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"They shall burn your houses with fire"

Text: Ezekiel 16:41

MISPLACED TRUST OF ISRAEL

Israel had misplaced its trust badly. It had forsaken the Lord God. Instead it trusted in the nations and learned the ways of the idolatrous Gentiles! Israel would live to regret its idolatrous and sinful ways!

“They shall also bring up an assembly against you,
and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.
They shall burn your houses with fire,
and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women;
and I will make you cease playing the harlot,
and you shall no longer hire lovers.”
Ezekiel 16:40-41

1. An assembly of nations.

a) The Assyrians

b) The Babylonians

c) These empires were made up of small nations.

2. These powerful enemies would war against Israel.

a) They would stone Israel.

b) They would use their swords to kill many people.

c) They would burn the beautiful homes in Israel.

d) They would execute judgments against the nation.

e) These deeds would be done openly.

f) There would be many witnesses to these atrocities, including women.

3. What Israel had done in the past.

a) It would hire mercenaries to defend the nation.

b) Israel trusted these mercenary nations rather than God.

c) These very nations Israel trusted would turn against the country.

d) These mercenaries had no scruples or principles.

e) They would attack any country for the right price.

f) Israel would discover to its horror:

i) Treachery

ii) Betrayal

iii) This was what Israel did to the Lord their God!

g) Israel would then finally learn its lessons.

i) Not to play the harlot.

ii) Not to trust mercenary nations.