Sat.’s Devo - The Choice was Theirs to Make

Read: Ezekiel 3:16-6:14; Hebrews 4:1016; Psalm 104:24-35; Proverbs 26:27
God set Ezekiel as a watchman over the house of Israel. That means he was like their priest who was responsible to rebuke them if they were sinning and warn them of the judgment that would come if they didn’t repent. He would be held responsible if he did not tell them.
Ezekiel was to act out what would happen in the future if they didn’t repent. He was to go into his house and have someone tie him up and gag him so he could not come out or speak. Ezekiel would only be able to say what God told him to say.
Next, he was to take a clay tablet and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. He was to erect a siege work against it and a ramp up to it with battering rams around it. This was what was coming in their future.
He was to lie on his left side to bear the sins of Israel for 390 days then on his right side to bear the sins of Judah for 40 days. He was to eat rationed bread during these days to give them a picture of what the siege would look like.
After that he was to take his own hair and weigh it and divide it into three equal parts. One part was to be burned inside the city, one part was to be struck with a sword outside the city and the last part was to be scattered to the wind. But before he scattered the last part to the wind he was to take a few strands and hide it in the crease of his garment. What happened to the hair would be what would happen to his people. Some would be burned inside the city, some killed by the sword outside the city, and some scattered to other nations and a remnant would be left and preserved.
He reminded them that God has set them in the center of the nations to be the example and leader yet they had been more sinful than the nations around them. They had abandoned God’s laws and accepted the standards of the nations they were suppose to lead. God had to punish them and all the nations would watch in shock and surprise.
In Hebrews we learn that the invitation of walking in rest and the presence of the Lord is still available. There is a rest we can all walk in now which is the precursor to the seventh day or last millennium where the world will enter into rest. The only thing that keeps us from this rest is disobedience. The Word of God will divide everything and all secrets will be made open and the only thing that will live is truth and righteousness.
Lord, may we walk in your rest and presence.