• WARNING: If you listen to this lesson around small children, you should read over the text of Ezekiel 16 first. It discusses some mature themes.
• Summary: The Bible frequently compares God's relationship with Israel to a marriage (both are called covenants, for example), and chapter 16 of Ezekiel really runs with that metaphor. In the chapter, Jerusalem is metaphorically described as an abandoned newborn baby who is rescued by God, then grows into womanhood. She is protected until marriage age, and then given as a bride to God. After that she becomes tremendously adulterous and lives her life in shame.
• Speaker: Bryant Bailles
• Passage: Ezekiel 16

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