Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people. For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens. Psalm 96:3-5
The fact that ‘the LORD made the heavens’ sets him apart from all false gods. It goes without saying that the dumb idols of the heathen could not make anything, as they had to be made themselves. By ‘the heavens’, David indicates the firmament, as such is the primary feature of the sky, being ‘made’ on the second day of creation. David also referred to the firmament as God’s handiwork in Psalm 19.
We may, as David did, peer into the bright blue sky of day, or the star spangled blackness of night, and marvel at the vast, celestial canopy which God stretched over the earth. But one may ask, how do you know you aren’t just looking into ‘outer space’? We may simply answer that the LORD that made the heavens, and that He has informed us as to what we are looking at in His Word.
As the ancient heathen fashioned idols of wood and stone with their own hands, so the heathen of modern times have fashioned by their own hands, ‘heavens’ from film, mathematical formulae, and CGI. Great superstition was attributed to Baal in regards to the weather, just as the superstition of ‘global warming’ surrounds modern idolatry.
While it may appear as if these idols will never be removed from the earth, the rebuke of Jeremiah will not fail to meet its fulfilment to the everlasting glory of the Creator:
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. Jeremiah 10:11
Christopher Sparks