Ezekiel 8:6-12
6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
Ezekiel has forty-eight chapters, so “abominations” occurs in the book less than once per chapter, on the average. The word occurs six times in the eighteen verses of the eighth chapter, once every three verses. Whatever the LORD is placing before His people through Ezekiel in this portion is literally dominated with abominations.
At this point, it is not my intention to do any really in-depth exposition of this chapter. My purpose now is to identify the application of this revelation to things as they are developing in the world at the present hour. I am convinced that what we are going to be encountering as time goes by is very much like what God revealed to Ezekiel in this eighth chapter. Ezekiel was no fool. He was not naïve. He knew that the people of Israel had fallen into deep wretchedness. When God gave him the visions that are recorded in these chapters, Ezekiel was already in Babylonian captivity, knowing that these circumstances were due to Israel’s sin. But Ezekiel had no idea just how horrifyingly deep Israel had fallen. He had to literally be shown.
So it is among us today. Things are starting to come out into the open, [in America and around the world], that have been hidden for centuries. What we have been permitted to see previously has been severely limited by the main-stream media, and government propaganda, all of which are complicit in the hidden abominations. Let us first see in basic terms what God revealed to Ezekiel about Israel. It is here that we encounter the full mention of what we spoke of earlier: the horrifying depths to which His own people had fallen through their idolatry and all of the terrible things that accompanied it.
Beginning in verse 7, the Lord takes Ezekiel further and further “down the rabbit-hole” of Israel’s abominations. Through a “hole in the wall,” Ezekiel saw enough to know that there was a great deal more that he had to see. Digging through (verse 8), he gave himself sufficient space to enter fully into the room (verse 9). Let me pause to apply this portion to the present day. Since the main-stream media in America (and around the world) is complicit in the hidden sins of darkness, and has been hiding it from the ordinary person through lies and propaganda, it has fallen to others[1] to dig deeper into the numerous hints that have escaped the official narrative, hints of horrifying things going unnoticed.
As Ezekiel went further in, he encountered far more depravity than he had expected, especially from the leaders (ancients of Israel). (Verse 11) In verse 10 Ezekiel says of what he saw, “behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.” Do NOT lose sight of the fact that these images only portray the “religious” side of the horrors. Look again at our repeated statement: the horrifying depths to which His own people had fallen through their idolatry and all of the terrible things that accompanied it.
The idolatry that Israel was clearly embracing included some of the most disgusting practices ever perpetrated by man: Child abuse, child sacrifice, perverted sexuality, even cannibalism. We wince and draw back from even the mention of such things. But these are not idle concepts. They are horrifying realities. God was not merely showing Ezekiel that his own people were caught up in some sanitized form of idolatry, ugly but tolerable. NO! He was stripping away the veil so that Ezekiel could plainly see the horrifying depths to which Israel had fallen.
Now we look at our primary verse. It is verse 12. God asks Ezekiel if he finally SEES what has been going on behind the scenes in Israel (among the ancients), “in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery.” God goes on to say that they have fallen into this by wrongly regarding God as not being present, or real, or “involved” at all.
For thousands of years there have been such horrors transpiring here on earth. Many Bible commentators take the position, for example, that the “sons of God” that cohabited with the “daughters of men” in Genesis chapter 6 were literally demons. Whether or not you accept that view, you cannot easily just ignore what God revealed to Ezekiel right here in front of us. And, we may be sure that, if what is revealed here was the underlying reality among those that had been entrusted with writing the Hebrew Scriptures and fellowship with the true and living God for centuries, those abominations that are committed by those that fully reject God are far, far worse!
I am convinced that much of this kind of darkness is going to come into the light as time wears on to the coming of the LORD. It is nothing new. It has simply been carefully hidden from view. Many are going to be deeply stunned by what the light reveals. Many are going to find it very hard to accept that those whom they held in high esteem have been the monsters in the darkness. But it is so. God saw it 2,600 years ago, in Ezekiel’s day. And He has seen it for all the years of all of our lives. If there is any hope for America, or the world, going forward, it must be brought to light and cauterized from among us. Otherwise, mankind’s time may be finished in this world.
The Wall Street Journal published an article on Instagram and Pedophilia on June 7, 2023. It is very telling, but really only identifies the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ so to speak. This is a rare case of any of the MSM doing any kind of genuinely investigative reporting on the abominations that are rampant all across the world RIGHT NOW! What is said about Instagram is true also for other social platforms.[2]
[1] These are the “citizen journalists,” people that have gone far beyond the “party line,” examining source material carefully hidden for so long by the forces of darkness.
[2] The text of the WSJ article is in Appendix B. Every reader should read it.