Good Saturday July fifteenth as we come to study this word this prophecy together.
The wickedness would be judged-
Ezekiel has described the city of Jerusalem as a pot so encrusted by their sins that the pot would not come clean. Now it was God’s heart that all would see their errors repent and come clean those living in Jerusalem as well as all us, that we would be cleansed and walk in obedience to the Lord. Many of us have gone through tough situations in life which could be a cleansing, a purging of sinful ways directing us back to the Lord. When we do face difficult times we need to allow for God to remove from our lives anything that needs to be purged out so we can place our eyes on the goodness of God. Anytime we have to deal with problems we should look at it as God cleansing His daughter His son. This is a good time to examine our relationship with the Lord. We read yesterday Ezekiel was asked to oil the meat in a pot cooking even the bones but then Ezekiel was instructed to place the empty pot back on the fire which was to illustrate that not only would the people of Jerusalem go through God’s wrath but Jerusalem itself would be completely destroyed. Now let us read together from Ezekiel 24:13-15 “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you, and you were not cleansed, you will not be cleansed of your filthiness anymore, till I have caused My fury to rest upon you. 14 I, the Lord, have spoken it; It shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not hold back, nor will I spare, nor will I relent; according to your ways and according to your deeds they will judge you,” says the Lord GOD.” Let us remember the ministry Ezekiel has been called into. He was called first to eat the scroll of woe which he did, but then Ezekiel was asked to lay on his side for about one year, then Ezekiel was asked to cut off his hair which he did, then he was told to cook using cow manure, and to move away from his house. Everything he was instructed to do was as a symbol to get the attention of the people. But as we read the people did not listen to the prophet sent to them by God. We read here, I the Lord has spoken, and it shall come to pass. What was coming would leave no doubts that what God said would happen was going to happen. We know from history that both Jerusalem and Judah were overtaken and destroyed by the armies from Babylon. What God said would happen did happen.We read the Lord has spoken it, it shall come to pass and it did. God’s word, we study to learn God’s word, why this book is so important is because God needs to purge all sin from the world, and He will. Many as those we are reading do not believe that God will do this, this is why we have a history of God recorded in our bibles, what God says He will do, He does. God is a good parent, we know His will and we are told things we are not to do, we are even told what will happen if we so choose to them anyway, we would receive the result of our disobedience. Israel has been warned as to what would happen if they did not repent and now it is happening just as they were warned. It has come to pass. Now their wicked ways and their wicked deeds are being judged. God must follow through, He said what He would do and now He must do it. Do we understand that He has to judge sin and rebellion? Are we then listening to His words? Remnant
