At the gate towards the north is the image that provokes the jealousy of God. 

Ezekiel 8:5

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“Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.” Ezekiel 8:5

Towards the north, in the high places above the clouds, is where Satan exalts himself above God, “For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregations on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ Isaiah 14:13-14 Ezekiel’s vision in chapter one is of the space shuttles, space station, and space satellites, which corresponds to the entity that gives people what to feel, do, think, and say. This is by the work of Satan.

An image of jealous was revealed to Ezekiel at the entrance of the gate of the altar. The gate of the altar represents the doorway to our soul and spirit, where we choose to surrender our life to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior or to yield our soul to the entity that gives us our thoughts, feelings, words, and actions. The image of jealousy refers to the entity, that God detests, sitting in the temple of the Holy Spirit, our body. God is jealous and detests our body being given to the one “… 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 here for a post on the “man of sin”.

The image of jealousy also refers to the provocation of sensual and sexual jealousy of those who do not serve the entity that governs through physiology. This entity enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people in every city around the world. By what they say and do, sensual and sexual desires are used to provoke those outside of their global culture. With external physical provocations appealing to what we see and hear, there is also an internal fire incited within the carnal nature by the entity giving people what to feel. This arouses the beastly side of human nature which incites violence and anti-social behaviors on many levels. This provocation of sensual and sexual jealousy is to damage the ability of people to enter through the gate into God’s presence by living for 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