Daily Devotions
Ezekiel
"My eye will not spare you"
Text: Ezekiel 7:4
THE PRESUMPTION OF JUDAH
Israel, the Northern Kingdom rejected the LORD and chose to worship idols and pursued the path of wickedness. It suffered the wrath of God and Israel was destroyed in 722 BC by the Assyrians.
Judah, the Southern Kingdom presumed that it was better as a nation. But Judah’s kings had also forsaken God and had chosen the path of evil too. The presumption of Judah that the temple was in Jerusalem and thus God would also protect His house there. Judah was seriously mistaken!
“Now the end has come upon you,
And I will send My anger against you;
I will judge you according to your ways,
And I will repay you for all your abominations.
My eye will not spare you,
Nor will I have pity;
But I will repay your ways,
And your abominations will be in your midst;
Then you shall know that I am the Lord!”
Ezekiel 7:3-4
1. The end of the Southern kingdom.
a) The LORD had determined to bring the Southern Kingdom to an end.
b) He would judge the people for their ways.
c) He would requite them for their abominations!
d) The end of a long era had finally come.
2. What God would not do.
a) He would not spare Judah.
b) He would not exercise pity.
c) He would repay their wicked ways.
d) Their abominations could not go unpunished indefinitely.
e) Many warnings had already been given by the prophets.
f) Sending more prophets was not the answer, obviously!
3. “Then you shall know that I am the Lord!”
a) This phrase would be repeated time and again.
b) Judah should have known better.
c) It had seen Israel fall under the Assyrians.
d) But they refused to hear the LORD.
e) Only when Jerusalem falls would the nation know the LORD.