OUR FATHER WHOSE JUDGEMENT CAN BE TRIGGERED WHEN EVIL IN A LOCALLITY CROSSES A THRESHOLD

Verse 9 in the book of Ezekiel chapter 22 in the Amplified vpersion, says this;

In you are men who slander for the purpose of shedding blood, and in your presence they have eaten [food offered to idols] at the mountain shrines; in your midst they have committed acts of lewdness. 

The city of Jerusalem, having deteriorated morally and was engaged in every manner of evil so as to be seen as a city of ill-repute.

The deeds that were done in Jerusalem had attracted the judgement of capture and so the prophetic voice of Ezekiel was stirred up by the Lord to declare to the people that they had maxxed out their allowance and that judgement was now inevitable.

These are the deeds that invited the calamity of judgement upon Jerusalem;

• Murder on the streets of the city
• The making of idols
• Political assassinations
• Contempt for parents
• Oppresion of foreigners
• Oppresion of widows and orphans
• Contempt for the holy things of God
• Violations of the Sabbath
• Slander with intent to murder
• Eating food offered at demonic shrines
• Sexual lewdness like adultery and incest
• Bribery to instigate murder
• Usery and the exploitation of the poor
• Extortion of neighbours
• Abandonment of God

These are the evils that had proliferated in the city of Jerusalem and when the city accumulated them to a certain density, judgement protocols were initiated by the Lord and her destruction was imminent.

Amen.

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