Both among the raucous crowd and are praised.

Ezekiel 23:42

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“The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.” Ezekiel 23:42

This whole chapter of Ezekiel centers on two girls who were groomed sensually/sexually from a very young age. The girls craved to be around “studs” who were exertive or aggressive. The girls and their studs were a carefree bunch, who enjoyed drinking, and were not part of the timid, refined, and domesticated society. They could be described as partiers, rebels, and among the common sort. The raucous crowd treated the women like their queens and were possessive over them. The Israelites were doing all they could to create havoc and headaches for the Babylonians who had taken them into captivity. This sounds a lot like the society we live in today.

The Israelis of the government of the State of Israel can be described in the same way as far as being raucous. They have been in 17 raucous wars since they were brought out of the global wilderness and gathered to the State of Israel in 1948. In 1948, a crown was put on the head of Israel and bracelets on her wrist as she was esteemed as a new member belonging to the world’s nations. However, they are carefree and drunk regarding their lack of direction and respect for God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit and are carelessly driving down a road to an impending crash. They are no longer a special people to God since they rejected Jesus Christ but instead are among the common sort of the wilderness of this world. A wilderness of atheism, disregard for the need for the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, and oppressive of the Holy Spirit.

 “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