Insights on Today's Reading
Ezekiel 5 - Ezekiel was called by God to show an illustration of using his own hair. This would especially touch a Jew for a man's hair was important. A shaved head was a disgrace. But that's what Israel was like because of their sin. Ezekiel was to cut his hair off be divided three ways to show what judgments Israel would face: death by famine, death by sword, and dispersion among the nations. Ezekiel 6 - Ezekiel preached against the mountains and valleys where Israel conducted its idolatrous practices. The whole system would be destroyed. God will still leave a remnant who would escape and they would know that He was at work because He remembered them among the nations. Ezekiel 7 - Four times over, verses 3,4,8,9, God says He will "repay" Israel for their sins. All the things Judah trusted will not help them: not money, verse 19; not idols, verses 20-22; not their leaders, verses 23-27. Ezekiel 8 - Ezekiel is given a vision of the defilement of the Temple. What was happening in the Temple was happening in the nation: idolatry overran it. Even the inner chambers of the Temple, hidden from outside view, evil practices were happening. Nothing was hidden from God's view.
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