Jon Collins

So not having any other Elohim means recognizing there are many... Other forms of life?

Yeah, and in this case there are other spiritual beings to which... Yeah, powers, principalities.

Yeah, real powers that work in God's world, to which God created, to which God has delegated responsibility.

Some of the primary ones, actually we'll talk about them today, were the lights in the sky.

have been viewed as some sort of transcendent, powerful being by most humans for most of human history.

And for the biblical authors, they are really important delegates of God's power.

But they are creatures, not creator.

They are not your life.

They are living beings.

They are not your life.

Yeah.

So that's the first command.

Don't have any other Elohim before me.

The second command just comes...

Hot on the heels of number one.

I mean, it's the next sentence.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

Closely related.

So, right after, there will not be for you any other Elohim before me.

You will not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of what is in the skies above or on the land beneath or in the waters underneath the land.