From 3cceb0cb9f48da5058094340c24acd2bea721b27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 08:32:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Ezekiel 33:21-33 --- content/bible_journal/ezekiel_33:21-33.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/ezekiel_33:21-33.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_33:21-33.md b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_33:21-33.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af771bf --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_33:21-33.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ ++++ +title = "Ezekiel 33:21–33" +date = "2023-06-06" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezekiel33.21-33) + +Finally word reaches the exiles that Jerusalem has fallen. A fugitive brings the +news and Ezekiel's mouth is opened so that he can speak normally again. However, +the Lord still has more things for him to tell the people. + +In this passage, the prophet addresses two groups of people. The first group are +those who remain in Judah hiding in the wilderness from the Babylonians. They +continue to believe they are the inheritors of the land promised to Abraham's +descendants, but they are not following in the ways of the God of their fathers. +They continue to commit abominable practices that have been forbidden to the +people of Israel, so the Lord is going to scrub them away and cleanse the land +of their sin. + +The second group that is addressed are the exiles living in Babylon. If you're +reading it for the first time, it sounds like it's going to be good things +that they hear. They encourage each other to sit under the prophet's teachings +and listen to him. That's good, right? But no, they hear but they do not obey. +Instead, they consider him to be nothing more than evening entertainment. They +have their hearts set on what they will do and they are not interested in being +dissuaded from it. We are told that some judgement will come on them, which will +remind them of who the Lord is, but not what that judgement will be. Likely, we +will find out if we keep reading. + +* * * + +Your words are always true and You bring about everything You have said You +will do.