God's Law

Exodus 5:20: 1-3, 4-6

Then God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord your God, Who brought you up from Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
You shall have no other gods before Me.

This is the first and foremost commandment. To pray to any other is idolatry; praying to that saint or angel instead of praying to God is putting them before Him. Anything we put first is our god.

The second commandment says:

You shall not make for yourself an idol (statue) in the form of anything in Heaven above, or on the Earth beneath, or in the waters below. 
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing Love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. (Vs. 4-6.)

There is a sect of Christianity that lost it's way in the Middle Ages and never recovered, who pray to statues of the saints in Heaven and light candles to them. This is idolatry.

We are to pray to God the Father in the Son's Name, and no other.

Jesus took each one of our place in death (because we all deserve death) to save us. 

He also died for all of us together to purchase us, so He is our rightful Judge. 

So if you consider yourself one of many He died for, then you are still under Wrath.

God very graciously gave us all the rules for living our lives here to get along with how He made it. When we know the principle under all this body of Law and follow it (obey it), then we can know the bounty He put here for us. 

When Israel followed the Lord God and obeyed His laws, then they had abundant crops (their wealth), and peace with their neighboring nations. 

It's only when they were drawn away from God to honor the gods of the peoples living among them and around them, is when the weather went against them to produce draughts and floods, and their neighbors attacked them. 

Now the Law is written "on our hearts," in recognizing the foundational principle all these precepts were based on; namely, loving God and loving our neighbors as we love ourselves. When we base our lives on this Love principle, then we will, as the result, be obeying all the Law God gave Moses. 

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!