Today is the 19th day of November. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it's great to be here with you today as we bring to a close another one of the actually dwindling weeks now.

Not too many more of these left before we reach the end of the year, but even recognizing that we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, we are here and we are here today and we are around the global campfire together and we're here for the next step forward.

And so we don't take steps a week at a time, we take them a day at a time and so here we go.

We've been reading from the new international version this week. We'll continue to do that today and move back into the book of Ezekiel.

Today, chapter 39 verse 1 through 40 verse 27.

Son of man, prophesy against God and say, this is what the sovereign Lord says.

I am against you, God, chief prince of Misha and tubal. I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel.

Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.

On the mountains of Israel, you will fall. You and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrying birds into the wild animals.

You will fall in the open field for I have spoken declares the sovereign Lord. I will send fire on Megag and on those who live in safety in the coastlands and they will know that I am the Lord.

I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned and the nations will know that I, the Lord, am the Holy One in Israel.

It is coming. It will surely take place declares the sovereign Lord. This is the day I have spoken of.

The those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up. The small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears.

For seven years they will use them for fuel. They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests because they will use the weapons for fuel.

And they will plunder those who plunder them and loot those who looted them declares the sovereign Lord.

On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel and the valley of those who travel east of the sea. It will block the way of travelers because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there.

So what will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog? For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

All the people of the land will bury them and the day I display my glory will be a memorable day for them declares the sovereign Lord.

People will be continually employed in cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and along with others they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground.

After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search. As they go through the land anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the grave diggers bury it in the valley of Hamon Gog near a town called Himona.

And so they will cleanse the land.

Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says. Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals.

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