11.20.2014 Old Testament: Eze 23.11–16

To read the Bible in a year, read Ezekiel 22–23 on November 20, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

Jerusalem, called Oholibah in this text, saw the sins of Samaria, but they did not repent, and even pursued the same sins and added to them, becoming worse than Samaria!

“Now although her sister Oholibah saw this, she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.

“She lusted for the neighboring Assyrians,
Captains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men.
Then I saw that she was defiled;
Both took the same way.
But she increased her harlotry;
She looked at men portrayed on the wall,
Images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
As soon as her eyes saw them,
She lusted for them
And sent messengers to them in Chaldea.”
(Ezekiel 23.11–16) 

Jerusalem saw what the world was doing and wanted to imitate it, so they did, but suffered immensely for it later. Never make the world your guide, for you will eventually fall.