I was preaching on Molech worship yesterday at church. In worship to him they would sacrifice their first born in the fire. A horrible act. And it was done so that the family would have prosperity. This is the Prosperity Gospel well before ‘get-rich-quick-television-evangelists.’ Before the Children of Isreal even arrived in the promised land, God warned them not to engage in this tradition that the people who lived in that land were doing. It is mentioned in Leviticus 18:21 and Leviticus 20:2-5 But eventually the Children of Isreal adopted the tradition when King Solomon married a foreign wife and he built an altar to Molech for her (1 King 11:7). From that point forward this terrible tradition became a part of Isreali culture. Prophets like Jeremiah and Ezekiel preached against it in Jeremiah 32:35 and Ezekiel 16:20-21. But the Children of Isreal kept doing it. Prosperity is a wicked master. People will choose prosperity over their own children. But what happened to Israel and Judah? God destroyed the land. Israel was defeated by the Assyrians. Judah was defeated by the Babylonians. Jerusalem, including the temple, was burned down. The Children of Israel went into captivity for many years and when they finally returned to the land after over a generation in captivity we never hear of Molech worship again. I do not suggest you burn down a village or send thousands into captivity. Judgment is for the Lord to decide. But I do suggest you do like the prophets and speak against ungodly practices/cultures/traditions. Jeremiah preached against Judah’s idolatry for 40 years. We need to speak up when we see this.