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Ezekiel 6:
God told Ezekiel to speak
against the mountains of Israel because God was about to bring down the altar of
all their idols with destruction and kill all their worshippers, but some will
be spared the sword for captivity. Those spared for captivity will know
that calamity fell upon their people because of idolatry and God's warning was
not in vain. So it is idolatry that leads our heart away from God.
Idols are those things you belief are more necessary than God in order to
survive and be respected on the earth. Idols are those things you hold on
to in order to have more money, security, and relevance instead of God.
Idols includes money (any graven image), unjust laws, secret societies, racism,
sexism, tribalism, slavery, apartheid, and any form of discrimination that tends
to guarantee the power of a group. While idolatry may have huge benefits
for practicing members, it also leads to poverty, neglect, and oppression of
non-members. This is what makes God very angry. |
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The Political & Spiritual Purpose of the
Holy Land
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Ezekiel 7:
God tells Ezekiel to tell
Israel that their end has come and God was going to destroy them from all
corners without pity because of their detestable practices that came out of
their idolatry. Disaster that has never been seen is coming to the extent
that gold and silver will become valueless, sword outside and famine within,
God's holy places desecrated, and the land filled with bloodshed. So
idolatry is the greatest sin because it is the very foundation of other sins.
It is so grave that God dedicated the first 4 of the commandment to it. It
is what make people live godless lives without accountability to God.
Ezekiel 8:
Ezekiel
was sitting in his house in front of the elders of Judah when God, in the image
of a man glowing bright with fire and metals, took him by the hair on his head
into Jerusalem to see the idol of jealousy by God's altar in God's court.
God saw this as an act to even drive God out of his sanctuary. In his
vision, God told Ezekiel to dig into a wall and he saw all the detestable things
70 elders of Israel were doing while burning incense to idols and utilizing
unclean animals. He also saw women mourning for idols and 25 men bowing to
the sun in worship. God says that he will have no pity in their
destruction.
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