Many churches do not know the importance and powerfulness of covenants.
The altar is there and what happens on it is a very powerful covenant material.
You should understand the importance of covenant and altar; as far as the Bible is concerned, the altar is a very serious thing.
Anytime anything is being sacrificed on an altar, a powerful covenant comes into being.
There is the altar and there is the covenant.
It is on the altar that covenants are made.
Therefore that place the sacrifice takes place in, becomes an altar, be it a temple, something that is raised up, or an ordinary ground.
One man brought something to me one day and said, “This is ‘Ayelala’,” I asked, “Who gave you this?” He said, “it has been in our family for six hundred years, and we just inherit it.”
I asked him, “What do you do with it?” He said, “I pour ‘ogogoro’ (local gin) on it every morning. Some do not pour ‘ogogoro’, they kill chicken and spill the blood on it and some pour oil on it.”
This is an altar to the kingdom of darkness.
What is God’s judgment concerning evil altar?
Deuteronomy 7:5 says:
“… ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.”
In 2 Corinthians 10:4 it says,
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;”
Altars are strongholds!
Nevertheless, you must be guided by the Holy Spirit in destroying altars.
In my next write up, I will discuss the link between “Altars, Covenants & Family altars.”
shalom!
#pstnath.
Jesus is Lord.