Ezekiel 21:24

Covered in the blood of Jesus Christ and 

saved we still need to learn from our mistakes.

With blessed assurance He guarantees that we will learn… {the easy way or the hard way is up to us} but God will do whatever it takes until we truly understand the implications of the iniquities that we commit.

implication

noun

1 he was smarting at their implication: suggestion, insinuation, innuendo, hint, intimation, imputation.

2 important political implications: consequence, result, ramification, repercussion, reverberation, effect, significance.

3 his implication in the murder case: incrimination, involvement, connection, entanglement, association; dated inculpation.

iniquity

noun

1 many runaways become the pawns of these merchants of iniquity: wickedness, sinfulness, immorality, impropriety; vice, evil, sin; villainy, criminality; odiousness, atrocity, egregiousness; outrage, monstrosity, obscenity, reprehensibility; formal turpitude. ANTONYMS morality, virtue.

2 I will forgive their iniquity: sin, crime, transgression, wrongdoing, wrong, violation, offense, vice. ANTONYMS goodness, virtue.

There will always be consequences to our wrong 

actions intentional or otherwise.

This verse echoes the promises of Deuteronomy where the abundance or absence of rain in the land is associated with obedience or disobedience to the Law.

Ezekiel 21:24

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.

¹⁸ Since he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and in fact gave his hand and still did all these things, he shall not escape.’ ” 

Ezekiel 17:18

² He also did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 

Jeremiah 52:2

¹³In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you, and you were not cleansed, You will not be cleansed of your filthiness anymore, Till I have caused My fury to rest upon you. 

Ezekiel 24:13

¹³ “Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst. ¹⁴ Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and will do it.

Ezekiel 22:13-14

 ¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. ²⁰ As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you. ²¹ Yes, I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst. ²² As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have poured out My fury on you.’ ”

Ezekiel 22:18-22

¹⁰The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people. 

Genesis 49:10

⁷In His days the righteous shall flourish, And abundance of peace, Until the moon is no more. 

Psalm 72:7

³² He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. 

Luke 1:32