“I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.”
~ Ezekiel 36:23
Hi James and Ellen,
God – as God the Spirit, breathed on Ezekiel ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says’ to scribe ten times in what is now Ezekiel 36. God – as God the Spirit, also breathed on Ezekiel to scribe six times in this chapter either ‘hear the word of the Sovereign LORD’, ‘declares the Sovereign LORD’ ‘or hear the word of the LORD’ and to scribe four times in this chapter either ‘I the LORD’ or ‘I am the LORD’. God – as God the Father, is making it very clear in this chapter through God – as God the Spirit, and through Ezekiel – who was one of His prophet spokesmen, that He is the LORD and that what He is saying is unambiguously, explicitly true. Ezekiel scribed messages in this chapter that God – as God the Spirit, breathed on him to prophecy to different entities. The first entity that Ezekiel had God – as God the Spirit, breathe on him words to prophecy to were to the mountains, hills, ravines, valleys and deserted ruins of plundered towns that were in land area that was situated between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The land area that was situated between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River is the land area that was first lived in by Abraham, then Isaac and then Jacob. God would centuries later have His specially chosen guys and gals leave Egypt to once again live in this land area that was situated between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The prophetic message of destruction and hope that God – as God the Spirit, breathed on Ezekiel for the mountains, hills, ravines, valleys and deserted ruins of plundered towns that were located in Israel’s northern kingdom’s land area in the land that was situated between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River – land that God had given to His specially chosen guys and gals to always to have to live in as their very own land if . . . , that had overheard malicious, slanderous words that were being spoken against God’s specially chosen guys and gals by their enemies, to tell the trees and the land that they one day would again produce leaves and fruit for His specially chosen guys and gals. God – as God the Father – through God – as God the Spirit, singled out the Edomite people group guys and gals to expressly tell them through Ezekiel that because of their longstanding hostility towards His specially chosen guys and gals and because of how they had gone about looting and plundering the land that He had given to His specially chosen guys and gals to always to have to live in as their very own land if . . ., that He was in His angry zeal for His specially chosen guys and gals going to pour out His vengeful wrath on them.
Another entity that God – as God the Spirit, had Ezekiel prophecy to with words that He had Ezekiel scribe was to the house of Israel – the house of Israel being God’s specially chosen guys and gals. God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, instructed Ezekiel to tell the Israelite people group guys and gals – who are God’s specially chosen guys and gals, that He was going to return them one day to the land area that He had given them to always to have to live in as their very own land if . . . when God’s specially guys and gals disobediently, wickedly pushed the ‘if’, God removed them from the land using an enemy nation’s army. God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, promises His specially chosen guys and gals through Ezekiel – in verse 23, “I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.” God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, uses Ezekiel to promise His specially chosen guys and gals that He will one day take away from them their stone hearts and that He will give to them a new heart that will desire to serve Him, a new spirit that will desire to always, faithfully obey Him and that He Himself – as God the Spirit, will intentionally and purposefully live in each one of them to help them live out His decrees and to carefully keep His laws. God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, also uses Ezekiel to promise His specially chosen guys and gals that He will save them from their uncleanness and that He will again increase their crop and fruit bounty as well as take away the byword called ‘disgraced’ that would be haunting them because of their moral, disobedient failures of not listening to the voice of God – as God the Father.
The words that God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, breathed on Ezekiel to scribe that is in this chapter is also for another entity. God – as God the Father, wants you to know that what He will do for His specially chosen land area – when He told the land area through Ezekiel that He was going to replant His specially chosen guys and gals in it, applies also to you. God – as God the Father, through God – as God the Spirit, made it very clear through Ezekiel to His specially chosen guys and gals that what He was doing with them was not for their sake; it was for His sake. It was for His sake that God – as God the Father, deliberately allowed His specially chosen guys and gals to suffer the indignities of having to survive as slaves so that they would feel ashamed and disgraced which in turn would have them remember how horribly wicked and terribly evil that their lifestyles had been – and which would lead them to loathe and hate their former sinful, detestable way of life. Your grandpaa’s message for you today is that even though your sinful actions have enslaved you to sin – just as God – as God the Father, had to enslave His specially chosen guys and gals because of their sinfulness and which led to His pouring out of His ire on the land area that He had given them to . . . , God – as God the Father, had to first have sin enslave you before He could redeem you – just as He did before He had His specially chosen guys and gals return to the land area that . . .
Ezekiel 36 (821)