country really is holy, in my country we all worship God, in my country we are not idolaters, in my country we serve Christ the way He commands" — maybe I was wrong about your country, but I do not believe I am wrong about any country in this time; this whole world is under the evil one.

Ezekiel 23:30: "These things will be done to you, because you have gone lusting after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols."

The nations have their idols — almost every nation has days, has dates, worships certain things, whether it is the day of the Virgin, the day of the dark-skinned Virgin, or the light-skinned Virgin, or the tall Virgin, or the small Virgin — because they have about 800 virgins — and they even have year-end bonuses tied to their various celebrations held in honor of the saints, saints that sometimes you have never even heard of, because in some countries they have such obscure saints that you will hear those names for the first time — but they have a day set aside to worship them.

The nations have a primary idol that represents that nation — that idol is the demon that is the authority in charge of that country, that holds that country enslaved, and that is why the Word says, "you were polluted with the idols of the nations you visited."

Psalm 135:15: "The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands."

And so, many of you who are Christians, because right now you have your idols made of silver and gold in your hands, or around your neck, or on a ring, on an earring — if that cross is an idol, that image supposedly of Jesus is an idol, one with the Virgin is an idol, one with the dove is an idol, one with the fish supposedly representing the Lord — that is an idol; the Lord is not a fish, He is the eternal, incorruptible God. That ring, that chain, that medal, that earring with religious images — all of those religious images are idols, and this word is fulfilled in those of you who have that image, that "the idols of the nations are silver, gold, and bronze, made by a craftsman" — that thing you have, supposedly representing God, was made by a sculptor, and that fulfills that word in Psalm 135:15. You who are wearing that right now are fulfilling that word — the Word is being fulfilled in you.

I am not saying this so plainly because I am judging you — what I want is to call your attention, so that you wake up and know that it is an idol, and if you are sensible, take it off and throw it down the toilet, or take a hammer and smash it even if it is made of gold, because that idol means death for you. Because of that idol the Lord says you are His enemy, and because of that idol you, your children, your grandchildren, and your great-grandchildren are cursed. If you love your children, repent of those idols; if you love the Lord and do not want to die, repent of those idols — that idol is a cause of death for you.

I already mentioned the idol of sports — that sports are idols; I mentioned the cross, another idol; I mentioned the family — that if the family takes first place before God, it is an idol; if we love our children, our spouse, more than we love God, or even if we do not love ourselves more than we love God, it is idolatry.

For example, for satanists, their number one idol is themselves — they worship themselves.

But there are many who, out of ignorance, also have themselves as their idol, because they put themselves first — their life, their ego, the "I want," the "I think," and doing their own will is more important to them than God, than doing the will of God — that is their idolatry. If we put our own will before the will of God, we are idolizing ourselves.

Obviously we should love ourselves — we are not going to hate ourselves; of course we have to love our children, we have to love our spouse — but we love God more, above all things.

Medicine is another idol — it is an idol that causes pain and holds many people in slavery. Few in the church, when they have a headache, go to God — they go to the doctor. When they have a problem, they do not think of God, they think of the doctor.

Of course — that is how the world has taught it, because this world is under Satan, and it is part of the system of the beast, to make people seek everything except God, to put God in last place. Medicine is an idol — it is no secret that through drugs like fentanyl, thousands upon thousands are dying.

Fentanyl is in a lot of drugs — a lot of medicine made by pharmaceutical companies has fentanyl. Do your own research — fentanyl was made by the same company that makes all of the pharmaceutical drugs. I myself was given fentanyl.

Besides, now it has reached the streets, but fentanyl is put into some of the drugs given to people, and if the dose is a bit too large, the person dies; with a medium dose they do not die, but they end up like zombies; with a somewhat smaller dose they become zombie-like more slowly — that is through medicine. There are many who are like zombies — that serpent that is on the ambulance and on the logo of medicine, that is Satan — that serpent entangles people through medicine.

Drugs — it is no secret that many marriages, and that most of us, have some family member whose marriage was suddenly destroyed, or who ended up on the street, or in a very bad state because of alcohol. Even alcohol is a stumbling block, it is an idol — drugs are evil.

Another idol, for many, is false doctrine — as I mentioned, living under the law. For example, there are many who believe that to be saved you have to keep the law of Moses — no, it is not that because we keep the Sabbath we are saved, no, it is not this or that, no — if you live under the law, you are under a curse.

We are saved by grace, through hearing the word of life, through keeping the word of the Lord, through separating ourselves from the world — salvation comes through Jesus Christ, we receive grace through the Lord.

Acts 21:25: "But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and decided that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from what is offered to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality."

These are like the commands given to us Gentiles who have believed — the command given by the first apostles, guided by God, is that we abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from eating things strangled, and from sexual immorality — these are like the commands of the law that the Lord says we have to keep.

The last point I want to make clear to everyone — and I want to express that I am not judging you; we all have a Judge, and He is the Lord — is the consequence of idolatry. I love your souls; I do not want your soul to be lost. The Lord does not desire that any soul be lost — it is the Lord's desire that everyone hear the truth and repent, and that is what I desire for you as well. That is why I clearly want you to hear the consequence — the Word says the Lord will judge idolaters, even the idolatrous nations that do not repent — the Lord will judge them and destroy them, and there will be gnashing of teeth in the lake of fire.

I want this to be clear to you, because the devil makes people believe that having those images, having those idols, has no consequence — but the devil is a liar and the father of lies. It does have consequences — although it may seem that nothing is happening right now in the physical, in the spirit it is happening. In the spirit, if they do not repent, they are dead; in the spirit, if they do not repent, they are enemies of God; in the spirit, if they do not repent, the Lord says they hate Him because of the idols — and those who hate Him, He is going to destroy.

Jeremiah 1:16: "I will utter my judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken me, burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands."

It is the Lord who is judging them, not me — listen, it is the Lord, and why? Because of the wickedness — we read in Exodus how He calls it wickedness to have idols, those who hate Him, and He will visit the wickedness of the fathers, He says in Exodus. Here He calls it wickedness again, because they forsook Me, offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 1:16, which says the Lord will pronounce judgment — He says it, not I. I am reading the Word once more, because you think the pastor just wants to judge people — I do not judge you; we all have a judge, which is the Word of God — by the Word we will be judged. I present the Word to you in love, because I want you to repent.

If they worship that little medal that a man made, a bird that someone drew on a computer, a sheep drawn on a computer, a dove, a lion — many people have the lion; the lion is another big idol — that lion represents the devil, who goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, and whoever receives that lion is receiving the devil.

Because of those idols, the wrath of God is coming upon the world; because of those idols the Lord is going to judge; because of those idols the Word says in Jeremiah that the Lord will pronounce judgment.

Isaiah 10:11: "Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?"

Here the Lord is saying clearly, "I make no distinction for Jerusalem — if I did this to Samaria," says the Lord, "shall I not also do the same to Jerusalem and her idols?" In short, I will judge every nation that has idols — that is what the Lord means by this word. It does not matter whether it is Jerusalem or whatever nation it may be; every nation that has idols, He will judge, because He is God — there is only one God, and He does not share His glory. It is the lying devil who makes people believe that nothing happens because of idols.

Jonah 2:8: "Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own mercy."

Here the Word is giving us understanding — understand, listen to what it says — that those who trust in their idols forsake their own mercy, because it is by mercy, by grace, that we are saved by the mercy of God, but if we have an idol, we lose our salvation, and so we are forsaking our own mercy — meaning that by having an idol, the soul is lost. Those who have idols are forsaking their mercy — that great opportunity to be saved, they are abandoning it.

Revelation 9:20: "But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk."

Here the Lord is saying that in these days — because we are already living in these days — there are going to be plagues, and many are going to die, like the coronavirus, and there are going to be more plagues, but those who did not die from these plagues still did not repent, says the Word. In short, because of idolatry, many are going to die — a little earlier it tells us that a third of mankind will die, which is about eight billion people, and a third of that is about two billion — more than two billion people are going to die because of idolatry. But it says, and even so, those who did not die did not repent — what a shame, what sadness it gives me, that so many people are already dying, and many more are going to die, and even so they did not repent of their idols. I wish that you would not be one of those, one of those two billion who are going to die.

I wish that you who are listening to me — that you would repent, that you would not be counted among those, among the many, who are not going to repent.

1 Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived — neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals…"

The Word clearly says, do not let yourselves be deceived, wake up.

The reality is, let us be humble — all of us were deceived, all of us were idolaters, all of us have done things abominable before God. But every one of us, you and I, and everyone reading this, as long as we are breathing, as long as we are alive, we have the opportunity to repent — so we must not let ourselves be deceived. The Lord could not speak to us more clearly than this, because the Word tells us: "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived — neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals" will inherit the kingdom of God. Will idolaters inherit the kingdom of God? No, of course not — and not only idolaters, it mentions many more. It is up to you to listen and read the Word — if you hear the Lord speaking so clearly that these will not enter the kingdom of God, and you do these things and say, "No, I am still going to the kingdom of God, and I am a homosexual," or "I am still going to the kingdom of God, and I am an adulterer," or "I am still going to the kingdom of God, and I am an idolater" — whoever believes they are an idolater, or is effeminate, and thinks they are going to the kingdom of God, is lying to themselves, because God is not a liar, and He is clearly saying that they will not enter the kingdom of God — therefore, they will not enter the kingdom of God, if they do not repent.

1 Thessalonians 1:9: "For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God."

That is what I desire for each one of you who reads and listens to me — that you would turn from your idols to the true God, so that you may pass from darkness into light. May the Lord bless you. Thank you for reading and listening to me — it is my wish that this teaching has been edifying to you.

If any of you were able to understand that there were idols in your life, and you have repented of idolatry through this teaching, say:

"I repent of my idols. Today I get rid of my idols. Today I take off this ring, this chain, this medal, this earring, or this statue I had at home, or this picture on the wall, or these images on my YouTube channel, on Facebook, and in all of those things."

For those of you who have had conviction of sin, who have believed the Word you have read, and who are willing to repent — I am filled with joy, because your repentance is my joy, it is my reward, proof that I am not laboring in vain.

Before concluding — God is merciful, and He has given us power and authority over the powers of darkness. I want to invite you to stand up and pray the following prayer:

Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus we thank You for all of Your love and mercy. We thank You for the Word You have allowed us to comprehend and understand. We thank You, Lord, for exposing idolatry.

We give You all the glory and honor, and we ask for mercy for us and for our loved ones — for our children, for our spouses, for every brother and sister, for every member of our family. Open our eyes, Lord; give us understanding of any other hidden idol. Give us conviction of sin, Lord; give conviction of sin to all of our loved ones, so that they may repent of evil and not perish.

And in Your name, Lord Jesus, we come against the demons who deceive the world through idols.

We bind every spirit of idolatry in the name of Jesus.

Every spirit that works upon the soul, we bind it in the name of Jesus Christ.

Every spirit of falsehood we bind in the name of Jesus.

All the demons that operate through the different religious images we have mentioned, we bind in the name of Jesus.

Let there be a firestorm upon the whole army of the enemy, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Let fire come down and destroy every army of darkness that binds souls through idols, in the name of Jesus.

I cover every idol that has been worshiped, and every member of our family, with the blood of Jesus Christ. Let the demons that operate through those idols be set ablaze and burned, in the name of Jesus.

Every curse we ourselves brought upon our lives, or upon our children and descendants, or that was acquired from our parents and ancestors upon us through idolatry — Lord, today we ask forgiveness for ourselves and for our whole family. Forgive us, Lord, for having had religious images, for having attributed special value to certain objects, for having been disobedient and rebellious, and for having images of things in heaven, under the earth, and under the waters. We repent, Lord, and we renounce those idols — we want nothing from them.

There is only one true God, and He is eternal, He is incorruptible, and He does not wish to be represented with corruptible images or statues. Today we renounce idolatry, we renounce those images, and we renounce every agreement unconsciously made with darkness, and we break it in the name of Jesus.

Let those lying, deceiving demons who seek the souls of our loved ones be set ablaze and burned, in the name of Jesus.

I strike all darkness with the light — let there be a firestorm upon the whole army of the enemy, in the name of Jesus.

Let all the waters of the enemy turn to blood, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Let there be terror and confusion upon all the powers of darkness, in the name of Jesus.

I strike all darkness with the light — let the whole army of the enemy be burned by fire, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Worship of images, come out in the name of Jesus. Chains of slavery through images and dates, get out, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.

Satan, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus Christ.

Jezebel, come out in the name of Jesus.

Spirit of Babylon, get out in the name of Jesus.

False worship, come out in the name of Jesus Christ.

Apostasy, get out in the name of Jesus.

Rebellion, come out in the name of Jesus Christ.

Let there be a storm of hail and fire upon the whole army of the enemy, in the name of Jesus.

I strike all darkness with the light — let all darkness burn in flames, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Let the skin of every demon melt off them while they stand, in the name of Jesus.

Let the tongue of each one melt in their mouth, in the name of Jesus Christ.

I strike all darkness with the light — let fire come down and consume the whole army of darkness, in the name of Jesus.

I strike all darkness with the light — let the whole army of darkness, and the whole army of idolatry, of religious deception, be set ablaze and burned, in the name of Jesus Christ.

I cover each one of our loved ones with the blood of Jesus Christ.

Let fire come down and consume all darkness, in the name of Jesus.

I cover every person who reads and listens to me, and each one of their loved ones, with the blood of Jesus Christ.

I bless each one of you in the name of Jesus.

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