Ezekiel 16:53, 55, 61

[OneAccord]

I am wondering how people interpret these verses in Ezekiel 16:

(Remember that God is speaking to Jerusalem in this chapter:)

16:53 -

"When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them,

16:55 -

When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state.

16:61 -

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; for I will give them to you for daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.

Where are these captives now? Are they the dead awaiting the resurrection and judgement?

It appears there is a redemption plan for these captives, who we have to assume are already dead, because Sodom was nuked with only 3 survivors and we call them Moab and Amnon now.

Could these be among the prisoners that Jesus preached to in 1 Peter 3:19?

[OneAccord]

It appears no one wants to take this one up. Sigh.

[Guest Benny]

I am wondering how people interpret these verses in Ezekiel 16:

(Remember that God is speaking to Jerusalem in this chapter:)

16:53 -

"When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them,

 

16:55 -

When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state.

 

16:61 -

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; for I will give them to you for daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.

 

Where are these captives now?  Are they the dead awaiting the resurrection and judgement?

It appears there is a redemption plan for these captives, who we have to assume are already dead, because Sodom was nuked with only 3 survivors and we call them Moab and Amnon now.

Could these be among the prisoners that Jesus preached to in 1 Peter 3:19?

I don't think these verses can be interpreted by themselves. One has to read the entire chapter to get an understanding of what they may mean. Even more than that the chapter has to be studied to understand it. I don't believe these verses have anything to do with I Peter 3:19 that was for those that had not yet heard the complete word of the lord by Christ, nor had the chance to accept the sacrifice he made on the cross. Those that died before the Law and the covenant.

Revelations refers to Jerusalem as Sodom which is I believe a spiritual meaning of the worship of Molec that Sodom did and eventually Israel did sacrificed their children to that diety by burning them in fire.

Eze 16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

Eze 16:21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

God is calling Israel in the following scriptures a harlot and the daughter of harlots for going after other gods that their spiritual "sisters" Sodom and the Amorites etc. have worshiped. God even goes on to say that their sin becomes worse than those other nations.

Eze 16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

Eze 16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Eze 16:45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Eze 16:46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Eze 16:47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

Eze 16:48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Eze 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

Eze 16:51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

Eze 16:52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.