Ezekiel 22:23-24
Author: R New
I'm a 1959 Baby Boomer which has allowed me to see drastic changes in the Christian landscape. I grew up going to Church every Sunday, in those days the Bible still had strong roots in America. In my 20's, I participated with the Church in public meetings. There were about eight of us who would go out to a street corner or public park to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There were horns, a bass drum, singing, and a short Salvation message from the Bible. Suddenly, that all changed. The city passed ordinances to prohibit that type of public "solicitation." Today, it seems almost illegal to mention the Gospel to the younger generation.
I retired at the age of 62. As a person living for the testimony of Jesus Christ, I always felt like a salmon swimming against the current. Work was always a struggle between trying to be a decent individual while dealing with "progressive" and "left wing" changes at the workplace.
It's clear that there is a force in the world that is quietly eliminating the Gospel of Jesus Christ while making Christians look like enemies of humanity. At the same time, there is a force in the world that has power over physiology and is able to form thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It is definitely against Jesus Christ.
John 3:16 is something I always want to cling to, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." I know the suffering of spiritual assault that hinders a constructive lifestyle & when frustration & anger seems to be the sole option - I know we can survive through the Cross of Christ. We have a home in the Kingdom of Heaven waiting for us.
God gathered the Jewish people to Israel because they are dross and to unleash His judgment on them.
Ezekiel 22:19-22
Israel has become like dross in the fire.
Ezekiel 22:17-18
God scattered the Jewish people across the globe, and they are defiled in sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 22:15-16
God causes the heart of Israel to go weak and their hands to be feeble.
Ezekiel 22:14
God beats His fist at the dishonest profit and bloodshed at the hands of Israel.
Ezekiel 22:13
Filled with bribery to cause bloodshed, profiting by extortion, and have forgotten God.
Ezekiel 22:12
Filled with defiling women and of sexual immorality of all types.
Ezekiel 22:9c-11
Filled with worship of the false god.
Ezekiel 22:9b
Filled with slander to cause bloodshed.
Ezekiel 22:9a