We Pursue Things

Ezekiel 11:17-18

Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”’ 18 When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.

While archaeologists have found plenty of evidence in per-exilic Israel of idol worship; they have found none, zilch, nada, in post-exilic Israel. The purpose of the exile was to rid Israel of her penchant to turn to other gods. The exile accomplished this. Never again would the Jews in Israel worship false gods.  Indeed, by he time of Christ they had the opposite problem, they had become extreme legalists. Idol worship, however, was eradicated as Ezekiel predicts here.

We do not have problems worshipping false gods today, although in our culture we have extreme difficulties with the pursuit of things rather than God, so we are idol pursuers, just not other gods; we pursue things.