Read: Ezekiel 12:1-14:11; Hebrews 7:1-17; Psalm 105:37-45; Proverbs 27:1
Ezekiel was told by God to do a prophetic act to show the people what was going to happen to them. He was to act out the process of going into exile. When they asked what he was doing with a packed suitcase digging through the wall, he was to tell them that he was a sign to them. They would be taken to Babylonia and never see their land again. Only a few would be saved. The rest would die.
Next, Ezekiel was to eat his food trembling and shuddering in fear to show them that they would one day eat their food in fear and despair because of the violence that was coming to their land.
God told Ezekiel to prophesy against the false prophets who said that Ezekiel’s prophesies were for a time in the far future. He was to tell the people that God was going to bring all the disaster that Ezekiel said upon them very soon. God was angry at the lies of the other prophets and they would be judged for saying things out of their own imaginations and not out of God’s heart.
The elders came to listen to what Ezekiel had to say, but the Lord saw their hearts. They were two-faced with idolatrous hearts so they were stumbling blocks for the people. They were hypocrites in their devotion to God and God was having no more of their lies. He was ready to cut them off entirely from being his people.
Hebrews tells us exactly who Melchizedek is. He is the priest of God. God told Moses to build the tabernacle like the one he saw in heaven - it was God’s temple he was copying. Everything in heaven is copied on earth so we will understand God’s kingdom.
Lord, help us to see earthly things and understand spiritual things.
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