There were two daughters, of the same mother. The father had adopted them and adorned each with all his riches, in costly fabric, precious stones, and fine jewry. They were beautiful women and men from all nations came to them. Their names were Oholah, the oldest, and Oholibah, her sister. And they were daughters of the father, and they bore sons and daughters.2Oholah sought love elsewhere. In men who were princes, governors, and rulers, desirable young men, clothed in royal colors, riding stallions. She lusted after them and gave herself to them, the choice sons of Assyria; with all of them, and with all whom she lusted after; she defiled herself.4 Nor did she leave the lovers of her youth, the Egyptian men who had worked her virgin nipples, and poured their fornication on her, she lusted after them.5 Therefore the father was angered and gave her over into the hand of her lovers. "They uncovered her nakedness and they took her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword. And she became notorious among women, and they executed judgment on her."6
Her sister Oholibah saw all this, but she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring.7 She lusted after the desirable young men of the rulers of Assyria. She took the same way as her sister Oholah.8 And she too became defiled, but she carried her whoring further. She lusted after officers of the Chaldeans, they were like the Babylonians whose native lands where in Chaldea, these desirable men dressed in nice clothes with flowing turbans. She sent messengers after the Chaldeans, but instead the Babylonians came and defiled her, and she turned in disgust from them.
Oholibah continued to flaunt her nakedness and whoring, remembering the Egyptians, she lusted after them, as in her youth when they pressed against her youthful breasts. So the father turned in disgust from her as he had from her sister.9 And the father said, O Oholibah, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side. All shall come against you, from the North. Your sister's name has become a byword, a name that symbolizes immorality, but you will bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous. You shall drink your sister’s cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;10
Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations. If the father has broken any covenant with his daughter would he have been just?11 The daughters have broke covenant relationship by repeatedly engaging in the sin of idolatry, they turned from the love of the father to another,... The Father has established the Law with Oholah and because of her rebellion against the Father has exercised his just judgement. In Oholibah too the Law has been established but even after seeing the judgement of Oholah she too has rebelled. Now what shall the Father do?
The Father chooses grace with Oholibah. The law was weak in regards to the fleshly desires of his daughters so He sent his Son in likeness of grace and truth. Through the Son the Father will keep his promise and establish an everlasting covenant with Oholibah. The father will remember his covenant he gave Oholibah in the days of her youth, and he will establish an everlasting one "when I atone for you for all that you have done,"12 Now the Father gave Oholibah sons and daughters like her and her sisters, they too play the whore so Oholibah would understand. And the Father would fulfill this atonement, through a King, but it was not quite the way Oholibah would expect.
The King did not come as a earthly king would, not in a lofty manner that she so desired, with flowing turbans, riding a great stallion... in the way the daughter had so portrayed herself to the world. But the King came in the way of a servant, he was humble and gentle in nature, he was to do the will of the father. But Oholibah looked at the external, a lowly birth, a lowly man, who made his bed among the least of these. Oholibah thought him worthless so she despised and rejected Him. Now the son loved the father and Oholibah, so much that he would give his life for her. Oh Oholibah what sacrifice, what great love...
The father has appointed the son, heir to the Kingdom, now the son sits at the right hand of the father. And the son has been betrothed to the Bride by the Father. He is called Faithful and True, his love is pure, he allures the bride speaking tenderly to her, in the valley of deject comes hope.14 The bride is betrothed in faithfulness, so that she will know his love.15 One day there will be a great wedding banquet in the Kingdom of Heaven, blessed are those who are invited to the marriage of the Son, he is called the Lamb for he sacrificed himself for his beloved. His Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure.
"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son."1
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