SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/27/2014
9:44 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Temple
is Defiled PT-3
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ezekiel
8:17-18
Message of the
verses: We come to the last two
verses in the eight chapter of Ezekiel, a chapter in which we read about how
the leaders in Judah have been defiling the temple with the worship of their
idols.
The Divine Judgment is Announced (Ezekiel 8:17-18): “17 He said to me, "Do you see this, son
of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the
abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land
with violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig
to their nose. 18 “Therefore,
I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and
though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to
them."”
At the beginning of his commentary on these last two
verses in chapter eight Warren Wiersbe reviews what Ezekiel had been shown by
the Lord: “Ezekiel has seen only a part
of the evidence that the people in Jerusalem had abandoned themselves to
idolatry. He had seen an idol in the
temple, defiling its very precincts and yet begin worshiped by people who also
claimed to worship the Lord, as though Jehovah were one God among many, not the
Lord of lords. Then he saw the leaders
secretly worshiping false gods in the temple.
After that, everything was out in the open: the women weeping for
Tammuz, and the priests/elders bowing down to the sun. In God’s sight, these things were abominable
and disable and they provoked Him to anger.
Except for the faithful remnant, the Jewish people no longer feared God
or cared about pleasing Him.”
I have read people’s different ideas about what it means
in verse 17 when we read “they are putting the twig to their nose.” Whatever this means it was not something that
was lifting up the Lord. John MacArthur
writes “The meaning is uncertain, but it seems to have been some act of
contempt toward God. The Gr. OT
translation rendered it, ‘they are as mockers.’”
The problem that these people had is the very problem
that is happening in our nation, and for that matter around the whole world,
and that problem is that people have lost their fear of the Lord. I have mentioned time and time again that evolution
is the problem that causes people not to fear the Lord for when one believes in
evolution they do not have to believe in God, for if God did not create the
world then people do not have an obligation to worship and fear Him. Evolution is a religion in and of itself, and
it is a false religion, a religion in which God is not in, and here lies the
problem.
Now Ezekiel has seen all of the evidence that God has
shown to him and not the verdict has come in and it is not good for those who
live in Judah at this time for the verdict is guilty and judgment is a sure
thing to happen right away.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: Heb 10:31 “It is
a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” This makes me so glad that Jesus paid it all,
and all to Him I owe.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Since today is Thanksgiving Day in the USA I
have to say that the thing that I am most thankful for is the salvation that
God has called me to through my Lord Jesus Christ.
Memory verses for the
week: 2 Peter 2:1-2.
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 righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus
Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied
to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Jesus” (Luke 5:4).
Today’s Bible
question: “In which garden did God place
man?”
Answer in our next SD.
11/27/2014 10:19 AM
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