4 For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
6 Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:
This word spoken by the prophet Amos can be applied to any child of God. He is telling his people to seek him and do not turn to other false Gods. Seek the Lord, Jesus Christ and live. We know that the bible teaches us that the wages of sin is death and the gift of God is eternal life. So many times God has warned his children that death is coming, that destruction is coming, that JUDGEMENT is coming and yet they continue in their sin. It is not God's desire to destroy you. He loves you, but judgement is coming. Jeremiah the prophet warned the people not to listen to false prophets. He let them know that God wants peace for his people.
Jeremiah 29:11-13
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
There are many false prophets and teachers in the world today that have twisted the word of God to make it what they want it to be. They are leading thousands astray from the truth but it is up to each Christian to speak the truth to their fellowman and stand true to the word of God.
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the only true God and he is a JEALOUS GOD. He gave us ten laws to live by and because he is a jealous God one of those laws is that we shall have no other Gods before him. Man will try and tell us that we must be tolerant of other religions, that we must even go so far as to allow them to worship their Gods in our churches and will in fact go so far as to say that their God is the same God that we worship, that they just call him by another name. We must stand upon the word of God and refuse to bow down to these false teachings.
Exodus 20:4-6
4 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.
5 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;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Jesus Christ used the word against Satan when he was tempted by him. He did not hesitate to let him know that we are to worship the Lord God and him only.
Mathew 4:10
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
