How do you respond to sin and the sinful people around you each day? In Ezekiel chapter 8, the prophet receives a vision from God and his spirit is led by God to the "door of the inner gate" of Jerusalem. This is where the Lord shows him the idolatrous actions of Israel. The people were worshiping all kinds of "creeping things, abominable beasts and all idols (v. 10)." There were others who did idolatrous acts in secret (v. 12). The women were "weeping for Tammuz" (Adonis - a Greek god, v. 14), and the men were worshiping the "sun toward the east (v. 16)." All these sins provoked God to jealousy (v. 3). God is a jealous God (Exodus 20:5), and He was not going to let these abominable acts to continue among His people and in His sanctuary. The result culminates in verses 17-18, where God responds, "...lo, they put the branch to their nose. Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though...