Jesus Drank, Judas Repented and God Divorced His Bride by Steve Brown

Author:Steve Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 9781600052019
Publisher: Happy About
Published: 2006-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"The Light of the World"

by William Holman Hunt

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C h a p t e r

4 God Divorced His

Bride

Politics

A few miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, in the small

village of Kifil, a cone-shaped monument towers

above the rooftops of homes in the crowded

residential area. Visible from several blocks

away, the monument is actually the roof of a

tomb. The tomb is the traditionally-recognized

burial place of the prophet Ezekiel.

During biblical times, the geographical land area

(give or take a few hundred miles in any

direction) of modern Iraq was referred to as

Babylonia and its capital city as "Babylon." It was

also referred to in Greek as Mesopotamia. As a

point of interest, here are some popular biblical

(all but one) events that have taken place in

Babylonia/Iraq:

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The Tower of Babel was built in Babylonia189

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The creation of the different languages took place

in Babylonia190

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Abraham was from Babylonia191

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Jonah was swallowed by the whale before going

to Nineveh, which was in Babylonia192

189. Genesis 11:1-4

190. Genesis 11:5-9

191. Genesis 11:31

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Daniel was in the den of lions in Babylonia193

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Belshazzar, the King of Babylonia, saw the hand, writing on the wall, in Babylonia194

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Three Hebrew young men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, were

thrown into the fiery furnace in Babylonia195

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Ezekiel wrote the Book of Ezekiel while in Babylonia

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The book of Revelation speaks about Babylon196

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On March 20, 2003, the United States and the United Kingdom launched

a military invasion on the nation of Iraq and took occupance there

Ezekiel was a prisoner of war and one of three major biblical prophets.

The Babylonian army invaded Israel around 620 B.C., during the siege

Ezekiel (along with many other Jewish leaders) was captured, taken

prisoner and carried away to Babylonia. While there, Ezekiel

prophesied and warned Israel of her sin, rejection and rebellion against God's word.

Ezekiel wasn't a coward. Neither would he have made a good

politician. Ezekiel would've probably described a spade as "a spade."

A good politician would describe a spade as, "a flat, pointed metal object attached to the end of a pole and used for transporting one

portion of the earth's surface from one area to another."

Ezekiel described the harlotry and whoredoms of God's bride in vivid

detail, "Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she

lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission [semen] was like that of horses197."

It appears the Israeli women were returning to Egypt in pursuit of sex with the Egyptian men. The ancient Egyptian men were generally tall

and slim. Additionally, they were very particular about personal

192. Jonah 3

193. Daniel 6:16

194. Daniel 5:5

195. Daniel 3:20

196. Revelation 17 and 18

197. Ezekiel 23:19, 20 NIV

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appearance and disdained those who were not. Both men and women

used cosmetics and wore jewelry. Their unusually high standards of

personal hygiene were probably another reason the Israeli women

chased after the Egyptians.

Spiritual Adultery

Although Scripture records the sexual failures of numerous men and

women, there are nonsexual sins that are more serious in the eyes of

God, though they usually get less attention198. For instance,

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