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Salvation through Born Again 74 7 What the Holy Spirit has spok- en regarding you – because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jin- gling with their feet. 8-10 Therefore the Lord will strike with a scab, the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and will uncover their secret parts. The jingling anklets, the scarves, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the veils; the headdresses, the leg ornaments, and the headbands; the perfume boxes, and amulets, 11 the charms, and the rings; the nose jewels, the festal apparel, and the mantles; the garments, the purses, and the bags and the mirrors; the fine linen, the turb- ans, and the robes. 12 And so it shall be: Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench; Instead of a sash, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, bald- ness; Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; and brand- ing instead of beauty. 13 They will fall by the sword, along with their women. What the prophet Isaiah spoke about you The Salvation is the Gift of God will go in vain? 14 II O church, how will the women in you enter into the kingdom of glory when their uncleanness is high and their impurity spread everywhere like flies fall upon dung? 15 Can the women come into the church of living God with lipsticks? Will the women who profess to be Godly, wear hear ornaments and expose? 16 Who applied color to her face and lips? Is it not Jezebel? Why did she do that? Is it not to commit adultery with Zimri? Is it not only to seduce him? 17 Can the women who claim to be holy and virtuous, apply colors to their lips, hanging bea- utiful bags to their shoulders, and walk with outstretched necks and walking and mincing as they go enter into the church of Holy God? 18 O church, where is Christ’s holiness in you? Such women wear high heels and walking and mincing in a style which cannot be written, 19 can such women say “I too am a Christian, I too have taken baptism, I too give offerings to Salvation through Born Again 75 God?” Is such a woman a Chri- stian? Is it called baptism what they have taken? Are their offer- ing’s acceptable to God? 20 We write these things to put such women to shame. Can such a woman come and sit on chairs? Are the chairs in the church for old aged or for women of wanton eyes? OK, one more issue – 21 What about your ear lobes? What about your nose lobes? Will the prophecy of Isaiah wor- thless? 22 Will you escape from the pr- ophecy of Ezekiel through whom Holy Spirit spoken: they put a jewel in their nose, earrings in th- eir ears and provoke me – still further to anger? 23 He brought against them who killed their young men with the sword and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them. He gave them all into their hand? 24 You take children and stitch their ears and noses, make them wear gold rings, 25 you hid preachers who are praised and pleasing by men, can The Salvation is the Gift of God such preachers be in you? 26 Such preachers misinterpret the word of God by asking – “Has not Eliezer given a nose ring to Rebekah and God reve- als through prophet Ezekiel that – he put a jewel to her nose and ears? What about that?” 27 But what such person should know is - God spoke those wo- rds regarding the Israelites. 28 What does the making who- le to nose and ears teach us? 29 Making holes reveal losing them, isn’t it? Making holes to nose and ears figuratively teach us that they are unable to grasp smell; ears are hard of hearing; unable to understand with their hearts? 30-31 In this regard it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him” and for the hearts of this people have grown dull. And with their ears they can ba- rely hear and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn.