September 27

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2717S0927.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1158 Download Link --> <p>Ezekiel 8-11 We are in the Prophetic Stream reading from the Lexham English Bible. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote> <div>Lord, when you speak, good heavens and oh my word, we want to be listening.  Amen.</div> </blockquote> <p>8 - It was the year 592 B.C. in the ninth month - what we today have come to call 'September' - and Ezekiel has been a captive in Babylon for five years.  It is six years until Jerusalem is going to need to be ransacked and burned flat for the abomination and idolatry that is going on there at a feverish pitch - and all with the priests' approval!  God is showing that He has had enough of the people in this city; this city that He called to be a Light for His purposes - a Light for the Gentiles.  They were wholly rebellious children of His and only a severest of severe punishments is going to work on them. They were worshiping the Canaanite fertility god Asherah, and the Babylonian fertility god Tammuz.  There were engaging in cultic Egyptian animal worship. They were doing sun worship, like what was going on in Japan after the Christian community was exterminated by the Shoguns centuries ago. The leadership of all this pagan revelry was being done by people who <em>were</em> once in alliance with the bible legends Josiah and Jeremiah ... but they had gone bad and were quite committed to staying this way.  This is what Ezekiel was being shown in his vision of Jerusalem-gone-wrong!</p> <div>9 - The vision continues giving clear indication that an angel is going to go through this same city and cut down; wholly slaughter without mercy all who are immersed in this rancid idolatry.  Those who do not approve and are grieved by the idolatry v.