1.69. ALTARS OF GOD

ALTARS OF GOD

I love the altars of God. When I go to a Spirit-filled church that has a beautiful altar, I know that many tears have been shed there. In the Old Testament, God repeatedly commanded His people to go in and tear down the old heathen altars. Here is one example: And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things.
(Deuteronomy 12:3-4)

God’s people were to get rid of the sinful altars that did not give praise to Him. They were to remove the altars that did not honor or reverence Him, and then they were to build and keep altars only for His worship. Here is an example of those instructions: Only Jesus can do this for you. You cannot do it yourself.

Now it came to pass the same night that the LORD said to [ "Take your father’s young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and tear down the al tar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside it; "and build an altar to the LORD your God on top of this rock in the proper arrangement, and take the second bull and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the image which you shall cut down."
(Judges 6:25-26)