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Destruction Example Of The Harlot
3/06/2017

Daily Devotions: by Christina Farris

Ezekiel 23:1-49 KJV
(1) The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
(2) Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
(3) And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
(4) And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
(5) And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
(6) Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
(7) Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
(8) Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
(9) Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
(10) These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
(11) And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
(12) She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
(13) Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
(14) And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
(15) Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
(16) And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
(17) And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
(18) So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
(19) Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
(20) For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
(21) Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
(22) Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
(23) The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
(24) And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
(25) And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
(26) They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
(27) Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
(28) For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
(29) And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
(30) I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
(31) Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
(32) Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
(33) Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
(34) Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
(35) Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
(36) The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
(37) That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
(38) Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
(39) For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
(40) And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
(41) And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
(42) And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
(43) Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
(44) Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
(45) And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
(46) For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
(47) And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
(48) Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
(49) And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

Jesus in John 8 tells the adultress woman to go and sin no more. In the Old Testament in Ezekiel 23 we read of the two sister that were harlots and their lust for men and wealth. Women desiring pleasure and gold more then God. They turned away from God and would have anything to do with Him. They corrupt the women, and caused idolatry among the women. It is a sad day when women or even the people of God both men and women choose to follow after the life style of Idolatry, or sexual immorality for wealth and greed. These women coming out of Egypt even sacrificed their babies on the altar of their idols. They care not that idols of stone had no power, but used these altars to fornicate and commit adultery against God.

On social media and online uploads are people that have entered the sex trade and never understood what it was about or the cost of their faith in God. Women and even young teens using pornography to earn extra cash for college, and more. Thinking it okay to sell their bodies online. The church world needs to educate their young women on the hazards and dangers of nudity and sexual images even less revealing online. They need to explain to the women that danger of their own soul. The violation of their flesh despite whether anyone actually touched them sexually or not. They have cause men and even women to lust after their bodies. Modesty no longer in vogue in today’s world. Sexual immorality will be destroyed. Yet it not just affecting women but men also. People becoming animals and not people of moral character.

The world will say what business is it of yours if we are immoral? It has to do with the judgment of God on your life that will or could effect my own life. It the old story of is it the pilots time to die and if so, I do not want to be on his plane today. If it God time to judge you I do not want to be standing beside you for you might fall into a bottomless pit in the middle of the road. Your sin effects more then you. Your sexual immorality makes men think all women are like that when it is rapid in the streets everywhere or even behind closed doors. Your lewdness can get another raped, assaulted because of your generosity with your body. It teaches men that women are toys and not people of wisdom and knowledge. It teaches sacrificing of children healthy education at home. Whoring adults often go into the bedroom while their children watch even if the door is closed. Whoredom also has ties to drugs and alcohol but not in all cases Whoredom destroys the family unit. Yet it is one of the oldest trades in the world.

I am a person if someone going to be that way it better for them to take care of their health needs and not to effect their sin on the world by sexual diseases that even plague public restrooms. The simple fact is sexual immorality effects more then just you. It will and can effect a nation. King George was said to have syphilis. It effects not only sex but also the brain. Would you want that type of leadership? Though protection is provided it does not change the fact a person is still sinning by the lust of their own heart, for love, or wealth. Some type of physical satisfaction.

Jesus is all you need. The desires of the flesh that seem more important then God will not last. Jesus said to the woman in John 8 go and sin no more. She was caught in adultery. He did not condemn her, but in the Old Testament condemnation is spoken of to Israel. Why condemnation by God’s word and not Christ are they not the same. Time of Christ they people were under Roman authority and not living under the authority under God beyond the fact God has all power. God allows man to rule despite their inability to be always good leaders or sound leaders. Truth is not all obey God and in Ezekiel Israel was going from sinful state into a world that embraced their sinful state against God. Israel crime against God was going to effect all the nation of Israel and not just groups of people. If you carried into the world of adultery, you will probably have to live the adulteress life. The human spirit crushed by the whoredom of sin even on believers.

God is a just God to forgive all sin, but there is something more is what being done a part of choice or force. A woman raped by force is not of God, but it is not the woman’s fault. Fact is the woman caught in world of rape does not make her a harlot. It makes her abused and having to adjust to a crime she did not desire. Sexual immorality make men corrupt or rapist. It cause desire to be only satisfied to the next time it will happen again. God says immorality will be destroyed. Think about it, for a moment yester message out of Mark 12 in the video section the question occurred who wife would a women be in the resurrection if she married seven brothers and each one died and left the woman no children. Jesus explains that God’s children are like the angels in heaven they are neither given in marriage or marry. In other words after death sexuality is gone in the since of needing physical gratification. God created man and women to reproduce but in heaven we will not be reproducing, because we are under God grace through faith in Christ Jesus the word of God that came in human flesh.

Lay down your whoredom because it profits not your faith or relationship with God. It profits not society in the since of protection from God. God does judge immorality, but God also can also forgive it. For Mary Magdalene was said to be the harlot Jesus protect in the story of John 8. No definite proof of it, but she followed Jesus after being not condemned and followed him to the cross and through the resurrection. She was witness of all that happened to Jesus. If you are caught in sexual immorality today choose to follow Jesus. Do not let the wrath of God wipe you out. Do not let the sin of idolatry kill you, but confess it to God and turn to him. Knowing Christ paid the price for your sin also. Ask him to forgive you of all your sin. It that simple. God is a loving God and not just a God of wrath.

Dear Heavenly Father turn the harlot from the sin of immorality for the protection of the world and not just theirs. Give the desire for a spouse and not the immorality of world. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study for Devotion:Mark 16:8-11 KJV
(8) And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.
(9) Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
(10) And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
(11) And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.

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