"O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?"
Israel similarly began and now her conduct is tantamount to spiritual whoredom. In our own times are we any better? All that was past,- sacrifices of martyrs, acts of love and joyfully suffering loss of all things in order to please the Lord have become null and void. Modern churches must be said to be most prodigal indeed to scatter all their spiritual inheritance; what have we for posterity but shame? Evangelicalism is in no way better than what Israel has become in the time of Ezekiel.
When a believer shifts his faith from God to things we see the disaster coming into play with his spiritual life. Consumerism as a philosophy ought to be kept in its place. For children of God if trust in His promises is gone everything is lost. Yes. Israel forgot having received all the advantages of being a theocratic nation. "For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold,whichthey prepared for Baal (Hosea.2:8)". Instead of Baal the name mammon is more apt.
Sin of Israel :Instead of attributing the glory of her privileges and gifts to God, Israel prided herself on them as her own. In wanting to be like other nations and to be led by a king her sin was to impose her own will. They were sated by waters from the rock in the wilderness. Doing the will of God set a royal fare before his Son. Spiritual meat and drink. " So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him./ He made him ride on the high places of the earth"(De.32:12-13)
Israel'swhoredom brought this:Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.(Mic.3:9-12)"
"O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?"
Israel similarly began and now her conduct is tantamount to spiritual whoredom. In our own times are we any better? All that was past,- sacrifices of martyrs, acts of love and joyfully suffering loss of all things in order to please the Lord have become null and void. Modern churches must be said to be most prodigal indeed to scatter all their spiritual inheritance; what have we for posterity but shame? Evangelicalism is in no way better than what Israel has become in the time of Ezekiel.
When a believer shifts his faith from God to things we see the disaster coming into play with his spiritual life. Consumerism as a philosophy ought to be kept in its place. For children of God if trust in His promises is gone everything is lost. Yes. Israel forgot having received all the advantages of being a theocratic nation. "For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold,whichthey prepared for Baal (Hosea.2:8)". Instead of Baal the name mammon is more apt.
Sin of Israel :Instead of attributing the glory of her privileges and gifts to God, Israel prided herself on them as her own. In wanting to be like other nations and to be led by a king her sin was to impose her own will. They were sated by waters from the rock in the wilderness. Doing the will of God set a royal fare before his Son. Spiritual meat and drink. " So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him./ He made him ride on the high places of the earth"(De.32:12-13)
Israel'swhoredom brought this:Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.(Mic.3:9-12)"
This comment thread is locked. Please enter a new comment below to start a new comment thread.
Note: Comment threads older than 2 months are automatically locked.
Do you have a Bible comment or question?
Posting comments is currently unavailable due to high demand on the server.
Please check back in an hour or more. Thank you for your patience!
Report Comment
Which best represents the problem with the comment?