Jimmy Swaggart Expositor Bible Ezekiel CHAPTER 16, 1-30

  Prophecy Links Fulfilling Isaiah 16:1-5/Revelation 12: 3-6

Yet to explain it, arriving the nick of time, July 6, 2020, seeing with Apostle John, Revelation 12 new born, snatched off the planet, that's as fulfilling end time prophecy as Angel Gabriel foretold us had come, May 15, 2004; but the phenomenon of what happened next. Like I could hear Heavenly Father say, yes, take His to Him, described, Holy Church Bride, but this one, apostate, Jerusalem, the birth mother, she's mine.

Surrealistically, as soon as HE said, she's mine, I laid back gently into a ground up cradle, to be bkept prophetically, for 1,260 days; soon around a tossing, blowing wind, this leaning over me, sweet, smelling, model caliber, husband and all I stressed is that phenom, immeasurable beloved wouldn't, couldn't detect my stinking, decaying flesh and the incommunicable majesty to Jubilee of it all, passed away; Draw Us, Lord King Zion, Thine own Lord Urusalem, We Will Run After Thee! Apb, See All Hail To The Ancient Of Days, Here, https://lordurusalem.blogspot.com/2010/12/maaseiah-xvi.html

CHAPTER 16 (594 B.C.) THE SIGN OF A CHILD; JERUSALEM, A FOUNDLING 

1 Again the Word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 

2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations (“Jerusalem” is the subject, because she, as the capital and where the Temple was located, answers for the entirety of Judah), 

3 And say, Thus says the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother an Hittite. (The phrase, “Your birth and your nativity,” refers to her origin, which was not heavenly but earthly. Such is said because religious pride had so filled Jerusalem, as she held herself spiritually far above other cities and nations, that she no longer saw herself for what she really was. With a piercing blow, the Holy Spirit through the Prophet strikes at her pride, saying, “Your birth is of the land of Canaan.”) 

4 And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to supple you; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. (The interpretation of this Prophecy belongs to that city and nation, but in application truly describes the moral condition of all men by natural birth; for these Verses give a true picture of man’s essential corruption.) 

5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these unto you, to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out in the open field, to the loathing of your person, in the day that you were born. (“No eye pitied you,” refers to all the surrounding nations, from then until now.”) 

6 And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said unto you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said unto you when you were in your blood, Live. (The Grace of the Redeemer, in loving such a foul being, in making her His Bride, and in giving her such a priceless trousseau, surpasses all human experience.)

 7 I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field, and you have increased and waxed great, and you are come to excellent ornaments: your breasts are fashioned, and your hair is grown, whereas you were naked and bare. (Israel really never became a nation until the advent of David as king. Under Saul, who was man’s choice [as David was God’s choice], Israel little came together as a unified people. Only under David, of which these Passages speak, did Israel become a cohesive unity. “And you are come to excellent ornaments,” refers to the Ark of the Covenant, and ultimately the Temple, where God dwelt. No other nation in the world was blessed with such “excellent ornaments,” which also inspired the enmity of the nations. “Your breasts are fashioned,” referred to her spiritual maturity, in that she was to nurture the nations of the world in the knowledge of God. Sadly, in this she failed!) 

GOD RESCUES HER

 8 Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore unto you, and entered into a Covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became Mine. (“And I spread My skirt over you, and covered your nakedness,” is illustrated by Ruth lying at the feet of Boaz [Ruth 3:9]. The “Covenant” into which the Lord entered with Israel was actually the Covenant of Ex. 24:7-8. All of this is also spelled out in Deut., Chpt. 28. There, the positives and negatives of the Covenant are given. The Lord never broke the Covenant, but Israel did, and repeatedly! God’s fidelity to the Covenant is enjoined in the words, “I swore unto you, and entered into a Covenant with you.”) 

9 Then washed I you with water; ye s, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. (The “water” refers to the Word of God, and the “oil” refers to the Holy Spirit, which Israel alone of the nations had.) 

10 I clothed you also with broidered work, and shod you with badgers’ skin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and I covered you with silk. (This Passage speaks of the following: A. “I clothed you with broidered work”: speaks of the “Garment of Praise” [Isa. 61:3]; B. “I shod you with badgers’ skin”: a type of the Incarnation of Christ; C. “I girded you about with fine linen”: speaks of Righteousness; D. “I covered you with silk”: prosperity!) 

11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain on your neck. (More gifts: E. “I decked you also with ornaments”: this consisted of the holy utensils used in the Temple for the worship of Jehovah; F. “And I put bracelets upon your hands”: this speaks of the Blessings of God; G. “And a chain upon your neck”: this typifies the umbilical cord to Christ.) 

12 And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head. (Gifts continue: H. “And I put a jewel in your forehead”: this speaks of possession, and means that Israel belonged solely to the Lord; I. “And earrings in your ears”: this signifies that they were to hear only His Voice; J. “And a beautiful crown upon your head”: as such, they were signified as the head of all nations.)

13 Thus were you decked with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; you did eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and you were exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom. (The blessings continue: K. “Thus were you decked with gold and silver”: the gold spoke of Deity, and the silver spoke of Redemption. Jehovah was their Head and He had redeemed them; L. “You did eat fine flour”: such portrays the Incarnation of the spotless Son of God; M. “And honey”: typified the sweet “Word of God” [Ps. 119:103]; N. “And oil”: as would be obvious, typifies the Holy Spirit, which is the second time He is typified, denoting great help [Vs. 9]; O. “And you were exceeding beautiful”: they were the nation of nations; however, all of their blessing and beauty came totally and solely from the Lord; P. “And you did prosper into a kingdom”: under David and Solomon they became the most powerful nation in the world.) 

14 And your renown went forth among the heathen for your beauty: for it was perfect through My comeliness, which I had put upon you, says the Lord GOD. (That a mighty Prince should make of an abandoned infant His Queen is amazing. But what adds to the wonder of it all is that this Divine Prince knew beforehand that His Bride would forsake Him and ultimately betray Him and crucify Him. Such affection is impossible among men, for when a man adopts a child, he hopes for a recompense in the love of the child; but who would adopt a child knowing beforehand that the child would hate and murder its benefactor? The Love that provided such a marriage, as described in Verses 10 through 14, is a Love that passes knowledge.)

 THE FOUNDLING BECOMES A PROSTITUTE: THE SINS OF JUDAH 

15 But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every one who passed by; his it was. (The two especially horrible features of the impure and cruel forms of idolatry to which Jerusalem madly gave herself are described in Verses 15 through 34. They were impure; for in her frenzied rage for idol worship, she especially adopted the idolatries of Egypt and Chaldea, both characterized by obscenity. The cruelty of her favored form of worship was the burning alive of little children in honor of the idol god, Moloch.) 

16 And of your garments you did take, and decked your high places with divers colours, and played the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. (The phrase, “The like things shall not come, neither shall it be so,” refers to a frenzied fervor of debauchery that has never been witnessed before, at least to this degree, and shall never again be witnessed!) 

17 You have also taken your fair jewels of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and did commit whoredom with them (“And made to yourself images of men, and did commit whoredom with them,” is thought to intimate phallus worship, i.e., the Asherah — the maler reproductiveorgan), 

18 And took your broidered garments, and covered them: and you have set My oil and My incense before them. (“And you have set My oil and My incense before them,” refers to this filthy idol possibly being placed even in the very Holy of Holies beside the Ark of the Covenant, or at least in the Holy Place beside the Altar of Worship. It is thought by some that Manasseh did this [II Chron. 33:3-7].) 

19 My meat also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, sa ys the Lord GOD. (The phrase, “And thus it was, says the Lord GOD,” means “I saw it; it is really true, says Adonai-Jehovah.” The sense here is: How could such a shameful object of worship, made of wood, stone, or metal, give “rest” to either heart orconscience?) 

20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne unto Me, and these have you sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of your whoredoms a small matter.

21 That you have slain My children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? (The throbbing agony of these two Verses can be felt by the Reader. Divine indignation and anguish combined in crying out to this faithless wife, “Bad as was your conduct in forsaking Me for vile and worthless lovers, yet greater is your guilt and cruelty in putting My children to so horrible a death.”) 

22 And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood. (Israel forgot that the Lord raised her up from nothing, and even less than nothing, if possible!) 

23 And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe unto you! says the LORD GOD [the phrase, “Woe, woe unto you!” refers to the coming judgment upon Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans: it is because of “all your wickedness];) 

24 That you have also built unto you an eminent place, and have made you an high place in every street. (This “high place” or “eminent place” referred to these religious ceremonies of idol worship.)

 25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms. (“You have built...,” proclaims the industry of Judah and Jerusalem in the increase of their sin.) 

26 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke Me to anger. (“You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians,” points to the political and commercial alliances in themselves as whoredom [Isa. 23:17; Nah. 3:4]. Please note the terms of “fornication” and “whoredoms,” which had to do in essence with “spiritual adultery.” The Apostle Paul used virtually the same terminology concerning Christians, who are married to Christ but yet look to things other than the Cross for victory [Rom. 7:1-4].)

27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you unto the will of them who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of your lewd way. (“The daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of your lewd way,” is striking indeed! Israel had sunk lower even than these heathen people. And then the judgment begins, with the Lord trying to bring Israel back to her rightful place.) 

28 You have played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were unsatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied. (“You have played the whore also with the Assyrians,” includes political alliances like that of Ahaz with Tiglath-Pileser [II Ki. 26:7], as well as the adoption of idolatrous worship. The word “unsatiable” referred to one being incapable of being satisfied, in this case, desiring to sin more and more!) 

29 You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied herewith. (The Holy Land became morally “the land of Canaan” because of its adoption of the foul and ancient religion of Canaan. “And yet you were not satisfied herewith,” once again reinforces the truth that lust is never satisfied. The more one sins, the more one must sin.) 

30 How weak is your heart, sa ys the LORD GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman (the phrase, “How weak is your heart,” refers to Israel, spiritually speaking, giving herself to anyone and everyone);