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Ezekiel 16 gives us biblical proof that Jerusalem was a harlot - if not the mother of all harlots. God even said Jerusalem was worse than a harlot, as a harlot at least gets paid for her work, but Jerusalem paid her lovers.
Ezekiel 16: 2, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 30, 33 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
Ezekiel 16: 2, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 30, 33 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
You play the harlot by going to BE WITH A PROSTITUTE
A prostitute does not play the harlot.
Jerusalem did not play the whore. She slept with the WHore. The WHore being babylon (baal worship and other gods they slept with) And then she HELPED to promite that worship. It is why she suffered the lev 26 punishment WHich The northern kingdom suffered by the hands of Assyria. And then the southern kingdom suffered at the hands of the 4 beasts (babylon, Media persia, Greece and ROme) until she was finally totally destroyed in 70 Ad)
So again, SHE IS ALREADY BEING PUNISHED, how can you PUNISH HER MORE??
Why is this so hard for people to comprehend? Do they ignore history?
I did not read this post past the “play the harlot” part. Because if we can not come to understand what this means, we have no bearing with which to discuss anything.