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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Oola Ooliba and the Elders; Sexual Rituals in the Temple; Split Soul; Pornographic Art; Ezekiel 23

Enemy infiltration is a perspective that we have not taken the time to think through. Satanas is not building his own temples for his followers just down the street from our churches and synagogues. Although there are a few people attempting to get attention by their public display of satanic worship. But really Satanas is in the church, just as Satanas was in Israel. Why bother making your own temple when there is a temple dedicated to Yahweh Elohim that you can take over. While we might think that we are the targets of satanism in the church it is really our children who are targets by this infiltration of evil. It is an ultimate mockery to infiltrate and overtake the temple that David worked so hard to pave the way for. The idea was to have a permanent place to worship Yahweh, but it seems that because humans are easily fooled the temple was allowed to have every religion represented and practiced in it. When we look at the prophecy that Ezekiel gave to the elders of Israel we have to pay close attention to the literal things that Yahweh said. Yahweh is not talking to them figuratively, he is literally explaining the sins of their prostitution. Not only did they adopt the gods from other nations, they brought those practices into the temple. Hezekiah and Josiah tried to clean up Israel and the temple but many citizens did not support them. Now in captivity, the elders want to find out about their situation. Ezekiel speaks to them from Yahweh and clearly shows how they broke their own nation.

The Elders of Israel came to Ezekiel in the seventh year of captivity in the fifth month and the tenth day, asking to hear from Yahweh. Now that they were in captivity and the temple had been destroyed they thought this would be a good time to inquire as to their situation.


Ezekiel 20:1 G2532 And G1096 it came to pass G1722 in G3588 the G2094 [2year G3588   G1442 1seventh], G1722 in G3588 the G3991 fifth G3376 month, G1181 tenth G3588 of the G3376 month, G2064 there came G435 men G1537 from G3588 the G4245 elders G3588 of the G3624 house G* of Israel G1905 to ask of G3588 the G2962 lord . G2532 And G2523 they sat G4253 before G4383 my face. G1473  

  2 G2532 And G1096 [3came G3056 1 the word G2962 2 of the lord] G4314 to G1473 me, G3004 saying,


Ezekiel gives these elders a three chapter answer from Yahweh, probably over the course of a few days. We see something similar in 2 Ezra. Yahweh tells them the story of two sisters. 


Ezekiel LXX2012(i)23: 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother: 3 and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth: there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity. 


The word whoring, ἐκπορνεύω means prostituted, ἐκ means “from out of” and πορνεύω means “sexual sin" or “prostitute”. In Israel’s infancy there were two nations who both prostituted themselves in Egypt. Isaiah speaks of a later time when Judah was making alliances with Egypt, Isaiah 30. But Yahweh is referring to their time in Egypt when they went in as free people. 


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Their breasts fell as if they became old and they διεπαρθενεύθησαν transformed or disguised themselves. The English translations say “lost her virginity” but the text actually says transformed. Meaning she changed herself with her prostitution to look like the Egyptians. Satanas was able to influence the nation of Israel when she was in Egypt to behave like the Egyptians. Satanas didn’t have to distort the Egyptians, they were not a nation whose Elohim is Yahweh. Egypt simply acted like any primal nation without any knowledge of Yahweh. 


We should keep in mind that before going into Egypt as free people, Reuben had slept with his stepmom Bilhah. Juda slept with prostitutes and accidentally his own daughter in law, impregnating her. Jacob’s sons sold Joseph as a slave. Later when they went to look for Joseph they looked for him at the wall where the prostitutes hung out because they thought he was effeminate, or in other words a male prostitute. Once in Egypt the sons of Jacob were free people but they worshipped Egypts idols and their ways. This is why in their later years they became slave labor. As they were coming out of Egypt the men were enticed to sleep with the Moabite women who batted their eyelashes at them on the road. Once they came out of Egypt into their own land the men of Benjamin wanted to gang rape a Levite. They eventually settled for the Levites wife. They raped her all night long and threw her on the front porch of a kind man who the Levite was staying with, where she died. The sons of Jacob were not always the nicest people and they seemed to have a lot of bad habits. 


Ezekiel 23:4 And their names were Oola the elder, and Ooliba her sister: and they were mine, and bore sons and daughters: and [as for] their names, Samaria was Oola, and Jerusalem was Ooliba. 


The two daughters are Oola and Ooliba. They had many children. Oola is Samaria or the northern kingdom and Ooliba is Jerusalem the southern kingdom. At the time that the temple was built they were both one kingdom. The kingdom had split in two about 400 years earlier. Oola in Hebrew means “her own tent” and was a name referring to the ten tribes. In Hebrew Ooliba means “tent of the high place” and referred to Judah.


If you wanted to destroy Jacob’s children where would you do it from? Inside the kingdom or outside the kingdom? Satanas chose inside the kingdom and once the kingdom split it was easier to distort both the north and the south. 


Ezekiel 23:5 And Oola went a-whoring from me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that were her neighbors, 6 clothed with purple, princes and captains; [they were] young men and choice, all horseman riding on horses. 


To dote here is the word epitithēmi meaning “on lay down” or “upon lay down”. Oola on laid down upon her lovers the Assyrians coming near to her who are clothed in dark purple, leading magistrates, young men, chosen ones. All the mounted horsemen upon horses. Oola slept with all the important people. She transformed in Egypt and now she is sleeping with the people in Assyria. 


As Peter tells us, Yahweh knows how to deliver the righteous out of trials. There were many nations that did not follow Yahweh, such as Sodom, Gomorrah, Adma, and Zeboim. The cities of the plains were not heirs of Jacob, and their sins crossed a line. As we can plainly see there are certain rules that Satanas has to abide by, and in some way, these cities broke some universal rules that we don’t quite understand. The majority of people were corrupted. When the angels came to Lot’s house Lot was allowed to go out to his other daughters homes to tell them to leave the city. Lot had five daughters. One of Lot’s daughters had been killed for helping a man the city officials were attempting to kill. The other two daughters and their families wanted to stay in Sodom. Lot left with his wife and two younger daughters. Lot lost his two older daughters, sons-in-law, and grandchildren. No wonder “Mrs. Lot” looked back, her children were killed. How corrupted can a nation become before it crosses a line? We obviously don’t want to find that out, but we want to understand that the majority sway a nation. Therefore righteousness, godliness, and holiness, should be our majority, not sin. 


Ezekiel 23:7 And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all [their] devices. 


She prostituted herself to the chosen sons of the Assyrians as well as laid down with them, and, in all reminders and memories, she’s corrupted. Her fornication was always on her mind. The word devices means “thoughts”. This was all she thought about. 


Ezekiel 23:8 And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her. 


She prostituted herself with Egypt and absolutely did not leave it behind or forsake it as they slept with her in her youth and transformed and poured their harlotry on her. We are not talking about mixed marriages, meaning Jacob’s sons marrying Egyptian women, we are talking about idolatry and sexual sins. Somehow people thought open sexual perversions, in temples, before the gods, was a way to get the gods to listen to them. The Egyptian priests had quite a racket going on in Egypt. They also made people pay for indulgences to let their loved ones out of hades. We can see how this influence eventually entered the temple. 


Ezekiel 23:9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.


Yahweh gave her to the ones he prostituted herself with. If we think back to the times of Elijah and Elisha, the northern kingdom was warned about what she was doing but the people did not repent. This is literal and figurative prostitution. She mixed herself with the other nations in sexual rituals and when in captivity in Assyria she mixed again. This is why the southern kingdom called the Samarians “dogs”. Because of the mixed heirs they bore from their ritualistic sexual practices. They didn’t have abortion clinics on every corner but they did abort babies. Once born they sacrificed their babies in other ways. Oola destroyed her own offspring. Oola did the same ritualistic practices of the other nations. The southern kingdom was not any better.


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Ezekiel 23:10 They uncovered her shame: they took her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword: and she became a byword among women: and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters. 


She uncovered apokaluptō her own disgrace. They received her sons and daughters with daggers to kill them. Oola became a cry for women and manufactured vengeance and punishment in her. 


Ezekiel 23:11 And her sister Ooliba saw [it], and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister. 


Ooliba destroyed herself laying upon, above Oola, and prostituted herself more than Oola. The word fondness translated here is the word epithesis, meaning “laying on” as in laying on of hands. This was not a passive posture but an aggressive posture. She actively pursued these practices. She saw what her sister did and pursued her lovers as if she could do it better. Ooliba had a temple dedicated to Yahweh in her midst. 


Where was the temple located? In the south with Ooliba. What was gong on in the temple? Over 400 years of corruption, including male and female prostitution, worshipping stars, constellations, angels, cherubim, and sacrifices to Moloch, etc. This is why earlier Ezekiel saw the corruption in the temple and the angels that came to mark the people who mourned for the temple, and the Holy Spirit was taken up by the cherubim and ophanim. Yahweh will be pointing this out soon. 


Just to note here, the practice of temple prostitution continued into the first century. Remember the women taken in adultery from John 8. Jesus was teaching in the temple courts. Jesus was not allowed in the inner courts as he was not a priest. While he was teaching the Pharisees threw a woman at his feet. Where was she? In the temple compound. She wasn’t in town somewhere, and they did not drag her for miles to the outer temple courts. She was a prostitute in the temple. Jesus literally said that whoever had not sinned with her, cast the first stone. The translators left the word “her” out in modern translations but we find it in older translations. How did Jesus know they had all sinned with her? This is why she didn’t have any accusers because according to the law both the men and women adulterers were to both be stoned. 


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Ezekiel 23:12 She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbors, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; [they were] all choice young men. 13 And I saw that they were defiled, [that] the two [had] one way. 


The two sisters had one way or they both did the same things. For a nation stemming from Jacob, one of the most devoted men to Yahweh Elohim, they were as far from Yahweh as they could possibly be. They were entrusted to teach nations about Yahweh and instead they indulged themselves. Both sisters did the same things. 


Ezekiel 23:14 And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil, 15 having variegated girdles on their loins, having also richly dyed [attire] upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Chaldeans, of their native land. 


Ooliba increased her porneia. She increased by pornography. The word that is used for man here is anēr meaning “human”, as compared to “manfaced” which denotes men apart from other sons of God. They painted images of the Chaldeans on walls of homes with pencils. So we see their art now became pornographic. They were drawing images of the Babylonian Chaldeans. 


It is quite embarrassing for most citizens of North America to walk into tourist shops in other countries. Usually there is a display of idols for sale that the people once worshipped in that region. Some have very large members. When we see these idols we cannot understand what people were thinking when they made them so many years ago. Well, they were fantasizing over the way they imagined a god of fertility would look like. They seemed to be big sellers as people changed the faces of the mini fertility gods to suit their tastes. It is obvious that among the idols in the temple there were idols with large members for people to worship and perform sexual rites.  


It is important to remember Babylon’s history. Babylon was not a dominant nation during Israel’s history. Babylon was only a prosperous and dominant nation at the time of Nimrod. But during the times of Israel, Babylon went in and out of captivity itself. Usually it was the Assyrians that ruled Babylon, but Babylon was allowed to rise up to overtake Judah as it was a close nation.  


Ezekiel 23:16 And she doted upon them as soon as she saw them, and sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans. 17 And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them. 18 And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame: and my soul was alienated from her, even as my soul was alienated from her sister. 


She prostituted herself with the Chaldeans with her eyes. That means she used the images of them to arouse herself. She sent for the Chaldeans and they came into her marriage bed. She defiled herself and separated her soul from Yahweh. It is interesting that Yahweh says the defilement caused her soul to revolt. This is a soul tie, the sin caused her soul to attach itself to the Chaldeans and depart from herself. This can split someone’s personality. Not everyone in the southern kingdom was following after the Chaldeans so there was also a split among the people. Her soul was separated, which tells us that as a nation their souls should have been united. Then Yahweh’s soul connection was separated from Ooliba as it was from Oola. To be clear, this defilement separates one’s own soul from itself, splitting it. It also separates that one’s soul from other people, and it separates that one’s soul from Yahweh. 


Ezekiel 23:19 And you did multiply your fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of your youth, wherein you did commit whoredom in Egypt, 20 and you did dote upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of the asses, and their members [as] the members of horses.


Oola laid down upon the Chaldeans whose bodies were like donkeys. This tells us that their body was strong. They weren’t soft fat people, they were strong and hard. And their genitals were like horse genitals, meaning their genitals were very large. This is what they drew pictures of. Men in garments with large genitals to which they fantasized over and prostituted themselves with when they called on them. Maybe the Israelite men were not as graciously endowed. They did this in Egypt as well, but there is something else here. 


In this entire section we are not talking about women who prostituted with men, but men who prostituted with men. Ezekiel is prophesying to the elders, who were all men. The word αιδοία is actually translated vulva, which is a “female opening” in Greek. The Hebrew changes this word to translate as seminal fluid, probably to suggest something slightly different. Their flesh were like donkeys, their genitals and openings were like horses. The men salivated over the artistic works of images of the Chaldeans, and they slept with the Chaldeans who were hung like horses. 


Once again we have to point out we are speaking of adulterous sexual ritual practices in the temple, not monogamous relationships. He is not condemning monogamous marriages of people from other nations. He is speaking nationally that the temple is defiled by these booths of the prostitutes. What we don’t really understand, because the Bible is written more historically, is the practices that were going on in the temple. These practices were not made known to the common laity. Yahweh is not speaking of eunuchs either. He is speaking of sexual ritual worship in His house.  


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There is a reason that Yahweh is being so descriptive here. He is making a point that doing this separates one’s soul from the rest of the body and from Him. So while Yahweh is saying that they figuratively prostituted themselves with Assyria and Babylon, they also literally prostituted themselves with Assyria and Babylon. They lusted after them and separated themselves from Yahweh. 


The tent of a human is their body, the tent of the Lord is the tabernacle. Yahweh’s breath left the human tent Oola. Yahweh’s breath left the temple, Ooliba. Both the soul’s of Oola and Ooliba were separated causing Yahweh’s breath to leave both individual tents and the temple. Oola and Ooliba were drawn by the lust of the flesh away from Yahweh until they stiffened their necks against Yahweh, enjoying their lusts and performing sexual rituals. They were not victims, they simply chose to lose the breath of Yahweh Elohim.


Today it seems that we have a culture bent on the sexual indoctrination of children. Why? There are probably more than two reasons here but one is to prepare willing participants for the future. The other is to justify adult perversity that already exists. Now the perverted adults can be the leaders in this movement. Yahweh doesn’t want his children indoctrinated but we have allowed Satanas into our churches. We have allowed Satanas into our schools. Infiltration. 


Jesus is very clear in Matthew 18, he states that if someone causes one child to turn away from Jesus, that evil person is destined for eternal death. Jesus will go after that one child, but the perpetrator will end up in the fires of Gehenna. 


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We may not have understood that there were booths for prostitution in the temple, male prostitution, as well as female prostitution. Why? Where did they learn this? Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon.


2 Kings 23:7 G2532 And G2507 he demolished G3588 the G3624 house G3588 of the G2504.2 male prostitutes G3588 of the ones G1722 in G3588 the G3624 house G2962 of the lord G1722 in G3739 which G3588 the G1135 women G5306.1 wove G1563 apparel there G4749   G3588 for the G251.1 sacred grove.


2 Kings 23:7 (ISV)  He also demolished the temples of the cultic male prostitutes that had been operating in the LORD's Temple, where the women had been doing weaving for the Asherah.


Josiah tried to eliminate all of the evil that had found its way into the temple but eventually the evil all came back. Keep a linear timeline in perspective here. After Solomon died the kingdom split and several types of idolatry, adultery, and evil sacrifice, started in the temple and lasted for about 400 years; until Ezekiel sees the defilement and the destruction of the temple. This is the end of this era, as now the southern kingdom will go into captivity and all of Israel will eventually be under Assyrian rule, then Greek rule, then Roman rule. Yahweh is speaking to the elders in this very graphic way to shake them from their stupor. The majority sways a nation. The righteous were marked and spared by angels. Although Yahweh overlooked this, he is bringing it up to point out that he overlooked it in the past but they should not have been doing this in the temple of Yahweh Elohim.


It is also interesting to note that Yahweh keeps bringing up Egypt and Israels sins with Egypt. When Jacob and his sons went into Egypt Joseph was the second in command, a ruler of the land. Joseph had married the high priest’s daughter and had sons. Jacob’s sons mingled and merged with the Egyptians. Yahweh is not upset by mixed marriages. Yahweh doesn’t care if someone marries outside of their tribe or nation. Ruth was a moabite lady in Jesus’ own lineage. What Yahweh is upset with is the distorted spiritual and sexual practices of the other nations. Why would anyone have built booths for male and female prostitutes in the temple? What kind of sexual rituals did they add to temple service? Later when their seventy year captivity was over, Ezra separated the people who were from Babylon who married into Israel’s families. Why? Because he was rededicating the temple. He didn’t want ritual sexual practices to creep into the temple again from the culture of Babylon. 


 Ezekiel 23:21 And you did look upon the iniquity of your youth, [the things] which you wrought in Egypt in your lodgings, where were the breasts of your youth. 22 Therefore, Ooliba, thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] stir up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon you round about, 23 the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Phacuc, and Sue, and Hychue, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses. 24 And they all shall come upon you from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and [the enemy] shall set a watch against you round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on you with their judgments. 25 And I will bring upon you my jealousy, and they shall deal with you in great wrath: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and shall cast down your remnant with the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your remnant fire shall devour. 

26 And they shall strip you of your raiment, and take [away] your ornaments. 


They will have their noses and ears cut off so that everyone knows they are Ooliba’s children. They will have their sons and daughters murdered. They will have their clothes taken and their valuables taken. The word here sometimes translated items is skeous meaning “vessel, implement, or equipment”. These are not decorative things like jewelry, but utility items, like chamber pots, cooking pots, and water jugs. This means they would have to go out in the community for their daily needs without their noses and ears, and everyone would see them. It would be constant humiliation. 


Ezekiel 23:27 So I will turn back your ungodliness from you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt: and you shall not lift up your eyes upon them, and shall no more remember Egypt. 28 Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I [will] deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, from whom your soul is alienated. 29 And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take all [the fruits] of your labors and your toils, and you shall be naked and bare: and the shame of your fornication shall be exposed: and your ungodliness and your fornication 30 brought this upon you, in that you went a-whoring after the nations, and did defile yourself with their devices. 31 You did walk in the way of your sister; and I will put her cup into your hands. 32 Thus says the Lord; Drink your sister's cup, deep and large, and full, to cause complete drunkenness. 33 And you shall be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of your sister Samaria, 34 drink you it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons: for I have spoken [it], says the Lord. 35 Therefore thus says the Lord; Because you has forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore receive you [the reward] of your ungodliness and your fornication. 


This doesn’t seem very encouraging to the elders who are enquiring of Yahweh. All they know is they will be made very low for their fornication. They forgot about Yahweh. 


The new moon celebrations were in regards to fertility. Women ovulated during the full moon. By the time of the new moon women knew if they were expecting or not. If they were menstruating they were not pregnant. This also applied to their animals, their sheep, goats, and cows. The festival was to celebrate life, not the moon. It was not to celebrate anything other than pregnancy. We can see how distorted these festivals became, and how offensive they became to Yahweh when they turned them into orgies in the temple. 


One of the regular festivals of Sodom and the five cities of the plains took place four times per year. The people got together, took some type of herb, and then went off into the fields with each others spouses. In other words they were wife swapping while on drugs. This practice was perfectly normal for these people who were not sons of Yahweh, but Yahweh’s children were not to commit adultery. Yet if they committed adultery in the temple, they thought it was acceptable. Once one generation decides to do this every succeeding generation did this, and no one knew where the rituals came from. 


Ezekiel 23:36 And the Lord said to me, Son of man, will you not judge Oola and Ooliba? and declare to them their iniquities? 37 For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they committed adultery with their devices, and they passed through the fire to them their children which they bore to me.


They committed adultery in their devices or thoughts. To commit adultery against Yahweh means they sought after someone else. Who? Satanas, the god of this world, aka the prince of this world. They passed their children through the fire. What kind of ridiculous practice is this? Not one that Yahweh instituted. By this time of the 70 year captivity, Satanas had so intertwined demonic practices with Yahweh’s worship services, the people probably didn’t know which rituals were wrong. Even today in Jewish hospitals, they pass the new born baby over a candle flame. Seriously. 


Lev 18:21  And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.


The Israelites were told from the start of the their nation not to pass their children through the fires to Moloch, yet as we see in linear time, they kept right on doing it. 


2Ki 16:3  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.


2Ki 17:17  And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


Now at the end of their era, they are still passing their children through the fire. The infiltration was so engrained that the people simply just followed the traditions and practices that their fathers established, even though these were not Yahweh’s practices. This next verse is a harsh slap from Yahweh.  


Eze 20:31  For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.


This is when the elders came to enquire of Yahweh Elohim. Where was all this happening, offering gifts, passing their children through the fire, and idolatry? In the temple. They were doing this for over 400 years. Now they wanted to hear the future from Yahweh, but they also wanted to behave like they were worshipping Satanas. They were supposed to teach the other nations about Yahweh Elohim but instead Satanas taught them some different ways. Where does Satanas rule from? Not his own temple, but from the very heart of Yahweh’s temple.


Ezekiel 23:38 So long too as they did these things to me, they defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my sabbaths. 39 And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into my sanctuary to profane it: and whereas they did thus in the midst of my house; 


They corrupted Yahweh’s sanctuary. Who wanted to honor Yahweh with a temple? David. Who built the temple? Solomon. Who resided in the temple? The Spirit of the Living God, the Holy Spirit. And now this generation, four hundred years later, demands to hear from Yahweh as if he is a Genie in a bottle. Their souls are so far removed from Yahweh they do not even treat the Creator of the heavens and earth with respect. 


Ezekiel 23:40 and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately you did wash yourself, and did paint your eyes and adorn yourself with ornaments, 41 and sat on a prepared bed, and before it [there was] a table set out, and [as for] mine incense and mine oil, they rejoiced in them, 42 and they raised a sound of music, and [that] with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads; 43 Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? and has she also gone a-whoring [after] the manner of a harlot? 


The Israelite men in Jerusalem got all dolled up for the foreigners. The foreigners went in to both the northern and southern kingdom as if going into a prostitute. Just imagine how easy it was for Satanas to mislead Israel, all he had to do was tempt them with some pornography on buildings and they couldn’t stop thinking about it. Then all Satanas had to do was make sure they enjoyed themselves with their lovers and the temple was lost for thousands of years. Isn’t it a shame that we have to battle the same antiquated tricks and schemes of Satanas because we never learned from this prophecy?


Ezekiel 23:44 And they went in to her, as [men] go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oola and to Ooliba to work iniquity. 45 And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the judgment of an adulteress and the judgment of blood: for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 


The foreigners they slept with will bring judgment on Israel, both the north and the south. 


Ezekiel 23:46 Thus says the Lord God, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them. 47 And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords: they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses. 48 And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness. 49 And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and you shall bear the guilt of your devices: and you shall know that I am the Lord.


The women will be instructed. Apparently the women were taught incorrectly. The men will be repaid with their guilty thoughts. Imagine the dark cloud over these elders for the rest of their lives. This captivity will last for seventy years and it will clean the land. It is not what the elders wanted to hear. 


We have a few churches out there that are allowing productions to prepare children for lives of ritual sexual abuse. This is not the focus of our existence but Satanas would like us to be so focused and self centered so that just like Oola and Ooliba we cannot think of anything else. Satanas would like our nation’s  societal art and creativity to reflect sexual gratification as if this is all we ever live for. We give people drugs for sexual stimulation that causes their minds to obsess on the “high” that they will get. Once children are taught to allow adults to use them for sexual gratification, those children will recruit other children. Their souls will separate from themselves, as a splitting of their own personality, their souls will separate from their families, and their souls will separate from Yahweh. What can Satanas do with a generation of young people who’s souls are split? The public schools are an easy target because of “diversity”. However we do not have to allow our children to be their pawns. We do not have to allow our churches and schools to become their training grounds. We Christians should be the majority and we should be the ones to defeat Satanas in our nations. If we learn anything from Yahweh’s story of the two sisters, we should learn that the temple was not the high holy place that people want us to think it was, because the people turned away from Yahweh and severed their soul from Him. We however can do the opposite, we are not of this world. 



https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2015/04/sodom-part-2-inbred-witchcraft-blinded.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/11/joel-3-end-of-nephilim-one-blood.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-called-dark-thoughts-sexual.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/04/lewdness-righteous-are-free-breaking-up.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2015/11/sex-cults-sacred-groves-ephods-teraphim.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/08/unjust-judgments-not-destroying-just.html


Sunday, April 3, 2022

Lewdness; The Righteous are Free; Breaking Up; Predators and Prey

There are dark thoughts and then there are very dark thoughts. Predators  are looking for prey. It does not matter what category of predator we are speaking of, predators seek prey. Let’s take off our rose-colored church glasses so we can see what is going on around us. Sheep are being devoured when the false prophets and false teachers move in and splinter the Body of Christ. Most people in the Body of Christ recognize the need that we all have for a Savior. However we have to be critical about who we put in place as our overlords and then we need to be free to remove those overlords without a long drawn out process. We saw last week that there are people who think that we think the way they do. They are apathetic to Jesus and are interested in personal gain. While this sounds harsh, I personally spent many years in a few different churches and ministries that have all fallen. When the dominos tumbled and the lies and immoralities were exposed, the righteous rose up stronger, smarter, and more committed to Jesus than before. The last time was a megachurch sixteen years ago. There is nothing new under the sun and what happens today is what always happens. Those churches lost their candlesticks because they lost their first love. When their sins become public the church is finished. It is already too late. Those leaders are suffering humiliation because they did not listen to Jesus and repent long before the public found out. Many more will lose their candlestick because they lost their first love. Peter helps us understand that sexual sins have always been around and that the victims are unstable souls. Paul reminds us that the perverted do not inherit the kingdom of the Elohim. 

Let’s review Ephesians.


Ephesians 4:17 G3778 This G3767 then G3004 I say G2532 and G3143 testify G1722 in G2962 the Lord, G3371 for you to no longer G1473   G4043 walk G2531 as G2532 also G3588 the G3062 rest G1484 of the nations G4043 walk, G1722 in G3153 the folly G3588   G3563 of their mind, G1473


The ethnos walk vainly and without purpose. They are empty. They do not know the Messiah, they do not have truth or the above knowledge of Jesus Christ. They are empty. Don’t follow them. The word translated “folly” is mataiotēs, meaning moral depravity. Their mind and reasoning are morally depraved. 


When people get saved they start to turn their lives around. Sometimes people were not morally depraved, they were sinners but not morally depraved. They may have been victimized. No matter the scenario, when we come to Jesus we are not coming as a clean sin free individual. We are different than the priests and Essenes of the former administration. They cleansed and purified themselves with ritual service and walked holy intentionally. When we come to Jesus we are messy and have to make the effort to turn our lives around. We all have need of a savior. 


Ephesians 4:18 G4654 being darkened G3588 in the G1271 mind, G1510.6 being G526 separated from G3588 the G2222 life G3588   G2316 of God, G1223 through G3588 the G52 ignorance G3588   G1510.6 being G1722 in G1473 them, G1223 through G3588 the G4457 callousness G3588   G2588 of their heart; G1473  


The ethnos who are unsaved have dark thoughts that are deprived of light. Why? Because they are estranged and alienated from the Living Elohim. Their imaginations are obscure and gloomy and they think that we think the same way that they think. We do not because we are not alienated from the Living Elohim, our thoughts and imaginations are light and life. They have dark thoughts because of their own ignorance and willful blindness. Their hearts are callous, hard, and blind.


Ephesians 4:19 G3748 ones who G524 being numbed, G1438 delivered themselves up G3860   G3588 to G766 lewdness, G1519 for G2039 a work G167 of all uncleanness G3956   G1722 in G4124 a desire for wealth.


These people become apathetic. They feel no pain and cease to care. They surrender to lewdness, licentiousness, wantonness, debauchery, and lasciviousness. This is speaking of sexual promiscuity, crude sexual behaviors, vulgarity, sexually unrestrained, excessive sexual indulgence, etc. Paul is saying that their dark thoughts and obscure imaginations lead unbelievers into not caring about the Living God and they become overly sexualized and labor in physical and moral impurity for avarice and extortion. 


Although Paul wrote this about two thousand years ago, Paul just described unsaved politicians, unsaved world leaders, unsaved corporate executives, and some unsaved religious leaders. They have dark thoughts and are willfully blind with hard hearts. They feel no pain and cease to care about their sexual perversity so they work in impurity and greedy extortion. They don’t know the Living God. 


If we look at these people from a thirty thousand foot view what we see are humans acting animalistic in nature, with no higher consciousness. That is their base nature. If we keep in mind that the other sons of God do not procreate among themselves we can see the root of the many distortions regarding sexual behaviors. Demonically influenced, people resort to all sorts of criminal behavior, from peeping toms, to pornography, to rape of men and women, boys and girls, to trafficking humans, to murdering infants, and so on. The distortion of these behaviors is due to not caring about others and having a calloused heart. These people believe that they are descended from apes and they behave in that manner, alienating themselves from their Creator. We know that we have been created in the image of the Elohim, and we want to know our Creator, the Living Elohim.


We should notice that Paul is not shy in talking about these things. Sexual perversions are in the church today. This is a shame but it needs to be discussed in light of Paul’s words. There are leaders in the church who have alienated themselves from the Elohim. They have to in order to abuse others. When someone’s heart is separated from the Living Elohim, they have broken their own connection. They have to repent and change their behaviors. Speak the truth in love. They came to Christ with all their sins in tow and they still have to work out their dark thoughts, apathy, and sexual perversions. The ligaments are not supplying energy to these people even though they work in the church. They are going through the rituals and routines in their own strength, with their own dark thoughts. These religious leaders may believe that Jesus is Lord but they are severed from the Body of Christ. They also may shun the gifts of the Spirit, because they don’t want anyone to “see” what they are doing in secret. They will become controlling and dominating of others. We need to tell them to repent, we can speak the truth in love.  


Sexual perversity is not new to religious people. The temple had booths built for male and female prostitutes for sexual rites and rituals. 


https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2014/03/passover-male-prostitution-in-temple.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-laity-what-jesus-hates-hierarchy.html


We should not be surprised that these perversions find their way into our churches as the temple had been infested with sexual previsions for over four hundred years. Peter also explains this behavior to us. 


2 Peter 2:1 G1096 But there existed G1161   G2532 also G5578 false prophets G1722 among G3588 the G2992 people; G5613 as G2532 also G1722 among G1473 you G1510.8.6 there will be G5572 false teachers, G3748 ones who G3919 shall introduce privately G139 [2sects G684 1destructive], G2532 and G3588 [2the G59 4buying G1473 5them G1203 3master G720 1denying], G1863 bringing G1722 unto G1473 themselves G5031 quick G684 destruction.


These pseudo prophets and pseudo teachers bring upon themselves impending eternal misery in hell. Many will follow the Jesus rejecters in impending eternal misery in hell because they will speak evil against alētheia, “truth”. They have a desire for wealth and will form and mold their words as a traveling salesman, peddling snake oils for you to buy. Yet the Jesus rejecters’ decree or judgment was cast long ago. They will have eternal misery in hell with no sleep or rest. 


Now let’s examine this, the false prophets and false teachers are in the church, among the people in the church. They bring into the church destructive self-chosen opinions, hairesis. When one of these self-chosen opinions catches the attention of a few people it splinters the Body of Christ. No one would care if the false teachers and false prophets were in the local bar or out in the synagogue of satan, but the pseudo’s should not be in the church. 


2 Peter 2:2 G2532 And G4183 many G1811 shall follow after G1473 them G3588 in the G684 destruction, G1223 through G3739 whom G3588 the G3598 way G3588 of the G225 truth G987 shall be blasphemed.


Wait, many will follow after the pseudo prophets and pseudo teachers? Many in the church will follow the pseudo prophets and pseudo teachers to their own destruction. The way of truth, alētheia, is spoken as evil, abusive, or scurrilous language about the truth. If people have splintered into a sect because false prophets and false teachers in the church preached their own self-chosen opinions that lead to destruction, they will be blaspheming truth. This is problematic in the Body of Christ, isn’t it?


2 Peter 2:3 G2532 And G1722 by G4124 a desire for wealth, G4112 with shaped G3056 words, G1473 they shall make trade of you; G1710   G3739 for whom G3588 the G2917 judgment G1597 of old G3756 is not idle, G691   G2532 and G3588   G684 their destruction G1473   G3756 shall not G3573 slumber.


The false prophets, teachers, are like snake oil salesmen, who are blaspheming Jesus and his plan of redemption, they have a verdict for complete ruin. They are in the church. Many people go into ministry for the money. It may sound strange, but megachurches bring in a lot of high dollar salaries. One way to eliminate the false prophets, false teachers, and the sexual previsions among church staff, would be to cut all church salaries to zero. Volunteer church only, with volunteers paying the bills for the building and utilities. Volunteers keeping the grounds clean and neat, volunteers sweeping, mopping and cleaning the inside. All serving without getting paid. If no one made a six figure salary many of the predators would look somewhere else for prey. The sheep can take care of themselves until the true shepherds would emerge from the flock to help people grow up in Jesus. 


Peter compares the snake oil salesmen to the fallen angels, suggesting that if God did not spare them, but put them in chains in the infernal region, what about judgment on these false prophets, teachers, who are like traveling snake oil salesmen in the church? Take off the rose colored glasses, the snake oil salesmen are there with their MLM opportunities. 


2 Peter 2:4 G1487 For if G1063   G3588   G2316 God G32 [2of angels G264 3sinning G3756 1spared not], G5339   G235 but G4577 in chains G2217 of the infernal G5020 region G3860 delivered them up G1519 for G2920 [2judgment G5083 1being kept for];


Who told us about these angels who sinned and ended up in chains? Enoch.The angels sinned and messed up humanity. Do angels procreate among themselves? No. But they distorted Yahweh’s order by procreating with humans. If Yahweh didn’t spare them, what will he do to the ones who harm the sheep from within the church?


Peter then compares the Lord’s judgments in the flood, that came upon the ancient world due to the fallen angels. Peter brings up Sodom and Gomorrah’s judgment. 


https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2019/07/unsuccessful-testing-trials-sport.html


2 Peter 2:5 G2532 and G744 the ancient G2889 world G3756 he spared not, G5339   G235 but G3590 [3 the eighth G* 2Noah G1343 5of righteousness G2782 4proclaimer G5442 1kept], G2627 [2 the flood G2889 4world G765 3to the impious G1863 1having brought]


If Yahweh brought a flood because of their distorted sexual perversity among themselves and the angels, what will he do to the church leaders who victimized the sheep?


https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/08/noahs-faith-evil-cain-antediluvian.html


2 Peter 2:6 G2532 and G4172 the cities G* of Sodom G2532 and G* Gomorrah G5077 having reduced to ashes G2692 [2by a final event G2632 1he condemned]; G5262 [2an example G3195 3for the ones being about G764 4to be impious G5087 1having set];


The people of Sodom were so sexually perverted that Yahweh threw fire and brimstone on them. Imagine what will happen to those who abuse others who end up rejecting Jesus because of their abuse by church leaders. Jesus says that he leaves the ninety-nine in order to go after the one. The context is causing a child of God to fall away from Jesus. The offence lies in the vulnerability of the sheep. Predators seeking prey.


https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/05/entrapping-children-eternal-fires-of.html


2 Peter 2:7 G2532 and G1342 [2righteous G* 3Lot G2669 4being harassed G5259 5by G3588 6the G3588   G113 7unlawful ones G1722 8in G766 9lewdness G391 10of behavior, G4506 1he rescued],


As many of us have found ourselves in churches where scandals rocked the foundations of the building, the righteous may have been speaking out to no avail, but guess what, Yahweh knows how to deliver the righteous. Notice again the sexual promiscuity, crude sexual behaviors, vulgarity, sexually unrestrained, excessive sexual indulgence, are in the church, but Yahweh rescues the righteous. Stay righteous. Take off the rose-colored glasses. 


2 Peter 2:8 G990 (for by sight G1063   G2532 and G189 hearing, G3588 the G1342 righteous man G1460 dwelling G1722 among G1473 them, G2250 day G1537 by G2250 day G5590 [3soul G1342 2 his righteous G459 4 by their lawless G2041 5works G928 1tormented];)


Yahweh sees you. In the midst of the insanity that goes on in the church, with all the predators, all the lies spun, and all the sheep being devoured, Yahweh sees the righteous. Yahweh sees you. 


https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2015/03/sodom-rape-and-evil-behavior-witchcraft.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2015/04/sodom-part-2-inbred-witchcraft-blinded.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-antithesis-of-sodom-and-our.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/08/unjust-judgments-not-destroying-just.html


2 Peter 2:9 G1492 but the Lord knows G2962   G2152 [2 the pious G1537 3from G3986 4tests G4506 1to rescue], G94 and the unrighteous G1161   G1519 [2for G2250 3a day G2920 4of judgment G2849 5being punished G5083 1to keep];


This is why Noah, Lot, and Daniel were spared out from the evil circumstances that they lived in. Yahweh knows. 


2 Peter 2:10 G3122 and especially G1161   G3588 the ones G3694 [2after G4561 3 the flesh G1722 4in G1939 5a desire G3394 6for defilement G4198 1going], G2532 and G2963 [2lordship G2706 1ones disdaining]; G5113 daring, G829 self-willed, G1391 [4glories G3756 1they do not G5141 2tremble G987 3 in blaspheming].


There are people in the church who travel after flesh, longing for defilement. They despise lordship or any spiritual hierarchy over them; meaning there is a pastor who believes he doesn’t have to follow Yahweh’s authority when it comes to sexual behavior. There are teachers who ask for special favors from their masseuse. Whoever it is, they must become apathetic, and hard hearted as Paul told us. They separate themselves from God and dispose of Him. They become daring self-satisfied, arrogant, and self-pleasing, authadēs.  Their heart is hardened to their own blasphemies. 


2 Peter 2:11 G3699 Where G32 angels G2479 [2in strength G2532 3and G1411 5power G3173 4greater G1510.6 1being], G3756 do not G5342 bring G2596 against G1473 them G3844 before G2962 the Lord G989 a blasphemous G2920 case.


Angels do not accuse the sinner in the church before the courts of the Lord. We are supposed to do that. Once we know, we go into the courts of the Lord and bring the case before Him. If angels did accuse people of their perversions then people would behave themselves, but because people have no fear of retribution until others find out, they believe that they can do things in secret and they allow their lewdness to overtake them. 


2 Peter 2:12 G3778 But these, G1161   G5613 as G249 [2illogical G2226 3living creatures G5446 1physical], G1080 engendered G1519 for G259 conquest G2532 and G5356 corruption G1722 in G3739 [2what G50 3they know not G987 1blaspheming], G1722 in G3588 their corruption G5356   G1473   G2704 shall be laid waste; 13 G2865 carrying G3408 a wage G93 of unrighteousness;…


These people are natural irrational living creatures who procreate into/upon capture and decay in blaspheming. That is an important statement. Peter is saying that these people are natural living creatures who live irrationally and illogically. They procreate with the one they capture. They are decaying by blaspheming what they are ignorant of, which leads to their ruin and downward spoil, receiving payment for wrongdoing. Engendered or procreating upon conquest is an interesting idea. These people have base desires like animals, and like animals in the wild, they win a mate and procreate. It is the challenge of the game that they go after, even in the church. It is there, look around.    


2 Peter 2:13… G2237 [5satisfaction G2233 1esteeming G3588 2the G1722 3daily G2250   G5172 4delicacy]. G4695 Stains G2532 and G3470 blemishes, G1792 reveling G1722 in G3588   G539 their deceptions, G1473 …  


They lead the way daily in effeminate pleasure. Peter’s words, not mine. They live luxuriously in the deceitfulness. How much money do these church leaders make? Cut the salaries. The true pastors will stay.  


2 Peter 2:13 … G4910 feasting together G1473 with you; 14 G3788 [2eyes G2192 1having] G3324 full G3428 of an adulterous one, G2532 and G180 ceaseless G266 of sin; G1185 entrapping G5590 [2souls G793 1unstable]; G2588 [2a heart G1128 3being exercised G4124 4for a desire for wealth G2192 1having]; G2671 [2of curse G5043 1children].


These people eat meals together with us but they have eyes full of adultery.  Are they looking for someone to groom? Are they looking for their next conquest? They keep sinning. They entice or bait unstable souls. This is who they look for with their adulterous eyes. Their heart is trained for greed; who can they consume next. They are cursed (katara) children. But they are in the church. The sheep don’t even know that they are there. They are grooming the weak, young, and confused, the unstable souls, who are all trying to leave sin behind. 


2 Peter 2:15 G2641 Leaving behind G3588 the G2117 straight G3598 way, G4105 they wandered, G1811 following after G3588 the G3598 way G3588   G* of Balaam G3588 the son of G* Bosor, G3739 who G3408 [2 the wage G93 3of unrighteousness G25 1loved];


The way of Balaam was multifaceted but the one aspect of concern here is that Balaam told Balak to put all the sexy women out on the road to entice the Israelite men. That worked. The men loved the unrighteousness, and they had left the straight way. 


2 Peter 2:16 G1649 [3rebuke G1161 1but G2192 2had] G2398 of his own G3892 unlawfulness -- G5268 [2beast G880 1a voiceless], G1722 in G444 a man's G5456 voice G5350 uttering a sound, G2967 restrained G3588 the G3588 [2of the G4396 3prophet G3913 1ranting].


Balaam was rebuked. 


2 Peter 2:17 G3778 These G1510.2.6 are G4077 [2springs G504 1waterless], G3507 clouds G5259 [2by G2978 3a tempest G1643 1being driven], G3739 ones to whom G3588 the G2217 infernal region G3588   G4655 of darkness G1519 [2into G165 3 the eon G5083 1is kept].


The people in the church who are predators are useless. They are heading to the gloom or darkness for an age. Pay attention, be wise.


2 Peter 2:18 G5246 For [2pompous G1063   G3153 4of folly G5350 1uttering 3sounds], G1185 they entrap G1722 by G1939 the desires G4561 of the flesh, G766 in lewdnesses, G3588 the ones who G3689 really G668 escaped G3588 from the ones G1722 [2in G4106 3delusion G390 1behaving],


These people speak loud boastful depravity, enticed in longing of the flesh in speaking of sexual promiscuity, crude sexual behaviors, vulgarity, sexually unrestrained, excessive sexual indulgence. They truly escape in upside-down error. They escape from the right way, the church, into upside-down error. Peter goes on to say that they promise freedom to their prey but they are slaves to corruption and then enslave others along with them. Jesus mentions this:


Mark 7:20 G3004 And he said G1161   G3754 that, G3588 The thing G1537 [2from out of G3588 3the G444 4man G1607 1going forth], G1565 that G2840 defiles G3588 the G444 man.

  21 G2081 For from inside G1063   G1537 out of G3588 the G2588 heart G3588   G444 of men G3588   G1261 [3thoughts G3588   G2556 2evil G1607 1goes forth], G3430 adulteries, G4202 harlotries, G5408 murders,

  22 G2829 frauds, G4124 desires for wealth, G4189 wickednesses, G1388 treachery, G766 lewdness, G3788 [2eye G4190 1a wicked], G988 blasphemy, G5243 pride, G877 folly.

  23 G3956 All G3778 these G3588   G4190 evils G2081 from inside G1607 go forth G2532 and G2840 defile G3588 the G444 man.


Evil thoughts go out of men’s hearts. Look at what evil a non-saved man has in his heart. Now think about the saved man, those things are not supposed to be in his heart. The saved man is supposed to put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness, truth, and holiness. Why are people putting these things back inside their heart? The Holy Spirit resided in the temple alongside all the defilement for over 400 years, so it is not a matter of being Spirit filled or not, it is a matter of what one feeds on. If one thinks about the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil the one fruit not allowed, that is all the adam and Eve focused on instead of thinking on what is allowed. It is easy to allow evil spirits to draw that one to the forbidden fruit. Put it in these terms; do you love Jesus more than adultery? Do you love Jesus more than harlotries, murders, frauds, desires for wealth, etc. If one severs his heart from Jesus then that one is susceptible. Demons prey on weak, tired and unstable people. Then the demon’s prey become predators in the church looking for new unstable prey.  


1 Peter 4:1 G5547 Christ G3767 then G3958 having suffered G5228 for G1473 us G4561 in flesh, G2532 you also G1473   G3588 with the G1473 same G1771 reflection G3695 be armed! G3754 For G3588 the one G3958 suffering G1722 in G4561 flesh, G3973 has ceased G266 of sin;


Suffer in the flesh. Simple. Deny they flesh. Christ did. We are to do it too. 


1 Peter 4:2 G1519 to no longer G3588   G3371   G444 [6of men's G1939 7desires G235 8but G2307 9God's will G2316   G3588 2the remaining G954   G1722 4in G4561 5 the flesh G980 1spend G5550 3time].


Do not wast time longing to feed the flesh. Spend time in God’s will instead. 


1 Peter 4:3 G713 For sufficient G1473 to us G3588 was the G3928 having passed G5550 time G3588 of the G979 existence G3588 [2the G2307 3will G3588 4of the G1484 5nations G2716 1to have worked], G4198 going G1722 in G766 lewdnesses, G1939 desires, G3632 drunkennesses with wine, G2970 debaucheries, G4224 drinking banquets, G2532 and G111 unlawful G1495 idolatries;


We all walked like the unsaved ethnos, in sexual perversity, longings, drunkenness, feasting, carousing, illegal idolatry. We didn’t know. But now we do. Others may not have put off those behaviors but have come to the church in search of Jesus. We all need Jesus, but we all need to be wise too. 


1 Peter 4:4 G1722 in G3739 which G3579 they think it strange G3361 [2not G4936 3running together G1473 1your] G1519 in G3588 the G1473 same G3588   G810 [2of carnality G401 1pouring out], G987 being blasphemous;


The ethnos think we are strange for not behaving like them. If we understand that they think we think the way they do, and that they cannot understand what our problem is with their ideas, then we can make progress in eradicating sexual perversions from the church. The predators think we have the same thoughts they do. The predators think we are looking for unstable souls too. We know that this world is not our home. We would like to enter the kingdom of heaven and not be left outside knocking. 


1 Peter 4:5 G3739 ones who G591 shall render G3056 an account G3588 to the one G2093 readily G2192 sufficing G2919 to judge G2198 the living G2532 and G3498 dead.


Everyone will give an account, saint and sinner alike. Everyone. Everyone will be judged. We know what we were like before we knew Christ, but in Christ old things are passed away, unless we bring them back. Our church leaders cannot act like sinners during the week and then try to shepherd people on Sunday. That would be called a hireling. They are “hired” for one day per week. No. They cannot be workers of the flesh.


Galatians 5:19 G5318 [7apparent G1161 1And G1510.2.3 6are G3588 2the G2041 3works G3588 4of the G4561 5flesh]; G3748 which G1510.2.3 are, G3430 adultery, G4202 harlotry, G167 uncleanness, G766 lewdness,


Paul teaches this subject for the Galatians. He is telling us who is not going to enter the kingdom of heaven. 


https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/10/jesus-teaches-harpazo-snatched-into.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/10/outer-darkness-farthest-are-foremost.html


Galatians 5:20 G1495 idolatry, G5331 sorcery, G2189 hatreds, G2054 strifes, G2205 jealousies, G2372 rages, G2052 contentions, G1370 discords, G139 sects,

  21 G5355 envies, G5408 murders, G3178 intoxications, G2970 debaucheries, G2532 and G3588 the things G3664 likened G3778 to these;…


This is a broad list. There are two individuals that we have to identify, the predator and the prey, or the abuser and the abused, or the lewd and the unstable soul. Some people use alcohol or drugs to numb their own pain, they need help. We can help the abuser and the abused. But the abuser should not be a leader in a church, should not be in a paid position in the church, and should not be allowed to shepherd others in the church. There are other things one can do while being restored in Christ. Every church needs a janitor and every church needs a landscaper. 


Galatians 5:21… G3739 which G4302 I say beforehand G1473 to you, G2531 as G2532 also G4277 I foretold, G3754 that G3588 the ones G3588   G5108 [2such things G4238 1practicing G932 4 the kingdom G2316 5of God G3756 3shall not inherit]. G2816  


If the Body of Christ grows up, the Body of Christ can take back the church. Then as Paul explains to the Galatians, we can explain to others the tenets of who will and will not enter the kingdom of the Elohim. Paul explains this to the Romans.


Romans 13:19 G5318 [7apparent G1161 1And G1510.2.3 6are G3588 2the G2041 3works G3588 4of the G4561 5flesh]; G3748 which G1510.2.3 are, G3430 adultery, G4202 harlotry, G167 uncleanness, G766 lewdness,

  20 G1495 idolatry, G5331 sorcery, G2189 hatreds, G2054 strifes, G2205 jealousies, G2372 rages, G2052 contentions, G1370 discords, G139 sects,

  21 G5355 envies, G5408 murders, G3178 intoxications, G2970 debaucheries, G2532 and G3588 the things G3664 likened G3778 to these; G3739 which G4302 I say beforehand G1473 to you, G2531 as G2532 also G4277 I foretold, G3754 that G3588 the ones G3588   G5108 [2such things G4238 1practicing G932 4 the kingdom G2316 5of God G3756 3shall not inherit]. G2816  


Here is another list for us to think on. When we make this connection that these are things that are happening in the church, in the assemblies, among the called out, then we can then take action against them. Yahweh is not opposed to rooting out the sin in our lives through suffering, so if someone neglects Yahweh’s prompting Yahweh will expose the mess that someone has been living in. 


Jesus knows the works in the churches. He knows who is righteous, who is an unstable soul, and who is a predator. 


Revelation 2:1 G3588 To the G32 angel G3588 of the G1577 assembly G* in Ephesus G1125 write! G3592 Thus G3004 says G3588 the one G2902 holding G3588 the G2033 seven G792 stars G1722 in G3588   G1188 his right hand, G1473   G3588 the one G4043 walking G1722 in G3319 the midst G3588 of the G2033 seven G3087 [2lamp stands G3588   G5552 1golden].

  2 G1492 I know G3588   G2041 your works, G1473   G2532 and G3588   G2873 your toil, G1473   G2532 and G3588   G5281 your endurance, G1473   G2532 and G3754 that G3756 you are not G1410 able G941 to bear G2556 evil ones; G2532 and G3985 you tested G3588 the ones G3004 calling G1438 themselves G652 apostles, G2532 and G3756 are not, G1510.2.6   G2532 and G2147 found G1473 them G5571 liars;

  3 G2532 and G941 you bore, G2532 and G5281 [2endurance G2192 1have], G1223 because of G3588   G3686 my name, G1473   G2532 and G3756 you tired not. G2872  


Jesus tells the Ephesian church that they tested the people calling themselves apostles and found out that they were liars. They went through hard times, and they prevailed. They had been tested as a group and they endured. They did not grow weary. 


Revelation 2:4 G235 But G2192 I have G2596 against G1473 you, G3754 that G3588 the G26 love G1473 of yours, G3588 the G4413 first, G863 you have left.


They became too busy for their first love. There were not enough hours in the day to manage it all. They forsook their first love. This speaks to us individually as well as corporately. Jesus is their/our first love. Jesus tells them/us to repent, otherwise he will remove their lamp stand


Revelation 2:5 G3421 Remember G3767 then G4159 from what place G1601 you have fallen, G2532 and G3340 repent, G2532 and G3588 [2the G4413 3first G2041 4works G4160 1do]! G1490 But if not, G2064 I come G1473 to you G5036 quickly, G2532 and G2795 I will move G3588   G3087 your lamp stand G1473   G1537 from out of G3588   G5117 its place, G1473   G1437 unless G3361   G3340 you should repent.


Remember and repent. Individually and corporately. Individually, one will not be a leader if that one does not obey Jesus. Corporately, a church will not lead the nations if the church does not obey Jesus. 


Each assembly of called out people has its own culture, its own function, its own strengths and weaknesses. Each assembly is different. It is a sad thing for one church leader or one teacher to fall into sexual perversions. There can be restoration, but maybe not reinstatement. The problem is that we hire a pastor to be like a CEO, or the overall manager of the body. Yet if we change our model for the assemblies, we may actually grow up the Body of Christ, giving more responsibility to the individuals to think for themselves. We have to teach people how to identify the predators. We have to help the unstable souls from becoming prey. We have to stop allowing and excusing perverted behaviors. We don’t have to be biologists or Bible scholars to understand that the Elohim made male and female.


Genesis 1:27 G2532 And G4160 God made G3588   G2316   G3588   G444 man. G2596 According to G1504 the image G2316 of God G4160 he made G1473 him. G730 Male G2532 and G2338 female G4160 he made G1473 them.


All humans are made in the image, likeness, or profile of the Elohim. Angels sinned. They brought sexual perversions to humanity. Yet people have the responsibility to not allow those perversions to dominate all of humanity. We are responsible for the sheep, we are responsible not to lose our first love. If we do not beat back the dark perverted spirits attacking our assemblies, we will lose our candlestick, our light to the nations will go out and we will become another irrelevant assembly. 


However, there is hope. When a church gets to the point of public exposure, it is over and it has already lost its candlestick. The righteous people who had no idea of the sexual perversions taking place can now move forward. Find another assembly or group to study and pray with. The righteous can go back to the organic roots of the church in small numbers. The righteous are always rescued out from destruction. Being out of the assembly with its familiarity and family actually feels scary. But Jesus is the one to look to for direction. The Body of Christ does not need one leader, or one overseer, so that when that one falls, the sheep scatter. Instead do what the first century church did, meet in small groups at homes, praying together and caring for one another. Become the elders and deacons among your own group, helping the new believers in Christ. Take care of the widows and the orphans among yourselves. Do not give a place back in leadership to the individuals who had to be publicly exposed. Jesus tried repeatedly to correct them before he had to publicly remove their candlestick. They should have repented the first, second, third, or fourth time that Jesus told them to, rather than allowing public humiliation to the entire Body of Christ. That behavior shows lack of sound judgment and should not be rewarded with a “new position”. Sometimes the breakup is the best thing that can happen to a dysfunctional assembly because the righteous are set free.