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Abominations. That is a very important word in this
chapter. Ezekiel is brought to and fro,
looking at various sins and told her will see worse than what he is currently seeing.
Take a
notice at the point. Ezekiel sees the Hebrew
people and their leaders doing sin. The
sin is bad enough. The sin shows flaws in
the relationship with God. But it isn’t
actually the sin that has God riled up.
Sin is against God, but sin can be forgiven. Sin can be overcome by God with repentance.
The issue is
where the abominations are taking place.
It’s bad enough that the sin is taking place outside the temple. The bad expressions of sin, the ones that
follow the infamous “you will see greater abominations,” are within the temple. These are the ones that we should really
analyze.
These
greater abominations are performed in the holy house of the Lord. Where the people should be worshipping God,
they are worshipping idols. Where the
people should be worshipping God, they were worshipping the sun.
God can forgive
our lust, our lies, our anger. God doesn’t
take well to idolatry. God especially
doesn’t care for idolatry that happens within His own places of worship. God is a jealous God, and He knows when our hearts
wander. He will want us back to worshipping
Him.
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