Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Ezekiel 9:9-11

In God’s timing evil will be done away with permanently. We are living in a period of grace. God wants no man to perish. We live in evil times where innocent blood is being shed.

We need to spread the good news of the love of God in the person of Jesus Christ in the time that is left.

The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah God can no longer delay punishment for Israel. His justice requires judgment. Faithlife Bible.

Three reasons are given as to why the nation deserved this terrible outpouring of God’s wrath—serious and undeniable (1) iniquity, or guilt of sinful offenses; (2) bloodshed, or violence; and (3) perversity, or more precisely injustice. 

The people and especially rich rulers willfully chose to believe that God did not see or care what injustices went on. NKJ Bible.

Ezekiel 9:9–11 (NKJV)
Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’ 10 And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head.”
11 Just then, the man clothed with linen, who had the inkhorn at his side, reported back and said, “I have done as You commanded me.”

2 Kings 21:16 (NKJV)
16 Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

Isaiah 29:15 (NKJV)
15 Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the Lord,
And their works are in the dark;

They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”

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