Sermon Tone Analysis

The LORD speaks to Moses to tell all of Israel what is expected from them and that if they transgress God’s word the following would happen:

They were not to worship the god Molech, not only is the worship of Molech forbidden with the children of Israel, we see that it was forbidden to even the strangers who were not of Israeli descent that were traveling with them or living amongst them.

Here, God does not want the stranger to influence their worship and dedication to the one true living God.

God does not want anything present amongst His people that will cause them to waiver in their relationship with Him.

If any gives his seed (children) unto Molech he shall surely be put to death.

So now we need to know what the deal is with this Molech fella.

Molech was the god of the Ammonites.

The Ammonites were descendents of Lot, as we have previously read, Lot’s daughters got Lot drunk and laid with their father.

The firstborn daughter had a son by her father and named him Moab.

The younger sister had a son by her father and named him Benammi, who is the father of the children of Ammon.

This right here should tell you how messed up these people are from the get go.

Remember in the scriptures in the previous chapter about sexual prohibitions in which God told the children of Israel not to have sexual relations with those who are close of kin.

Now you kind of see why God is saying this because to the Ammonites and Moabites these kind of things went on.

The Ammonites worshipped Molech.

The Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible states that: “According to the Bible, human beings originally had a true concept of deity, which they gradually distorted.

The Hebrew Scriptures, however rejected those distorted notions and progressively revealed the truth about the one God.

Yet some of that truth was mingled in all religions, including idolatrous Canaanite polytheism.

Some of that truth is no doubt mingled in all of today’s religions.

The Hebrew Scriptures, however rejected those distorted notions and progressively revealed the truth about the one God.

Yet some of that truth was mingled in all religions, including idolatrous Canaanite polytheism.

Some of that truth is no doubt mingled in all of today’s religions.

When the children of Ammon settled into the region of Canaan they adopted the religions of their neighbors.

The Canaanites, the Amorites, Jebusites, Amalekites, Philistines, Edomites, Ammonites, Moabites, all in some way or another worshipped a parthenon of false deities.

El, Baal, Asherah, Astaroth, Astarte, Milcon, Molech are just a few of the false deities that these nations worshipped.

God did not want the Israelites to be influenced by these pagan-worshippers.

In worshipping Molech, one of the key observations to notice is child-sacrifice.

Molech was the god of fire and the god of the underworld according to Ammonite tradition.

The ammonites would cause their children to pass through the purifying fire as an offering/sacrifice to Molech.

Leviticus 18