Ezekiel 7 -- your doom
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Ezekiel 7
Ezekiel 7
Remember all the sign Acts of the earlier chapter (9 of them) , the reason God was so angry was idolatry… but God was not so upset with people who were not taught… but those who should know better … those catch His wrath… like state-sponsored apostasy… breaking the covenant bond… that angers the Lord
Also remember that Jerusalem is Zion, the place of Yahweh’s habitation… where He conducts business//and when his people start worshipping other Gods .. surrendering land to other god…
He is angry and this chapter re-iterates DOOM…
The word of the Lord came to me: “And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
“Thus says the Lord God: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes. An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains. Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.
“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them. The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude. For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.
Lot’s of repetition .,, why ? because so many thought that Zion could not be destroyed … God’s covenant would not allow it, but it was conditional…the temple is here, apple of God’s eye, David’s city — it can never die see it says so in Psalm 46
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,
though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice, the earth melts.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Come, behold the works of the Lord,
how he has brought desolations on the earth.
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the chariots with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
And just so we are careful, very careful, we should not filter our patriotism through these verse, America is not the new Jerusalem … that is Mormon theology and that is another god, and the doom that can follow… remember rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, don’t suffer a witch to live…. The revolutionary war….. revolution =rebellion..
God warned them to stay faithful or suffer the consequences
He still loves them but they must be punished and God’s remnant is caught in the punishment
“They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude. The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them. And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it. I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.
“Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned. When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none. Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders. The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.”
While this is fairly clear, doom is coming there are some things we can glean from it.... always use several translations in Bible study and even then be careful occasionally check out works in google scholar
Let’s look at Ezekiel 7: 10 for example
“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
Scholarly translation using entire chapter to inform
Behold the day! Behold it comes! Your bondage has come; [injustice, guilt] has blossomed, pride has budded
Behold the day! Behold it comes! Your bondage has come; [injustice, guilt] has blossomed, pride has budded
In this book you must dig deeper since it is possible that some interpretative choices have been influenced by a bad interpretation at some point
It is going to be so bad … economic devastation, life will never be the same, it is lost… your guilt and pride will bring you down is the
“They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude. The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
Watchman motif trumpet warnings, they Babylon is coming… you cannot flee
Siege warfare …. Burn fields, starve people…. Destroy the food,,, cut off water supply, disease
But… knees turn to water? It means they will run with urine…
They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.
You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.
This is sexually explicit stuff… they are making phallus out of the gold and using them….
This is a problem in the church as a whole, we tend to forget 1) that the Bible is real… 2) that people are nasty 3) that sexuality is often worshipped
There is a warning here
There is a warning here
We think down on the Israelites… snicker.. but there is no promises that this land will stay blessed by god.. we are living in a godless nation, we have turned the corner,,, leadership is hellbent… chasing down any perversity and it should not be this way, but that is the nature of this nation now… and if God would destroy Jerusalem for this… why should we be comfortable?
We need to start thinking about the eternal and quit focusing on our preferences and carpet colors and influence people for the Kingdom of God… fear the one that can destroy the soul
flags in church … embassies .... ?
Spain, Franco, churches and government…
E3 ect. Ect. Organ music or death…
Very nasty…. But