Things New and Old: Jerusalem is a shameless slut; cause her to know it!

Things New and Old

Ancient truths revealed in the Scriptures are often forgotten, disbelieved or distorted, and therefore lost in the passage of time. Such ancient truths when rediscovered and relearned are 'new' additions to the treasury of ancient truths.

Christ showed many new things to the disciples, things prophesied by the prophets of old but hijacked and perverted by the elders and their traditions, but which Christ reclaimed and returned to His people.

Many things taught by the Apostles of Christ have been perverted or substituted over the centuries. Such fundamental doctrines like salvation by grace and justification have been hijacked and perverted and repudiated by sincere Christians. These doctrines need to be reclaimed and restored to God's people.

There are things both new and old here. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things" 2Ti 2:7.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Jerusalem is a shameless slut; cause her to know it!

"Thou hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by,
and multiplied thy whoredoms."

Jerusalem is a shameless slut; cause her to know it! Aren't many churches behaving just like Jerusalem of old, a slut selling herself, seeking the friendship and love of the world?

"Cause Jerusalem to know her abominations," saith the LORD God to Ezekiel.

Read Ezekiel 16 to see the necessary bluntness, graphicness and blushing details of the message in order to get Jerusalem to see her detestable abominations, i.e. to own, to confess, and to repent of them.

Maybe such plain speaking to the churches of Christ is needed in this age.

Eze 16:1-2

Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations...

v3-5: A vivid description of her helpless and contemptible origin; abandoned and left to perish. "Thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood."

v6-14: how the LORD God took pity on her, and commanded her to live, and flourish. "Live... yea, live." The LORD lavished upon her the very best, in abundance. As a result, she became exceedingly gorgeous! "And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD."

v15-30: She trusted in her own beauty, and squandered all the abundant blessings of the LORD God on her harlotries and whoredom. See the horrid details. A great queen has turned herself into a cheap shameless slut, peddling herself to one and all.

"Thou hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms... the work of an imperious whorish woman."

v31-34: She is a contrary whore. They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them. She pays others to commit whoredom with her.

v35-43: She shall be judged, and be destroyed by her many hired lovers.

v44-59: She is far worse than the sisters she despised, i.e. Sodom and Samaria. They could boast, "we weren't so bad. She is far worse!" She was far worse than them, "thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways...But thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done." Also, she is not unlike the godless heathens. "Your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite."

But behold! The amazing and incredible "nevertheless" conclusion:

60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:

63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

O the depth, and the height, and the breadth of the grace and mercy of God.
Whoever say that the God of the OT is austere and harsh is patheticly ignorant.