She was groomed sensually and never left the practices of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:8

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 “She has never given up her harlotry brought from Egypt, for in her youth they had lain with her, pressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their immorality upon her.” Ezekiel 23:8

In this chapter, there is a lot of insight into the culture of the Egyptians. We know that young girls were sexually groomed and were used as sexual objects of the Egyptians. Immorality was poured out on the young Israelite girls. When God led the Israelites out of Egypt, they never gave up the harlotry that they were groomed with. Egypt also had a mighty military force that was engrained into the grooming of the Israelites. The Israelites never gave up their sensual lusts nor their lust for might and strength. They desired the way of the Egyptians while turning away from God, the Ten Commandments, and other such laws given by God.

People who want to be their own person, their own tabernacle, will follow the carnal ways of this world instead of dedicating their body as the home of the Holy Spirit. They are those with the attitude, “My body my choice”. The entity with power over physiology has power over feelings and emotions to enflame sensual and sexual desires. Through these carnal desires, people choose the ways of the flesh and discard their need for Jesus Christ. “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.” Galatians 5:17

As people choose the sensual and sexual desires of the flesh over the presence of the Holy Spirit, then the entity that gives people what to think, feel, do, and say begins to dominate a person. This entity replaces the spirit and conscience to enable the image of the beast to speak and live through people. The masses of today’s culture are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do outside the realm of the Holy Spirit.

Today’s culture claims to be living by righteous goals and are filled with churchy and humanitarian sounding words even within the heat of their indignation, riots, and protests. Humanism is the fig leaf worn to cover the entity that governs through physiology. Humanism is “…an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.”

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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