Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Ezekiel 20:29 belongs to God's message in Ezekiel 20 concerning Israel's rebellion and wandering from Him into idolatry and into breaking and forgetting the Sabbath. It stands within the account of Israel's idolatry and Sabbath desecration that brought the people into exile and dispersion. The chapter shows that God's people wandered from Him, forgot His Sabbath, and turned to idolatry. It is part of the chapter's account of Israel's rebellion and idolatry.
The chapter reveals the importance of the Sabbath by joining dreadful curses to disobedience to it. In that apostasy the people trampled the Sabbath and turned to pagan idolatrous times. That course brought judgment on Jerusalem into exile, dispersion, and captivity. When the Jewish church apostatized, its trampling of the Sabbath and turning to pagan times brought judgment on Jerusalem.
The same ground is covered by Stephen's account that after Israel refused to worship God, God gave them up to worship the host of heaven and images representing the heavenly bodies. The chapter portrays the Dark Ages stage of the Jewish church, a time of idolatrous apostasy in which the faithful were persecuted and which ended in captivity. It was written for learning and admonition upon whom the ends of the ages are come. It forms the exact parallel to the Dark Ages stage of the Christian church, when the apostate church became a persecutor and the conscientious were persecuted and slain.
Ezekiel 20:29 belongs to God's message in Ezekiel 20 concerning Israel's rebellion and wandering from Him into idolatry and into breaking and forgetting the Sabbath. It stands within the account of Israel's idolatry and Sabbath desecration that brought the people into exile and dispersion. The chapter shows that God's people wandered from Him, forgot His Sabbath, and turned to idolatry. It is part of the chapter's account of Israel's rebellion and idolatry.
The chapter reveals the importance of the Sabbath by joining dreadful curses to disobedience to it. In that apostasy the people trampled the Sabbath and turned to pagan idolatrous times. That course brought judgment on Jerusalem into exile, dispersion, and captivity. When the Jewish church apostatized, its trampling of the Sabbath and turning to pagan times brought judgment on Jerusalem.
The same ground is covered by Stephen's account that after Israel refused to worship God, God gave them up to worship the host of heaven and images representing the heavenly bodies. The chapter portrays the Dark Ages stage of the Jewish church, a time of idolatrous apostasy in which the faithful were persecuted and which ended in captivity. It was written for learning and admonition upon whom the ends of the ages are come. It forms the exact parallel to the Dark Ages stage of the Christian church, when the apostate church became a persecutor and the conscientious were persecuted and slain.