The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

the false Messiah was in full operatio11 in Egyptand in the other countries, that Jehovah repeatedlywarned his people, the Jewish nation, against fo,llowingthem. Bowing down to "sticks and stones" wasin reality the worship of the dead. These imagesenslaved the minds of those who served them,. givinga se:ming $ctuality to beings who did not exist; fort.he gods whom they represented were in theirgraves, and are still waiting for the resurrection in theMillennia1 reign of Christ.The "Image of Jealousy."We have already mentioned the fact that the popularsubjects of worship in every nation have been the" Mother and Son," images of whom were everywhereset up. Even the Jewish nation was for a time guiltyof worshipping the Babylonian goddes with the falseSeed in her arms, for one of her images is evidentlyreferred to by Ezekiel [8: 3) when he says : " And th~spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven,and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, tothe door of the inner gate that looketh toward thenorth; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,which provoketh to jealousy."This image of thea Mother and Son," erected as the result of the jealousyof Satan against the coming true Seed of the woman,provoked God to jealousy because it misdirected thedevotion of His people, to whom He had said: "Thoushalt have no other gods before me. Thoii shalt notmake unto thee any graven image. . . . Thou shalt notbow down thyself to them nor serye them : for I theLord thy God am a jealou: God (Ex. 20 :3-5). InEgypt the "Mother and Son were wolrshipped as Isi:and Osiris, whose very names signify "the womanand " the seed "; for Isis is the Greek form of H'irha,