Today is the 9th day of November. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is

fantastic to be here with you today. As we gather again around the global campfire and

take the next step forward together. The next step always begins right where the last

one left off, which will lead us back into the book of Ezekiel. And today we will read

Ezekiel chapter 20. In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the 10th of the month,

some of the elders of Israel came to seek the Lord. And they sat down in front of me. The

Lord's message came to me. Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and tell them,

this is what the sovereign Lord says. Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live,

I will not allow you to seek me, to clear the sovereign Lord. Are you willing to pronounce

judgment on them? Are you willing to pronounce judgment, son of man? Then confront them

with the abominable practices of their fathers and say to them, this is what the sovereign

Lord says. On the day I chose Israel, I swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob

and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them, I am the Lord your

God. On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land that I had

picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

I said to them, each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you,

and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. But they

rebelled against me and refused to listen to me. No one got rid of their detestable idols,

nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them

and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. I acted for the

sake of my reputation so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they

lived before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. So I brought

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