CHAPTER 11. THE REASON WHY YAHWEH MUST DEPART - AND HIS FINAL
DEPARTURE.
Having described the commencement of Yahweh's departure from
Jerusalem, Ezekiel now adds further reasons why it is necessary and
well deserved, but adds to it the certain hope that one day Israel
will return with changed heart... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Moreover the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of
Yahweh's house, which looks eastward. And behold at the door of the
gate five and twenty men. And I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah,
the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, princes of the
people.'
Ezekiel was now als... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And he said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who scheme
iniquity and who give wicked counsel to this city. Who say, ‘the
time is not near to build houses. This city is the cauldron and we are
the flesh'.” '
These men met together as counsellors to advise the city. But in
Yahweh's eyes what the... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy O son of man.'
Ezekiel is to raise his voice against these presumptious ideas for
they were the evidence of a complacency not justified by the facts.
Judah and Israel were still not repentant over their sinfulness, and
until they were there could be no res... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak.
Thus says Yahweh, “Thus have you said, Oh house of Israel, for I
know the things that come into your mind.” '
Once more Ezekiel was possessed by the Spirit to speak the word of
Yahweh to the house of Israel. Here ‘house of Israel' incl... [ Continue Reading ]
“You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled
its streets with the slain. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh,
‘Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the flesh, and
this city is the cauldron, but you will be brought forth out of the
midst of it. You have feared the... [ Continue Reading ]
“And I will bring you forth out of its midst and deliver you into
the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. You will
fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel, and you
will know that I am Yahweh. This city will not be your cauldron, nor
will you be the flesh in... [ Continue Reading ]
“And you will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my
statutes, nor have you carried out my judgments, but have done after
the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.”
The result of what was to happen to them would bring home to them that
Yahweh was not there to be trifled... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And it happened that when I prophesied Pelatiah, the son of
Benaiah, died. Then I fell down on my face and cried with a loud
voice, and said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, will you make a full end of the
remnant of Israel?” '
As Ezekiel obeyed Yahweh and pronounced his words against the house of
Israel, Pelat... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man. Your
brothers, even your brothers, the men related by blood (kindred) to
you, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the
inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, “You get far from Yahweh, this
land is given for a possession to u... [ Continue Reading ]
“Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, whereas I have removed
them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them
among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little
while in the countries where they have gone.' ”
‘Therefore say.' Yahweh was clearly angry at their... [ Continue Reading ]
“Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will gather you from
the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been
scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. And they shall come
there, and they will take away all its detestable things, and all its
abominations from the... [ Continue Reading ]
“And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within
you, and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and give them
a heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes and keep my
ordinances and do them. And they will be my people and I will be their
God.”
The constant change o... [ Continue Reading ]
“But as for those whose heart walks after the heart of their
detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on
their own heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.
God now finished off His comment on Ezekiel 11:15 with reference to
the presumptious people of Jerusalem. But it was not so much t... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Then the cherubim lifted up their wings and the wheels were beside
them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. And the
glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city and stood on the
mountain which is on the east of the city.'
Having made His declarations the chariot of Yahweh... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the
Spirit of God to Chaldea, to those of the captivity. So the vision
that I had seen went up from me. Then I spoke to those of the
captivity all the things that Yahweh had shown me.'
Ezekiel's vision was now coming to an end and he was... [ Continue Reading ]