October 11

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2857S1011.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1229 Download Link --> <p>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 Jesus, no matter how bad things get, you still have plans.  You have good plans for us. So we want to cooperate with your plans.  Thank you for calling us to yourself.  We are yours.  Amen."</div> </blockquote> <div>Just a little review: remember Ezekiel is in Babylon and whereas Daniel is in the palace having his influence there, Ezekiel is in the countryside and prophesying about Jerusalem and the destruction that is looming because they have wholly given themselves over to behavior that is reprehensible; downright demonic.  Ezekiel spends the first 24 chapters in this theme. We are in 16 and 17 this week so we're just over 2/3's through the diatribe against Jerusalem and their rebellion.</div> <p>16 - Ezekiel is giving Israel (Jerusalem/Judah) a scolding for their absolutely inexcusable behavior.  God has cared for them since their conception, given them the best of protection, provision, adornment and love.  They are like a wife now succumbed to unfaithfulness. Not just the unfaithfulness of a wandering heart that strayed by default... Jerusalem was aggressively unruly, sinful. They had a practical glee about their dark fetishes that had completely overtaken them culturally.  The God of Abraham was desperately grieved and the Hebrews in Jerusalem were way worse than smug about it.  God had cared for them from the start and cared for them tenderly.  Come Ezekiel's day they were reknown for their whoring behavior.  The "bride" had fallen so far! They prostituted themselves to any customers; any and all who would pass by. The idolatry was endless, the dark and sickening practices were<em>worse</em> than the people o