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"So I will lay to rest My fury toward you"

Text: Ezekiel 16:42

THE CESSATION OF GOD’S FURY

This was a very comforting word from the Lord to Israel. There would come a day when God’s holy fury would cease!

“‘So I will lay to rest My fury toward you,
and My jealousy shall depart from you.
I will be quiet, and be angry no more.
Because you did not remember the days of your youth,
but agitated Me with all these things,
surely I will also recompense your deeds on your own head,’ says the Lord God.
‘And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations.'”
Ezekiel 16:42-43

1. A welcome word.

a) That His fury would now be at rest.

b) His holy jealousy would be no more.

c) His divine anger would cease.

d) God would be quiet.

2. The foolishness of Israel.

a) It did not remember the past.

b) Israel had forgotten what it was like when it was a young nation.

i) There was faith.

ii) There was love.

iii) There was faithful devotion.

c) Israel agitated God.

i) With idolatry

ii) With many wicked deeds.

iii) With many abominations (idolatry in mind).

iv) Further sins were prevented (e.g. “lewdness”)._

3. The recompense.

a) Israel reaped what it had sowed.

b) What Israel reaped:

i) Devasting judgment from God.

ii) Destruction from its many “lovers”.

iii) The land of Israel was utterly despoiled!