SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/10/2015
7:54 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The People of Judah Sinned even
more than Samaria Did
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ezekiel
23:14-21
Message of the
verses: “14 “So she increased her
harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans
portrayed with vermilion, 15 girded with belts on their loins, with flowing
turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians
in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 16 “When she saw them she lusted after
them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 “The Babylonians came to her to
the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been
defiled by them, she became
disgusted with them. 18 “She uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her
nakedness; then I became
disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her sister. 19 “Yet
she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played
the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 “She lusted after their paramours, whose
flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 “Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled
your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.” Not sure I should do this but I did not
understand what verse 20 meant so I looked it up in the NLT “She lusted after
lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a
horse.”
If we look at what happened after the Angel of the Lord
killed 185,000 Assyrians you may think that Judah would be thankful to the Lord
and would begin to come out of the idolatry that she was participating in. Not so for even King Hezekiah continued to
have problems as we read: “12 At that
time Berodach-baladan a son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a
present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13 Hezekiah
listened to them, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the
gold and the spices and the precious oil and the house of his armor and all
that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his
dominion that Hezekiah did not show them. 14 Then Isaiah the prophet came to
King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where
have they come to you?" And Hezekiah said, "They have come from a far
country, from Babylon." 15 He said, "What have they seen in your
house?" So Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my
house; there is nothing among my treasuries that I have not shown them." 16
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD. 17 ’Behold, the days are coming when all that is
in your house, and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will
be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the LORD (2 Kings
20:12-17). Now mind you that this
happened right after the Lord had healed Hezekiah and gave him 15 more years to
live.
Dr. Wiersbe concludes his commentary on this section with
these words: “The kingdom of Judah became
more and more idolatrous as on weak king after another took the throne, some of
them for only three months. Judah was
actually more corrupt than her sister Samaria! (32:11).”
2/10/2015 8:09 PM
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