Judg 17:5 | KingComments | STEP | With the making of an idol, which is a representation of God according to one’s own imagination without taking into account what God says about Himself in the Bible, belongs also a certain form of worship. This is expressed in the ephod that Micah makes. An ephod is in fact a garment of the priest. Together with the ephod he makes household idols to have them as a kind of house gods. It doesn’t matter what replaces God, as long as He is replaced. He also consecrates one of his sons as a priest. In all Micah’s actions there is an appearance of his self-willed worship of his self-made gods. It is one great mixture of the true religion with the false religion, making the whole a corrupt religion. The consecration of his son as a priest shows how far he has deviated from the precepts of God, which say that only sons of Aaron’s family can be priests. Just like Micah, the roman-catholic church has also consecrated her own ‘sons’ as priests, without any question about life from God. In the church of God only believers are priests and all believers together form a holy priesthood ( ). This they are because God says it in His Word. There is no human consecration involved.

‏ Judges 17:5

Micah’s Shrine

With the making of an idol, which is a representation of God according to one’s own imagination without taking into account what God says about Himself in the Bible, belongs also a certain form of worship. This is expressed in the ephod that Micah makes. An ephod is in fact a garment of the priest. Together with the ephod he makes household idols to have them as a kind of house gods. It doesn’t matter what replaces God, as long as He is replaced. He also consecrates one of his sons as a priest.

In all Micah’s actions there is an appearance of his self-willed worship of his self-made gods. It is one great mixture of the true religion with the false religion, making the whole a corrupt religion. The consecration of his son as a priest shows how far he has deviated from the precepts of God, which say that only sons of Aaron’s family can be priests.

Just like Micah, the roman-catholic church has also consecrated her own ‘sons’ as priests, without any question about life from God. In the church of God only believers are priests and all believers together form a holy priesthood (1Pet 2:5). This they are because God says it in His Word. There is no human consecration involved.