Looking down from the airplane, you can see many crosses on top of buildings.
The cross has been a symbol of church. Today, colorful crosses also can be found.
And many people carry crosses around their necks. They say that the cross means life or the cross is a symbol of church. Does really the cross give us life?
And is it acceptable to set up crosses because it’s a symbol of church?
Unfortunately, the cross is one of idols God forbade through the Ten Commandments.
God even commanded not to make any idols. Therefore, it’s not allowed to make or set up the crosses. Many people think that the crosses were used after Jesus’ Resurrection. However, the crosses had been widely used from ancient Babylon. The following picture shows that Ankh Cross of the Roman Catholic Church was already used in Egypt.
Ankh Cross of Egypt – Before the Christian Era
When was the cross introduced into church? The public use of the cross was adopted by the Christians as a symbol at the time of Constantine (“Baker’s Dictionary of Theology”, page 152.) Therefore, the cross was not used in the Early Church.
The bronze snake made by Moses was a copy and shadow, which shows that people would worship crosses (please see the video above.)
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up (on a cross), that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. (John 3:14-15)
Someone might ask,
He did not know the true will of God. Did the bronze snake itself save those who were bitten by snakes? The bronze snake itself had no power to heal people.
They lived due to the word of God, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
However, the Israelites did not know this fact and they worshiped the bronze snake until the time of King Hezekiah. King Hezekiah broke the bronze snake into pieces and called it “Nehushtan” (meaning “a piece of bronze.”) The bronze snake was a piece of bronze which could not give blessings or disasters.
Likewise, today many people consider the cross important and think it means life.
But the cross, like the bronze snake made by Moses, is a mere idol which cannot give us any blessings or disasters. Someone may say, “I do not bow down to it,” but making or setting up the cross is also idolatry.
Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol–a thing detestable to the LORD, the work of the craftsman’s hands–and sets it up in secret (Deuteronomy 27:15)
It is the precious blood of Jesus not the cross that gives us the forgiveness of sins or salvation.
In him we have redemption through his blood [the blood of Jesus], the forgiveness of sins (Ephesians 1:7)
What is the blood of Jesus which gives us the forgiveness of sins?
Jesus established the Passover as the New Covenant (Luke 22:20) for our salvation.
Without keeping the Passover, we cannot receive the forgiveness of sins.
However, the Passover of life was abolished at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD and no one observed the Passover during the Dark Ages.
In this age, Christ Ahnsahnghong restored the Passover of the New Covenant for the forgiveness of our sins according to the prophecies of the Bible. Today, only the World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) celebrates the Passover of the New Covenant based on the teachings of Jesus. (Some insist that the Passover was already observed before Christ Ahnsahnghong, but their claim is not true. Please refer to this page for this issue.) Please keep the Passover and receive the forgiveness of sins.
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