FURTHERMORE HE SAID TO ME.. SON OF MAN DO YOU
SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING, THE GREAT ABOMINATIONS THAT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL COMMITS HERE TO
MAKE ME GO FAR AWAY, FROM MY SANCTUARY?.. NOW TURN AGAIN YOU WILL SEE GREATER
ABOMINATIONS.... EZEKIEL 8:6. |
SEEING.............. IS BELIEVING!
This
particular scripture relates to the abominations in the temple of God .... is it any
different in the churches today?.. lets see.
Ezekiel was about twelve months into his ministry as a prophet of God Almighty. As we go
along lets remember that the prophet speaks to the people for God and the priest spoke to
God for the people.
What were the abominations in the temple? . . there was idolatry, the worshipping of the
sun, in general .. their hearts were not given over to their God.. Yah! ... John 7:17.
No one knows what goes on behind closed doors but Jesus does. The door that I am relating
to is the door of the heart. Within chapter eight of Ezekiel we find that in all areas
there was unfaithfulness going on amongst Gods people. ..... Matthew 24:1-10.
There was an idol at the
gate.. verse five.
There were elders of the
house of God worshipping wall paintings.. verse ten.
There were women of God
weeping for a Babylonian god.. verse fourteen.
There were men of God
with their backs to the temple and their faces to the sun worshipping it.. verse
sixteen.
In all of this we
still have the fact .. they were all churchgoers, they were all believers in God and
they continually returned to the temple as per usual. But in their own time and in private
and in secret, they all had their own fetish that they loved more than their creator.. V/12
The saddest part of the whole chapter is in verse twelve, which says .. For they say..
the Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.
In the busy world we live amongst the pushing and grabbing, day after day satan deceives
many into thinking Jesus can't see us. By his smooth language, his campaigns of unity
without truth and his once saved always saved doctrines which are responsible for most of
the backslidings, he, subtly turns multitudes from the way called straight. Does your
church have an appearance of Godliness and deny the power of the church, Lord Jesus via
Holy Ghost?
Can you see what's going on in the churches, if you can't it is probably because
you are right in the thick of it. Come out from among them and be separated.. says the
Lord!.. amen.
Pastor Paul Sheehan |
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