This chapter begins with the Lord God asking Ezekiel in a very direct manner if he is prepared to judge the city of Jerusalem while referring to it as the bloody city. He repeats the request to add urgency to what He is asking Ezekiel to do. He is asking him to bring charges up against the people of Jerusalem. Calling it a bloody city He is referring to the huge volume of children that were offered up to Molech to be burned alive or murdered first followed with the body being burned in the furnace (II Kings 17:17-18). This chapter is the strongest denunciation of Jerusalem in the Old Testament. The Nation Israel had taken the abominable practices of the Gentile nations surrounding them and acted worse than the Gentiles. Jerusalem is a very special place on this earth. It is an earthly city but has a parallel in Heaven. It is the place that God called home on earth as His Shekinah Glory resided in His Tabernacle and Temple when He dwelt among the Children of Israel. The city will be renovated and populated by redeemed people during the Messianic Kingdom which will give way to the Heavenly Jerusalem finally being established on this earth. However at the time of Ezekiel it had succumbed to the lowest depths of depravity.
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