Message: The Two Immoral Sisters
Time: The Word of the Lord comes to Ezekiel
What the Lord is Saying: Two women, acting like prostitutes, behaving promiscuously. The two women, Oholah (means "her tent") and Oholibah (means "my tent is in her") portrays Samaria and Jerusalem and the Lord uses sexual language, in all its details, to describe these two places and their sin, their idolatry.
These two were called. They were chosen. But, they gave their allegiance to another. They wanted instead the Assyrians. She gave herself over to them and they had their way with her before eventually killing her.
Oholibah (Jerusalem) was only worse. She went to Chaldea and Babylonians came to her.
The Lord will incite others against her. You will be handed over to those who hate you. Why? Because you acted like a prostitute. You will experience ridicule, scorn, devastation, desolation.
You forget me and so there are consequences.
God will put an end to the indecency in the land.
Promise: You will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
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