21:11
The severity and certainty of the coming judgement is emphasised by God stressing that the sword has been polished and sharpened. God has made meticulous preparations for the victory of Babylon over Judah. As I have said before, there was a deeply ingrained belief that God would never allow Jerusalem to be conquered. This belief needed to be shattered. The earlier invasion by Assyria should have convinced them of that, but we can be incredibly stupid.
21:12,13
“Cry out and wail”. Ezekiel is to do this to demonstrate that he certainly believes what God is saying, and the attack, by God, will be against His people and His princes. It should not be like this, but the repeated sin of Israel made it inevitable. People object to the idea of hell, and they are right in one sense in saying that people should not be going to hell. But this horrible truth has come about because of our sin. The problem does not lie with God, it lies with us, with you and me. “For it will not be a testing”. This is not a training exercise, it is not a mere rebuke, it is a final judgement!
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