We must choose individually the path of the righteousness of Christ or the path to destruction. The world and all we know will crumble. Our only hope is in HIM.
As for me and my house we choose Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords.
In God alone we stand!
Prince of Israel is a reference to Zedekiah, whose foolish rebellion against Nebuchadnezzar initiated this invasion. Ezekiel never refers to Zedekiah as king. Ezekiel calls on Zedekiah to give up the primary symbol of his power and position. Faithlife Bible.
The Judeans in their pride and false sense of security in the treaties (sworn oaths) would conclude that the king received a false divination. However, the verdict had been pronounced: Jerusalem would be taken. Nebuchadnezzar would be God’s instrument to punish the people’s rebellion. The prince of Israel Zedekiah would come to its end by being captured in 586 b.c. The turban and the crown stand for the priesthood and the kingship. Both would be removed from Judah. The priestly and kingly offices would not return until the coming of Him whose right it is—the Messiah. That Nebuchadbezzar's answer coincided with God's did not mean that his divination was acceptable. It merely demonstrated that God is sovereign while individuals remain responsible for all choices; good or bad. NKJ Bible.
Ezekiel 21:18-27
18 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying: 19 “And son of man, appoint for yourself two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to go; both of them shall go from the same land. Make a sign; put it at the head of the road to the city. 20 Appoint a road for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified Jerusalem. 21 For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork of the two roads, to use divination: he shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks at the liver. 22 In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem: to set up battering rams, to call for a slaughter, to lift the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege mound, and to build a wall. 23 And it will be to them like a false divination in the eyes of those who have sworn oaths with them; but he will bring their iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.
24 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in hand.
25 ‘Now to you, O profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose iniquity shall end, 26 thus says the Lord God:
“Remove the turban, and take off the crown;
Nothing shall remain the same.
Exalt the humble, and humble the exalted.
27 Overthrown, overthrown,
I will make it overthrown!
It shall be no longer,
Until He comes whose right it is,
And I will give it to Him.” ’
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