Mandarin Presbyterian Church

So what does it mean that they served the Baals or they worshiped the Baals? Well, don't imagine that Baal worship looked like this. That they came in, and there was a nice building, and they sat in pews, and everybody dressed in their Sunday dress and their coat and tie. And in between the call to worship and the first hymn, they shook hands and greeted one another. No. It was nothing like what we experienced here. Don't envision that. Instead, it involved extreme behavior. They had prostitution in the temple. They had human sacrifice. They were literally killing their own children to please these foreign gods. It was weird, dark, evil stuff, and the Israelites go all in on it.