Ezekiel 11:2-7

God will remove leaders in His house, His Church, who use His name to devise evil against those who trust in Him. These men try to remove the hope of the common man and use fear as a weapon against them. God, the Triune Godhead, came to save the humble giving the Body and Blood of Jesus as redemption.  God is in total control…trust Him!

Christ within is the hope of glory…God’s glory not mans’.

Ezekiel saw twenty-five civic leaders at the temple. These men had been giving wicked counsel, and even stooped so low as to devise iniquity against their own people. These leaders had deceived themselves and their followers into thinking that they were speaking for the true God. 

Jerusalem’s official leaders had been accused of wicked activities and giving unrighteous advice here we discover that they had killed fellow countrymen. Contrary to the leaders’ false beliefs, the ones they killed were the godly people whose presence might have offered protection in the caldron—that is, Jerusalem. Those who had gained power by the sword, knowing the dread of such force, would experience defeat and death the same way. They would be dragged out of the city and slain by strangers.

Ezekiel 11:2-7

² And He said to me: “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give wicked counsel in this city, ³ who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the caldron, and we are the meat.’ ⁴ Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man!”

⁵ Then the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, “Speak! ‘Thus says the Lord: “Thus you have said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind. ⁶ You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.” ⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the caldron; but I shall bring you out of the midst of it.

⁴ and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 

2 Peter 3:4

¹⁰ I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings. 

Jeremiah 17:10

² You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones; 

Micah 3:2