HARLOTS OF MANY MASTERS

When I began reading the book of Ezekiel, it was hard reading and hard to understand. I was about to skip all that esoteric stuff — the mystery of God — and go to simpler things. However, usually the hard to read stuff is where much of the future lies. The Word revealed the destiny of the world, and inquiring readers might want to know how God has planned their future.

The Word (Hebrew: “Dabar”) of the Lord came unto Ezekiel again (Ezek 23:1). Dabar has many meanings; perhaps foremost is the simple word, “cause.” A cause is anything that produces an effect, according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The Word is the Cause of all things, to wit: 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4) 

The “Word” was the “First Cause;” the Cause that we call “God.” The Word is the Power of God that was the Cause of all things.

The “effect” was many things but paramount The Word was the cause of Life itself for all mankind. Another implication is that you are alive because of The Word of God because The Word is life.

However, since The Word made all things, then He made evil, not for our human nature but to test the allegiance or devotion of His creatures, foremostly mankind who had dominion over all the other creatures including the angelic kingdom. Human beings were “elected” to be the ones superior to the other creatures both in this realm and the invisible domain.

So, don’t be so proud. God did not elect you per se, but Adam’s kind before the foundation of the world. Where should a reader go to find the election process? “He (The Word) has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (Ephes 1:4). It is not literally “should be” but “am” — us living creatures. And it was not literally before the foundation of this world, but the cosmos.

We were selected as God’s chosen creatures before any other thing was made, either the visible or the visible existence in the universe. The Word made all things for a certain select group, or kind, and as it turned out, mankind was to have “dominion” over both the angelic or animal kingdom (Gen 1:28), regardless of whether they stand upright or even crawl the earth.

Hence, that is reason or the “cause” of the war between prideful angels and prideful mankind. The doctrine of Calvinistic “election” amplifies pride. It is understood that The Word chose who would be Christians or who would be the damned sometime before he endowed them with His Image.

God endowed only mankind — the male and female Adamah — and not angels or animal kinds other than mankind. God did not elect specific people to be His creatures, but all mankind. We should not be proud of that but feel blessed that of all the kinds, God chose man to be blessed by The Word.

Ezekiel was blessed. God revealed to him what it takes to remain favored and not so favored. As such, mankind was subdivided and The Word revealed that to Ezekiel. Mankind had devolved. Over just a few generations on the new Earth, mankind was filtered again between Shem, Japheth, and Canaan; “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant” (Gen 9:27). Semites were the chosen people, then after they fail with their war against God on the plane of Shinar, The Word chose the Abrahamic peoples, and The Word made the Hebrews favored with the Japhetites sort of “alternates.”

Then Semites were filtered again into the Israelites and Ishmaelites. Each tribe was chosen to inherit the “land of milk and honey” — the land to the Japhetites and the Paradise in Heaven to the Hebrews who were to cross-over, not the river Euphrates nor the River of the Garden (the Jordan), but the Hebrews, under Abraham, according to the Book of Jasher, inherited the “land” in Heaven wherein Abraham was king there (Abraham’s Bosom; Luke 16).

There was a misunderstanding of sorts. The Word knew what He was doing. He caused division time after time to test who deserves a portion of His Estate. In the end, nobody deserves the Estate of God — the one in Heaven — “because all have come short of the glory (Image) of God” (Rom 3:23).

After Abraham, the land was further divided into tribes of Israel, and soon even Israel was separated from the Israelites. Israel had been in sin in Egypt and The Word had cause many to flee the “Satan” pharaoh, but by the time they got to the promise, just a handful of the original Hebrews made it to Canaan to form the nation of Israel.

Jesus, “The Word” said “many be called, but few chosen” (Mat 20:16). The Word, throughout history, called many, but few were chosen. Many walked with The Word when He led them, but few ever finished the course.

Why is that? The Word said to Moses, “Then I will set My Face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people” (Lev 20:5). “That man” in that warning was “the man, when he gives of his seed unto Molech” (Lev 20:4).

What is seed? Semen. Just whose semen was it? Any of mankind. From whom did mankind obtain semen? The Word, God. Dividing the waters from the waters (Gen 1:6) is figuratively, the semen from the semen. That was the “election” before the foundation of the world, when God divided the kinds from the kinds. Mankind were not the “lucky ones,” but all creation was for mankind, and it was planned before much else happened!

Therefore, humility is called for; we are to humble ourselves and let the Lord lift us up (Jas 4:10). The doctrine of election is arrogant! It is as if God made us sovereign rather than Him being the Sovereign. All of Adam’s kind should have retained the seed of God, but Adam threw his seed to the ground as he watched the woman become the harlot-king, “Eve,” with Adam designating her a new kind (Gen 3:20). With original sin, no longer was mankind even chosen, but those who would humble themselves, God would lift them up; indubitably all the way to the bosom of Abraham in Paradise.

You as an individual was not elected. You as the family of Eve — the “mother of all living” — come short of the glory of God. God did not choose you, Eve did that while Adam watched (Gen 4:1).

Adam did not beget Cain; he was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12) and we are not “sons of God” but sons of Cain. Original sin seems to have included whoredom — The woman became the “whore” Eve, and she is the source of your mitochondrial DNA whether you be male or female. You are of the Wicked One from the seed of Cain, yet you still proudly proclaim that God chose you and specifically before the foundation of the world.

Just who is mankind now? Are we “sons of God” or bastard children of Eve and the Wicked One? Since we all come short of the glory of God, you fill in the blank. Rather than God, the pretender to the throne of God, Lucifer (Isa 14:13-14), divided the waters from the waters, namely the semen from the semen. From that day forward, it has been Lucifer who divided the waters from the waters as if he is God!

That was revealed to Ezekiel. The Word of God revealed to him how the people would be further divided. Both the city of Samaria, a bastard people, and the city of Jerusalem, God’s people, would become the whore and the younger sister of the whore. Samaria, The Word said, as “Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors” (Ezek 23:5), “And when her sister Aholibah (Jerusalem) saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms” (Ezek 23:11).

Jerusalem saw Samaria go a whoring after the Assyrians and soon Jerusalem went a whoring after the Babylonians. God used Assyria and Babylon to convert the whores to righteousness. It did turn some of the Jerusalemites around but not the Samaritans.

Ahola, the elder sister, was the “tent woman” and Aholibah was the “tent woman in her.” They were both women of the tent; perhaps referring to tabernacle worship in the days of the roaming in the wilderness. They were not women of the temple but specifically of the tents. They were wandering women, so Samaria and Jerusalem both played the harlot, like Tamar who wore a veil to deceive Judah. Tamar was a woman of the “tent’ — the woman who wore a “tent” on her face to conceal that it was she that was the harlot.

Both Samaria and Jerusalem had temples but even then, they were the harlots.

Who would The Word use for His purposes?

The Word revealed to Ezekiel that the sons of Ishmael and Esau would defile them, and that they did; they were the Arab nations — other Semites.

Then the whores would encounter another tribe: 

And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that plays the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. (Ezek 23:42-44) 

I believe that Ezekiel saw the coming of the Muslims — Sabeans that would commit adultery with the two whores: Samaria and Jerusalem. Those two cities would become whores for the Yemeni people.

Yemeni, the contemporary Sabeans at the time of Ezekiel, had an empire that included the Arabian Peninsula as well as modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea in the eastern horn of Africa. It is better known as the “land of Sheba” in biblical times.  

The Arabs during the pre-Islamic period used to practice certain things that were included in the Islamic Sharia. They, for example, did not marry both a mother and her daughter. They considered marrying two sisters simultaneously to be the most heinous crime. They also censured anyone who married his stepmother, and called him dhaizan. They made the major hajj and the minor umra pilgrimage to the Ka'ba, performed the circumambulation around the Ka'ba tawaf, ran seven times between Mounts Safa and Marwa sa'y, threw rocks and washed themselves after sexual intercourse. They also gargled, sniffed water up into their noses, clipped their fingernails, removed all pubic hair and performed ritual circumcision. Likewise, they cut off the right hand of a thief and stoned Adulterers. (Wikipedia) 

The Sabeans were sort of like the Hebrews but not quite. Their lifestyle was pagan and may have set the example for Islam. The hajj is now the required pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The Sabeans had Islamic Sharia Law millennia before Islam.  Since Islam is a synthesis of paganism, Judaism, and Christianity, Ezekiel in 623 B.C. or so is when The Word revealed to Ezekiel the false religion of Islam whose first Hijra was in 622 A.D.

With that said, the cities of Samaria and Jerusalem have become the “harlots” of Islam and have been since 638 A.D. when the Muslims captured Jerusalem. With that background, Jerusalem is surely the “Harlot Babylon” as portrayed in the apocalypse: “Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth” (Rev 17:5). Samaria was the harlot of Assyria, and Jerusalem the harlot of Babylon, and in eventually both would become harlots of the kingdom of Saba’ and in the seventh century A.D., harlots of Islam.

Jerusalem has its seven mountains and Islam its seven pillars. Those should be the seven “heads” of the beast.

Theologians determined the seven heads as kingdoms, including, Babylon, Persian, Greece, and Rome. The first two kingdoms and the seventh kingdom have yet to be identified. However, perhaps the seventh kingdom is a worldwide Islamic Caliphate. The Word as well as said that to Ezkiel. Islam is the last piece of the puzzle, and the cruelty of the great tribulation is very well described by Sharia Law.

We need not fear Rome or Catholicism; we should fear Islam because Muslims have a history of proselytizing by war and with the blade. In the end, it will be little different than that, so the idea that Islam is a peaceful religion goes to Hell! It is the last in a series of very unpeaceful kingdoms that God allows to test His people.

Of course, Roman Catholicism, as well as liberal Protestantism, will hold up their hands and surrender to Islam and it will be finished. The Word revealed that to Ezekiel nearly 2650 years ago.

Chrislam is a symbiosis of Judaism, and Christianity.

The Name “Eve” has several meanings, one being symbiosis: “Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association” (Oxford Language Dictionary).

Eve’s close encounter with another kind (Gen 4:1) made Cain symbiotic (1 John 3:12) as the offspring of the Wicked One and Eve.

Mankind was once glorious like God but are now symbiotic like Eve — the mother of all living (Gen 3:20) and the Wicked One the “father of all living” (John 8:44). Eve and Satan (the devil) still live within human genetics. Humans are “puppets” of them both; they live in symbiosis (to the advantage of both) within our genomes.

In the beginning, the “harlot” was Eve. Her sin was fornication against God by some type of carnal knowledge with the devil, Lucifer, who was inwardly a cunning “beast.” Was the ante-diluvian Adamic empire the first of the seven heads? Maybe.

This background is from the Word, I believe, to warn mankind just who the harlot might be in the end. It might very well be the Sabean harlotry of Chrislam.

Chrislam was ordained in a ceremony just recently, to wit: 

The meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani came as Francis sought to protect his persecuted flock in Iraq by forging closer bonds between the Roman Catholic Church and the Muslim world. (Horowitz and Arraf 2021) 

Islam has been around in Nigeria and east Africa for years, but the Pope and the Ayatollah essentially established it as a religion more recently. That symbiotic religion is perhaps the religion of the Antichrist. Not to put all the blame on them, but the false protestant church is gradually moving toward Chrislam with their wrong idea that Islam is a peaceful religion. Unitarians are the leaders of that movement; itself a pantheon of symbiotic religions.

The end is near. To whom did Ezekiel turn for a vision of the future? The Word. To whom should we turn for the same view? The Word, “Jesus.”

PICTURE credit: blogs.crossmap.com; "Shocking Story of Tamar in the Bible"