The first daughter was the Lord’s, but she lusted for her warrior lovers. 

Ezekiel 23:5-6

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“Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine; And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians, who were clothed in purple, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses” Ezekiel 23:5-6

All through the Old Testament, God had always claimed the Jewish people as belonging to Him, “‘Thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn.” Exodus 4:22 They were set apart from the rest of the world through the Ten Commandments and other such laws. “Oholah”, the one known as her own tabernacle, belonged to God when she decided to give herself to the ways of this world. This represents the Israelites who were doing their own thing in their lust to form a bond with royalty, military power, governing power, kings, youth, and to be a strong people. She was relying on external might instead of the word of God. “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.” Zachariah 4:6

The Israelites wanted to have a king and military to be strong like all the other nations around them. That is not what God wanted for them, as quoted, “Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations…And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.” 1 Samuel 8:4-5, 7 Saul was chosen as king, and he ended up being spiritually wicked and sought to murder David (a man after God’s heart).

Today, the Jewish people were established in the State of Israel in 948 because they wanted to be a nation like the other nations of this world. There, the government of Israel lusted for military might, lusted for royal prestige on a global scale as they became a member of the United Nations in 1949, lusted for talented military leaders and worldly government powers, and for youthfulness in their culture to keep them strong. They lust to be a culture of “horsemen riding on horses”.

If the Jewish people had followed the will of God for them to accept Jesus Christ, the Jewish State of Israel would never have existed. That’s because the Jewish people would have been Christian and not Jewish. As followers of Jesus, we do not have a nation on this earth to call our own, our nation is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.

In today’s culture, people claim themselves as their own tabernacle, as a popular phrase is “my body my choice”. They reject the body as the home of the Holy Spirit and lust for worldly empowerment. Individuals are empowered by the entity that has power over physiology to grant amazing physical abilities, extraordinary talents and skills, uncanny knowledge, heightened intuition, uncanny authority over others, and are highly esteemed, etc. This is the strength of the masses of the global culture, and they lust for the dignity and esteem of being royal. They lust to be the military leaders, the governors and presidents, to be youthful, and to be a show of individual and collective strength. Within their attitude, today’s culture boasts, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” Revelation 13:4

For their king, the global culture has chosen the entity that governs through their thoughts and feelings to influence words and behaviors. This entity enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

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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