“The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
– Ezekiel 7:27
Hi James and Ellen,
How can you know Who God – as God the Father – your heavenly Father is? Do you know how to separate your heavenly Father – God – as God the Father, from other gods? Do you fear your heavenly Father? Do you use your heavenly Father’s holy name in the same breath as doom, disaster and despair? Do you think of the unbounded power that your heavenly Father has in the same thought as swords, plagues and famines? Do you reflect on the unmerited love that your heavenly Father has in the same breath with worldliness, wickedness and wrath? Ezekiel 7 is not at all an uplifting chapter. Verse 27 says, “The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”” This verse brings to end a very appalling verdict or pronouncement that God – as God the Father, had God – as God the Spirit, had His designated prophet spokesman Ezekiel make to His specially chosen guys and gals – who were the Israelite people group guys and gals, who were living in the land of Judah and in the city of Jerusalem. God had had enough of the evil lifestyles that His specially chosen guys and gals were living – that were pushing and pushing His hot button – lifestyles that included being caught up in perverted, detestable practices such as bowing down to despicable gods and vile images instead of only worshipping Him. God had had enough of His specially chosen guys and gals being proud of their beautiful jewelry instead of purposively caring for each other. God had had enough of the egocentricities and arrogance that His specially chosen guys and gals used to govern their self-centered ways instead of always putting Him in the center of all that they did. God was ready to proactively show His specially chosen guys and gals what He meant when He said in your grandpaa’s paraphrased way, I am giving you this land to always to have to live in as your very own land ‘if’ . . . as He divinely led them into the land area of Canaan. God had reached the end of His ‘rope’ with His specially chosen guys and gals. God was ready to play His ‘if’ card on His specially chosen guys and gals.
Ezekiel’s message from God the Father – through God – as God the Spirit, to His specially chosen guys and gals who were living in the land of Judah and in the city of Jerusalem, starts out with the death words ‘The end’! Ezekiel’s divine call from God – as God the Father, to be a prophet spokesman to His specially chosen guys and gals who were living in the land of Judah and in the city of Jerusalem has him in a unique moment in history – the time when God’s specially chosen guys and gals suffered one of the severest – if not the most severe, calamity in this people group’s existence when God unleashed His holy anger on them. God’s wrath against His specially chosen guys and gals who were living in the land of Judah and in the city of Jerusalem would replace joy with anguish, wellbeing with grief, rejoicing with moaning, strength with weakness, self-esteem with shame, coins with sackcloth, harmony with bloodshed and peace with calamity. This horrific judgment call that God made against His specially chosen guys and gals about 2600 years ago did not stop with just His specially chosen guys and gals; God’s anger would be felt on all four corners of planet Earth. No country or people group on planet Earth would be exempted from God’s petrifying fury who had a role in the demise of His specially chosen guys and gals.
Do you think that your heavenly Father will do again to His specially elected guys and gals what He did about 2600 years ago to His specially chosen guys and gals – after He finally had had it after His holy presence and His mandated will were continuously being imprudently ignored by His specially chosen guys and gals? Your grandpaa is becoming more and more uneasy/intrigued that God’s blatant warnings that are implicit to the guys and gals who are living in the United States, are being impassively ignored by guys and gals who are Christ-followers who are living in the United States. Christ-follower fellowships of guys and gals in the United States instead of zealously becoming engaged in evangelistic and discipleship efforts, seem to be to your grandpaa more wanting to create safe backdrops through non-confrontational fellowships, support forums for alleged society driven protentional disasters such as the beguiling global earth warming hoax and the promoting of a loving God Who would never think about imposing a consequence on a guy, gal or kid who crosses the line through an overt act against an established moral or ethical standard. Your grandpaa thinks that the vast majority of Christ-follower fellowships that can be found in the United States have abdicated a God-ordained mandate for Christ-follower fellowships of guys and gals to always do – which is to care for their widows, orphans, lame, poor, etc., to the United States government to do. There are now literally tens of thousands of Christ-follower guys, gals and kids from cities, towns and rural areas from all over the United States who are going on short term ministry/missionary trips to emerging countries where these same guys and gals are coming alongside their host country Christ-follower fellowships of guys and gals to proactively care for their widows, orphans, lame, poor, etc. Your grandpaa believes that if Christ-follower guys and gals here in the United States do not react to the hurts that guys and gals have who are living here in the United States that . . .
Ezekiel 7 (1045)