Tues.’s Devo - God’s Sword

Read: Ezekiel 21:1-22:31; Hebrews 10:1-17; Psalm 108:1-13; Provers 27:12 God told the people through Ezekiel that he was about to pull his sword and use it on them. He would destroy the righteous and the wicked and not stop until he had finished. To make his point, he told Ezekiel to show them a sword and brandish it twice flashing it to the left and the right to give them a visual picture of what was about to happen. Then he told Ezekiel to take a map showing the road from Babylon to Jerusalem. There was a fork in the road where they could take the road to Ribbah or Jerusalem. The Babylonians were at that fork right then. They were doing all kinds of incantations to see which road to take. They would take the road to Jerusalem and come and destroy them. The people of Jerusalem felt a false sense of hope because of the treaty they had with Babylon, but their king had rebelled against that treaty so there would be no mercy for them. Then God reminded them of their sins. They had killed for money, oppressed orphans and widows, violated the Sabbath, falsely accused people and sent them to their death, worshipped idols, violated their bodies with unsanctioned sexual acts with relatives and others, and the list goes on and on. (Sounds like many of our politicians.) Their priests had violated the law of God and defiled the things that were holy to the Lord. They didn’t teach the people the difference between what was holy and not holy and they would be held responsible. The political leaders were like wolves who destroyed people’s lives for money. Their false prophets covered for them by announcing a false narrative. (Sounds like our new media.) God had looked for someone to stand for righteousness and couldn’t find one. Thank God, we have men that are standing up and rebuilding the wall of righteousness and intercessors standing in the gap. In Hebrews, God is comparing the old system of the sacrifices of the priests to the new covenant where Christ became the final sacrifice for out sins. Now, God has written his laws in our hearts and written them on our minds and he will never remember our sins or lawless deeds. Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord for your sacrifice for us. Thank you that we don’t have to wait till the Day of Atonement to be cleansed but we can walk in your sanctification process every day. We can stand before you as righteous because of your blood.