Watching is an important thing in the Christian life, and there are many things to watch out for.

It is sometimes called different things

Some translations may say to watch. Other may say to pay attention, or to take heed, or be careful. There are many things to be careful about. The Israelites of Moses day were warned,

“Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you: ”
Ex 34:12 WEB

The Canaanites of ancient times had been especially embroiled in many harmful and irresponsible religious practices, dangerous religious practices. Something to watch out for.

Images as something of which to beware

Now images of things can be very helpful in life generally. It can help to identify a certain person by looking at a drawing or photo of the person. Images can be very helpful in doing things. Thus we have the success of how-to videos on internet, and so on.

Images, reenactments of historical events in movies and plays, on the other hand, can often cause simplistic views of past events. Simplistic views that can mislead or even be out-and-out false. So often the views of movies cause us to see past events in false ways that mislead us, and cause us then to have false views of the present. Professional propagandists in our media and movies know this, and often work hard to distort our views of the past so as to help the aims of the paymasters in the establishment of our nations. Lies, deceptions, half-truths, fake news.

And images of God? … or of Jesus?

The Jews were warned of these thing,

“Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.”
Deut 4:15 WEB

We do not know what God looks like. False images can give false ideas. So they were further warned.

“You shall NOT make for yourselves an idol, NOR ANY IMAGE OF ANYTHING that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them,”
Ex 20:4 WEB emphasis added

We are warned that such things can lead us astray. Don’t do these things!

And we don’t know what Jesus looked like

There are no physical descriptions of Jesus. Short, tall, long hair, short hair? We don’t know. We know much about his life, from various first century reporters, but His appearance? The closest clues are from the prophet Isaiah, some six centuries earlier.

“Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),”
Isa 52:14 WEB

And again,

“… he has no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.”
Isa 53:2 WEB

And it will change YOU if you watch out for these things.

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