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Ezekiel 9:9 (NKJV) Then
He said to me, “The iniquity of the house |
Ezekiel
9:9 is a Bible
verse in the Old Testament where God is
speaking through the prophet Ezekiel, acknowledging that He indeed sees
violence
and perversion in the land.
This
is a chilling statement made by God, for we most certainly live with
violence
in the land and perversion in our cities today. Though many people
discount a
Divine
Creator, and/or disregard the possibility of
judgement, the time
is
drawing near.
Let’s
see what iniquity means in the first part of Ezekiel 9:9. The Hebrew
meanings
are: perversity, evil, sin, do amiss, make crooked, do wrong.
In
today’s society, “wrong” means different things to different people.
What some
people think is wrong is right to others, and vice versa. The only
absolute truth
is in the Bible—God’s Holy Word.
He
made available to us His written instructions on how to live our lives,
a
protection
from the pitfalls of this world, but so many people ignore
it or
don’t believe it. What a pity.
How
different someone’s life can be by accepting and following God’s Word!
We
forfeit so many gifts and blessings because of our stubborn refusal to
look
His
way and believe Him.
Look
at what God says about His observance of evil in the land. He says in
Ezekiel
9:9 it is not only great—but exceedingly
great. It is all around us and multiplying like an epidemic.
2
Timothy 3:1-4 says this,
“But
realize this,
that in the last
days difficult times will come. 2 For
men will be lovers of self, lovers of
money, boastful, arrogant, revilers,
disobedient to
parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving,
irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control,
brutal, haters of
good,4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers
of pleasure rather than lovers
of God,”
It
breaks God’s heart to be so rejected by men, His
children whom He created
for relationship with Himself. What if His patience
and longsuffering eventually comes to an end?
Look
at the verse immediately after Ezekiel 9:9,
when God says “But as for Me, My eye will have no pity nor
will I spare,
but I will bring their conduct upon their heads.”
He
will hold us accountable for what we have
done here on earth. That’s why it is so important to reconcile with God
through
Jesus
Christ, our Saviour.
In Ezekiel 9:9, the people were assuming that just because they had not seen a great manifestation of God’s judgement, that He must not see the evil, or He had forsaken them altogether. But God does see everything we do and hears every intent of our heart.
2
Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count
slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that
any should
perish but that all should come to repentance.”
God
gives us opportunity after opportunity to repent,
to turn from our evil ways so He can save
us from His judgement. But
there is a time when those opportunities come to an end.
This
is a good old-fashioned spanking, but more than
that He puts a lasting shame upon those who reject
Jesus Christ, and
counts
them His enemies. The punishment of God is very real. None of us want
to endure
the physical, emotional and psychological distress of His judgement.
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