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You were exceedingly beautiful. Eze. 16:13 Notice that their most splendid condition is past tense. Under the guidance and nourishment of the Lord even the very ugliest become a thing of beauty. That beauty will prevail only as long as the Lord is made welcome and is the object of worship. When He is forsaken the ugliness of the past not only returns but is reckoned to be greatly increased, until it reaches its fullness. Jesus said; that a house ( a person) swept clean of an evil spirit, beautified and put in order, that is not occupied by a spirit of righteousness, but remains empty will soon be reoccupied by the original wicked spirit, along with seven others for a full complement of eight. Mt. 12:453-45 How greatly magnified the ugliness of sin will become under such circumstances. If Jesus spoke that concerning His generation how much more may it be applied to this generation.
Increasing in numbers and in the beauty of the Lord, through the application of the comeliness of the Lord, their reputation grew among the heathen. Their splendor reached a status of perfection, all because of the glorious presence of the Lord among them. Eze. 16:14 The similarity is obvious, where Israel failed to continue in the rich blessings of the Lord, the true church, will prevail and fulfill the desires of the Lord. The Bride of Christ will be afforded the same opportunity and will not fail to respond to His call of love and enter into His perfections. Eph. 5:27
The saying of men is that history repeats itself. Solomon said; there is nothing new under the sun and that which has been will occur again. Ecc. 1:3 Paul said; that the prophetic statements such as are found in the writings of the prophets were written for our admonition and as examples of what to do and not to do. 1 Cor. 10:11 Israel of old found many lovers and received a stern rebuke and correction because of their corrupting themselves. Eze. 16:15-22 All the good things which the Lord had bestowed upon them they desecrated and turned them into sinful and wicked actions. Their experience foreshadows the experiences of the church in the last days. Out of that perfect church there will arise another group. The church of compromise and a religion amalgamating all the religions of the world into one. The beginning, the roots of such a movement, in our day, becomes more and more evident. In contrast to the woman of Revelation twelve, she (the false church) is the church of lewdness and promiscuity. A full description of her is to be found in Revelation seventeen. Some try to link her to churches or religious orders which are in existence today but she is not made up of just one religion but all of them made one by the antichrist.