1. Ezra 9:1–2 (ESV)
  2. Application

Separation made by God

Ezra 9:1–2 (ESV)

1 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

God has established a separation of two seeds: the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. We find that in Genesis 3:1–24. There are only two kinds of people alive on earth today—those in Christ and those in Adam. There are only two kinds of people ultimately from God's perspective. What is compromised, is when that separation, that distinction is muddy. In other words, you could say it this way: there is black and white; compromise is grey. The compromise is rejected by God.1

Michael Voytek