Sermon Tone Analysis

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…

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

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

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

Scholarly translation using entire chapter to inform

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

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…

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

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