God tells man that he's brought all of this on himself. He's no one to blame. Tis is doing.
He gives a laundry list of wrongs that just princes themselves have done. Included in this list is some pretty freaky sexual issues. These people had quite the sex drive I can tell you that. We tend to blame the oversexness of our society on the extreme amounts of sexual images we a faced with daily; I'm beginning to wonder if that has much to do with it.
Then we get another tale of....you guessed it, HARLOTS.
In todays performance Aholah the elder will be playing the harlot Samaria and Aholibah her sister will be portraying the harlot Jerusalem.
This is a tale of a jealous lover (played by God) who must witness the lewd and frankly perverse behavior of his two wives.
I think it was a brilliant move by the Play Write (God) to tell this tale through the eyes of a jealous lover. What better way for someone to truly feel the anger, the betrayal, the rage than through the eyes of a lover scorn.
Bravo, God...Bravo.
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In vs. 22 we clearly get the idea of some things God says are wrong and offensive to him. I think it's clear that the reason the false prophets were able to claim they were speaking of the Lord when they were not is because like a time previous to this, people in Israel were ignorant of God's word. I don't remember what king it was, but remember when they found the scrolls of the Law and read them to the king, and when he realised they had bean doing wrong, he rent his clothes and wept. The people (and priests it seems) then, like in this text, had gotten out of the habit of teaching and knowing what God's word was. When we do that, it's easy for anyone to tell us balderdash, and for us to believe it. We need to be careful about that today. If you don't know God's word for yourself, then anyone can tell you it says this or that and you'd almost have to believe them. So I encourage all of you, esp. Catholics and Catholic-lite, to read for yourselves what God's word says, and not take your priests or the Pope's word for it. It's dangerous when you start letting other people do your thinking for you. I apologise for picking on Catholics again, but most of my Catholic friends no nothing about the Bible (so much more than my other friends). I actually know atheist friends who know more Bible scriptures than my Catholics friends who've bean attending church their whole lives.
I think it's abundantly clear that because of the use of such analogies (and that they are cast in such a negative light) that God really, really, abhors (p i) sexual lewdness and such.
Why is ass and stallion lust so sensual and vulgar? Why I ask you? Strange. I'd like to know. As a person with a fair knowledge of animal husbandry, this cornfuses me.
I'd like to take this opportunity (acutally from a previous reading last week) to take a jab at Pentecostals. In some of our reading we read where God said they did not give Him the credit for giving them nose rings, earrings, necklaces, etc. but, instead, gave the credit for their prosperity to themsleves. So, it is clear that, although in the New Testament there are some suggestions made about modest dress and the like, that God is not against wearing jewelry or dressing nicely.
Tomorrow is Ez. 24-27
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