Acts 7:43
Acts 7:43 Meaning and Explanation
“Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →They carried the tent of Moloch and the star of Remphan, idols of their own making, and so God would carry them away beyond Babylon.
What Does Acts 7:43 Mean?
The Amos quotation ends in exile: a people who took up idol tents would themselves be taken up and removed from the land.
What we carry ends up carrying us. Israel shouldered borrowed gods and was marched by them into a foreign land. Yet even this sentence is mercy in advance, for God warns precisely because he would rather his people turn than be carried away.
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What does Acts 7:43 mean?
They carried the tent of Moloch and the star of Remphan, idols of their own making, and so God would carry them away beyond Babylon.