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In Ezekiel 35 & 36, God gives details and warning that Edom will be dealt with. Evil, wickedness, and hatred will be dealt with. Judgment belongs to God and God alone. He can and will handle it. The land everyone is fighting over belongs to God. It is His land. This is His earth. We are to be good stewards of the land He entrusts us with. God takes it serious when people come against and tortu...

In Ezekiel 34, God give Ezekiel a message for the leaders. Sin and wickedness will be accounted for and justice is God's. Justice is coming. Stand firm in faith. Jesus is returning and restoration is coming. There's a promise of hope, a promise of redemption, a promise of our Savior. Our Messiah. Jesus. We can choose Jesus and the Life found only in and through Jesus and rest in the arms o...

In Ezekiel 33, we see all the things Ezekiel has warned God's people are happening. God's Word is true. It's not our responsibility to try to prove God wrong, that will fail every time. It's our responsibility to admit we are wrong, repent, and turn away from sin. Sin and wickedness will be dealt with, but we have an opportunity to choose to repent before the time runs out. True re...

In Ezekiel 31 & 32, God gives Ezekiel a comparison between Assyria and Egypt. Assyria was a great nation because God made them great. They did not honor God and were proud, arrogant and wicked. God humbled them through the Babylonian army who conquered Assyria. If the Babylonian army can conquer Assyria, it can conquer Egypt as well who is just as prideful, arrogant, and wicked. God humbles th...

In Ezekiel 30, God reveals the destruction of Egypt to Ezekiel during the same timeframe in which it is happening. Ezekiel has no idea. The Babylonian army comes in and destroys Egypt in 605 BC and the Egyptians had twice the army. God's will prevails regardless of our army size. Egypt was a prideful, evil nation against God and was hurting God's people so they were held accountable for th...

In Ezekiel 29, God gives an oracle of warning to Ezekiel for Egypt. The Nile River was essential to their lives and they had made it like a god. Israel relied on Egypt instead of God for protection. God's people should have turned to God for protection, not Egypt, but Egypt should have also kept their word. Egypt was completely destroyed by the Babylonian army. God's desire is that everyon...

In Ezekiel 28, God brings forth a message for the King of Tyre. He has been operating out of evil, wickedness, idolatry, pride, and arrogance. God doesn't put up with that and judgment is coming. The king of Tyre thinks he is a god, but he will find out quickly he is a mere man. When we fall into comparison, desire for materialism, wealth, and pride we are dancing with the devil. God shows Eze...

In Ezekiel 27, God gives Ezekiel a funeral song - a song of coming destruction - for the nation of Tyre. Tyre was an extremely successful merchant nation and was the center of trade and prosperity for several nations around them. Tyre was admired and focused entirely on pride and wealth. God was not a part of the nation at all. Very quickly that pride is humbled and admiration turns to desolation...

In Ezekiel 25 & 26, God warns of coming judgment to the surrounding nations of Israel. The nations persecuting Israel will feel the hand of God as they face the punishment of their wickedness. They worship false idols, false gods, materialism, wealth, and are full of pride. On top of all that, they persecute God's people. God's not okay with any of that. God shows us all who He is if w...

In Ezekiel 24, God gives Ezekiel a message to give one last warning of the coming destruction of Jerusalem. The people who have not yet been taken into exile are living in false confidence that they are safe and "better" than the others who had already been taken. God turns that around quite fast. He lets them know total destruction is coming because of their evil wickedness. Ezekiel has...

In Ezekiel 23, God warns of coming destruction for Jerusalem and explains why this judgment is coming and why it is just. Judah forgot God. They compromised. They lusted after false gods and nations around them. They treated people with all out injustice and depended on nations around them for help instead of God. They fell in to complete unbelief. They worshipped idols and killed innocent people...

In Ezekiel 22, God has Ezekiel deliver a message against Jerusalem to the leaders- princes, priests, prophets - as well as the people of the land. Judgment is here. God is going to destroy His city and the Temple. His people continue to choose and love sin and refuse to turn back to God, even as He waited and warned again and again so patiently - time has run out. Idolatry, injustice, and abuse of...

In Ezekiel 21, God tells Ezekiel to warn again of coming judgment. God's chosen people refuse to turn from their sin. They refuse to turn to God and stop worshiping false idols. God warns that time is running out. God's people are blatantly choosing sin and loving sin instead of God. God is going to let them have the sin they are choosing and let them experience it to the fullest. God will...

In Ezekiel 19 & 20, God again gives repeated warning. To say they were warned plenty before judgment arrived would be an understatement. He tells them judgment is coming. Sin will have to be paid for and God's wrath against sin and evil will come. Those who choose God. Those who repent and turn from sin and evil. Those who choose Jesus as their Lord and Savior. God will save. God's fai...

In Ezekiel 17 & 18, God shifts from national punishment to individual sin. We choose our lives. We can't control what our parents or grandparents do, but we can control our responses to it and our choices and decisions for our own lives. We can break the sin cycle. We can learn new things, make better choices, and become who we want to be. We can choose Jesus and be set free from sin for a...

In Ezekiel 15 & 16, God compares Israel to a useless vine, a prostitute and an adulterous wife. After repeated warning, they refuse to repent and turn to God. They refuse to lay down their idols and stop worshipping false gods. They are even sacrificing their own children to these gods. God reminds His people of how much He loves us, adorns us, delights in us, wants to hold us, comfort us and...

In Ezekiel 14, God has Ezekiel call out the leaders of Israel who are prophesying falsely, worshipping false idols, and embracing things that cause them to fall into sin. They are trying to "fake it till they make it", but you cannot fake it with God. You won't make it. God sees the heart. He's after our hearts. We need to be living how we talk each day. There's no time to &q...

In Ezekiel 13, God gives warning to false prophets and people to mislead God's people into thinking they are "fine" and that nothing will happen in their lifetime anyways so they may as well keep worshipping false idols, keep drinking, and keep trucking along as they are. God reminds them of Who He Is. He again lets them know judgment is coming and sin and evil will be dealt with. Fa...

In Ezekiel 12, God has Ezekiel actually act out the vision God gives him. It is the vision of the exile of the remaining Israelites and the destruction of Jerusalem. Ezekiel is radically obedient and does everything God asks. There are times obedience may be at the cost of yourself, your life, or your belongings so someone else will understand the Word of the Lord. We are called to radical obedien...

In Ezekiel 11, Israel's leaders are met with judgment. They tell people not to worry, that they are "safe" inside the city. Even after warning and warning from God through Ezekiel. God calls them out and says no, you are not safe. They have not repented and turned back to God. They don't believe any of this will happen in their lifetime. There is a faithful remnant who stands fir...

In Ezekiel 10, God's glory leaves the Temple. His people have brought sin and false idols into the Temple. They are putting themselves and all their "things", and false gods above and before God. And they've brought that into the very place God resides so that He can be near and dwell with His people. God cannot reside where sin resides. Sin cannot reside where God resides. He ga...

In Ezekiel 8 & 9, Ezekiel again sees Jesus and the glory of God. God shows him the evil going on inside the Temple. The very place God was residing with His people, the very place God's people were to worship Him - the One and only true God - this very place was riddled with false idols and pagan worship. The leaders even turned their back to the sanctuary and worshipped the sun instead. T...

In Ezekiel 6 & 7, God warns of the coming judgment. They are currently in Babylonian exile and he says to get comfortable because it will be a while since they refuse to repent and turn from false idols and sin in their lives. He is going to wipe out all the idols and all the people will know God is the one true God. There will be a faithful remnant that repents and mourns for the sins of the...

In Ezekiel 4 & 5, Ezekiel is called to bring a visual demonstration of what is coming for God's people because they refuse to repent and turn to God rather than their false idols and selfish indulgences. God gives a warning that 1/3 of His people will die in a fire, famine, and disease. One third will die by the sword of the Babylonians. And 1/3 will be scattered. Out of the scattered, a f...

In Ezekiel 2 & 3, Ezekiel receives a divine assignment from God. He experienced God's presence and now it's time for the calling. He is told he is to bring God's message regardless if they listen. God knows they are stubborn and rebellious, but still wants them to have an opportunity to hear the truth and repent. If they chose to listen and repent, they could have escaped exile soo...