Ezekiel: God who travels Chapter 16
Ezekiel 22 speaks about many judgments to pass to Jerusalem City.
It's very interesting that God sees a man as a whole or even its opposite, as a whole in a man. This means God looks at the entire forest and not just the trees. Then vice versa God can exchange its views in terms of its trees before looking into the forest.
In this chapter, God was looking at the entire city searching for an upright man and when God does this, it is not usually a good outcome. This means the city is full of vile sins and God is ready to send its fury. The innocent suffer along with the sinners.
The very nature of God is slow to anger abiding in love. With these two opposing powers, only God can control its outcome. Like if He searches a city and finds one, Yes! One good man that God can depend on the city's fate or even qualify whether to pass judgment to destroy or save an entire city, sad to know and God doesn't lie when He stated: “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one."
Very sad, the outcome is revealed. What God had said can't be taken back. God does not lie. What God declares or says would happen, would always happen. If there is no one on earth then God can just put a swift end to earth and then we are no more.
The good news here is that there is someone whom God sent to the world to take up its cross and walk the path of shame. Accepted death even if it didn't feel right, accepted mockery even if it meant tearing His flesh and crushing His bones to the ground, and accepted people's sin in exchange for the righteousness of one man named Jesus. As the old adage goes, Jesus is the only way to God and nothing else.
AC
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