I think it can be argued one of the most horrific sins Israel committed was seeking to be like the nations surrounding them.  They asked for a king, they made idols of animals and other images, they intermarried and lastly they put idols and worshiped them in the temple of GOD.  Today, in the modern church, especially the church in America/the west, there is this same running headlong into idolatry.  We would call it mysticism or universalism.  One aspect which finds itself clothed, especially in Word of Faith, is praying to the universe.  Once you go down a path of praying to the creation rather than the CREATOR destruction does not loom far away.  This episode we examine why people, particularly, those who call themselves Christians have adopted this blasphemy into their worship of GOD.  We examine how this is not true worship but idolatry.  More than that we see how your sin affects those who are around you.  Look at the following text and then go to Jeremiah 15.  Jeremiah started prophesying 20 years after Manasseh.  Even though Manasseh repented and tried to fix what he had done, the damage was already to far gone.  We too, need to be careful of how we approach GOD.

          1      Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah.
          2      He did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
          3      For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
          4      He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
          5      For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
          6      He made his son pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD provoking Him to anger.
          7      Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
          8      “And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
          9      But they did not listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do evil more than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel.

(2 Kings 21:1–9)

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