Within the inner gate of the soul sits an image that stirs up God’s jealousy.

Ezekiel 8:3b.

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“…to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.” Ezekiel 8:3b.

Ezekiel had a view into the inner gate, which is the view into the inner gate of the soul of people. The soul is created to be the temple of the Holy Spirit, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16 Jesus Christ died on the Cross and God raised from the dead to atone for sin and to give us the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the source of the Holy Spirit and He is the only one who can make us to be the home of the Holy Spirit.

Today, there is something else sitting within people. It is the “seat of the image of jealousy” that refers to the entity that sits in the thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors of people as if it is God. This is the false god of the high places “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Click for a post on the “man of sin”. This provokes our Lord to jealousy, “If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:17

The entity that sits in the human body by giving people their thoughts and feelings enlivens the image of the beast to live and speak through people. God is jealous in the sense that He has created us to be faithful to the image of Christ to live within our spirit and soul.

Th entity that has power over physiology to form what we feel and think enflames the most basic of carnal desires, which are sensual and sexual. When people open themselves to the pleasures of the flesh, it draws people away from walking in the Spirit as they walk in the flesh. From there, they begin to serve the entity within them that governs through their thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors while crowding out Jesus Christ.

“Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1