Ezekiel 16

We have read some of the verses from Jeremiah.

From Isaiah, from Ezekiel, and from Hosea.

All these four prophets had a concept that considers God as the husband.

And God's chosen people as God's wife.

I will never forget.

And I also remember you following after me in the wilderness.

You know, if you read the whole chapter of Ezekiel 16, you could find out it refers to what happened in Exodus.

The Lord said, Israel, once I passed by you and I saw you.

But then some texts seem to think that they're kind of mixed, that Israel or at least Jerusalem's origins are shared, Canaanite and Amorite.

So there's this famous text in Ezekiel 16 that says God is talking to Jerusalem.

Your origin and birth is in the land of the Canaanite.

The Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.

Well, I'm sure many people listening have no idea what you're saying, but I think I do.

In Ezekiel 16, Israel and Judah are being basically condemned for their wickedness and their unfaithfulness to God.

And he uses the imagery of Sodom, seemingly, possibly, of the northern kingdom of Israel.

But you're saying possibly of Edom.

And so I think that's a really good connection there.

So with that, let's go to Ezekiel 16.

Ezekiel 16 is this allegory of a woman, and it's pretty graphic in the sense of it's a violent image of this young daughter that's cast aside into a field.

It says in verse 3, Say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem, Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan.

Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

Sirach 23, an exhortation on the warnings of immorality and lust in particular.

Ezekiel 16, Galatians 5, 1 Thessalonians 4, and 1 Corinthians 12.

All of those passages are ones which he dives into in the course of looking at Matthew 5.

And then the other panel, Matthew 22, the discussion of the resurrection of the body, leads him into a discussion on 1 Corinthians 15, which is where Paul talks about the resurrection of the body.