(“King Nebuchadnezar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the palin of Dura, in the province of Babylon” Daniel 3:1)
This verse has a more contemporary ring than it could have in the years before Hitler’s rise. The tyrant ever seeks to make all men bow down before something he has made. It may be a golden image, or a racial theory, or a dream of national grandeur, or military might. They are all alike in that they are created by men and that they seek to usurp the place of God. The egocentric man has his idols before which he insists that others must bow down. They must recognize his gifts, or his power, or his position of special privilege.
The days of idolatry are never over, and the madness of putting the idol in God’s place is ever with us. All we do is to refine the idol, but…
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