Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Tues.’s Devo - The Mark of the Lord

Read: Ezekiel 5-9
Through a word picture, God showed Ezekiel that a third of the people would be destroyed, a third would be scattered, and a third would be saved as the remnant. First, Ezekiel was to warn them of what was to come. That is the job of the prophet. The time of repenting was over and the end was here. The remnant would be those that looked at the sin the rest were enjoying, and were destained by it. No amount of money could buy them out of the words that were proclaimed against Jerusalem.
In the season of the feast of Tabernacles, which represents the end, God transported Ezekiel to Jerusalem and showed him the sin that was going on in the Temple. God was judging the religious leaders and what was going on in His temple. Instead of worshipping him in spirit and truth, they had brought in all types of other religions and false doctrines.
God does not expect the ungodly to worship him, he expects the ones called by his name to worship him. God told the angel to put a mark on the heads of all the people that didn’t participate in the deceptive teachings of the false teachers and prophets of the day. Our false prophets look like the phychics and New-Agers but they can also be those in our own churches. We don’t have to worry about exposing them because God will in his timing. We just need to have discernment to know what to listen to.
Lord, thank you for marking us for your purposes.

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