From 7458acc9f93e3d7bfc317a6f69e5f286b06fcec7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:09:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Ezekiel 8:14-18 --- content/bible_journal/ezekiel_8:14-18.md | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/ezekiel_8:14-18.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_8:14-18.md b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_8:14-18.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da6c13d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_8:14-18.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ ++++ +title = "Ezekiel 8:14–18" +date = "2023-03-20" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezekiel8.14-18) + +The Lord shows Ezekiel two more abominations that are occuring in His temple. +The first is a group of women weeping for Tammuz at the north gate of the +temple court. This one needs a bit more context than we are given. Tammuz was a +pagan deity associated with the fields and the underworld. His myths are +similar to the story of Persephone and Hades, except he plays both roles: +Tammuz makes the vegetation grow until he dies in the summer heat and goes to +the land of the dead. His adherents ritually mourn his passing until he returns +to the land of the living to bring the greenery back with the wet season. Time +and again the Lord has shown He brings the rain and makes it stop, and He has +the power over life and death as well. How quickly the people forget the truth. + +The final abomination was surely the worst for Ezekiel, because it involved not +the laity, but priests consecrated to the Lord like himself. At least, that's +what they should be, in the inner court of the temple. Instead of offering +sacrifices to the Lord, or facing the temple in prayer, they have turned their +backs upon the Holy Place and are bowing down to worship the rising sun. Think +of it! It'd be like finding out the pastor of your church was actually a +Buddhist. + +With all this happening in and around His own house, the very place He makes +His dwelling on earth, is it any wonder that God is angry with His people? But +it wasn't only this, but also that the land was filled with violence and +bloodshed. Injustice abounded, as the Lord had prohibited, and so He will +punish the wicked and He will not spare them. + +* * * + +Grant us a righteous indignation against our sin, that we may repent of it.