“I Will Punish You For All Your Abominations” Ezekiel 7:3

Ezekiel 7 describes the day we now live in, the Day of the LORD, the Day of God’s Wrath. He explains exactly why this day must come, mankind has become an abomination before his Creator and God, therefore, must judge him for his sins.

¹The word of the LORD came to me: ²“And you,^(A) O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel:^(B) An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.^[a] 3Now^(C) the end is upon you, and^(D) I will send my anger upon you;^(E) I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ^4(F) And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but^(G)I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst.^(H)Then you will know that I am the LORD.

 ⁵“Thus says the Lord GOD: Disaster^(I) after disaster!^[b] Behold, it comes. ^6(J) An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. ^7(K) Your doom^[c] has come to you, O inhabitant of the land.^(L) The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not^(M) of joyful shouting on the mountains. ⁸Now I will soon^(N) pour out my wrath upon you, and^(O) spend my anger against you,^(P) and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. ^9(Q) And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst.^(R) Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.  (Ezekiel 7:1-9 ESV)

Jesus warns believers about the coming abomination in the Book of Matthew, saying,

¹⁵“So when you see the abomination of desolation^(A) spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in^(B) the holy place (^(C) let the reader understand), ¹⁶then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ^17(D) Let the one who is on^(E) the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, ¹⁸and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. ¹⁹And^(F) alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! ²⁰Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. ²¹For then there will be^(G) great tribulation,^(H) such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. (Matthew 24:15-21, ESV)

Few have understood Jesus’ words here because they insist on taking them literally. They do not remember or understand that Jesus always spoke in parables. This passage is no exception. Because people take these verses literally they usually interpret this to mean that unbelievers will erect an idol or sacrifice an unclean beast upon the altar in a new temple built in existing Old Jerusalem. This passage has nothing to do with that carnal idea. God no longer looks to Old Jerusalem for fulfillment of any prophecies with respect to his ecclesia, the called out believers in Jesus Christ. In using the term “abomination” here Jesus refers to “the man of lawlessness” Paul refers to in 2 Thessalonians 2:3. The coming of Christ could not occur until the abomination, the man of lawlessness, was revealed. He has now been revealed, and at least two prophets have announced this to the world, one being Kenneth Visscher.

Jesus refers to Daniel 9:27 in Matthew 24.

²⁷And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (Daniel 9:27, KJV)

Who is “he” in this verse? Look at the verse just before it,

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.  (Daniel 9:26 KJV)

Clearly “he” refers to Messiah, that is, Jesus the Christ (Christ is the Greek word for the Hebrew word Messiah). Verse 27 tells us that the Messiah shall be cut off, i.e. killed, in the middle of the “week,” in the middle of a seven year period of time. Jesus’ ministry lasted exactly 3 1/2 years, one half of seven years. His death caused “sacrifice and the oblation to cease” because Jesus became our Passover lamb, the sacrifice for our sins. Since that one sacrifice God has not required or expected further sacrifices or oblations to be offered to him.

The prince that came and destroyed the City of Jerusalem in Daniel 9:26 is the Roman prince, the demonic spirit that has ruled since the time that Jesus was crucified. Slowly but surely this evil spirit filled the earth with his poison. He has spread abominations throughout the world for the past two thousand years and now his work is complete. He succeeded in defiling mankind, in turning man himself into an abomination, into a creature of sin and lawlessness.

And now God’s judgments begin. Now comes the Day of Wrath when God will desolate the desolate. Man has made an idol of himself, the holy place, the place where God intended his Spirit to dwell. Man raised himself upon the throne of his own heart and declared that he was God. He no longer feels constrained by God’s creation; in fact he denies God created anything. Therefore he manipulates and destroys the very essence and structure of God’s creation through his genetic engineering which is the culmination of his rebellion. Mankind himself  is the Abomination of Desolation.