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that man and made me see very
clearly what he was doing.
14 After he brought that wood
to his home, I saw him burning
some wood in the fire place for
cooking and burning some more
wood for heating the room as that
is winter season.
15 Then he selected one log
from that wood and started cut-
ting it in to small pieces to make
some wood statues of his anc-
estors by the craftsman skill he
had. One is a male statue and
the other is a woman statue. He
polished the sculptures to look
attractive.
16 After that he made some
beautiful dresses for the male and
female statues. He decorated the
statues with lovely dress made
by him with colorful cloth pieces
and some little ornaments made
for those statues. Now, the two
statues looked very lovely. Then
he put those two wood idols in
the little altar of the temple out-
side.
17 He started giving devotional
arati (a religious ritual of worship
where camphor is offered to
deities) to the idols like his anc-
estors every day. He worships
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the idols by kneel down. He
prays, ‘oh God! You only are
my God, please protect me and
bless me!’ When people going
by that way saw these things and
they started worshipping those
wood idols by laying flat on
ground and praying for their
prosperity.
18 II Yet, the spirit of God, the
consuming fire made me stand
still more, so I stood for a while
there and I saw that the people
Japheth generation (the people
of America and its friendly nat-
ions) are coming there and they
are also worshipping those
wooden idols by laying down
touching the limbs fully to the
ground and praying (Wood
God) for their well being.
19 While I am seeing in my vis-
ion, I saw the man first time seen
in my vision - the man who ma-
de the idols with the metals like
iron, bronze, copper, silver, gold
and stone. He brought the idols
he made for sale to a roadside
display place.
20 People come to these idols
and select whatever idol or ima-
ge they like from many shapes
like men, women, four feet
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animals, insects and other imag-
inary images. They pay the price
to the artisan, takes the idols to
home. Some put them in worship
place and some other put these
toys for decorating home as their
house hold gods.
21 While I was seeing in my visi-
on a man who is imaginary god-
dess came that place and decor-
ated the five idols with clothes
and different ornaments, built five
bulrushes small huts, and did put
every image in each hut. In that
there is a big statue made for a
special purpose and the owners
who ordered that big statue had
came there.
22 As these gods (idols) have to
go to different places and cannot
walk, some people means 3 or 4
men are arranged to carry them
to the destinations. Then the sta-
tues are made arranged or placed
firm with the help of some nails
and ropes behind. Then these id-
ols are worshipped with offering
holy bath, incense sticks, candle
pot showing and holy food offe-
rings and the devotees see all the-
se human actions as the holy
rituals.
23 The devotees pray with de-
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votion saying- “you are our
God. You have to protect my
families and my children. You
have to see that everything goes
well in our life. Give us plenty
of rain for good crops. Please
shower your blessings on us to
make us prosperous and make
us rich, richer and richest”.
24 People worship these idols
in many ways, they sing devo-
tional songs in chorus, they dan-
ce happily before these idols,
and they make great festivities
celebrations with the hopes to
get more prosperity. They wear
different dresses for showing
their devotional belief - different
colored and mostly red colored
dresses. Some idols throw out
into the water and make dip,
while it couldn’t dip put their
foots upon it and crushes it, and
some throw outside and made
pieces like again mud. Sweets
were distributed among the
devotees. Some devotees take
lime fruits from the statues and
keep in home for one week and
return next week to take new
lime from devotional places.
25 The people of America and
its friendly countries see these