Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Ezekiel 6-7   Six times in these two chapters the Lord tells Ezekiel that "they will know that I am the Lord." ( 6:7, 10, 13, 14; 7:4, 27)

How will they know?

Their cities will be destroyed.
Every idol will be smashed.
Idol worshipers will lay dead before their idols.
Disasters will strike them down.
Plagues, famines, and wars will kill many.
The land will become desolate.
Abominations will come upon them.
The land will tremble and the king will mourn.

What is disgusting to God.. will come upon His people.. "Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes, which have played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed for all their abominations." ( v9)

There will be remnant.  But, all others will receive what they deserve.  According to their ways....
arrogance
violence
wickedness
Judgement is certain.

Do we also hurt God?
Are our hearts adulterous?
Do we look to idols.. to wealth, or power, or to anything other than our Heavenly Father for life?
Then we also will remember and loathe ourselves for those evils.
May we repent while there is still time to do so, before the judgement comes.. for it is certainly coming.

Father in heaven, hallowed is Your Name.  Forgive us every iniquity and pardon our sins.  Clothe us in righteousness through Jesus Christ our Lord, our Hope, our Savior, and our Eternal King.  amen.


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