Read: Exekiel 20-21
In the seventh year of their exile, some of the Israelite leaders came and sat before Ezekiel and asked him what the Lord was saying. God wanted to know why they were now interested in knowing what he said. He told them that if they wanted to lead the people then they needed to explain to them their sins. Ezekiel walked them through God’s plan for Israel and how he had sought out the best land in the earth to give them. He delivered them from Egypt and its idolatry but Israel brought the sins and idolatry of Egypt with them. God brought them out to the wilderness to get them away from the land of bondage and abominations. He gave them his laws and showed them how to worship Him but they chose to return to the evil practices of other gods even making their sons die in the fire. Since they chose to worship other gods, God had to rule them with fury. He is determined to make them his people.
When we rebel against the Lord he has to put us under his rod of correction to bring us into his covenant. Our trials are sent to purge us of our sins. He told the elders to go and serve their idols but to leave him out of it. He didn’t want them serving Him and their idols. They needed to choose who they were going to serve.
In Ezekiel 21, God spoke to Jerusalem and the land of Israel. He gave them the exact way the enemy from Babylon was going to come and destroy them. He even showed how the king of Babylon would come to a fork in his road and use his divination to decide which way to go and God would cause his evil compasses to go the way He wanted them to go. Whatever the enemy decided to do, it would be the Lord’s plan that would be done. If God wanted to spare them and take them to another land, he would and if he wanted to have them die by the sword, it would be done.
Lord, you are so long suffering but it is your call in the end. You control all the leaders of the land so we put our trust in You.
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