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Ezekiel

Ezekiel 
Day 
Day 123

"They have seduced My people”

Text: Ezekiel 13:10

THE SEDUCTION OF GOD’S PEOPLE

The LORD spoke sternly against the false prophets. He declared that they were guilty of seducing His people.

“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—
say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall.
There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall;
and a stormy wind shall tear it down.
Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you,
‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?'”
Ezekiel 13:10-12

1. The message of Peace from the false prophets.

a) They were preaching “Peace” when war was looming.

b) There were many people in the land:

i) Who were not educated.

ii) Who were simple and naive.

iii) They were deceived by the hope of Peace.

c) There was no peace.

i) No peace with God.

ii) No peace from God.

2. The message of a strong wall when the repairs were needed.

a) The imagery of building a wall was used.

b) The false prophets promised that the people would be protected because they had strong walls.

c) In reality the walls of Jerusalem were in disrepair:

i) Physically

ii) Spiritually

3. They were aware of the need to repair the walls.

a) They declared that they could easily do the repairs.

b) They used “untempered mortar”.

c) Good mortar:

i) Sand

ii) Cement

iii) A binding agent like lime.

d) Untempered mortar was no more than whitewash.

d) The defects are covered easily but the wall is not repaired at all.

4. In inclement weather.

a) Flooding rain

b) Hail

c) A stormy wind

d) Any of these would cause the wall to fall down.

5. When calamities come.

a) People would question the false prophets.
What kind of mortar was used?

b) Both physically and spiritually, Jerusalem’s walls would fall down!

c) Calamities will test the strength of the walls we build for the protection of our life.