Israel is more corrupt than her disreputable sisters

Ezekiel 16:46-48

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“Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters. You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways. As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.” Ezekiel 16:46-48

The Israelites were likened to their sisters of Samaria and Sodom. Beginning in the Old Testament, the Samaritans were “blackballed” by the Israelites and considered to be in the same category as the Gentiles, abandoned by God. That carried over into the days when Jesus Christ was walking on this earth, as quoted, “Then the woman of Samaria said to [Jesus], “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.” John 4:9 Also, most of us know how notoriously sinful Sodom was, Genesis 18:16-33 and Genesis 19.

Today, we see that the State of Israel has not adopted the Muslim religion as their own. Muslims are the overwhelming majority to the north and south of Israel, and everywhere else in the Middle East. Although Israel does not walk in the way of the Muslims, they are more corrupt than they. The Israelis are more corrupt because they knew the word of God through the Ten Commandments but rebelled against God’s word. They are more corrupt because Jesus Christ first came to them, and they rejected Him and plotted to have Him killed. “What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.” Romans 3:1-2 Even in the Old Testament, the Israelites were circumcised [cut off] from the world around them through the word of God, until they turned away from God.

Today, the Israelis know better than to rebel against God, but they have because they rejected Jesus Christ whom God sent to them. They know better than the Muslims all around them, but they refuse to do according to the will of God. “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” James 4:17 As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.”

The Holy Spirit reminds us, as followers of Jesus Christ, what our life without Him was, “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

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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