SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/21/2014
9:40 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Ezekiel’s
Second Spoken Sermon PT-1A
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ezekiel
7:1-9
Message of the
verses: “1 Moreover, the word of the
LORD came to me saying, 2 "And you,
son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel, ’An end! The end is coming on the
four corners of the land. 3 ’Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger
against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your
abominations upon you. 4 ’For My eye
will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon
you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the LORD!’ 5 “Thus
says the Lord GOD, ’A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming! 6 ’An end
is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come! 7
’Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the
day is near-tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains. 8 ’Now I will
shortly pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; judge you according to your ways and
bring on you all your abominations. 9 ’My eye will show no pity nor will I spare.
I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your
midst; then you will know
that I, the LORD, do the smiting.”
As I look over these verses again I see a sort of
parallel with what the Lord says to Abraham in Genesis chapter fifteen. Genesis fifteen is a part of the Abrahamic
covenant that God made with Abraham, along with what He told Abraham in Genesis
12:1-3, and as God makes this covenant with Abraham He has Abraham line up
animals which are cut in half and then the Lord made His covenant with
Abraham. God told Abraham what would
happen to his descendants that they would end up going to Egypt for four
hundred years and then the Lord would bring them back to the Promised Land
where Abraham was at that time. Now here
is the verse that makes me think of what God was going to do with His people at
the time Ezekiel was writing this chapter:
“"Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the
iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete."” I have mentioned this in earlier SD’s that it
seems to me that God has a cup in heaven that He puts His wrath and when it is
full He will bring judgment upon that nation or even a person, and it seems to
me that His cup of wrath for Judah was full and so He had to act. We went over this a bit when looking at
Steward Briscoe’s quote in yesterday’s SD.
At any rate the end was coming for Judah as God was about to bring
judgment on them by using the Babylonians and we read two times in this passage
that they will know that “I am Lord.” In the book of Philippians chapter two we
read that there will come a time when everyone will know this same thing: “9 For this reason also, God highly exalted
Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the
name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and
under the earth, 11 and
that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.”
Now we remember that God told Ezekiel that he was a
watchman, and was to warn Judah what was going to happen to them and Dr.
Wiersbe points out “It is come!’ at least nine times in verses 1-12. He was a faithful watchman, warning the
people that the Babylonian army was coming from the north to invade the land,
rob it, and ruin it.” We have spoken
earlier about Ezekiel as a watchman and even had a quote from Steward Briscoe explaining
what this has to do with believers today.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I mentioned in a
SD at the end of October how I planned to have a Bible study on the end times
inviting people in our neighborhood by letter to come to this study and then to
my great disappointment no one showed up.
I was trying to be a faithful watchman to my neighbors, but at that time
it did not word out. I still desire to
have a Bible study with my neighbor across the street, something I have wanted
to do for almost a year and have not got it done. I desire to be a faithful watchman to him and
pray that the Lord will allow me that opportunity to do so.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to trust the Lord to work in my
neighbor’s life that he would want to study about the end times with me.
Memory verses for the
week: 2 Peter 1:1.
1 Simon Peter, a
bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of
the same kind as ours, by the righteous of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Jerusalem” (Luke 4:9).
Today’s Bible question: “Who was the first murderer?”
Answer in our next SD
11/21/2014 10:10 AM
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