Daily Devotions
Ezekiel
"I am against you”
Text: Ezekiel 5:8
THE ABOMINATIONS OF ISRAEL
The words of admonition warning against idolatry were uttered by many prophets. Moses forewarned Israel of the danger of God’s judgment if the nation chose to forsake Him. Israel had disregarded all that the prophets had uttered!
“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
‘Indeed I, even I, am against you
and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
And I will do among you what I have never done,
and the like of which I will never do again,
because of all your abominations.'”
Ezekiel 5:8-9
1. “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD”
a) What God had decided to do was a consequence of Israel’s sinfulness.
b) The word “therefore” is called an “inferential particle”.
c) Israel had only itself to blame for the judgment that was meted out.
2. God Himself was against the nation.
a) This was candidly declared.
b) He Himself will execute judgments in the midst of Israel.
c) God’s judgment would be in the sight of the enemy nations.
3. Terrible judgments.
a) These would be unprecedented judgments.
b) This had never been meted out before.
c) These judgments would come to pass.
d) No intercessory prayers would prevail this time round.
e) Jerusalem must recognise the severity of its abominations.
f) The sad reality was that Jerusalem was blind to its sinfulness.
g) The stubbornness and impudence of the heart was astonishing to behold.