The Day of the Wrath of the Lord

Ezekiel 7:1-13

 

November 5, 2023

 

The Day of the Wrath of the Lord

The word of the Lord came to me:  “And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.  Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways and punish you for all your abominations.  And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

“Thus says the Lord God: Disaster after disaster!  Behold, it comes.  An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes.  Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains.  Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.  And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.

“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.  Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.  The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.   For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.

At the beginning of Chapter 7, the first few verses, God said to the people of Israel; the following:

The end has come upon the four corners of the land.  

Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; 

I will judge you according to your ways,  

I will punish you for all your abominations.

And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity,

I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. 

Then you will know that I am the Lord.

 

Ezekiel is telling Israel about the things that are going to happen. The future disaster brought by the Babylonian armies was revealed to Ezekiel. 

 

But you and I have also been warned about what is called the end times, in the book of Matthew, and in Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelations.  No one but the Father knows when Jesus will be sent to get His Bride the Church.  A wise person would be ready, a wise person would examine themselves to make sure they are in the Faith.  A wise person would study and pray that they were in Christ and Christ was living in them, for the hour is late and you do not understand when you will be taken from this world.  Are the people you love ready for Jesus to come back?  The GOD of Ezekiel Time is the God of Today.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice