8:7-13
Ezekiel is brought to a place where there was a hole in the wall. He is told to dig into the wall so he could see what was going on. The perpetrators thought they were acting in secret, but God knows all hearts and minds, all is open before Him. So Ezekiel would see something of what was being done in secret, seeing beyond the outward facade.
Inside Ezekiel could see pictures of many unclean creatures, and “the idols of Israel”. There were “seventy elders of Israel” there before the idols. Jaazaniah was probably a prominent citizen in Jerusalem. Each of them had a censer, so each was partaking in the worship of idols. These were the people who should have been leading the city in its worship of God, and guiding the people in following God. And no doubt they were putting on a show to the people that this was what they were doing, when in fact they were worshipping idols. When an individual or an organisation is exposed as being involved in some sort of corruption, or sexual abuse, then it often comes as a shock. They are seen to be doing something that is the complete opposite of the public facade. That is what is happening here. These elders thought that what they were doing was unseen, and that God had forsaken them. Yet even this was not the worst that Ezekiel would see.
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