SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/27/2015
7:41 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The Call to the Feast
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ezekiel
39:17-20
Message of the
verses: “17 “As for you, son of man,
thus says the Lord GOD, ’Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the
field, "Assemble and come, gather from every side to My sacrifice which I
am going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel,
that you may eat flesh and
drink blood. 18 "You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the
blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats and
bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 “So you will eat fat until you are
glutted, and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have
sacrificed for you. 20 “You will be glutted at My table with horses and
charioteers, with mighty men and all the men of war," declares the Lord
GOD.”
This is not the most pleasant thing to talk or write
about, but it is a part of God’s Word so we have to look at it and learn from
it. God is speaking through Ezekiel to
tell the birds that are the carrion-eating type of birds that they are going to
a feast and He even goes so far to tell them that He is the one making this
sacrifice for them. We know from our
past studies that many people will die and it will take the Jews seven months
to cleanse the land of the corpses, but these birds will come and eat those
corpses and leave the bones for them to be buried so that the land will be
cleansed. Dr. Wiersbe writes “The
invitation to a feast is a frequent biblical image for the judgment of God and
His victory over His enemies. Isaiah uses
it for God’s victory over Edom (Isa. 34:6), Jeremiah for God’s victory over
Egypt (Jer. 46:10), and Zephaniah for the Lord’s dealing with Judah (Zeph.
1:7-8).” I knew that there was another
one that I have recently read and it is from Revelation 19:17-21 “17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and
he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds which fly in midheaven, "Come, assemble for the great
supper of God, 18 so
that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh
of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the
flesh of all men, both free men and slaves, and small and great." 19
And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to
make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. 20 And the
beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his
presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and
those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire
which burns with brimstone. 21 And the rest were killed with the sword which
came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled
with their flesh.” These verses sound
very similar to the ones in Ezekiel, and perhaps that is why some Bible
commentators place this judgment at the end of the tribulation period. Dr. Wiersbe concludes “So humiliating is this
defeat of God and his allies that the Lord refers to their officers as rams,
lambs, goats, and bullocks! They
arrogantly entered Israel as proud soldiers but would be buried like slaughtered
animals. Such is the fleeting greatness
of man.”
This section has always remedied me of Pharaoh and how
proud that he was before that Lord used ten plagues to defeat Egypt in order
for His name to be made great because of the victory and that is what will
happen in this judgment too as the Lord’s name will be lifted up because of the
defeat of Gog and all the nations that came with him to go into Israel, which
they thought would be easy, but were in the end like Pharaoh were humbled. Pride was the first sin ever committed and
pride is something that needs to be avoided at all costs. 4/27/2015 8:01 PM
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