II. Repentance as Seed for Change

Ezekiel chapter eight reveals the heart of the hypocrisy of contradiction between belief in God and the occupation with the forbidden wickedness offered by the satanic forces of worldliness. The vision God gives to Ezekiel is what God sees in the secrets that men harbor in their hearts. Externally we worship God and speak of righteousness, but internally, in our hearts, we lust for the things and practices of this pagan idolatrous world. Though we may not have actual idols erected in our homes, we have a secret room in our hearts and minds where we fantasize about the pornographic and licentious practices of the pagans. The contradiction of duplicity is that the vision given to Ezekiel reveals that Israel's priesthood was hypocritical because they did have some form of belief in God or they would have been doing publicly what God revealed was going on in their hearts.