434/613 – The
silver and gold on the idols
Yaakov, Béla Orbán
"…do not covet the silver
and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become
ensnared by it…" (Deuteronomy 7:25)
Gold is the symbol of glory
and holiness, silver is the one of redemption and salvation.
According to this law,
anything connected with these functioning of the idol must be destroyed and annihilated.
Not just the idol itself but
everything that is connected to it, all our false memories, all our false
adorations remained from our idolatrous past, all our "good memories"
that remind alien gods.
We also have to erase all
memories that where a kind of "redemption" for us from bad or even
unbearable situations!
Indeed many sweet memories do
remain inside of us which remind us our "agreeable" sins or those
sins which are in relation with the functioning of alien spirits.
A beautiful night of love even
if it was fornication, a prize on gambling, a good deal carried out with the
aid of some blackmailing, etc.
But such are all our false
charismatic experiences too, or all those very "good old times" spent
in a religious and dead environment when we were serving alien gods.
The onions and cucumbers of
Egypt…which memory and desire can easily bring us back to the slavery of our ancient
Egypt.
"Because it was so good
and so beautiful..."
For a better understanding of
this law we have to know what gold symbolizes.
- the sign of the High Priest
- the power of the king
- the symbol of the Almighty (Job
22:24)
- the praise of God
All this is expressing a
relation based on faith and faithfulness between men and God.
Thus gold does only belong to
Him!
To our Lord and God…
