Judgement on Israel’s Leader
The Spirit of the Lord lifted Ezekiel and brought him to the east gateway of the Lord’s Temple, where he saw twenty-five prominent men of the city.
The Spirit revealed that these men were plotting evil and giving wicked counsel to the people. They deceived the city into a false sense of security, assuring the people that all was well when it was not. So God instructed Ezekiel to prophesy against them.
9 I will drive you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners and inflict punishment on you.
Ezekiel 11:9-12 (NIV)
10 You will fall by the sword, and I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
11 This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel.
12 And you will know that I am the Lord, for you have not followed my decrees or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you.”
As Ezekiel was prophesying Pelatiah son of Benaiah died – one of the leaders. Then Ezekiel fell facedown and cried out to God, asking if he will destroy the remnant of Israel?
But the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel and said that although He will send Israel far away among the nations and scatter them. That he will gather Israel back from the nations and bring them back to their land again.
17 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.’
EZEKIEL 11:17-21
18 “They will return to it and remove all its vile images and detestable idols.
19 I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.
20 Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
21 But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.”
Then the cherubim with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory fo the God of Israel was above them. The glory of the Lord went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it. Then the Spirit lifted Ezekiel and brought him to the exiles in Babylonia in the vision given by the Spirit of God and Ezekiel told the exiles everything the Lord had shown him.
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