SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/26/2015
10:37 PM
My Worship Time Focus: God Draws
the Sword
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ezekiel
21:1-7
Message of the
verses: “1 And the word of the LORD
came to me saying, 2 "Son of man,
set your face toward Jerusalem, and speak against the sanctuaries and prophesy
against the land of Israel; 3 and say to
the land of Israel, ’Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am against you; and I
will draw My sword out of its sheath and cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. 4 “Because
I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will
go forth from its sheath against all flesh from south to north. 5 “Thus all
flesh will know that I, the LORD, have drawn My sword out of its sheath. It
will not return to its sheath again."’ 6 “As for you, son of man, groan
with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight. 7 “And when they
say to you, ’Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ’Because of the news that is
coming; and every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will
faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will
happen,’ declares the Lord GOD."”
As we look at this chapter we see that the word sword is
used nineteen times in this chapter alone, and this speaks of the invasion of
the Babylonians in Jerusalem. Jerusalem
is the city of our great God, and yet because of the sin that was committed by
His people that city had to be destroyed.
This will not be the only time when devastation will come upon this
city. “Mt 23:37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted
to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her
wings, and you were unwilling.” These
are the words of our Lord and in 70 AD Jerusalem was destroyed again, this time
by the Romans under Titus. Next look at
these verses: “Re 11:8 And their dead
bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called
Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.” This verse will take place near the end of
the Tribulation Period, and when you look at what will happen to Jerusalem
during that time you will see that there will not be much left, however when we
get to chapters 40-48 we will see how great the city will be when the Lord
returns as spoken of in Revelation chapter nineteen. Now that is not the end of Jerusalem,
although the city of Jerusalem that Christ rules from will be destroyed when
the entire universe is “un-created” as seen in the third chapter of 2
Peter. However the book of Revelation
tells us that there will be a New Jerusalem that is built by the Lord and it is
15,000 miles in height, width, and length and this will be the place where
those who have put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord will
live forever.
Now we know that the Lord used the Babylonians to destroy
Jerusalem as we read in these verses from Ezekiel that it is “My Sword”
indicating Him as the destroyer of the city.
We see another of Ezekiel’s action sermons in verses six
and seven. The Lord tells Ezekiel to weep
and lament over the destruction of Jerusalem, and I am sure that this would
have not been an act for Ezekiel, but real feelings for what was going on in
Jerusalem. Jerusalem was finally
destroyed on August 14, 586 BC. The
false hope that was nurtured by the exiles was gone after that.
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