From 71fd3789c8cde18c8a3832a32e57affc14241980 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 10:21:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Ezekiel 11:1-12 --- content/bible_journal/ezekiel_11:1-12.md | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/ezekiel_11:1-12.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_11:1-12.md b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_11:1-12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9b82aa --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/ezekiel_11:1-12.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ ++++ +title = "Ezekiel 11:1–12" +date = "2023-03-26" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ezekiel11.1-12) + +Now Ezekiel is taken to the east gate of the temple, where another twenty-five +men have gathered outside it. Don't confuse these twenty-five with the +twenty-five priests worshipping the sun inside the temple court (who were +supposed to be killed by the six destroying angels in chapter 9). Also don't +confuse Jaazaniah the son of Azzur here with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan from +chapter 8. These men are described as "princes of the people" (_v. 1_) so they +are the political leaders who rose up in Jerusalem after the first deportation. +(This was the exile that Ezekiel himself and Daniel were part of.) + +The Spirit of the Lord describes these men to Ezekiel as wicked counselors and +arrogant in their position. They described Jerusalem as a cauldron and +themselves as the meat in it. That is, the city has walls of irons and they are +the best parts of what is in it. Since Nebuchadnezzar had deported most of the +royal family, the military leaders, and the craftsmen, maybe these men +considered those groups to be the offal and bones of a butchered animal while +they were the parts that were valuable. + +As an aside, the Lord declares He knows their thoughts, which is not a fact +that should be missed. When theologians talk about God's omniscience, they +really do mean He knows _everything_. Repent of even your wicked thoughts that +you never tell anyone. + +The Lord indicts these wicked counselors by pointing out the people who have +been slain in the streets of the city because of their leadership. He says that +those are the real meat of the cauldron, and because of them He will bring +these puffed-up leaders out of the cauldron to be judged at the border of +Israel with the sword that they have feared. They had not followed in the +statuse of the Lord but instead did wickedness according to the ways of the +nations around them. + +* * * + +No one can escape Your justice except through the gracious work of Jesus paying +the penalty for our unrighteousness.