The Sunday School Lesson Reject False Religion by David McGee
Mar 16, 2025
Reject False Religion (39:44)
Referenced Scriptures: Amos 5:21-27; Micah 3:1-12; Zechariah 13:1-5; Malachi 1:1-14
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Amos 5:21-27
21) I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22) Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat animals.
23) Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
24) But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25) Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
26) Yes, you have borne the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
27) Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.
Micah 3:1-12
1) I said, Please hear, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?
2) you who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3) who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
4) Then shall they cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them; yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have worked evil in their doings.
5) Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who make my people to err; who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoever doesn‘t put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:
6) Therefore it shall be night to you, that you shall have no vision; and it shall be dark to you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.
7) The seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
8) But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
9) Please hear this you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
10) They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11) The heads of it judge for reward, and the priests of it teach for hire, and the prophets of it divine for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Is not Yahweh in the midst of us? no evil shall come on us.
12) Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Zechariah 13:1-5
1) In that day there shall be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
2) It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
3) It shall happen that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother who became the father of him shall tell him, You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name of Yahweh; and his father and his mother who became the father of him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.
4) It shall happen in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed everyone of his vision, when he prophesies; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
5) but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.
Malachi 1:1-14
1) The burden of the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
2) I have loved you, says Yahweh. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob‘s brother, says Yahweh: yet I loved Jacob;
3) but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
4) Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus says Yahweh of Hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Yahweh has indignation forever.
5) Your eyes shall see, and you shall say, Yahweh be magnified beyond the border of Israel.
6) A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says Yahweh of Hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, Wherein have we despised your name?
7) You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, Wherein have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of Yahweh is contemptible.
8) When you offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil! and when you offer the lame and sick, it is no evil! Present it now to your governor; will he be pleased with you? or will he accept your person? says Yahweh of Hosts.
9) Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us: this has been by your means: will he accept any of your persons? says Yahweh of Hosts.
10) Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle [fire on] my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says Yahweh of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
11) For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles, says Yahweh of Hosts.
12) But you profane it, in that you say, The table of Yahweh is polluted, and the fruit of it, even its food, is contemptible.
13) You say also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed at it, says Yahweh of Hosts; and you have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering: should I accept this at your hand? says Yahweh.
14) But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, says Yahweh of hosts, and my name is awesome among the Gentiles.
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