Ezekiel 5:7 God, the Master, says: You've been more headstrong and willful than any of the nations around you. ... I'm going to do something to you that I've never done before and will never do again: turn families into cannibals—parents eating children, children eating parents! ... . Then you'll know that I was serious about this that I'm a jealous God and not to be trifled with. Epidemic disease, unrestrained murder, death—and I will have sent it! I, God, have spoken."
Ezekiel 6:8 Every place where you've lived, the towns will be torn down and the pagan shrines demolished. Corpses everywhere you look! Then you'll know that I am God. ... This is what God, the Master, says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, yell out, "No, no, no!" because of all the evil obscenities rife in Israel. They're going to be killed, dying of hunger, dying of disease—death everywhere you look. Because I am angry, furiously angry. They'll realize that I am God...
Ezekiel 7:2 The end of business as usual for everyone. It's all over. I'll make you pay and you'll realize that I am God.' It is I, God, Who have hit you.
Ezekiel 8: 1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month and the fifth day, while I was sitting at home meeting with the leaders of Judah, it happened that the hand of my Master, God, gripped me. HE said: "They can shout all they want, but I'm not listening."
So, am I listening to God where I am this day? I wonder what is happening in the Unseen World of our United States of America? The Unseen World of the Brandon household? If we could really see and listen, we would be filled with such hope and courage. But, this is frightening. The people of Ezekiel's day never realized that God was God. God made them pay. We must ask every question that comes to mind as we read the horror of what God did to make these people cannibals. So what is God's response? I hit them with this terror for not listening to Me. What will He do to our family and friends this day who choose not to follow Him? All I know is that we must first look within and pay whatever price to follow Him and tremble before a Holy God and learn so much more to wait in our emptiness for His Plan A. "Only those who struggle in confusion and wait in hope will be strengthened to struggle well and to wait with confidence." 66 LL. Isaiah 30:15.
This is what the Sovereign Lord says. Ezekiel 5:5.
He wants each of us to know that He is God.
And that life is not found in the multitude of opinion, people, things.
Not found in the strength of a man; nor in the power to do spiritually good.
Regeneration is the will of God, not the will of man.
God quickens dead hearts.
God enlightens dark places.
By His Spirit. By His Word.
This is what the Sovereign Lord says.
PHOTO: Snapped in Israel, where God wanted them to know that He is God.
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