Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

spoke His law.
God honored the Hebrews by making them the guardians and
keepers of His law, but they were to hold it as a sacred trust for the
whole world. The laws of the Ten Commandments are adapted to
people everywhere, and they were given for the instruction and
government of all. Ten commandments, brief, comprehensive, and
authoritative, cover our duty to God and to other people, and all are
based on the great fundamental principle of love. "You shall love
the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all
your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as
yourself" (Luke 10:27). In the Ten Commandments these principles
are applied to our lives.
(1) "You shall have no other gods before Me." Whatever we
cherish that tends to lessen our love for God or to interfere with the
service that is rightfully His--of that we make a god.
(2) "You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any
likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow
down to them nor serve them."
Concepts of God Affect Human Behavior
Many heathen nations claimed that their images were only
symbols by which the Deity was worshiped, but God has declared
such worship to be sin. The attempt to represent the Eternal One by
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