{"id":692,"date":"2007-06-22T22:43:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T22:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/ezekiel_chapter_23.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","slug":"ezekiel_chapter_23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/ezekiel_chapter_23.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel – Chapter 26-28"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s amazing to me how God calls me back to His word. There was a time, if I missed a few days, that I heard man calling me back. The guilt of not having a quiet time, the thought that someone would ask me about it, would get me back into the Bible.
\nLately, however, if I go for a time without focused reading, there comes a moment when I relize that I miss it. More than that, I can feel God, gently, tugging at me to read. It’s as if He’s saying “I’ve got more to tell you, come, listen to Me.”
\nThe guilt was pressing, almost frantic. The pull is gentle, but determined and persistent. With the guilt, I didn’t miss the Bible or God. When I feel God pulling, I suddenly realize that I do miss Him. I like that feeling.<\/em>
\nEzekiel 26 – Funny, how I revel in returning to my reading, and then find little to comment on in my first chapter.
\nGod here continues laying out his judgement on not only Israel, but on those around her. Tyre evidently rejoiced as Jerusalem’s fall, thinking that it would benefit them commercially. God say to them through Ezekiel, not so fast, your time will come as well.
\nEzekiel 27 – But God does not rejoice in their destruction. Here He lifts them up, praising their one time splendor. He laments that such a mighty city should fall. Why and how should this be?
\nEzekiel 28 – Here God tells us why:<\/p>\n

Because you [prince of Tyre] make your heart
\nlike the heart of a god,
\ntherefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you,
\nthe most ruthless of the nations;
\nand they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom
\nand defile your splendor.
\nThey shall thrust you down into the pit,
\nand you shall die the death of the slain
\nin the heart of the seas.
\nWill you still say, ‘I am a god,’
\nin the presence of those who kill you,
\nthough you are but a man, and no god,
\nin the hands of those who slay you?
\nYou shall die the death of the uncircumcised
\nby the hand of foreigners;
\nfor I have spoken, declares the Lord God.”<\/p>\n

Ezekiel 8:6-10<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And to the King of Tyre …<\/p>\n

You were blameless in your ways
\nfrom the day you were created,
\ntill unrighteousness was found in you.
\nIn the abundance of your trade
\nyou were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned;
\nso I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God,
\nand I destroyed you, O guardian cherub,
\nfrom the midst of the stones of fire.
\nYour heart was proud because of your beauty;
\nyou corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.
\nI cast you to the ground;
\nI exposed you before kings,
\nto feast their eyes on you. <\/p>\n

Ezekiel 8:15-17<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Pride. Self importance. Arrogance, cost these men and their subjects much.
\nEzekiel 28:24-26 – After Ezekiel prophesies against the surrounding towns, God gives him this work of comfort to Israel:<\/p>\n

And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.
\nThus says the Lord God: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob. And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before, god said they would know that he is God by the punishment brought upon them. Now he say they will know he is God because of the security they have after he punishes their neighbors. Not only so, but after everyone, including Israel, gets their due, god will be honored when He lifts Israel up from among all of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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