And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing—the utterly detestable things the Israelites are doing here, things that will drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see things that are even more detestable.”
He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land
The false prophet heard these lines and thought Israel is the enemy of humanity, where in truth, Israel here represents the whole nation, the humanity, and tribes in its, as elements. So think of religions as tribes today and gods they follow as idols, the idols of worship. (Secretly he just wanted Jerusalem, destroy the truth.)
Worship wasn’t part of religion, the true word was fellowship. The oath to undertake the combined purpose of humanity higher than the one you carry, for only traveling together meant making it to the future, justifiably.
He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there
So these idols of Israel (world) today are all these religions with their own idols (names of gods) and all religions worship their own idol. The idols that became walls for nation. When you dig into those walls, you find the doorway, to each other, to a greater good and a greater God. Bible preached curiosity from ancient times. Unless you dig you never find the answers.
And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing—the utterly detestable things the Israelites are doing here, things that will drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see things that are even more detestable.”
So you don’t drive people away from their religions, but towards their religions, and help them identify parts that won’t created problems for them or for others. For if one religions is just after driving out another religion or other religions, such will is ill and evil, and only worse can be expected from such religion.
Then he said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy.
Growth of one religion is the natural function of their people’s carrying out (fellowship, obedience) it is when we make an idol out of jealous that we began to make these new walls around our religions, and in doing so, make it cruel, infertile, that lacks the ability to seed onto the soul. If a religion is infertile, it will only grow by numbers not quality and without quality it is bound to collapse.
Jealousy (envy) is the worst of seven deadly sins. It always arrives first and is the last one to depart.
The ancient scriptures refers to Israel a lot because, teaching one nation was the only way to preach to whole humanity in a time when the world wasn’t connected. Today the scope has changed. The cup of tolerance is not equal among all the nations. Willingness to change, implement, and struggle, is different, all nations are adopting things at a different pace.
“Therefore, son of man, say to your people, ‘If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person’s former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person’s former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.’
This I can only translate for myself. Avoid from the grudge, even if it kills you. For keeping grudges and digging old graves, leaves you no where. You’ll forever lack the love of God in your progression in life. Carrying grudges as a nation, it has even more adverse effects.
“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?
A religion that’s only about itself, preaches not betterment of others, tries to dominate others, is a religion without resolute regard for God and goodness. For all humanity is one flock, and we must have regard for it.
Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman’s monthly uncleanness in my sight.
Sorry for the stereotype… my ancestors were a nutjobs, that time was different. To revise that, their conduct was like a man’s occasional wet-dreams, unclean in my sight. (equality served), now clearly, the male dominancy part leads towards greater chaos, while inclusivity of women, leads towards the greater order. Today’s Israel gives a lot hygienic and female oriented.
The “code of conduct” is the most evident part of the religion. It is something like a declaration. Code of conduct for a country is its constitution, while 10×3 is world religion, the evident part of universal code, declared by consensus of all the nations. The universal declaration is much above the local declaration, and as the code says, the countries that fail their own constitution, abuse it, are most likely to fail universal constitution and abuse it too.
All country constitutions must traverse closely to world constitution.