Offering Children on the idols

 

Ezekiel 23:36-49

 

December 21, 2023

 

The Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.  For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols, they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.  Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths. For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house. They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them, you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.  You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.  The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

“Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’  For they have gone into her, as men go into a prostitute. Thus, they went into Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!  But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”

For thus says the Lord God: “Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.  And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.  Thus, will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done?  And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.”

God is telling Ezekiel to bring judgment on both Israel and Judah, and what are their sins; they have offered up their children to idols, and listen to the words of God.  With their idols, they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.  Many in the millions in the USA have offered up their children to the idols of my body and I can do what is convenient for me.  But God has spoken those are my children, and you have their blood on your hands.  That is the bad news.

Now the good news, is God, has made a way to remove this sin from you and not remember it.  1 John 1:9-10, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”

If you are a follower of Christ and carry the guilt of an abortion, seek God come to Him with a broken and contrite heart, and receive His forgiveness.  Remember, you’re a sheep and not designed to carry heavy loads.  That is why Jesus told you to cast your burdens on Him, in that He cares for you.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice