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Ezekiel 20
Book of Ezekiel
Ezekiel 20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel
came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.
2 Then came the word of the Lord unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord God; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the
Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to
know the abominations of their fathers:
5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when I chose
Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and
made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine
hand unto them, saying, I am the Lord your God;
6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth
of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing
with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his
eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord
your God.
8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did
not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they
forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon
them to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt.
9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted
before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself
known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and
brought them into the wilderness.
11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments,
which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
12 Moreover also I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and
them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
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Christ our Sabbath = Rest in The Lord
13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness:
they
walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a
man do, he shall even live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly
polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the
wilderness, to consume them.
14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted
before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I
would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with
milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked
not in my statutes,
but polluted my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I
make an end of them in the wilderness.
18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the
statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile
yourselves with their idols:
19 I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments,
and do them;
20 And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you,
that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.
21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in
my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he
shall even live in them; they polluted my Sabbaths: then I said, I would
pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the
wilderness.
22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake,
that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose
sight I brought them forth.
23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would
scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
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Ezekiel 12:15 And they shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall scatter them among the
nations, and disperse them in the countries.
16 But I will leave a few men of them
from the sword, from the famine, and
from the pestilence; that they may
declare all their abominations among the heathen
whither they come; and they shall know that I am
the Lord.
24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but
had despised my
statutes, and had polluted my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their
fathers' idols.
25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments
whereby they should not live;
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I gave them also statutes, its.
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In Hebrew idiom = I suffered others to give them
statutes, it, in their captivity.
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Active verbs in Hebrew were used to express not
only the doing of the thing, but the permission
of the thing which the agent is said to do.
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The verb Nathan, to give, is therefore often
rendered to suffer in this sense.
26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass
through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them
desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.
27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord God; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed
me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up
mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the
thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they
presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their
sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
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I had brought them into the land, which
I lifted up mine hand to give it to them
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What do they do?
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They offered their sacrifices, but not to
God, but to Baal
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Exodus 13:12 That thou shalt set apart unto the
Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every
firstling that cometh of a beast which thou
hast; the males shall be the Lord's.
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The con = trast is with their pollution of God's
gifts pass through: or, pass over.
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Ezekiel 20:16 Because they despised my
judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but
polluted my Sabbaths: for their heart went after
their idols.
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The firstborn were to be passed over to God
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But they passed them (through the fire) over to
Moloch
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Lev 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed
pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt
thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
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Deut 18:10 There shall not be found among you
any one that maketh his son or his daughter to
pass through the fire, or that useth divination,
or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a
witch,
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar
spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And
the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
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Bamah = OT:1120 = heights of Baal =
Satan's teaching
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What is the high place?
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To mark the contrast between this idolatrous high place and Zion the true high
and Holy Mountain
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Ezekiel 20:40 For in Mine Holy Mountain, in the mountain of the height of
Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel,
all of them in the land, Serve me: there will I accept
them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of
your oblations, with all your Holy things.
30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Are
ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom
after their abominations?
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You have commit, whoredom after their
abominations
31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through
the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day:
and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith
the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
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Your sons = your sons and your daughters
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When ye make your sons to pass through the fire
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Jeremiah 9:14 But have walked after the
imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim,
which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the
God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even
this people, with wormwood, and give them water
of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen,
whom neither they nor their fathers have known:
and I will send a sword after them, till I have
consumed them.
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Matthews 23:32 Fill ye up then the measure
of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can
ye escape the damnation of hell?
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Jeremiah 49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus
saith the Lord; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no
heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and
his people dwell in his cities?
2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
Lord, that I will cause an alarm of war to be
heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall
be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be
burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto
them that were his heirs, saith the Lord.
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Smith Bible Dictionary: Molech teaching
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Molech was of brass, hollow
within, and was situated without Jerusalem. "His
face was (that) of a calf, and his hands
stretched forth like a man who opens his hands
to receive (something) of his neighbor. And they
kindled it with fire, and the priests took the
babe and put it into the hands of Molech, and
the babe gave up the ghost."
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Today they teach a fly away and lead their
children up to Satan, false christ
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Any teaching that's not in God's Word, is false
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Mark 13:9 But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up
to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye
shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a
testimony against them.
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Who does this?
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Mark 13:12 Now the brother shall betray the
brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall
rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to
death.
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Who's death?
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Satan
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Bible study hour: Satan's names
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1 Corinthians 15:26
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
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Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of
fire. This is the second death.
John 17:12 While I was with them in the
world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have
kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that
the scripture might be fulfilled.
Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children
are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took
part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that
had the power of death, that is, the devil;
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man
deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as
he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the
devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the
works of the devil.
32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye
say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to
serve wood and stone.
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The House of Israel is saying this = We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to
serve wood and stone.
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Mind = spirit
33 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
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God said, I will rule over you
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Deut 4:34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him
a nation from the midst of another nation, by
temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by
war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched
out arm, and by great terrors, according to all
that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt
before your eyes?
35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest
know that the Lord he is God; there is none else
beside him.
36 Out of heaven He made thee to hear his voice,
that He might instruct thee: and upon earth He
shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest
his words out of the midst of the fire.
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of
the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a
stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there
will I plead with you face to face.
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After the 7th vial = the cup of wrath poured out
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The wilderness of the people = Probably another
country which would be to them another
wilderness in which they were tested as to
whether they would hear.
36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of
Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.
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God send teachers; it's up to you to study
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4th trumpet = It's to make a choice, choose to follow God or Satan
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Numbers 14:21 But as truly as I live,
all the earth shall be filled with
the glory of the Lord.
22 Because all those men which have
seen My glory, and My
miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the
wilderness, and have
tempted me now these ten times, and
have not hearkened to my voice;
23 Surely they shall not see the
land which I sware unto their
fathers, neither shall any of them that
provoked me see it:
24 But My servant Caleb,
because he had another
spirit with him, and
hath followed
me fully, him will I bring into the land
whereinto he went; and his seed shall
possess it.
25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites
dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you,
and get you into the wilderness by the way
of the Red sea.
26 And the Lord spake unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying,
27 How long shall I bear with this
evil congregation, which
murmur against
me? I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel, which
they murmur against me.
28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith
the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so
will I do to you:
29 Your carcases shall fall in this
wilderness; and all that were
numbered of you, according to your whole
number, from
twenty years old and upward,
which have murmured against me,
30 Doubtless ye
shall not come into the land,
concerning which I sware to make you dwell
therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the
son of Nun.
31 But your little ones, which ye said
should be a prey, them will I bring
in, and they shall know the
land which ye have despised.
32 But as for you, your carcases,
they shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your children shall wander
in the wilderness forty years,
and bear your
whoredoms, until your carcases be
wasted in the wilderness.
37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into
the bond of the covenant:
38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and
them that
transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where
they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye
shall know that I am the Lord.
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They shall not enter into the land of Israel
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Ye shall know that I am the Lord.
39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; Go ye, serve
ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto
me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your
idols.
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O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; Go
ye, serve ye every one his idols
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If ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with
your gifts, and with your idols.
40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,
saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in
the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require
your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your
holy things.
41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from
the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been
scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
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I will accept you with your sweet savour
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Rest = Sabbath
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7th trumpet = God gather His elect
42 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the
land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to
give it to your fathers.
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Ye shall know that I am the Lord
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I tried to give Israel to them, but they
followed others gods
43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein
ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight
for all your evils that ye have committed.
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Evils = Same word as "wicked
44 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have wrought with you
for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to
your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
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Notice He's talking the the house of Israel
45 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward
the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
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South field = the house of Judah and Jerusalem
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The south = against: or, unto "toward".
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus
saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall
devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame
shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall
be burned therein.
48 And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it:
it shall not
be quenched.
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All flesh = all people, every one
49 Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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