The Vision of Idolatry in the Temple
In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me. Ezk 20:1Ezk 1:2-3Ezk 14:1Ezk 33:31Ezk 14:4Act 20:33Ezk 24:1Ezk 26:1
Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber. 1 Ezk 1:4Ezk 1:26-27Dan 7:9-10Rev 1:14-15 He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated. Deu 32:16Ezk 11:1Deu 5:9Ezk 5:11Dan 5:5Deu 32:21Deu 4:24Deu 6:15
And there I saw the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain. Ezk 3:22-23Ezk 1:26-282Co 3:182Co 4:4-6Exo 25:22Exo 40:34-35Ezk 10:1-4Ezk 11:22-23 “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” Ezk 8:3Jer 3:2Jer 32:34Psa 48:2Psa 78:58Zec 5:5-11
So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate 2I saw this idol of jealousy.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.” Ezk 5:11Ezk 10:19Ezk 8:92Ch 36:14-172Ki 23:4-6Deu 31:16-18Ezk 11:22Ezk 23:38-39
Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall. 1Ki 7:122Ki 21:5
“Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” Isa 29:15Amo 9:2-3Job 34:22Jer 2:34Jer 23:24
So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.
Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.” Ezk 20:8
So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel. Exo 20:4Rom 1:23Jer 16:18Deu 14:3Deu 14:7-8Deu 4:18Isa 57:6-10Jer 2:26-27 Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising. Num 11:16Num 16:17Num 16:35Exo 24:1Jer 19:1Num 11:252Ch 26:162Ch 26:19
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’” Isa 29:15Ezk 9:9Ezk 8:15Eph 5:12Jhn 3:19-20Psa 10:11Ezk 8:17Ezk 8:6-8
Again, He told me, “You will see them committing even greater abominations.” Ezk 8:6Ezk 8:15Jer 9:32Ti 3:13
Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz. 3 Ezk 44:4Ezk 46:9
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.” 2Ti 3:13Ezk 8:12-13Ezk 8:6Ezk 8:9
So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun. Deu 4:19Deu 17:3Jer 32:33Ezk 11:1Jer 2:27Job 31:26-28Ezk 43:5Jol 2:17
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose! Ezk 9:9Ezk 7:23Jer 6:7Mic 2:2Zep 1:92Ki 21:162Ki 24:4Amo 3:10 Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.” Mic 3:4Isa 1:15Jer 11:11Zec 7:13Ezk 7:4-9Ezk 9:10Jdg 10:13-14Luk 13:25