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Idolatryis weak be emboldened to thepoint of eating foods offered toidols? Therefore, if food makesmy brother stumble, I will neveragain eat flesh at all, that I maynot make my brother stumble ."1 Cor. 10 :25-29, 31, 32 "Everythingthat is sold in a meatmarket keep eating, making noinquiry on account of your conscience,for `the earth belongs toJehovah, and so does its fullness' .If anyone of the unbelievers invitesyou and you wish to go, proceedto eat everything that is setbefore you, making no inquiry onaccount of your conscience. Butif anyone should say to you : `Thisis something offered to a god,'do not eat on account of the onethat disclosed it and on accountof conscience. `Conscience,' I say,not yours, but that of the otherperson . . . . Therefore, whether youare eating or drinking or doinganything else, do all things forGod's glory. Keep from becomingcauses for stumbling ."1 Tim . 4 :4, 5 "The reason forthis is that every creation of Godis right and nothing is to be rejectedif it is received withthanksgiving, for it is sanctifiedthrough God's word and prayerover it ."Example Taken from David'sEating of Showbread on theSabbath After Its Use in Sacrificeto Jehovah Was Completed,Considered CommonLev . 24 :5-8 "And thou shalttake fine flour, and bake twelvecakes thereof : . . . And thou shaltset them in two rows, six on arow, upon the pure table beforeJehovah . . . . Every sabbath day heshall set it in order before Jehovahcontinually ."1 Sam . 21 :2-6 (footnote) "AndDavid said unto Ahimelech thepriest . . . . Now therefore what isunder thy hand? give me fiveloaves of bread in my hand, orwhatsoever there is present . Andthe priest answered David, andsaid, There is no common bread176under my hand, but there is holybread ; if only the young menhave kept themselves from women .And David answered the priest,and said unto him, Of a truthwomen have been kept from usabout these three days ; when Icame out, the vessels of the youngmen were holy, [and it may beused as common bread ; and especiallysince to-day it will beholy in respect of their vessels] .So the priest gave him holy bread ;for there was no bread there butthe showbread, that was takenfrom before Jehovah, to put hotbread in the day when it wastaken away."Worship of State Powers aDefinite Form of IdolatryRev . 13 :14, 15 "It tells thosewho dwell on the earth to makean image to the wild beast thathad the sword-stroke and yet revived. And there was granted itto give breath to the image ofthe wild beast, so that the imageof the wild beast should bothspeak and cause to be killed allthose who would not in any wayworship the image of the wildbeast ."Rev. 14 :9, 10 "If anyone worshipsthe wild beast and its image,and receives a mark on his foreheador upon his hand, he willalso drink of the wine of theanger of God that is poured outundiluted into the cup of hiswrath ."Rev. 17 :11 "And the wild beastthat was but is not, it is alsoitself an eighth king, but owes itsexistence to the seven, and it goesoff into destruction."Saluting Flags (Which OftenBear Likenesses) AlsoCondemnedActs 7 :43 "But it was the tentof Moloch and the star of thegod Rephan that you took up, thefigures which you made to worshipthem . Consequently, I willdeport you beyond Babylon ."Amos 5 :26 "Yea, ye have bornethe tabernacle of your king and