Ezekiel 5:6
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
The book belongs to the captivity period, when Ezekiel stood as God's mouthpiece among the captives in Babylonia at the same time Jeremiah was prophesying in Jerusalem, and its visions make known God's overruling providence and His rule over the nations. In this verse the word judgments means God's law and precepts, set in close pairing with His statutes. Jerusalem had been set in place among the surrounding nations and countries.
She changed those judgments into wickedness, refused His judgments and His statutes, and did not walk in them or live by them. By that refusal and corruption she became more wicked and rebellious than the nations and the countries round about her, exceeding them in rebellion. As Jerusalem was set conspicuously among the nations to be a light yet misled them by changing God's law, so the nineteenth-century Protestant church is placed conspicuously among the nations to be a light but misleads them by the same course of changing God's law. That change centers especially on perpetuating the alteration of the fourth commandment that came through Roman influence and Constantine's law in A.D. 321.