SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/27/2015
9:54 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The Monster Punished
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ezekiel
32:11-16
Message of the
verses: “11 For thus says the Lord
GOD, "The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you. 12 “By the
swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are
tyrants of the nations, And they
will devastate the pride of Egypt, And all its hordes will be destroyed. 13 “I will also
destroy all its cattle from beside many waters; And the foot of man will not
muddy them anymore And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them. 14 “Then I will
make their waters settle And will cause their rivers to run like oil,"
Declares the Lord GOD. 15 “When I make the land of Egypt a desolation, And the
land is destitute of that which filled it, When I smite all those who live in
it, Then they shall know
that I am the LORD. 16 “This is a lamentation and they shall chant it.
The daughters of the nations shall chant it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes
they shall chant it," declares the Lord GOD.”
After this SD we will have one more that deals with the
nation of Egypt and in particular the prideful leaders that they had during
this time of their history. If we go
back and look at what happened to them when the Lord first destroyed them as
seen in the book of Exodus we will see that there was also a great deal of
pride in their leader then too as it took ten plagues from the hand of God to destroy
them, but they did not give up even then as the chased Israel to the edge of
the Red Sea and it was there that God opened up the Red Sea to allow Israel to
pass through on dry ground, but drowned the Egyptians when they tried to pass
through. We did not hear from Egypt for
a while after that, but eventually they began to be built up again and after
that the pride came back strong which is something that the Lord hates and this
time the Lord would use His servant Nebuchadnezzar to bring them to their knees
again as seen in these verses. This is
not the only place where God used a prophet to prophesize against Egypt as at
the end of the book of Jeremiah God also spoke of when the few remaining
Israelites went to Egypt God told them not to go, but when they did go God told
them that in effect they were going from the frying pan into the fire because
He was going to use Nebuchadnezzar to destroy Egypt and that is what He did.
In this section we see that even the animal life was
affected because of what the Babylonians would be doing to Egypt. The water in the rivers and cannels would be
muddy and then run like oil as no one was left to draw water from them. Dr. Wiersbe writes “Ordinarily, the flowing
of oil is a picture of peace and prosperity from God’s blessings, but in this
cause, it speaks of peace because of God’s judgment. Now humans or animals are there to stir up
the mud and defile the water. But the picture
also reminds us that Egypt’s defeat would help to bring peace to the ‘pool’ of
nations.”
It is a shame that people in the nations that are around
today do not watch what the Bible had to say about why the Lord would destroy
nations earlier as history will eventually repeat itself because no one takes
the time to study it and learn from it.
One of the great concerns that I have for this wonderful country that I
live in is the attitude that we have against the things of God, things that God
has written in His Word that if a nation follows them that He will destroy
it. As one reads the first chapter of
the book of Romans they will see the downfall of either people or a nation as
we read “God gave them over,” and what He gave them over is the sinful things that
are seen in the verses of Romans chapter one.
Then again in Genesis 12:3 we see that God promises blessing to those
who bless Israel, but cursing to those who curse Israel and we now have a
president that is doing everything in his power to stop supporting the nation
of Israel. As we read how the nations in
the OT were destroyed because of pride and other sinfulness and also how they
treated Israel there is no reason to believe that it will not happen to us
someday.
3/27/2015 10:16 PM
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