Proverbs 22:6 (NASB)
6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
It is usually assumed that the training implied in this verse is Scriptural training and that would be partially right. The context of Proverbs is wisdom from man to man and the wise man does train up his children to follow the ways of YHVH.
However, it could work conversely where a man may train up his child to follow the ways of the LORD alongside the ways of baal or the precepts of men and then that child would then not turn from those ways so easily when they were older. How many people in the world today do not believe in Elohim and follow pagan ways because that's what they were brought up doing? What is the saying: Old Habits are Hard to Break?
Mixing the pagan things of the world and belief in Yeshua has never been acceptable to the YHVH. Paul is pretty clear when he says:
2 Corinthians 6:14-15 (NASB)
14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
The Hebrew Scriptures is repleat with examples of God's displeasure with His people's actions concerning baal worship.
Judges 3:7 (NASB)
7 The sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
This one sure reminds me of Halloween:
Psalm 106:28 (NASB)
28 They joined themselves also to Baal-peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
When you celebrate pagan festivals, you offer sacrifices to baal. Bowing your knee to place gifts under the tree is a posture of worship reserved for the god or GOD you give it to.
Hosea 2:13 (NASB)
13 “I will punish her for the days of the Baals
When she used to offer sacrifices to them
And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry,
And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” declares the LORD.
When she used to offer sacrifices to them
And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry,
And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” declares the LORD.
Another reference to not bowing your knee to baal.
Romans 11:3-5 (NASB)
3 “Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT, AND THEY ARE SEEKING MY LIFE.” 4 But what is the divine response to him? “I HAVE KEPT for Myself SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO BAAL.” 5 In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.
Please hear and see these words if you have ears to hear and eyes to see and turn from your ways. This is my hope:
Isaiah 55:10-11 (NASB)
10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
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