Ezekiel 22:28-31

There are two paths to choose in life where good versus evil….God’s way is the right way and it is everlasting! 

Jesus is the gate…enter in!

The Hebrew word means “mud-plaster” or “whitewash.” These prophets were involved in “whitewashing” the sins of the nation’s leaders.

God could not find a spiritual leader to guide the people in godliness.

Ezekiel 22:28-31

²⁸ Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken. ²⁹ The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger. ³⁰ So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. ³¹ Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.

¹⁰ “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace—and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar—

Ezekiel 13:10

⁶ They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ But the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed. 

Ezekiel 13:6

⁹ “Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 

Exodus 23:9

³³ ‘And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him. 

Leviticus 19:33

¹⁶He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him. 

Isaiah 59:16

5 “Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; See now and know; And seek in her open places If you can find a man, If there is anyone who executes judgment, Who seeks the truth, And I will pardon her. 

Jeremiah 5:1

⁹ tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 

Romans 2:9