OUR FATHER JUDGES THOSE WHO RETAIN THEIR IDOLS

The book of Ezekiel chapter 20 verse 4 says this;

“Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man? Then confront them with the detestable practices of their ancestors

This verse, captures an excerpt of the Lord speaking to the prophet Ezekiel where the Lord asks Ezekiel whether he would judge the elders of Israel who had come to his house to inquire of the Lord.

The Lord then told Ezekiel to confront the elders of Israel with the practices that were done by their ancestors that they too were engaging in.

They had been looking upon the vile images of idols and desecrating the Sabbaths of the Lord. They had burned incense to idols  and had  sacrificed their children in fire to their idols.

The Lord had held up His hand as he swore a covenant with the people of Israel to bring them out of slavery and into a good land and yet they retained their practices of idol worship and thus the Lord refused to be inquired of by the elders.

As Ezekiel chapter 20 verse 31 says;

When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will not let you inquire of me.

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