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graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;” Iniquity – you’ll have an interesting time when you take your Strongs concordance and check out iniquity too. Go to Exodus, chapter 34 and look at verse 7 : “ Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ;” Did you notice that? He will by no means clear the guilty: “…visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. ” As I began to research these verses, I kept remembering there was some verse over there that a child would not be held guilty for his father’s sin, and that’s the thing that worried me about the whole thing; but if you’ll check that closely, I think you’ll find that the child was not to be executed. Capital punishment for his father’s sin. That’s what I found. It doesn’t really affect this at all. This is in a totally different ball game. Turn to Numbers please. Numbers 14:18 : “The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation .” By the way let me stop here to mention that the word “ fathers ,” as used here, means fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers, great great grandfathers and great great great grandfathers. All right? Because in the Bible it’s used in a generic sense. For instance in Daniel , Daniel said to Belshazzar, “ you knew how your father Nebuchadnezzar did so and so and was judged of God .” But Nebuchadnezzar was really Belshazzar’s grandfather. That was perfectly proper usage because it was quite common. When they said father it could mean your father, it could mean your grandfather, your great grandfather, on back. Now I got a little annoyed too when I thought, “hey this is pretty rotten. How about the women? Don’t they do anything bad? How

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