11:7-13
Depending on how 11:3 should actually be translated, God has reversed its meaning. The city will become a pot but the dead bodies produced by the leaders will be the meat, and the leaders will be thrown out of the city. “You fear the sword and the sword is what I will bring against you.” The key message is that there is no escaping God’s judgement, No matter how much power or guile someone might think they have, there is no escaping God’s judgement. Men are not in control of events. Again we have that this is not an arbitrary judgement, but the judgement is coming because they have not kept God’s laws “but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you.” This was a commonly repeated mistake of Israel and Judah. Sadly the church often makes exactly the same mistake. We want to follow the world. We are called to follow Christ not the world! The church is nuts when it chooses to follow the world as it does on issues like LGBTQ, CRT (critical race theory) or whatever the latest nonsense the world ahs come up with.
As Ezekiel was preaching Pelatiah fell dead. These words of judgement were not words without power. Ezekiel’s response is to fall face down and cry out to the Lord. Will even the remnant of Israel be destroyed? Has Israel completely had it?
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