Read: Ezekiel 16:43-17:24; Hebrews 8:1-13; Psalm 106:13-31; Proverbs 27:7-9
God was punishing Israel because they did not remember the days of their youth. God was referring to their beginnings as a nation. God had called them in Abraham and caused them to be fruitful and multiply. He blessed them but they continued to sin and rebel. They found themselves in slavery and God delivered them from bondage through the Red Sea. This time period is what the Lord was referring to. God showed them his signs and wonders and miracles of how he would provide and protect them but they forgot that. They chose to run after the lewd practices of other religions and idolatry and now they would pay the consequences of their sins. They had become more vile than Sodom whom God destroyed with fire from heaven. If God would judge them for their sins, he will surely judge Israel for hers.
God gave Ezekiel an allegory of an eagle which came to Lebanon and broke off the topmost shoot of a cedar and carried it away to a land of merchants and planted it there. It was the picture of God transplanting his people from their land to Babylon. God was going to take his seed from their land and plant them where they could eventually prosper and one day return. He was going to bring down the wicked leaders and raise up the lowly to take their place.
In Hebrews we read that our High Priest, Jesus offered himself on the altar of heaven once and for all for our sin. The sacrifices that Moses taught were a type of the sacrifices he was shown that went on in heaven. It was the symbol of the covenant God made with his people. Jesus came bringing a better covenant of grace. Jesus became our mediator between us and God. We have the Holy Spirit who wrote his laws upon our hearts and we can know and walk with God just as Moses did.
Lord, thank you for the covenant of grace and freedom in Christ.
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