I'm giving you a picture of the destruction of Jerusalem beforehand.

I'm showing you all this to show you how terrible your sin is.

It's not just you're making political deals and hedging your bets.

That's a really prosaic way of saying that you are worshipping spiders. Yeah. Right,

right? Right. So he's like, he's in this mode of trying to provoke shock and awe among the exiles.

Right. Because they've been doing this for a long time. It has become super commonplace.

This is the way they've always dealt with God and other gods and other nations. And so Ezekiel is in this mode of trying to shock them to show them what this deserves.

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We are continuing our walk through the book of Ezekiel.

We have looked at what the book is, what prophetic literature is, where it is in space and time, in the history of Israel.

And now we've walked through the first like three chapters or so,

the opening, surprising, staggering visions that Ezekiel saw of God on his throne chariot,

moving wherever he wants, having dominion over all creation and on all other gods. And he's not

where Israel thinks he should be locked in the temple,

doing whatever they want. Instead, he is showing I'm leaving the temple. The temple will fall,

and now we're going to hear some of the reasons why it's falling and the harbingers of doom,

the mourning and lamentations. Here we go. Yeah. I feel like you're getting increasingly

proud of how good your summaries are.

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