Leviticus 17:7 (NASBStr)
They shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat demons with which they play the harlot. This shall be a permanent statute to them throughout their generations.”’
In everyone's life we have things we worship and honor that are displeasing to God. The nation of Israel had come to believe (by listening and observing the way the heathen nation's worshipped) that the spirit world should be worshiped and the symbol of their power was the goat. Who really knows why they believed that. But, then again, why do people worship their jobs, their family, their possessions, their prestige, their bodies, a feeling they get and want to return, their whatever? It is so easy to put something in front of God. To the Israelites it is the assumed power of a goat, to Wall Street is the allusion that there is power in money. God established the system of worship that would remind the nation to honor Him and Him alone. Today, the power of worship does the same thing for us. If we, by faith, pursue a worship experience over that of our feelings, desires and fleshly power through the power of Jesus and the filling of the Spirit (Colossians 1:9-12). If we do not, God sees this as we are playing the harlot. When we say that we are betrothed to God and worship something else, we are committing adultery. God has given us His Son and wants us to worship Him to keeps us from worshipping the goats of our lives.
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