Transcript EZEKIEL CHAPTER EIGHT PROPHET - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? ESTHER (485-465BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE BELSHAZZAR CYRUS BABYLON DESTROYED DARIUS (605-562BC)? (597-586BC)? (586BC)? (541-523BC)? (559-529BC)? (536BC)? (511-475BC)?

EZEKIEL CHAPTER EIGHT
PROPHET - DATE
JONAH
(825-785BC)?
JOEL
(800BC)?
HOSEA
(785-725BC)?
MICAH
(785-710BC)?
AMOS
(784BC)?
ISAIAH
(701-681BC)?
NAHUM
(700BC)?
ZEPHANIAH
(630BC)?
JEREMIAH
(629-588BC)?
DANIEL
(606-534BC)?
HABAKKUK
(598BC)?
EZEKIEL
(597-573BC)?
OBADIAH
(588-562BC)?
EZRA
(536-456BC)?
HAGGAI
(532-512BC)?
ZECHARIAH
(520-475BC)?
ESTHER
(485-465BC)?
NEHEMIAH
(465-424BC)?
MALACHI
(420-397BC)?
KING / EVENT - DATE
TIGLATH-PILESER
(745-727BC)?
HEZEKIAH (JUDAH)
(726-698BC)?
SHALMANESER
(727-722BC)?
ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)?
SENNACHERIB
(705-681BC)?
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH)
JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE
BELSHAZZAR
CYRUS
BABYLON DESTROYED
DARIUS
(605-562BC)?
(597-586BC)?
(586BC)?
(541-523BC)?
(559-529BC)?
(536BC)?
(511-475BC)?
OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER EIGHT
EZEKIEL’S VISION OF JERUSALEM
V. 1-4
IDOLATRY OF THE JEWISH RULERS
V. 5
THREE PRINCIPAL SUPERSTITIONS:
THE EGYPTIANS
THE PHOENICIANS
THE PERSIANS
V. 6-12
V. 13-14
V. 15-16
GREATNESS OF THEIR PUNISHMENTV. 17-18
READ:
EZEKIEL 8:1-2
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
1
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth
month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house
with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand
of the Lord GOD fell upon me there.
2
Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the
appearance of fire — from the appearance of His waist
and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like
the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:1-2
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
1
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth
month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house
with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand
of the Lord GOD fell upon me there.
2
Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the
appearance of fire — from the appearance of His waist
and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like
the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber.
WHERE WAS EZEKIEL?
WHO WAS WITH HIM?
WHO DID EZEKIEL SEE?
HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN GOD?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:1
1
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth
month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house
with the elders of Judah sitting before
WHERE WAS EZEKIEL? WHO WAS WITH HIM?
WHERE WAS ELISHA? WHO WAS WITH HIM?
WHAT DID THE MESSENGER SAY TO THE ELDERS?
READ:
2 KINGS 6:32
32
But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders
were sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of
him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to
the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has
sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the
messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at
the door. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind
him?"
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:2
2
Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the
appearance of fire — from the appearance of His waist
and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like
the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber.
WHO DID EZEKIEL SEE?
HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN GOD?
READ:
EXODUS 24:9-11
9
Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and
Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
10
and they saw the God of Israel. And there was
under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone,
and it was like the very heavens in its clarity.
11
But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did
not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and
drank.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:2
2
Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the
appearance of fire — from the appearance of His waist
and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like
the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber.
WHO DID EZEKIEL SEE?
HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN GOD?
READ:
JOHN 1:18
18
No one has seen God at any time. The only
begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has
declared Him.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:1
2
Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the
appearance of fire — from the appearance of His waist
and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like
the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber.
WHO DID EZEKIEL SEE?
HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN GOD?
READ:
1 TIMOTHY 6:13-16
15
which He will manifest in His own time, He who is
the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and
Lord of lords,
16
who alone has immortality, dwelling in
unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can
see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
READ:
EZEKIEL 8:3-4
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
3
He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me
by a lock of my hair; and the Spirit lifted me up between
earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to
Jerusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inner
court, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which
provokes to jealousy.
4
And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was
there, like the vision that I saw in the plain.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:3-4
3
He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me
by a lock of my hair; and the Spirit lifted me up between
earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to
Jerusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inner
court, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which
provokes to jealousy.
4
And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was
there, like the vision that I saw in the plain.
WHERE DID THE SPIRIT TAKE EZEKIEL?
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE AT THE NORTH GATE?
WHY CALL THIS IMAGE: THE IMAGE OF JEALOUSY?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 32:16
16
They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger. NKJV
WHAT DID MANASSEH DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 21:3-7
3
For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his
father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and
made a wooden image, as Ahab king of Israel had done;
and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served
them.
4
He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of
which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My
name."
5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the
two courts of the house of the LORD.
7
He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had
made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David
and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will
put My name forever;
NKJV
WHAT DID JOSIAH DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 23:4-6
4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest,
the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to
bring out of the temple of the LORD all the articles that
were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of
heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the
fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
5
Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the
kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high
places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around
Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the
sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the
host of heaven.
6
And he brought out the wooden image from the
house of the LORD, to the Brook Kidron outside
Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to
ashes, and threw its ashes on the graves of the common
people.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:4
4
And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was
there, like the vision that I saw in the plain.
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE AT THE NORTH GATE?
WHAT DID MOSES SEE ON MOUNT SINAI?
READ:
EXODUS 24:16-18
16
Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai,
and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh
day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17
The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a
consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of
the children of Israel.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 8:5-6
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
5
Then He said to me, "Son of man, lift your eyes
now toward the north." So I lifted my eyes toward the
north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of
jealousy in the entrance.
6
Furthermore He said to me, "Son of man, do you
see what they are doing, the great abominations that the
house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away
from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater
abominations."
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:5-6
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
5
Then He said to me, "Son of man, lift your eyes
now toward the north." So I lifted my eyes toward the
north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of
jealousy in the entrance.
6
Furthermore He said to me, "Son of man, do you
see what they are doing, the great abominations that the
house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away
from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater
abominations."
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL?
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE AT THE NORTH GATE?
WHY CALL THIS IMAGE: THE IMAGE OF JEALOUSY?
WHY DID THE LORD DEPART FROM HIS SANCTUARY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:5-6
HOW DID ISRAEL & JUDAH PROVOKE THE LORD?
READ:
PSALMS 78:58
58
They provoked Him to anger with their high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
READ;
JEREMIAH 4:1
1
"If you will return, O Israel," says the LORD,
"Return to Me; And if you will put away your
abominations out of My sight, Then you shall not be
moved.
NKJV
READ:
JEREMIAH 32:34
34
But they set their abominations in the house which
is called by My name, to defile it.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:5-6
WHAT DID KING AHAZ DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 16:10-15
10
Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet TiglathPileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at
Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the
design of the altar and its pattern, according to all its
workmanship.
11
Then Urijah the priest built an altar according to all
that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. So Urijah the
priest made it before King Ahaz came back from
Damascus.
12
And when the king came back from Damascus, the
king saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and
made offerings on it.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:5-6
WHAT DID KING AHAZ DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 16:10-15
13
So he burned his burnt offering and his grain
offering; and he poured his drink offering and sprinkled
the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
14
He also brought the bronze altar which was before
the LORD, from the front of the temple — from between
the new altar and the house of the LORD — and put it on
the north side of the new altar.
15
Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest,
saying, "On the great new altar burn the morning burnt
offering, the evening grain offering, the king's burnt
sacrifice, and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of
all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their
drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the
burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice. And the
bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by." NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:6
6
Furthermore He said to me, "Son of man, do you
see what they are doing, the great abominations that the
house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away
from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater
abominations."
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
PSALMS 78:60-61
60
…. He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He
had placed among men,
61
And delivered His strength into captivity, And His
glory into the enemy's hand. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:6
6
Furthermore He said to me, "Son of man, do you
see what they are doing, the great abominations that the
house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away
from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater
abominations."
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
HOSEA 5:6-7
6
"With their flocks and herds They shall go to seek
the LORD, But they will not find Him; He has withdrawn
Himself from them.
7
They have dealt treacherously with the LORD, For
they have begotten pagan children. Now a New Moon
shall devour them and their heritage.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 8:7-9
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
7
So He brought me to the door of the court; and
when I looked, there was a hole in the wall.
8
Then He said to me, "Son of man, dig into the
wall"; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door.
9
And He said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked
abominations which they are doing there."
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:7-9
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
7
So He brought me to the door of the court; and
when I looked, there was a hole in the wall.
8
Then He said to me, "Son of man, dig into the
wall"; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door.
9
And He said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked
abominations which they are doing there."
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
WHAT DID EZEKIEL FIND IN THE HOLE IN THE WALL?
WHAT WOULD HE FIND BEHIND THIS DOOR?
READ:
EZEKIEL 8:10-12
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
10
So I went in and saw, and there — every sort of
creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of
the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.
11
And there stood before them seventy men of the
elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood
Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in
his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.
12
Then He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen
what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark,
every man in the room of his idols? For they say, 'The
LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.'"
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:10-12
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
10
So I went in and saw, and there — every sort of
creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of
the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.
11
And there stood before them seventy men of the
elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood
Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in
his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.
12
Then He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen
what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark,
every man in the room of his idols? For they say, 'The
LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.'“
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE?
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
WHO WERE THESE SEVENTY ELDERS?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:10
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
10
So I went in and saw, and there — every sort of
creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of
the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE?
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
EXODUS 20:2-4
2
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3
"You shall have no other gods before Me.
4
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image —
any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth;
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:10
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 4:15-18
15
"Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no
form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the
midst of the fire,
16
lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a
carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of
male or female,
17
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or
the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,
18
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground
or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the
earth.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:10
WHAT DID MICAH’S MOTHER DO?
WHY?
READ:
JUDGES 17:3-6
3
So when he had returned the eleven hundred
shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, "I had
wholly dedicated the silver from my hand to the LORD for
my son, to make a carved image and a molded image;
now therefore, I will return it to you."
4
Thus he returned the silver to his mother. Then his
mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them
to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image
and a molded image; and they were in the house of
Micah.
5
The man Micah had a shrine, and made an ephod
and household idols; and he consecrated one of his
sons, who became his priest.
6
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone
did what was right in his own eyes. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:10
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
10
So I went in and saw, and there — every sort of
creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of
the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE?
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND HIS PEOPLE PEOPLE?
READ:
JEREMIAH 44:4-6
4
I have sent to you all My servants the prophets,
rising early and sending them, saying, "Oh, do not do
this abominable thing that I hate!"
5
But they did not listen or incline their ear to turn
from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
6
So My fury and My anger were poured out and
kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this
day.'
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:11
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
11
And there stood before them seventy men of the
elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood
Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in
his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE?
WHO WERE THESE SEVENTY ELDERS?
WHO WAS JAAZANIAH?
JEZANIAH?
WHO WAS SHAPHAN? WHAT DID HE DO?
WHAT WERE THESE MEN DOING?
WHO WAS SHAPHAN? WHAT DID HE DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 22:10-13
10
Then Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying,
"Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan
read it before the king.
11
Now it happened, when the king heard the words
of the Book of the Law, that he tore his clothes.
12
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest,
Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Michaiah,
Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king,
saying,
13
"Go, inquire of the LORD for me, for the people and
for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has
been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is
aroused against us, because our fathers have not obeyed
the words of this book, to do according to all that is
written concerning us." NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:12
12
Then He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen
what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark,
every man in the room of his idols? For they say, 'The
LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.'“
WHAT WERE THESE MEN DOING?
WHAT DID THESE MEN SAY IN THEIR HEART?
11
READ:
PSALMS 10:11
He has said in his heart, "God has forgotten;
He hides His face; He will never see."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:12
WHAT WERE THESE MEN DOING?
WHAT DID THESE MEN SAY IN THEIR HEART?
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
READ:
ISAIAH 29:15
15
Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel
far from the LORD, And their works are in the dark; They
say, "Who sees us?" and, "Who knows us?"
NKJV
READ: ZEPHANIAH 1:12
12
"And it shall come to pass at that time That I will
search Jerusalem with lamps, And punish the men Who
are settled in complacency, Who say in their heart, 'The
LORD will not do good, Nor will He do evil.'
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 8:13-14
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
13
And He said to me, "Turn again, and you will see
greater abominations that they are doing."
14
So He brought me to the door of the north gate of
the LORD‘S house; and to my dismay, women were
sitting there weeping for Tammuz.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:13-14
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
13
And He said to me, "Turn again, and you will see
greater abominations that they are doing."
14
So He brought me to the door of the north gate of
the LORD‘S house; and to my dismay, women were
sitting there weeping for Tammuz.
WHAT GREATER ABOMINATION DID HE SEE?
WHO WAS TAMMUZ – BABYLONIAN GOD?
WHY WERE THE WOMAN WEEPING?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:14
14
So He brought me to the door of the north gate of
the LORD‘S house; and to my dismay, women were
sitting there weeping for Tammuz.
WHO WAS TAMMUZ – BABYLONIAN GOD?
WHAT GREATER ABOMINATION DID HE SEE?
READ:
JEREMIAH 7:18-19
18
The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the
fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the
queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to
other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.
19
Do they provoke Me to anger?" says the LORD.
"Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their
own faces?"
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 8:15-16
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
15
Then He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of
man? Turn again, you will see greater abominations than
these."
16
So He brought me into the inner court of the
LORD‘S house; and there, at the door of the temple of the
LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about
twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the
LORD and their faces toward the east, and they were
worshiping the sun toward the east.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:15-16
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
15
Then He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of
man? Turn again, you will see greater abominations than
these."
16
So He brought me into the inner court of the
LORD‘S house; and there, at the door of the temple of the
LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about
twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the
LORD and their faces toward the east, and they were
worshiping the sun toward the east.
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE IN THE INNER COURT?
WHAT WERE THESE MEN DOING?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:16
16
So He brought me into the inner court of the
LORD‘S house; and there, at the door of the temple of the
LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about
twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the
LORD and their faces toward the east, and they were
worshiping the sun toward the east.
WHAT DID EZEKIEL SEE IN THE INNER COURT?
WHAT WERE THESE MEN DOING?
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 4:19
19
And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven,
and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all
the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and
serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all
the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 8:17-18
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
17
And He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of
man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit
the abominations which they commit here? For they have
filled the land with violence; then they have returned to
provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their
nose.
18
Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not
spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears
with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:17-18
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
17
And He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of
man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit
the abominations which they commit here? For they have
filled the land with violence; then they have returned to
provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their
nose.
18
Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not
spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears
with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
NKJV
WHAT DID THE SAY ABOUT JUDAH?
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM?
WHAT DID JEROBOAM DO?
WHY?
READ:
1 KINGS 12:27-30
27
If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the
house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this
people will turn back to their lord, Rehoboam king of
Judah, and they will kill me and go back to Rehoboam
king of Judah."
28
Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves
of gold, and said to the people, "It is too much for you to
go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which
brought you up from the land of Egypt!"
29
he set up one in Bethel and the other he put in Dan
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THIS?
READ:
1 KINGS 14:9
9
but you have done more evil than all who were
before you, for you have gone and made for yourself
other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger,
and have cast Me behind your back —
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:18
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
18
Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not
spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears
with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
NKJV
WHAT DID GOD SAY WHEN ISRAEL WANTED A KING?
READ:
1 SAMUEL 8:18-20
18
And you will cry out in that day because of your
king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the
LORD will not hear you in that day.
19
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice
of Samuel; and they said, "No, but we will have a king
over us,
20
that we also may be like all the nations, and that
our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our
battles."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:18
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
18
Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not
spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears
with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
NKJV
DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS?
READ:
PROVERBS 1:28-29
28
"Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;
They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.
29
Because they hated knowledge And did not
choose the fear of the LORD, NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:18
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
18
Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not
spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears
with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
NKJV
WHY WILL THE LORD NOT HEAR THEM?
READ:
ISAIAH 1:15
15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide My
eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:18
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM?
READ:
JEREMIAH 11:11
11
Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will
surely bring calamity on them which they will not be able
to escape; and though they cry out to Me, I will not listen
to them.
NKJV
READ:
JEREMIAH 13:14
14
And I will dash them one against another, even the
fathers and the sons together," says the LORD. "I will not
pity nor spare nor have mercy, but will destroy them."'"
READ:
JEREMIAH 44:6
6
My fury and My anger were poured out and kindled
in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and
they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.'
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 8:18
ABOMINATIONS IN THE TEMPLE
18
Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not
spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears
with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
NKJV
WHAT IS THE MESSAGE FOR US TODAY?
READ:
COLOSSIANS 3:5-7
5
Therefore put to death your members which are on
the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire,
and covetousness, which is idolatry.
6
Because of these things the wrath of God is
coming upon the sons of disobedience,
7
in which you yourselves once walked when you
lived in them.
NKJV