Ezekiel: God who travels Chapter 7

 Ezekiel as Watchman of Israel

After the calling of Ezekiel to serve God by being an official prophet, God declared him to become a watchman in Israel. He passed several instructions on what to do and not to do. It is very interesting to know that God lets him draw the city of Jerusalem (Ezekiel Chapter 4) and put ramps and camps in it as a representation to besiege it. This was the start of captivity and fall of the worship center in Jerusalem and its worshipers who were also idolaters were either killed inside or exiled outside of Israel. God spared some but they will still suffer the sin of idolatry and ended up in a famine. 

God also wants him to bear their sins symbolically for both houses of Israel and Judah by lying on his left and right side respectively for 390 and 40 days. Being a prophet I think is the most difficult task. God being the taskmaster demands obedience and exact demonstration of His words must be acted out to convey to his chosen people to warn, rebuke, and prophecy millennial events speaking about the coming of the future. As we read further, we find the finality of New Jerusalem, the worship center of the future millennial world. This is one of the central messages & promises set by God to the house of Israel as they were scattered among the nations, God is with them.

We can sense in this book that God neither keeps secrets but provides Ezekiel the specifics of the future events, how & when idolaters were killed, why His glory departs from the temple of worship, the judgment God passed on Israel's leaders & the promised return of Israel to rebuild the worship center of the world installed in Jerusalem.

We have to understand that while God exiled the 10 tribes of the House of Israel & like a seed scattered among the nations in the world, the House of Judah remained in the worship center of the world which is in Jerusalem.

This holy exile God approves for the House of Israel is the very task of Ezekiel to reenact, rebuke, & provide final instructions as a sign from God. 

Now being a prophet & watchman at the same time can you do it if you were to be chosen by God? Can you speak to the stubborn people & convince them what God says would happen?

AC

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