{"id":637,"date":"2007-03-15T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T06:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/ezekiel_chapter_7.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:34","slug":"ezekiel_chapter_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/ezekiel_chapter_7.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel &#8211; Chapter 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel 8:3 &#8211; God grabs him by the <em>hair<\/em> and takes him off to Jerusalem.  Yikes.<br \/>\nEzekiel 8:6 &#8211; The Israelites were acting in ways to push God out of the temple.  I&#8217;m sure that had you asked them, many may have thought they were actually serving God there.  Yet God felt, and was, driven away.  Isn&#8217;t it easy for us to do the same?  We get caught up in how we should worship and what&#8217;s proper to do, or even caught up in parsing and dissecting scripture, and God Himself is driven away.<br \/>\nEzekiel 8:12 &#8211; What do I worship in the dark of our own lives?  In the dark, when the doors are shut and no one can see, what do I run after?<br \/>\nEzekiel 8:14 &#8211; I wonder what the significance of these women weeping for Tammuz is.  I searched the Bible for &#8216;Tammuz&#8217; but found no other references.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel 8:3 &#8211; God grabs him by the hair and takes him off to Jerusalem. Yikes. 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