Sun.’s Devo - The Plan

Read: Ezekiel 24:1-26:21; Hebrews 11:1-16; Psalm 110:1-7; Proverbs 27:14
When Ezekiel wrote today’s scripture he was already exiled to Babylon. He had gone in the second siege on Jerusalem and was warning those left of what was coming. He told them that they would not have the luxury of mourning the deaths that were coming. As a picture, God told him that he could not mourn the death that was coming to him. Ezekiel told the people that in the mourning and in the evening Ezekiel’s wife died. He had been instructed by God not to do the customary things you do when a person dies.
Judah was not the only nation that was being judged. Moab and Seir and the Philistines were being judged for the evils they had done toward Judah. Tyre saw how vulnerable Jerusalem was and planned to pillage her, so God sent Nebuchadnezzar against Tyre. Nebuchadnezzar would do to Tyre what Tyre had planned to do to Jerusalem. Tyre would be flattened to the ground never to rise again.
Hebrews 11 is the “Hall of Faith” of the patriarchs. It is the coded history of God’s redemptive plan. He begins with Abel who gave the perfect sacrifice. Abel was a type of Jesus who was the perfect sacrifice. Next is Enoch who is a picture of those who walk with God and will be raptured to heaven. Noah is the picture of the church who goes through the tribulation but rises above the storm because they are hidden in God. Next is Abraham who was the father of a new nation. He is the picture of the new millennium of people who will live on the earth. Family goes on because family is such a part of the heart of God.
Lord help us to major on the majors and minor on the minors.