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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, January 20, 2019

Sporting With The devil; Not Victims But Failures; Oolla and Ooliba; Fall of Judah; Mocking


In the Book of Job we see the devil exposed and the devil’s purpose revealed. We see why he was created. The devil is sporting with humans as he is the elohim of this cosmos. With the understanding of the devil’s purpose we can then understand the controversy we see in the Bible and around us today. Unfortunately, the church has fallen short in it’s teachings and message to the world regarding this subject. Just as Israel and Judah were led into fornication and adultery we too are tempted, teased, and goaded in this way. We will look at the idea of sporting or competing with the devil. We will look at mockery and a sneering reaction to the words of Yahweh by the people of Judah just before they were led into captivity. We will also look at Yahweh’s words to Judah through the prophet Ezekiel and the prophecy that people mocked. We will uncover some of the tricks and schemes the devil used on Israel and Judah so that we can be better prepared for this game we are living in. We will look at the problem humans have with lust, harlotry, and adultery and how it caused the southern kingdom to go into captivity. 

In the beginning of the Book of Job we can see the devil accusing Job on the days that the sons of God meet and give an account of earth’s happenings. Job is attacked and laments as he doesn’t believe he has done anything wrong. Job’s three friends are convinced that he has done something sinful. A fourth young man was the most intelligent as he basically told all of them that we humans are finite, and that Yahweh is infinite so we can’t possibly know all his ways. Then, as we looked at a few weeks ago, Yahweh explains to Job the purpose of the devil/dragon.  

Job 41:24 There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.

Job 41:33 G3756 There is not G1510.2.3   G3762 anything G1909 upon G3588 the G1093 earth G3664 likened G1473 to him, G4160 being made, G1460.1 to be mocked at G5259 by G3588   G32 my angels. G1473   

1461 Dodson:ἐγκεντρίζω I graft in I graft in, ingraft.
Thayer:
1) to cut into for the sake of inserting a scion 
2) to inoculate, ingraft, graft in

ἐγκεντρίζω 
egkentrizō eng-ken-trid'-zo From G1722 and a derivative of G2759; to prick in, that is, ingraft
KJV Usage: graff in (-to).

1722
ἐν 
en en  A primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), that is, a relation of rest (intermediate between G1519 and G1537); “in” , at, (up-) on, by, etc.
KJV Usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-) by (+ all means), for (. . . sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-) in (-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-) on, [open-] ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, [speedi-] ly, X that, X there (-in, -on), through (-out), (un-) to(-ward), under, when, where (-with), while, with (-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) prep.

2760 LSJ Gloss:κέντρον any sharp point
Dodson:κέντρον a sting, goad a sting, goad; met: of death.
Thayer:
1) a sting, as that of bees, scorpions, locusts. Since animals wound by their sting and even cause death, Paul attributes death, personified as a sting, i.e. a deadly weapon 
2) an iron goad, for urging on oxen, horses and other beasts of burden 
2a) hence the proverb, "to kick against the goad", i.e. to offer vain and perilous or ruinous resistance

κέντρον 
kentron ken'-tron From κεντέω kenteō (to prick); a point (“centre”), that is, a sting (figuratively poison) or goad (figuratively divine impulse) KJV Usage: prick, sting.

The word egkentrizō literally means “in sting” or “instrumentally goad”. The devil/dragon was created to literally be a prick or to prick. Why was the devil created to sting? Our fantasized imaginations of heaven don’t usually allow for an opponent; just clouds, harps, white gowns, and wings. We are not taught that there was a created opponent to the angels who competes and stings. We have not been taught that the devil is a prick. We somehow believe he became that way. But the devil/dragon was poieō, formed or made to be sported with. The devil/dragon was manufactured and constructed to be a competitor, a being that would sting and goad. 

Why would Yahweh create a stinging competitor? Think about our nature as a freewill being. If we didn’t have competition would we strive hard? Would we work better? Would we try to be efficient? If a runner runs a mile, with no competition, that runner could start to run, take a nap, and finish the mile two hours later. But if the runner has a competitor who can do it better, that runner strives harder. If an individual has someone mocking him or her, or someone goading him or her, that individual will define what he/she believes and learn to fight for it. Why does one need to learn to fight? Think on this for a moment. Let’s put this in the context of angels sporting or fighting with the devil. Isn’t there going to be a war in heaven where Michael and His angels will fight the devil and his angels? How about Daniel 10? What about humans? Are we to wage spiritual warfare against principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness? An opponent causes each son of God to make a choice as to who to serve. But that is not where this decision ends; each son of God must contend and strive for masteries. 

Yahweh also tells us that the devil/dragon was made to be played with by the angels. There is no suggestion of the devil being made to be played with by man. 

Job 40:14 This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.

Job 40:19 G5123 This is G746 the beginning G4110 of the thing shaped G2962 by the lord; G4160 being made G1460.1 to be mocked G5259 by G3588   G32 his angels. G1473

Teasing and goading are a form of play that we all partake in. Sometimes innocent teasing goes too far and becomes hurtful. Sometimes goading causes a reaction of retaliation. Sometimes goading causes a reaction of submission. What happens when the devil goads people to sin? What happens when people submit to that sin?

The angels were to engage in banter with the devil. The angels were to spar with the archē, the chief of the Lord’s creation. What about humans? The adam may not have been created to spar or sport with the devil/dragon; but as we know, in a round about way the devil was able to steal the adam’s authority by sending a fallen angel, Gadreel, to Eve. Therefore under the authority of the devil, the creation is under constant goading and stinging. We also know that Jesus overcame all of the devil’s goading, mocking, and stinging, and took back the keys to hades and death.

Isn’t this why we see constant fighting among us? This is the culture that the devil brought to the earth. And while we don’t wrestle against humans, people’s minds have been blinded to the degree that we must learn to contend openly for the Lord Jesus. It is no wonder that the Masoretic text hid this truth in Job as they would have to explain why the Jews were not victims but failures of this game. The Masoretes would rather pretend that all Jews are victims than teach the truth, that the devil is a real enemy we all have to spar with. Those who claim victimization are those who lose the game. They sin and have a price to pay for the consequence of their sins. Most people want others to think that they innocently made a mistake rather than willfully chose to sin. 

Today when people are captured by an opposing army they are beaten, taunted, and goaded. That is part of being a prisoner of war. In regular society people also yell, scream, and lie, when they hear something they don’t like. This has been the case more often then not regarding Yahweh. No matter whether the people reacting badly were Jews in the northern or southern kingdom, the Pharisees, Jews of today, or simply people who harden their hearts toward God. The devil via demons stirs up ire in people when they hear about Jesus, Yahweh, God the Father, the Creator, the Holy Spirit, or any other Biblical idea. Madness takes over peoples’ minds and they become enraged. This happened in Israel.

Josiah turned Judah around, bringing back the passover, and removing all the idols and evil practices in the temple including the booths for male and female prostitution within the temple. Eleven years and six months after Josiah died, Zedekiah was put in place to reign in Judah by Nebuchadnezzar. Zedekiah hardened his neck against Yahweh Elohim. The people also became wicked and defiled the temple again. Yahweh Elohim sent prophets to correct the situation.

2 Chronicles 36:11 Sedekias was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and be reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God: he was not ashamed before the prophet Jeremias, nor because of the word of the Lord; 13 in that he rebelled against king Nabuchodonosor, which he adjured him by God not to do: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, so as not to return to the Lord God of Israel. 14 And all the great men of Juda, and the priests, and the people of the land transgressed abundantly in the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lord which was in Jerusalem. 15 And the Lord God of their fathers sent by the hand of his prophets; rising early and sending his messengers, for he spared his people, and his sanctuary. 16 Nevertheless they sneered at his messengers, and set at nought his words, and mocked his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against his people, till there was no remedy. http://ecmarsh.com/lxx/Chronicles%20II/index.htm

2 Chronicles 36:16 G2532 And G1510.7.6 they were G3456 sneering at G3588   G32 his messengers, G1473   G2532 and G1848 treating with contempt G3588   G3056 his words, G1473   G2532 and G1702 mocking G1722 among G3588   G4396 his prophets, G1473   G2193 until G305 [4ascended G3588 1the G2372 2rage G2962 3 of the lord] G1722 among G3588   G2992 his people G1473   G2193 until G3756 there was no G1510.7.3   G2386 cure. 

1702 LSJ Gloss:ἐμπαίζω to mock at, mock
Dodson:ἐμπαίζω I mock I mock, ridicule.
Thayer:
1) to play with, trifle with 
1a) to mock 
1b) to delude, deceive

ἐμπαίζω 
empaizō emp-aheed'-zo From G1722 and G3815; to jeer at, that is, deride
KJV Usage: mock.

3456 LSJ Gloss:μυκτηρίζω to turn up the nose
Dodson:μυκτηρίζω I sneer at, disdain (properly: I turn up the nose as a sign of contempt), I sneer at, disdain.
Thayer:
1) to turn up the nose or sneer at 
2) to mock, deride

μυκτηρίζω 
muktērizō mook'-tay-rid'-zo  From a derivative of the base of G3455 (meaning snout, as that whence lowing proceeds from); to make mouths at, that is, ridicule KJV Usage: mock.

1848 Dodson:ἐξουθενέω I ignore, despise I set at naught, ignore, despise.
Thayer:
1) to make of no account, despise utterly

ἐξουθενέω 
exoutheneō ex-oo-then-eh'-o A variation of G1847 and meaning the same KJV Usage: contemptible, despise, least esteemed, set at nought.

2372 LSJ Gloss:θυμός the soul
Dodson:θυμός an outburst of passion, wrath.
Thayer:
1) passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again 
2) glow, ardour, the wine of passion, inflaming wine (which either drives the drinker mad or kills him with its strength)

θυμός 
thumos thoo-mos' From G2380; passion (as if breathing hard) KJV Usage: fierceness, indignation, wrath. 

2386 LSJ Gloss:ἴαμα a means of healing, remedy, medicine
Dodson:ἴαμα healing, curing healing, curing, remedy.
Thayer:
1) a means of healing, remedy, medicine 
2) a healing

ἴαμα 
iama ee'-am-ah From G2390; a cure (the effect) KJV Usage: healing.

Not more than twelve years after Josiah died, Judah had been invaded by Egypt and had come under the captivity of Babylon. This time period is another eleven years before the second invasion of Babylon where everyone was carried off as captives. While we might think that what Hezekiah and Josiah did was wonderful, it is apparent that the people along with some of the religious leaders were not interested worshipping Yahweh. Yahweh sent his servants the messengers and the prophets. They were sneering, mocking, and deriding the messengers. Were the messengers the angels? We don’t know, but they despised the Lord’s logos. The people also mocked, goaded, pricked, and stung, the prophets. Yahweh’s passionate rage and indignation rose against the people. There was no cure, remedy, or healing, from the wrath of Yahweh. The people enjoyed their sins. 

2 Chronicles 36:17 And he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and did not spare Sedekias, and had no mercy upon their virgins, and they led away their old men: he delivered all things into their hands. 18 And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and all the treasures of the king and the great men; he brought all to Babylon. 
19 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt its palaces with fire, and utterly destroyed every beautiful vessel. 20 And he carried away the remnant to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of the Medes. 21 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, until the land should enjoy its sabbaths in resting and sabbath keeping all the days of its desolation, till the accomplishment of seventy years.

Twenty three years after Josiah’s death Judah went into captivity for seventy years because of their own bad behavior. Does it seem as if the people failed this sparring match with the devil? They did. We don’t expect this from the children of Israel, but they routinely rejected the prophets and the message that Yahweh sent. Ezra recounts this:

1 Esdras 1:46-52 (KJVApocrypha) 
46  And made Zedechias king of Judea and Jerusalem, when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned eleven years: 
47  And he did evil also in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Jeremy from the mouth of the Lord. 
48  And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel. 
49  The governors also of the people and of the priests did many things against the laws, and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem. 
50  Nevertheless the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he spared them and his tabernacle also. 
51  But they had his messengers in derision; and, look, when the Lord spake unto them, they made a sport of his prophets
52  So far forth, that he, being wroth with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded the kings of the Chaldees to come up against them; 

We can look at this sporting or competition as a test, in that the devil will poke at us to see what makes us crack. Here the political leaders and religious leaders were used by the devil to make sport of the prophets and messengers. This is the time when they first threw Jeremiah into prison then later threw him into a pit. Looking back, Jeremiah’s accuracy of seventy years of captivity tells us that he was speaking from Yahweh. We don’t know why the people rejected the Lord after Josiah brought the nation back to Yahweh, but it must have been the very same things that we all deal with today, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. The very same things that Jesus dealt with. 


1 John 2:16 (AMP) 
16  For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one's own resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself].

Notice that Ezra points out that the governors and priests did many things against the laws, and they surpassed all the other non sons of Jacob in pollutions. They also defiled the temple. There was approximately three hundred and thirty seven years of defilement in the temple, from the time of the kingdom split, to the glory leaving the temple in Ezekiel’s time.  


Physically, Israel is such a small place as compared to the rest of the world. Why does the devil focus on Israel to the degree that Judah’s people surpassed all other nations in sin? Why did Judah sin more than every other nation? The devil focuses his attacks against Israel and Judah because they were worshippers of Yahweh. Israel and Judah sinned more than the rest of the world because they failed the sporting match with the devil. They were supposed to make Yahweh known to the world, instead they imploded due to their failure to resist the devil’s temptations, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. 

Ezekiel was taken as a captive in the first wave of captives into Babylon around eleven years after Josiah died. He wrote to Judah regarding what was going on and what would happen, but they did not change. One of the warnings that Yahweh had Ezekiel write was a story about two sisters, Oolla, the older, and Ooliba the younger. Oolla was of the northern kingdom, Ooliba was of the southern kingdom. This is one of the warnings they rejected. We want to pay attention to the way Yahweh is speaking to them. He is directly speaking about their sexual behavior. This is always a game of the devil, the lust of the flesh. How many religious people fall due to this game?

Ezekiel 23:1-49 (DRV) 
1  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother. 
2  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother. 
3  And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth they committed fornication: there were their breasts pressed down, and the teats of their virginity were bruised. 

Before they came out of captivity in Egypt, they committed fornication and lost their virginity. They were mingling and fornicating with Egyptians. Remember that they were there for four hundred years. Let’s not get confused with the Hollywood version of the Exodus. The children of Israel were free people and not slaves until the very end of their time in Egypt. Jacob’s children were not the purest people as we also know. Reuben slept with Bilhah, Judah slept with prostitutes, they ganged up on Joseph and sold him. Years later they looked for Joseph in Egypt thinking he was a prostitute. They fought with many surrounding nations, as we can read in Jasher. The Israelites also worshipped Egyptian gods. As we know, Moses had is hands full just trying to get them free. They made a golden calf, they complained, they even named and worshipped the cherubim on the ark of the covenant. They lost their virginity. 

Ezekiel 23:4  And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her younger sister: and I took them, and they bore sons and daughters. Now for their names, Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is Ooliba. 
5  And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her, 
6  Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful youths, all horsemen, mounted upon horses. 
7  And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted. 
8  Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her. 

The northern kingdom lusted after the Assyrians. The word doted is epitithēmi meaning “to lay on” or “be laid on”. Northern Israel was tempted by their princes and rulers, they probably looked stately and important. They were tempted by their blue clothes. They were tempted by the Assyrian youth. They saw the armies of Assyria and were smitten with the image of force and strength that they portrayed. They lusted in their flesh. Not only did they give themselves over to idolatry, but also to sexual fornication and adultery. Northern Israel offered her porneia, harlotry, adultery, and incest, with the Assyrians. Yahweh is speaking in sexual terms because this was a large part of their problem. We know that there was male and female prostitution in the temple, but Josiah got rid of all that, yet here we are between 12 and 23 years after Josiah died and prostitution was back in the temple. That is when the glory of God was taken up by the Cherubim and Ophanim in Ezekiel 10. 

Northern Israel did not forsake the fornications that she committed in Egypt. Notice that the Egyptians poured out their fornications on Israel and Israel kept practicing those fornications. Israel lusted after the Assyrians like Egypt lusted after her. This tells us that the devil played them with sexual perversions, lust of the flesh. The devil distracted them with idols and empty worship and rituals as well, but a bigger problem was their physical porneia. It was all happening in the temple and in their homes. 

Ezekiel 23:9  Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose lust she doted. 
10  They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: and they became infamous women, and they executed judgments in her. 

Upon whose lust she lay on; she doted on. Whoever she lusted after she lay with. Remember the culture of gang rape in Benjamin and in Sodom? Porneia, harlotry, adultery, illicit sexual intercourse, homosexuality, and incest, are all aspects of what was going wrong here. The devil played Oolla with sexual temptations and idolatrous rituals. Yahweh is not speaking figuratively here, he is speaking directly. Remember in the desert the Israelites slept with the Moabite women, wasn’t that Balaam’s instruction to put out women to tempt the Israelite men? They ate and bowed down to the Moabite gods, but they also played the harlot with the women of Moab and Midian, Jasher 85, Numbers 25.

Ezekiel 23:11  And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust more than she: and she carried her fornication beyond the fornication of her sister. 
12  Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the Assyrians, the princes, and rulers that came to her, clothed with divers colours, to the horsemen that rode upon horses, and to young men all of great beauty. )
13  And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took one way. 
14  And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours, 
15  And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed turbans on their heads, the resemblance of all the captains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldeans wherein they were born, 
16  She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea. 
17  And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of love, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted with them. 
18  And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister. 

Ooliba first prostituted herself with the Assyrians and then the Chaldeans. She saw painted images of them, lusted for them, and lay with them. They came to her bed, and then her harlotry was apokaluptō, revealed. Her soul, or breath of life, was seduced away with the Chaldeans/Babylonians. Yahweh’s soul, or breath of life, was separated or removed from Ooliba. 

Ezekiel 23:19  For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 
20  And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses. 

Ezekiel 23:20 G2532 And G2007 you doted G1909 upon G3588 the G* Chaldeans, G3739 which G3588   G4561 their flesh G1473   G5613 is as G4561 flesh G3688 of donkeys, G2532 and G126.1 [2 as genitals G2462 3of horses G3588   G126.1 1their genitals]. G1473

Ezekiel 23:20 H5689 ותעגבה For she doted H5921 על upon H6370 פלגשׁיהם their paramours, H834 אשׁר whose H1320 בשׂר flesh H2543 חמורים of asses, H1320 בשׂרם the flesh H2231 וזרמת and whose issue H5483 סוסים of horses. H2231 זרמתם׃ the issue 

H2232
זרמה 
zirmâh zir-maw' Feminine of H2230; a gushing of fluid (semen) KJV Usage: issue.

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions
זרמה
1. flow, issue 
a. issue (of seminal discharge)
Origin: from H2230
TWOT: 581b
Parts of Speech: Noun Feminine

The Chaldean men were physically fit and well endowed. Does this mean the men of Israel were not as physically fit and well endowed? We don’t really know, but it seems it was the physique of the Chaldeans that they lusted after. The Hebrew makes it seem that Ooliba lusted after their semen, as male paramours, not female concubines. The men lusted after them, not the females. This is probably a subtle way of saying the men of Judah were engaging in fornication with the men of Chaldea. Since they had a history of gang rape and male prostitution in the temple, it is not hard to understand what was going on.

Oolla and Ooliba were sexually involved with the people from other countries, and Yahweh is not shy to point out their large genitals or seminal fluid. The Israelites were then led into other defiled practices. But it started with the lust of the flesh. Yahweh’s description to Ezekiel of the sexual sins of Israel is a very important understanding. If this is a game the devil plays with us, then it is understandable that Israel was played, and led astray with fornication. If we hide the devil, pretend he doesn’t exist, then all of this is not a game, it is simply life. However if it is a game to get our soul and Yahweh’s soul separated, then exposing the devil helps us overcome the game. Why are we keeping the devil’s tactics a secret? Here is the consequence of Ooliba’s sins.

Ezekiel 23:21  And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the papa of thy virginity broken. 
22  Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against thee round about. 
23  The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, and the kings, and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beautiful young men, all the captains, and rulers, the princes of princes, and the renowned horsemen. 
24  And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot and wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed against thee on every side with breastplate, and buckler, and helmet: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee by their judgments. 
25  And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall execute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose and thy ears: and what remains shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by fire. 
26  And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take away the instruments of thy glory. 
27  And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither shalt thou lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more. 
28  For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou hatest, into their hands with whom thy soul hath been glutted. 
29  And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications. 

The word glutted means “separated” or “removed”. The sins of Ooliba went so far as to separate her breath life from Yahweh, and now her lovers will turn on her and humiliate her. 

Ezekiel 23:30  They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols. 
31  Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, and I will give her cup into thy hand. 
32  Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep, and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much. 
33  Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup of grief, and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. 
34  And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. 
35  Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear thou also thy wickedness, and thy fornications. 

At this point the prophet Ezekiel is not being listened to. Remember the people mocked and goaded the prophets and messengers. But the end is near for their kingdom because they failed the test. 

Ezekiel 23:36  And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds? 
37  Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to be devoured. 
38  Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths. 
39  And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even in the midst of my house. 

Here is a list of Ooliba’s sins: adultry, fornication with idols, offering their children through the fire, polluting the temple, profaning the sabbaths, slaying their children to idols, then going into the temple, as well as doing these things in the middle of the temple. Then they called for the Chaldeans and got dressed up and waited for them in their beds. 

Ezekiel 23:40  They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with women's ornaments. 
41  Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment. 
42  And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing: and to some that were brought of the multitude of men, and that came from the desert, they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads. 
43  And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication. 
44  And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women. 

There wasn’t simply one little thing that went wrong with Oolla and Ooliba. There were many things that they did over and over again until Yahweh’s breath was separated from them. This is the intent of the devil and his game. The devil wants to separate us from Yahweh. 

Ezekiel 23:45  They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 
46  For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them, and deliver them over to tumult and rapine: 
47  And let the people stone them with stones, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire. 
48  And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them. 
49  And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord God. 

The word rapine means “ravaging” or “plundered”. Since the sisters were separated from Yahweh he called on their lovers to destroy them. Wickedness was going to be removed from the land. This is the message that the people refused to hear. This is the warning that they heard which made them sneer at the messengers. This is the prophetic word they mocked the prophets for speaking. What happened? The devil led the people, the religious leaders, and the political leaders, into sexual sins first, then idolatrous sins. Then the common people joined in. Once the people enjoyed their sin, the devil gave them more things to feed their lusts. The devil led them further and further away from Yahweh until there was a separation between them. Yahweh tried to warn them, but they didn’t listen. By that time they had become very hardened because they enjoyed their sin. They mocked the prophets who warned them because they wanted to continue in their adultery and fornications.  

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

Jacob’s children were tested and tempted with porneuō/porneia/pornē/pornos from the time when they were still living with Jacob. Therefore it is not unusual to assume that as time goes on, more people involve themselves in greater perversions because that is the goading of the devil. And before we become so pious as to think it doesn’t happen in the church let’s remember Jesus’ seven letters to the seven churches. There is sexual perversions, paramours, and harlots, in the church as well. Isn’t this a slap in the face to Yahweh? The place humans are to go and connect with Yahweh, whether the temple or the church, is a place that has become filled with pornē. 


This is just a small snapshot of one of the ways the devil goads humans. Fornication is an easy target because we have not been told that the devil is tempting us in this way. The phrase “lust of the flesh” is well understood here in this context. Yahweh is not shy about Israel’s fornication and speaks very plainly to us regarding the downfall of the two sisters. The strongest point we should come away with is that sin separated our breath from Yahweh and Yahweh’s breath from us, in our tent (body). Sin in the temple or church also separates Yahweh’s breath from us. When people embrace pornē they are no longer victims but participants with the devil. Those people become advocates for the devil and evangelize their behaviors causing others to follow. If we do not stand up to the devil’s goading, testing, tempting, we lose the game. Resist.