Ezekiel 23-24 Get Ready, For It's Coming

God gave Ezekiel another message for the captives:  With all that Judah had done, He was perfectly just in destroying Jerusalem, its inhabitants, and His Temple.  The leaders of Judah had seen everything that had happened to the northern kingdom as a result of its sin, yet rather than changing their ways, they’d done worse!

“The Jerusalem leaders were confident of deliverance because they were depending on a lie (that God would never allow His people to be destroyed) … This was a delusion and Ezekiel put an end to it.  It was because the Jews were His chosen people that God was punishing them, and because Jerusalem was His Holy City that He couldn’t allow it to continue wallowing in wickedness.”

“Any theology that makes sin easy and divine punishment unimportant is not biblical theology.  God’s judgment begins with his own people … Our world today lives on delusions … But one day God will expose the stupidity of these delusions and the world will discover too late that there are consequences to what we believe and how we believe.”

Father, reveal the delusions we’ve become so attached to.  Show us the fallacy of our thinking and our logic.  Open our eyes and ears and hearts to Your truth and help us to change our lives and hearts.  Draw us back to You.

Your Brother In Christ,

Gary Ford