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In your heart where only you know you, do you sense that you lack integrity? (169-1)
A leader without integrity is a dangerous person. Read Ezekiel 8.
God had directed Ezekiel to prophesy stern judgments on Jerusalem. In Chapter eight he was transported to Jerusalem in visions from God and shown the reason for the judgments. God showed Ezekiel scene after scene of idol worship in the temple built to worship Him and Him alone. In the vision, within the temple itself, Ezekiel saw people worshiping a statue of Asherah, the Canaanite goddess of fertility that King Josiah had removed 30 years earlier, he saw crawly things that reflected Egyptian influence, Tammuz a Babylonian fertility god, people worshiping the sun and in verses 12 and 13 he saw 70 elders each worshiping at the shrine of his own idol.
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Tags: Asherah, Behavior, Consistent behaior, Contradictory value systems, Ezekiel, Idol Worship, Integrity, Stern Judgment, Stumbling-block