Israelis became more corrupt in her lust and harlotry than the Israelites. 

Ezekiel 23:11

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“Now although her sister Oholibah saw this, she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.” Ezekiel 23:11

“ Oholibah” is a name that means, “My tabernacle in her” and she became more corrupt than her sister, “Oholah”, whose name means, “her own tabernacle”. Even though Oholibah saw the corruption of Oholah, she became even more corrupt.

Oholah represents the Israelites before the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh, before He made our body the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit. Oholiab represents the Jewish people who rejected Jesus Christ and disregarded their body as being created to be the home of the Holy Spirit. The Jewish people of today should have learned from the corruption of the Israelites, but instead, they have become even more corrupt. Jesus Christ said this to the Jewish people, “But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me…you are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” John 8:44-45

If we live by the idea of “my body my choice”, and discard that we are created by God to be the tabernacle where the Spirit lives, then that is a corrupt road leading to destruction.

“Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 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 6:15-20

To be right with God by the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ includes living in the presence of the Holy Spirit, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized? So they said, “Into John’s baptism.” Acts 19:2-3 John the Baptist said this, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. ” Matthew 3:11

Today’s culture has a lust to commit harlotry and to bond with the entity that has power over their physiology. They believe that their body is their own to do with whatever they please and there is no urgency to live in the presence of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ. In fact, the entity that gives people what to think, feel, do, and say is counting on that. This is 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 for a post on the “man of sin”. This entity wants to live within the person to enable the image of the beast to speak and live through the population in every city, state, country, and nation. Today’s culture is groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do. “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:16-17

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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