CHAPTER 36 ISRAEL WILL BE RESTORED. This glorious picture of the restoration of Israel emphasises their spiritual restoration in the land, a restoration which will make the nations recognise that He is Yahweh. This in the end is always God's purpose for Israel, that through them and their witness al... [ Continue Reading ]
“And you son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says the Lord Yahweh. Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!”, and “The ancient high places are ours in possession”. Having spoken words of doom to Mount Seir, Yahweh no... [ Continue Reading ]
“Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, because, even because they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of nations, and you are taken up on the lips of gossips, and the evil report of the people. Therefore you mounta... [ Continue Reading ]
“Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations (those outside of the covenant), Theref... [ Continue Reading ]
“For behold I am for you, and I will turn to you and you will be tilled and sown, and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. And the cities will be inhabited and the waste places built” The reason that the land would one day again be Israel's was because Yahweh was ‘fo... [ Continue Reading ]
“And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they will increase and be fruitful, and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better than at your beginnings, and you will know that I am Yahweh. Yes I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel, and they will... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Because they say to you, ‘you are devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation,' therefore you will devour men no more, nor bereave (another reading is ‘cause to stumble') your nation any more,” says the Lord Yahweh, “nor will I let you hear any more the sham... [ Continue Reading ]
ISRAEL'S PAST (EZEKIEL 36:16). ‘Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her separation.” The blood that was poured out thr... [ Continue Reading ]
ISRAEL'S INGLORIOUS PAST AND THEIR GLORIOUS FUTURE (EZEKIEL 36:16). As we consider this section we should pause to consider the nature of Biblical prophecy. A Biblical prophet was not a foreteller like Nostradamus is seen as being, who declared events that would happen in the future so that people... [ Continue Reading ]
“Because of this I poured out my fury on them, for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with idols, and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. According to their ways and according to their doings I judged them.”... [ Continue Reading ]
“And when they came to the nations to which they went, they profaned my holy name in that men said of them, “These are the people of Yahweh, and have come forth out of his land.” But the other consequence was that it reflected on God's name and reputation. By what had happened to them they had brou... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD WILL RESTORE HIS REPUTATION BY WHAT HE WILL DO IN RETURNING THE PEOPLE TO THE LAND AND POURING OUT HIS SPIRIT ON THEM (EZEKIEL 36:21). “But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they went. Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says t... [ Continue Reading ]
“For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you to your own land.” This gathering of the people of Israel back to the land began as a relative trickle on the decree of Cyrus (Ezra 1), and continued over a long period, with more and more peopl... [ Continue Reading ]
“And I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. From all your filthiness and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.”... [ Continue Reading ]
“And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you will keep my judgments and do them, and you will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you will be my people and I will be your God.” Now quite unequivocally we have mention of the work of the Holy Spiri... [ Continue Reading ]
“And I will save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will call for the corn and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.” The application is twofold, as... [ Continue Reading ]
“Then you will remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations. Not for your sakes do I do this,” says the Lord Yahweh, “be it known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Isr... [ Continue Reading ]
“Thus says the Lord Yahweh, In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built. And the land that was desolate will be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. And they will say, ‘The land t... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “For this moreover will I be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them. I will increase them with men like a flock. As the flock of holy things, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men, and they... [ Continue Reading ]