SUNDAY TEACHING NOTES
July 28, 2024 (Sunday Worship @ 9:00am and 11:15am)
FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIBLE | WEEK 29: UNSEEN: DEVIL'S TACTIC #3
THE 3RD SPIRIT TO ENTER ISRAEL WAS MOLECH: THE DESTROYER
TWO TYPES OF OFFERINGS
THE CLASH OF THE KINGDOMS
- Molech is the god of child sacrifice (Leviticus 18:21; 20:2-5; l Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 21:6; 23:10; Jeremiah 32:35).
- Molech was the god of the Ammonites and Moabites. God prohibited the Jews from intermarrying other nations to protect them (Deuteronomy 23:3-6).
- His false promise: ________________________
- His true purpose: ________________________
- Molech enters a culture after the spirit of Baal has caused a nation to forget God and Ashtoreth has filled the country with sexual immorality. Unwanted children are the inevitable consequence of sexual promiscuity.
- Child is ________________________
- Child is not killed, but he/she is passed through the ________________________
MOLECH
- Promotes ________________________
- "________________________ life is sacred."
- "You ________________________ so I can live."
OR
JESUS
- Promotes ________________________
- "________________________ life is sacred."
- "I ________________________ so you can live
- See Genesis 1:26; Psalm 127:3; 139:13-16; Jeremiah 1:5; Luke 18:15-17
- The Gospel brought an end to inequality and infanticide in the Roman world (John 1:5).
- "We nursed, supported, and protected a number of deformed and crippled children that had been saved from death after failed abortions and exposures." (Beningus of Dijon - Christian martyr)
Our WEEKLY GUIDE is a great resource for group discussion questions and a deeper study into this week's lesson.
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