In today's reading I found myself asking, "who is Gog?" I scoured the chapter before to see if there was any mention of him, and I finally turned to The New Bible Commentary to get some information. What I found was pretty interesting, and I thought it was worthwhile to post here. I hope you appreciate this background info the way I ... [Continue Reading]
Dry Bones (Ezekiel 36-37)
Reading this took me back to my childhood days of VBS and singing the song that said, "them bones, them bones they gonna walk around..." This striking picture of the dead coming back to life was indicative of God's plan for His people. If we're honest with ourselves, though, isn't that what God does for us? He takes our emptiness ... [Continue Reading]
The Good Fight: The Home Front
The latest sermon from LifePoint High School Student Ministry. In this first message of the series we are taught that honor opens the door to relationship. Download the_home_front.mp3 ... [Continue Reading]
A watchman (Ezekiel 33-35)
God gives us a great picture of the role of a prophet: he is to be a watchman. What was a watchman in the ancient Near East? He was the one who stood on guard at the most strategic point of the city and was on the lookout for impending danger. When a potential threat approached, the watchman's responsibility was to report the danger by word of ... [Continue Reading]
National righteousness versus personal sin (Ezekiel 17, 20)
When reading through the Prophets it would be somewhat easy to conclude that, since God's plan was to redeem Israel, that all of Israel would be redeemed. Unfortunately, the reading for today shows that this isn't really the case. In 20:38, God states, "I will purge out the rebels from among you..." Some people would say that ... [Continue Reading]
God ‘ s people (Ezekiel 14-16)
It's a small phrase, but it's still worth mentioning: "my people." Throughout Israel's rebellion, they never stopped being God's people. He redeemed them from slavery, and He brought them into the land of promise. He removed them from the dictatorship of Pharaoh and blessed them with freedom. Even still, they turned ... [Continue Reading]
A frightening responsibility (Ezekiel 11-13)
Reading through this section (specifically the part about the part about the false prophets) reignited my passion of the frightening responsibility of being a teacher of God's Word. These prophets in Ezekiel are condemned for leading people astray, and the same condemnation applies to teachers today who lead people in the wrong direction. Every time I get ... [Continue Reading]
No room for idolaters (Ezekiel 7-10)
I'm currently in the middle of listening to a sermon series on the Ten Commandments, so as this theme of idolatry popped up here it was hard to ignore. I know I've mentioned it before, but idolatry seems to be common sin in the history of the world, and it can rear its ugly head in lots of ways. Anything that takes your affection away from God should ... [Continue Reading]
A horrible stench (Ezekiel 4-6)
God had the prophets do some pretty incredible things to try and get the attention of Israel and Judah, but in my mind none comes close to having Ezekiel burn a portion of his hair in the midst of the city. In the Old Testament, when a Nazirite vow was completed, the hair that was committed during the period of the vow was to be cut off and burned as a sacrifice ... [Continue Reading]
Sweet as honey (Ezekiel 1-3)
I find it mildly humorous that Ezekiel ate God's words, and then they were in his mouth as sweet as honey. It reminds me a little bit of a story in Angela's Ashes where Frank McCourt is taking communion for the first time in the Catholic Church and gets the wafer stuck on the roof of his mouth. Since Catholics believe in transubstantiation (that the ... [Continue Reading]
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