In the sixteenth chapter, the Lord took to wife a virgin, though she had a course time in growing up, she had an unclean birth; but God, as much as He created her, fell in love with her. Then God placed His skirt over her, which in the Hebrew means that He married her. This woman is the city of Jerusalem, and it is God's favorite spot in all the universe. Jerusalem shall be God's eternal home, and His throne shall be on the north side of Mount Zion.

Ezekiel 16:1 "Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,"

Ezekiel 16:2 "Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,"

The abominations that shall take place in this holy city of Jerusalem will take place at the coming of the Antichrist, when he declares himself to be God, and from Jerusalem, Satan, as the Antichrist will sit over his Religious beast, and rule the world. The Antichrist will have total power over all people, except for the Elect of God.

Jesus spoke of this time in Matthew 24:15; "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)" The holy place is the north side, in Jerusalem. This is a quotation from Daniel 9:27.

Daniel 9:27; "And he [Satan the Antichrist] shall confirm the covenant with many of one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

The "covenant" is the total authority that Satan will have over all the people of the earth, and we are told in Revelation 9:5, 10, that this period is shortened to five months, for the elect's sake. The "sacrifice and the oblation" that will cease, is what we call the "communion", the "table of the Lord". That will cease because the world, except for the elect will believe Satan, the Antichrist is the True Christ. They will be deceived, because their false doctrines have prepared them to receive Satan as the Christ.

When Satan, the Antichrist declares himself to be God, and the world accepts that as fact, The abominations by the desolator will have taken place. Then from Jerusalem the entire world will be barren for the truth. It will be desolate for all truth of God's Word, and this is the abomination that is spoken of in Ezekiel 16:2.

Keep your chapters in sequence, for God is laying the foundation, and the hope is that you can build your knowledge upon that foundation.

Ezekiel 16:3 "And say,' thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; 'Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite."

When Jerusalem was first established as a city, it was a Jebusite city. It was a dirty run- down, heathen, idol worshipping village of tents. God is calling attention to this filthy birth that Jerusalem had.

Thy father, refers to the builders of the original city, for it was a Canaanite city, and the mother, the Hittites to the religious heathen form of their worship. This does not refer to Abraham, nor any of his seed. For once the promise to Abraham was known, then Satan and his people moved in to occupy in advance, both the land and to make it their capital.

Ezekiel 16:4 "And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all."

The establishing of Jerusalem was by a bloody, dirty mess. Jebus [Jerusalem] had no order in the beginning.

Ezekiel 16:5 "None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born."

When the people of Jebus died, the old bones were cast into the corner, there was no respect of one another. We are talking about a geographic location, and before the end of this chapter, God will make a covenant with this city. God's love and caring are far more sensitive to His people then to a geographic location.

Many times people think that their past is so filthy, and sinful that there is no way that God could ever forgive them. When God took Jerusalem as His favorite spot in the whole universe, it was the most filthy, heathenistic, and degrading spot of all locations on earth. Yet God selected it, and forgave it. The Love of God for His children is far greater, and more forgiving then for a piece of land, if any soul will repent, and ask God for forgiveness in Jesus name, and turn from their wicked ways. God's mercy will forgive any sin, and it is God that will turn your heart and mind around, if you are truly repentive.

We will see later here that God took this filthy heathen city to wife, and the bride of Christ will come from just a degraded past as the city, however upon repentance it is God that makes that soul clean and pure, and right for His marriage. It is in God's word that you will become more perfect, however you will continue to sin and fall short, and that is why we must die daily to him. It is in our striving to honor and follow Christ that our perfection will come in the end.

Ezekiel 16:6 "And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in they blood, 'Live; 'Yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in they blood, 'Live'."

God said, when I walked by you [Jerusalem], I saw you polluted. The life of any physical body is in the blood, and this reference to the blood of Jerusalem, is that Jerusalem was founded by the shedding of much blood. Canaanite cities were founded in the sacrificial blood, through their human sacrifices, as discovered from the foundations of their ancient cities.

Ezekiel 16:7 "I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare."

David's army went against the city and conquered it, and made it his capital city. Jerusalem became the strong hold capital for all of Israel, and the order of God's law was established there. Notice how God is comparing this city to a fine young woman; and the description shows how she is becoming ready to wed.

Ezekiel 16:8 "Now when I passed by tyhee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was that time of love; and I spread My skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest Mine."

God is saying that Jerusalem is now mature and ready for marriage. The phrase; "I spread My skirt over thee", is the act of marriage, while the statement, "covered thy nakedness" refers to this one as being His wife.

When Ham "saw his fathers nakedness", it meant that Ham laid with his fathers wife. This phrase is also used in the case of Reuben lying with his fathers wife. One's nakedness is ones wife. God made, and entered into a covenant with this geographical location. When God declared it, and sealed Jerusalem as His, it became His forever.

This is why it is important for us to keep our eyes on the happening that are taking place in Jerusalem for it is the key to the signs of the end times. The city is being groomed today for the false peace that will come, and a false peace treaty will be reached. This is all part of the process of preparing the way for the false redeemer, Satan, to come and rule with his children from that location.

Ezekiel 16:9 "Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil."

This is the purifying, and spiritually He is taking Jerusalem as His holy city. This is why all of Israel was commanded to go to the Temple in Jerusalem for their sacrifices and worship, however we saw that the House of Israel, the ten tribes to the north refused to, and God scattered them. Later, even the house of Judah fell into the same rut.

Ezekiel 16:10 "I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk."

This verse is looking back to the time when King David came to Jerusalem, and he changed the city to a place of very high respect and beauty. Then the city was changed from filth, to Jerusalem. "Jeru", meaning to teach, and "salem" which means peace.

The analogy that God is showing us is that Jerusalem was like a woman that was so bad that nobody wanted her, yet He took her, and cleaned her up, married her and gave her respect.

Ezekiel 16:11 "I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck."

God is reminding us that When King David, and Solomon ruled, He made Jerusalem the best any city could be. Jerusalem ruled the entire region.

Ezekiel 16:12 "And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head."

The crown of Jerusalem is Mount Zion. That crown will be where the king of king will rule from, and in the eternity, that is where the entire Godhead will be.

Ezekiel 16:13 "Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom."

This was during the time when both the kingdoms were combined as one nation, under David, and later under King Solomon. It was a wealthy, and blessed nation, and Jerusalem was the capital city. God provides well for His own.

Ezekiel 16:14 "And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through My comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God."

God is saying that I gave you my name and took you to wife, and dressed you up real well. The world looked upon Jerusalem and its kings and marveled. God used the expressions and relationships of a man to his bride, and later that man to his wife, to help us understand how He felt toward this city, Jerusalem.

This also will help us to understand the dark side of this relationship, when God's wife, Jerusalem will go whoring from Him. God will show us all of His feelings toward this city and its inhabitants, both His hurt and fury. Then He must stand by and watch as this beautiful bride goes off and mingles with all forms of strange idolatry.

Ezekiel 16:15 "But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was."

In the analogy of this, it has to do with trade and commerce. Jerusalem had to trade with every caravan that passed through the town; whether it was idol material, of any form of worldly goods. Your pride and greed made you the harlot, and caused you to partake in all forms of fornications that entered into your gates.

Ezekiel 16:16 "And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so."

All the things that made Jerusalem good and clean, she removed in the later years, and got down into the mud of idolatry with all the whorish religions of the time. Though Jerusalem played the role of a harlot, she didn't charge anything like the rest of the whorish religions.

Ezekiel 16:17 "Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of My gold and of My silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,"

Where it refers to; "thyself images of men", in the Hebrew test it reads, "of a male". This is in reference to the "Phallus", referring to the Asherah. These symbols, in turn became the incentive to all forms of impurities which in part led to swarms of "devotees" involved in its obscene orgies.

The Asherah was originally a tree, symbolical of the "tree of Life," it was an object of reverence and veneration. Then came the perversion of the early veneration, and the idea made a simple change to the organ of the origin of life. This was the central theme of the Canaanite religion, which did not worship the creator, but the primitive conception of the idea, and honored the origins of life. All of the ancient systems of idolatry, connected with Astrology and Mythology were in the same way, off-shoots of this same primitive perversions.

Now lets put this in perspective. God dressed up Jerusalem, his bride, and dressed her in gold, silver and all sorts of wealth. Then instead of Jerusalem drawing closer to God, this bride uses the charms that God gave her to go deeper into the idolatry of the nature of "Asherah". It is easy to understand from this why King Solomon took all his wives, and was so active. It was actions in part to the idolatry that was going on in the whole town.

Lets put this even more personal, say a man gives his wife a very expensive watch and jewels on their anniversary, to show just how much he loves her, then when the first man from out of town comes in contact with her, she gives away your precious gift that you gave to her to him, for favors. Are you starting to see how jealous God is becoming over Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 16:18 "And tookest thy broidered garments, and coverdst them: and thou hast set Mine oil and Mine incense before them."

God is reviewing the fine things that He gave Jerusalem, only to be given in the passion of the night with strangers, [idolatry].

Ezekiel 16:19 "My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord God."

Jerusalem grew away from God. The things that were to be offered to God, became the objects that were given away to strangers. Don't forget that though we are putting gender of a man and woman to these verses, God is using this relationship to explain His love for Jerusalem, a geographic location.

Ezekiel 16:20 "Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto Me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,"

God is saying that you have had these children, that may or may not be mine, and you take these children and sacrifice their lives to Moloch, as sacrifices to idols, and then you burn them in fires. Today this is compared to parents telling their children that God will burn them in hell, when this thought wasn't even in His mind.

Ezekiel 16:21 "That thou hast slain My children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?"

This is the false religion of Moloch practice. God put forth such a simple plan, and man, with the help of Satan, and the Kenites desecrating that plan to where it is little more that just another form of Moloch worship; a form of idolatry. There is no difference today of the house of Israel and Judah as there was then; they are always trying to find a better way to worship, and a way to expand out, even though it is outside God's plan.  

Ezekiel 16:22 "And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood."

As Jerusalem grew deeper into idolatry, and took in these strange gods until she totally forgot God, in the course of time. This city forgot the filthiness that she once was, and the conversion that had taken place, and now she is digressing deeper into idolatry to where she once was.

Ezekiel 16:23 "And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord God;)"

Ezekiel 16:24 " 'That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street."

This "eminent place", in the Hebrew text is a whore house. God is saying that when Jerusalem has these idols on every corner, the city is turning into one big whore house. That is what whoredoms are, Idolatry. And places of where idols rest are whore houses in God's eyes.

Ezekiel 16:25 "Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms."

When you open your city to every religion on earth, and wind of false doctrine, then that city becomes a place of whoredoms, a place of idolatry. When you see these many false religions building their strongholds in places that were once the Lords, this is what is being referred to here. The "high place of the head of the way", is when your city government, your judges, and the people, as well as the schools direct their thought and actions to God and His word. God is saying this head of the way, your leaders, and all thought is gone from him, and distributed to all these others whoredoms of idolatry.

Ezekiel 16:26 "Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke Me to anger."

This term "great of flesh" means lustful. We are talking not about male to female, but a person playing games with other religions. You know, like going to the Y to practice Transcendental Meditation, or allowing these peddlers of the cult to have time to feed your mind with their verbal poison.

Ezekiel 16:27 "Behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way."

As God's people go about their lewd ways, even the heathen are ashamed of what you are doing.

Ezekiel 16:28 "Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied."

God is moving to a different time span, for it was the Assyrians that the northern, House of Israel played around with, with their strange gods, and in the end, the Assyrian army hauled them into captivity, and scattered them abroad. The Assyrian in Isaiah 14, is also a reference to Satan, the Antichrist, which will get a lot closer to our time.

The house of Israel simply could not find enough false gods to satisfy themselves. Is what you are receiving today true to God's word, or does it leave you starving for more? Can you satisfy your spiritual appetite within God's Word? Once you found the truth of God's word, it became satisfying to you. There are many strange doctrines taught in this nation that do not conform to God's Word.

Ezekiel 16:29 "Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith."

This is referring to the captivity of Judah in Babylon. Babylon in the Chaldea tongue means confusion. Even while these men of Judah were in Babylon, nothing pleased them. Because of this, God said that He was going to raise his hand, and scatter them. He scattered them like the leaves of Autumn. Following the scattering most of the people of Israel don't even know who they are today.

Ezekiel 16:30 "How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;"

"How weak is thine heart" is the comment, "how pitiful you are", doing the the work of an whore. The reference to Jerusalem being this whorish woman, is in reference to the great idolatry that was practiced there.

Ezekiel 16:31 "In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;"

You build your brothel houses, and put them on every street corner, and then you place your places of worship right beside your brothel houses. God is saying that you wern't ever a good harlot, because "thou scornest hire", you won't even take money for it.

Ezekiel 16:32 "But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!"

Taking this example, and transferring it to the spiritual sense, "adultery" is "idolatry". This could be applied today, as much as it was twenty five hundred years ago. God is saying, you listen to every strange doctrine that comes to your doorstep, and then treat it with greater respect then you do with God's Word. Whether it be a spiritual card reading, or Ouija board, a reincarnation, of some false doctrine [fairy tale] told in the night. You would rather have that then to have the true Word of God taught to you that will improve your quality of life.

Then when your children go bad, you just can't understand how it could happen. You taught them the whorish ways [the ways of the world] as children, and now when those ways come forth in their lives, there is no way that a few words will make the corrections necessary. Did you teach them the Word, and if you did not, what can you expect?

Ezekiel 16:33 "They give gifts to all whore: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom."

They give their gifts to their whores, only you do it in reverse. In the spiritual sense of this verse, God is saying that you not only seek after these whorish religions, but you go out and buy them, and pay for them to teach you their ways. This is saying that you are asking for your own trouble. You buy trouble, as they seek new experiences, and new passions, new ways.

Ezekiel 16:34 "And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary."

God is saying that your whores are different from the rest of the whores. For an example, lets look at the house of Israel, those ten tribes that were scattered by the Assyrian army, and were scattered across Europe, and later came to this great nation of America. These people grew into the strongest and wealthiest nation in the world. Now in the end times, we are the super power of all superpowers.

The point that this verse is trying to point out, can be shown in our lend-lease policy, following world war II. We started down a destructive path, that will in the end, has placed us under the world political beast, the United Nations. When that political system falls shortly, as it will, we will move directly into the one world religious beast.

Our government never learns by its own mistakes, when they run out to spend our tax dollars buying their world lovers. You simply cannot buy friends. These poor countries will take your money, and hate you for it, for it is an act of an whore. You have forced them into playing the role of the harlot. You just cannot buy a country's trust and faithfulness.

The American people have prostituted themselves with the bleeding heart doctrines that are against God's word. This does not include feeding the children and taking care of the needy; however we are making dictatorships fat, and mean; while we try to buy favors from them.

Ezekiel 16:35 "Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord: ' "

God is talking directly to those are chasing after their false religions, cults and pleasures. God is saying that if you think you can get away with something from Me, your wrong; now listen to Me. There is always a payday with God, and some of the rewards are not what you want.

Ezekiel 16:36 "Thus saith the Lord God; 'Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;"

God is naming their acts, both in the physical and spiritual sense. In ancient times they even offered the blood of their children in sacrifice, while the death of their spiritual soul is offered when they teach their children to give themselves to the wicked one. Through all forms of idolatry that they bring into their homes, and made the abominations before their own children, which in the end will cause their children to lose their own souls.

Abominations are things that are not of God, nor in His word, yet you have adopted them, and changed them, and attached them as to being of God. It can also be things that are of God, that you attribute to Satan. Abominations are what separate you from our heavenly Father.

One of the whoredoms of today is in the fact, that the House of Israel calls themselves Gentiles, and of the world. Though God has blessed them immensely, they attribute it to climate, location, and everything including themselves, but not to God. They call themselves "Caucasians" and are completely ignorant of how that name became attached to them. They call it an "race", instead of the "event" that stuck them with that name. That event was when the were scattered, and by the millions poured through the Caucasus Mountains to migrate to the north and west. They were know by many names, Cimerons, Celts, Gauls, Brits, Scythians, and so on, yet all of them were under one name, "Caucasians".

In the same light, they have allowed Cain's offspring to infiltrate into brother Judah, and call themselves of Israel, when the are not. Today they even call these Kenites, "the Chosen people", and it is done in their ignorance.

Though this is directed to Jerusalem, and the people there, however it includes both houses of all thirteen tribes [Joseph split into two tribes]. This applies to us today, just as it did thousands of years ago.

Ezekiel 16:37 "Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness."

God is saying that He is going to take all of your lovers, as well as the ones that you have hated, and I will bring you down before them. They will see you and be disgusted of you, for all the idolatry that you have taken part in. It will come to pass at its fullest, when the Antichrist sets his feet on the earth. Jerusalem will become Satan's home, and headquarters for ruling over his religious order.

Jerusalem is the city of prophecy, and is the key to understanding the signs of the end times.

Ezekiel 16:38 "And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy,"

God will judge those of Jerusalem as one who breads wedlock [an adulterer], and a murderer. Do you know what the punishment of these crimes was in the old law? Death [Leviticus 20:20; and Deuteronomy 22:22]. God is a jealous God, and God is making this analogy to apply to all generations. This is a promise from God to you.

Can you understand the jealousy and fury that a wife or husband would have to see their spouse playing the role of a harlot. That is the jealousy that God has when His children chase after heathen gods and practices.

Ezekiel 16:39 "And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw town thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare."

God is saying that He is going to strip you down to nothing for your whoredoms. Our nation today is being stripped down, and shipped all over the world in the form of our tax dollars, factories, jobs, and on and on. The Kenites at the head of our monetary and government are taxing our lands away, and handing it over to their leaders of the United Nation, to be distributed throughout the world. They are taking God's blessings from us, and God is allowing it. Why? It is part of the judgment of verse 38, "for their whoredoms".

Now, why is she stripped of her clothing? As a righteous person of God, our righteous white robes of purity clothing is our righteous acts and our works. When one is out whoring after strange acts and heathen religious forms, their is no righteous acts before the Lord. You stand naked as a J-bird. All of the jewels of the crowns that you would receive are thrown to the feet of Satan, and spiritually you become a naked unrighteous soul before our Heavenly Father.

Ezekiel 16:40 "They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords."

This company that comes up against these people of the whoredoms of Israel, is an army of God believers, that carry the sword of God. The sword that they thrust through these spiritual adulterers and murderers is the word of God. The truth offends many people, and they don't like to hear it. Today they sit under their so called men of the cloth, and listen to the fairy tales of the heathen, as they are being groomed to enter into Satan's [the Antichrist's] new world order. Most of the Christians today will wed themselves to the Antichrist before they ever see the True Christ, Jesus Christ; and they don't like to hear that. they want to sleep on in there whoredoms while they can.

Ezekiel 16:41 "And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more."

God is promising you that this thing is coming to an end, and for us in this final generation, it will be shortly. It will come to a stop on the last day of this earth age, and the first day of the Millennium age. It is then that Jesus Christ will come to this earth [at the seventh trumpet], and set up His Millennium Kingdom. Then the Antichrist [Satan] will be placed in the pit, and all forms of idolatry and abominations will be gone. There will be no physical pleasures, because you will be in your incorruptible body, or you will not be on the earth. On the first day of the Millennium, every knee will bow to Jesus Christ.

Though we have applied this to people, it is also addressed to Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be mistreated to the maximum in abominations. Even to the point of Satan setting up his religious world wide system, and declaring himself to be God [the abomination by the desolator]. This is what the Book of Revelation is about.

Ezekiel 16:42 "So will I make My fury toward thee to rest, and My jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry."

On that "day of the Lord", the first day of the Millennium God will be at rest with all His children, and He will have no more anger and jealousy. This is because all false religious forms, and idols and abominations will be gone, finished and passed from existence. The only thing that is important them is the teaching and learning of God's ways. It will be a time of discipline.

Ezekiel 16:43 "Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted Me in all there things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord God: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations."

Because the people of Jerusalem, all Israel, has not remembered the instructions given from the law, in fact they even made statements that God didn't exist, they will pay a price for their wickedness. Even though this time is in the Millennium age, for a thousand years, they will perform the daily oblations in discipline. This is what the last eight chapters of Ezekiel is all about; and what the Millennium age is all about.

There is a way that you will not have to answer for your sins and abominations. That way is by your repentance, and confession for those acts against God. Jesus Christ's blood on the cross paid for all those sins, however you must ask for the forgiveness, in Jesus name, for that blood to be applied to your sins. The act is a personal one, between you and God, your maker. His love will purify your soul, and then with the help of His Spirit, you can turn from those ways that offend our Heavenly Father. You change the ways that God convicts your of through His word, and not the hear-say of false shepherds.

Though the lake of fire is for all that have sinned, upon repentance, God blots your sins our, all of them, and in the eyes of God, at the judgment seat, it is as if they didn't not exist.

Ezekiel 16:44 "Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, Saying, 'As is the mother, so is her daughter'."

To put this translation from the Hebrew to the English, in today's terms; "As it happen before, so shall it happen again." The things that have been are an example to us, whereby we can know what is to come again, in the end generation.

Ezekiel 16:45 "Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite."

Again the reminder that the city of Jerusalem was founded by the Jebusites, and was an unclean, and filthy city.

Ezekiel 16:46 "And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters."

Samaria, was the capital city of the house of Israel, to the north, and the word "Samaria" means "watch mountain". That sister of the house of Judah was the house of Israel. You remember Sodom and her sins. They are become stronger today, and they will also take a foot-hold in our society today. Sodom's sins were suppose to be the worse sins that could ever be committed, and she had her little sisters around her, called Gomorrah, and so on, and they were all destroyed also. This is referring to the big cities and little cities of that end time that will be judged also. They are not going to get away with their sins.

Ezekiel 16:47 "Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways."

What God is saying here, is that though they had their sins, they were little in comparison to your sins. Your sins are a lot worse then that of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Ezekiel 16:48 "As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters,"

When God makes a statement, "As I live", it means that you can count on it. If you think that Sodom and Gomorrah were bad in comparison to the cities of today, they weren't. The cities of today, in the end times will become much worse, in the eyes of God.

Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."

The cities of today have to much of everything, and the people have to much idleness on their hands to do mischief. Idleness brings much trouble.

Ezekiel 16:50 "And they were haughty, and committed abomination before Me: therefore I took them away as I saw good."

The people of Sodom and Gomorrah thought it was funny, and humorous to mock God, and I took them away [I destroyed them]. God got Lot and his daughters out of there, then God purified the town spiritually. He turned it to salt.

If God is saying that Jerusalem is far worse today then Sodom, what do you think is going to happen to Jerusalem, when the Antichrist stands there and pronounces himself to be God, and all of the Christian world bows to him [except for God's elect]. Jerusalem is going to be left barren, there will not be one stone left standing on top of another. It will become flat and barren. Jerusalem will be left just as barren as the flood of Noah's day, that left the face of the earth clean.

Ezekiel 16:51 "Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast judged thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done."

This is referring to Jerusalem, and the Jews, for they have committed double the sins of the house of Israel. They have worshipped more idols, and committed more idolatry then that of the the ten tribes, which God had divorced for their idolatry. What God is referring to is the allowing of the Kenites, the Nethinims to take over the priests duties, and that of the scribes, and bringing into the inner circle of the Temple and priesthood, where God had warned against.

Jeremiah 24 brings the result of this sinful act to the final days, and shows that when both baskets of the figs, the good figs [brother Judah], and the bad figs [Kenites] are returned to Jerusalem; it will be the bad figs that spoil the city of Jerusalem. How do they spoil the city? They prepare the way for their father, the Antichrist to take over and set his rule. Satan, the Antichrist will stand in this geographic location, Jerusalem, make the abomination of the desolator, as spoken of in Daniel 9:27. This abomination of abominations is going to be committed on God favorite spot, on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem; and Satan, with his offspring the Kenites, and the two sisters of Israel will commit this whorish act together.

Those people that are looking for a rapture will be convinced that Satan is the Messiah, and worship him as the true Christ. The Kenites, those that now rule Jerusalem, are preparing the way for the Antichrist with their false peace agreements, and it will all shatter in the end. It is these Christians that will become part of the abominations spoken of here. God is saying that these so called Jews, are far more an abomination to Him, then the Christians that go whoring to Jerusalem to worship the Antichrist and his system, however both the sisters will take part in the act. They will do this because they have not studied God's Word to know the truth.

Ezekiel 16:52 "Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters."

There are two "words" being taught in the world at this time. There is the "Word of God", and the "word of man". It doesn't matter what the name is over the church house door, for what is important is what is taught inside the door. Is it the "Word of God", or the false hope of the "word of man". The word of man is what is given by the false spirit, the spirit of the Antichrist. That word will look very religious and righteous, and seem so holy, but it is the act of spiritual whores. All those that follow after these words of men, will bear thine own shame for this act that they are committing. They are taking on the first sign of the "sign of the beast", which is the rapture doctrine, and they are setting themselves up for their acts, and they have already received the "Mark of the beast".

The "Mark of the beast", is not a visible sign, but is is the knowledge that you posses in your mind, it is the words, and concepts that your mind accepts as truth, and will lead your conscience to accept as fact; even when it is a lie. If you condemned an innocent man to death, it would be horrible, yet in this act that seems so innocent, you are committing yourself to spiritual death. You are preparing yourself to be taken by the first christ, the wrong christ [Satan].

Ezekiel 16:53 "When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

There will be much restoration during the Millennium kingdom. There are no second chances, and the shame that those that worshipped Satan in ignorance, will be for the thousand years, then they will be changed and received their immortal body. However when you have been taught the truth, and stand against Satan, your immortality is the reward that comes at the sounding of the seventh and final trump. All those that in ignorance have sinned will be taught in the Millennium age, and then be tested again at the end of that age, when Satan is released again for a short season.

Ezekiel 16:54 "That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them."

All of the religious forms that have existed from the beginning of mankind are of Satan. All that is but the plan that God has set forth in His holy Word. Though most denomination, and sects that call themselves Christian, think they follow God's Word, many have no idea at all, what the true plan of God is. This is a shame that in the millennium will be called to the attention, and God will have His elect to teach them His Word. When they come to know the truth, many will accept that truth gladly, and faithfully follow the discipline that God will require of them.

Ezekiel 16:55 "When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate."

This is speaking of the remnant that is carried over from verse 54, that will teach.

Ezekiel 16:56 "For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride."

In Revelation 11:8; "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." This is prophecy and we are speaking of Jerusalem, where our Lord is crucified. The two dead bodies are that of the two witnesses that Satan will kill, as he commits the abomination of the desolator [this is "the day of thy pride"]. This time also marks the last three and one half days of this earth age. We now live in the generation that will see this come to pass.

Ezekiel 16:57 "Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about."

This verse has a strange twist as the Kenites brought it from the Hebrew, into the English. The word "Syria", in the original Massorah text is "aram", and in the earlier codices "adam" or "men". So when we read this verse, "as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of men." This that happened to the daughters of men is recorded in Genesis 6, and these "Philistines" are the "migrating ones".

The word "discovered" should read "unveiled" in in the text. So we are seeing a time when the daughters of men were unveiled, and married the fallen angels, and had children by them. This unveiling act will also happen in the time of the end.

Ezekiel 16:58 "Thou hast born thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the Lord."

Part of your punishment will be that you have to bear the shame for those things that you took part in, and you and God will remember those unrepented acts.

Ezekiel 16:59 "For thus saith the Lord God; 'I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant."

God will judge the city, Jerusalem, just as He will judge the daughters of Adam [men] in the prior verse. This breaking of the covenant again is the abominations of the Antichrist that will come from this city. Thus Jesus becomes their chief stumbling block, for they want to worship Jesus, but in their ignorance of God word, they worship the instead-of christ, Satan who comes first. This becomes their downfall.

Ezekiel 16:60 "Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant."

In the Millennium age, God will reestablish His covenant with them, and the promises will be eternal.

Ezekiel 16:61 "Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant."

God is stating that they should have known better. He said; I have trusted you with the holy scriptures, and my most sacred places, and you did not keep My trust. To not teach the word as it is given, is to withhold it from God's children. Those that knew the word, and sat back and kept it a secret will be ashamed for their actions. This is addressed to the ministers and priests, and not to the lay person, who is responsible for the teaching of His Word. In Chapter 34:1-16 tells of what God will do with these false shepherds.

Ezekiel 16:62 "And I will establish My covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord:"

I hope this isn't to confusing when we switch back and forth from the geographic location, to the people that are from that location. God loves this location, and He loves Israel, the people He placed there, that He considers them His people. In the Millennium age, God will make Jerusalem His eternal city, and the land around there will be given back to the tribes of Israel. This is all laid out in the last eight chapters of Ezekiel.

When it was written, it was written with a two fold meaning, for you can not look upon Jerusalem, without understanding that this place is the key to understanding all Bible prophecy.

Ezekiel 16:63 "That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God'."

God is saying, you bring in these children from your whoredoms, and you present them as being from Me, when your don't even know who their father is, and I don't claim them. Though all souls are created by God, and those that repent are claimed by Him; He refuses to claim those souls that have not repented, and are of the whoredoms of the earth. God is longsuffering, because it is will that all come to repentance. All will not come to repentance, but it would please God if they would.

Just as we saw the one third of the souls fell in that first earth age, so also will many souls refuse the salvation that God is offering all souls to come to him. Many that seek God in this flesh age, will be deceived, because they have allowed themselves to believe the fairy tales of men, and they are not willing to give the time and effort to study God Word.