will read, “Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth” (Deut. 16:22). God hates any kind of idol or anything that would take His place in our hearts. God’s hate is mentioned again in Psalm 45:7, the great millennial psalm: “Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness …” One follows the other as the night follows the day. God said to the early church in the Book of Revelation: “But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate” (Rev.