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The kingdom of this world
Is become the kingdom of our Lord,
And of His Christ, and of His Christ;
And He shall reign for ever and ever,
For ever and ever, forever and ever.
— Hallelujah, Handel’s Messiah
Ezekiel 23 is the most sexually explicit passage in the Bible. Most people assume that Song of Songs is the culprit, but [...]

Ah, soiled, defiled,
oppressing city!
It has listened to no voice;
it has accepted no correction.
It has not trusted in the LORD;
it has not drawn near to its God.
The officials within it
are roaring lions;
its judges are evening wolves
that leave nothing until the morning.
Its prophets are reckless,
faithless persons;
its priests have profaned what is sacred,
they have done violence to the [...]

Let us look at the utterance of the apostle
which is crowned with this lovely terror:
“Our God is a consuming fire”
— George MacDonald (Unspoken Sermons)
Daniel 3 tells a very familiar story. Here’s the Cole’s notes version:
King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image of himself. Three Hebrew boys, fresh in their captivity, refuse to bow down before [...]

Better to sleep in a house full
of adders and venomous beasts
than sleep in one sinne.
— William Fenner
Ezekiel is not the kind of book that reads like a novel. (You have probably guessed that by now!) Instead, it’s a collection of prophecies that God gave Ezekiel to deliver. Many of these prophecies are self-contained; meaning, they [...]