cultic service. When I use the term cultic, I am not referring to cults or to the occult but to the cultus, which was the center of worship, the behavior that was focused in and around the tabernacle or the temple in the Old Testament. Cultic service encompassed the liturgical and ritual behavior of the Jews in the Old Testament. And so, the term latria referred to the practices of worship in the religious life of Israel. There were three basic components of this concept of latria in the Jewish nation.