CHAPTER 36. ISRAEL REVENGED AND COMFORTED THE NEW HEART AND THE BLISSFUL HERITAGE. IN this chapter we have a continuation of the present great theme of the prophet: Israel's prospective revival and prosperity as the Lord's covenant-people. Bat it treats of this under different aspects. In the first... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 36:16. _And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,_ Ezekiel 36:17. _Son of man, the house of Israel, those that dwelt upon their land, and they denied it by their ways and their doings, their way before me was as the defilement of a removed woman._ Ezekiel 36:18. _And I poured out (the... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 36:22. _Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Not for your sakes do I it, house of Israel, but on account of my holy name, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye have gone._ Ezekiel 36:23. _And I sanctify my name, the great, the profaned among the... [ Continue Reading ]
The last section, as was noticed before, is merely a gathering up of the general result, with some reference to the impressions it was fitted to produce upon the minds of others. Ezekiel 36:33. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I shall also make you... [ Continue Reading ]