Ezekiel 23:36
The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
Ezekiel 23:36 belongs to Ezekiel's warnings given before Jerusalem's destruction, serving as correction, denunciation, and reproof. It belongs to the prophecy of Jerusalem's judgment in which Babylon came against the city and Israel's kingdom was overturned because the people disobeyed God's commandments. The scattering was God's judgment for their persistent sin after repeated warnings. Aholah and Aholibah are Israel/Samaria and Judah/Jerusalem, presented through the figures of two lewd, adulterous women to expose their fearful sins.
The corrupt woman is a symbol of a corrupt church whose abominations are to be declared and judged. Their abominations are spiritual fornication, meaning apostasy in forsaking God and turning from His law and testimony and worship to idolatrous or false religious bodies and seeking fellowship and help from foreign powers such as Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon. That seeking help in Egypt was rebellion. This imagery does not mean merely using civil laws to manage a church's temporal affairs. The abominations declared in judgment on Aholah and Aholibah include Israel's later practice of forbidden things despite God's prohibition: passing children through the fire, divination, augury, enchantment, sorcery, charming, and consulting familiar spirits, wizards, and the dead.
The verse is God's call to judge Aholah and Aholibah by declaring their abominations, exposing their sins, calling them to account, and subjecting their conduct to judgment. It also shows Him earnestly pleading with His children to turn back to Him. The same guilt belongs to professed Christian churches today that seek union with the civil power. God has furnished a plenitude of blessings in Jesus Christ and demands all from His church, and He will not divide His glory with another. What was abomination to God in former time is abomination to Him still and ever will be, because God changes not, so His prohibition remains just as binding today as ever. The chapter is to be read with the reflection that only the pure in heart shall see God.