In Ezekiel chapter 32, God gives Ezekiel another Lament. Ezekiel is to Lament The Fall of the pharaoh of Egypt. God goes on to explain all of the destruction and judgment that will be coming upon the pharaoh for his failure to follow God. So many people will be judged as a result of pharaohs failure to lead them to God. As the leader of the country, his responsibility is very clear in terms of where he’s leading his people to. The end result was that the country would be destroyed and fall into God’s judgment. Where are we leading people to? Everyday People watch us and look at us…

God deals with the issue of arrogance in Ezekiel chapter 31. The people were so arrogant they believed that they were the best, the brightest, the most wonderful of all that God had created. They saw themselves in such a great light, they saw no need and no reason to give any glory to the Creator. How often do we see only the results of the creation, and not the Creator? As God has created us, he has also created all that we are and all the talent that we have to do. God gives us each amazing abilities and talents that we can use, however often we fail to…

Continuing to read through Ezekiel, we come to chapter 30. In this chapter God shares with Ezekiel a lament about the people of Egypt. The people of Egypt have not followed the Lord and they have not turned toward him. God explains the he will not continue to allow the people of Egypt to do what they have been doing. Even though they’ve been sinning, we should lament for them. God then explains that he’s going to use the country of Babylon to exact judgment and Punishment upon the people of Egypt. It can seem odd that God uses various countries that seem evil to do his work or to…

As God continues to speak to Ezekiel in Ezekiel chapter 29, we see him turn his prophecy toward the country Egypt. Egypt had long been used by the people of Israel as a source of safety comfort, but it represented the relying on strength rather than God. Since the people of Israel thought Egypt was more strength to them than God, and because of the Egyptians own arrogance in themselves, God planned to destroy them. Anytime we trust in something other than God, God will often find ways to remove that from us so that we forced to rely on him. Would are we relying on today? Will we turn…

God continues passing judgment on Tyre and in Ezekiel chapter 27, we see Him speaking against the King of Tyre. The whole of His argument is summed up in verse 6 where God says that the king has made his heart like the heart of God. Any time we try to become like God for our own purposes, we are going to find ourselves in trouble. As we seek to be more like God as a way to glorify and prsise God, we will find ourselves successful. Unfortunately, the king sought his own glory and not God’s. Will we seek after the glory of God or will we seek afterour…

As we saw yesterday, Ezekiel has been working with God on explaining the judgment of Tyre. In Ezekiel chapter 27, this continues. Here Ezekiel is told by God to write a lament for the people of Tyre. They had truly been a jewel of God’s creation. As Ezekiel is writing and explaining all these things, he sees the destruction of this beautiful Jewel. We must realize no matter how wonderful or great or gifted God has allowed us to be, if we are not using those things to glorify God, God has every right to take them away from us. Will we offer the things that God has given us…

As God continues speaking in Ezekiel chapter 26, we see him pronouncing judgment on the country of Tyre. These people have fallen away from God and are doing things that are displeasing and dishonouring to God. As God goes through and explains what his judgment is going to look like, we see the common theme again that God is using this as an opportunity to display his glory and to bring people who are witnesses of this events back to himself. When we see things that happen to other people, do we see them as a warning and as an opportunity to praise and glorify God? Do we rejoice in…

As you read through Ezekiel chapter 25, we find that much of the contents here are very similar to the first two chapters in Amos. God is explaining his plans for judgment on the countries that surround Israel and Judah. It’s not just Israel and Judah that are falling away from the Lord, it’s all these other countries as well. God explains they are not without sin and as a result they will not be without judgement either. God will judge the people who have sinned. As Believers in Jesus Christ and as his followers, we may not understand God’s timing for judgement and we may not always agree with…

Ezekiel chapter 24 is a very difficult chapter to read, and even more difficult to understand. Especially as we look at the second half of the chapter, where God explains that Ezekiel’s wife is going to die. God tells Ezekiel this and then commands him not to mourn for his wife. As we read through this section, it can be very difficult for us to understand why God would do something like this or allow something like this to happen to someone who loves him and serves him. The people also would have recognized that this was situation was unusual. Ezekiel does exactly as he’s commanded, and his wife does…

The Book of Ezekiel is known for its many graphic images throughout the book to give examples of God’s judgment on his people. Ezekiel chapter 23 is no different. As you read through the description of the Two Sisters and all the sin that they have both committed, God compares them to the cities of Samaria and Jerusalem and likens what the sisters are doing to what the two cities have done. We read through the chapter, it can be very difficult to think about all the things that have been done and how God has been cast aside. Yet, so often that’s exactly how we treat God throughout our…