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🗓️ 2 September 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:13.0 | God's words to Ezekiel today come down pretty strong. |
0:16.0 | He doesn't sugarcoat these two chapters. |
0:18.5 | Chapter 21 opens with a prophecy about God drawing a sword against the land of Israel, |
0:23.0 | and it's especially unsettling because in verse 4 he says he will cut off both righteous |
0:27.5 | and wicked. |
0:29.0 | The righteous too? |
0:30.0 | Why is that? |
0:31.3 | We won't find out until the end of today's reading, so put a pin in this, we'll come back |
0:35.0 | to it. |
0:36.0 | Next, God tells Ezekiel to mourn and grieve over what's happening and to spread the |
0:40.0 | word about it to everyone who asks. |
0:42.4 | Knowing Ezekiel, I'm pretty sure this involves some public mourning. |
0:46.0 | After this, it sounds like he's supposed to demonstrate some of God's actions using |
0:49.7 | an actual sword in front of the people. |
0:52.3 | And after the sword, he demonstrates a highway with a fork in the road. |
0:56.3 | The road is coming out of Babylon, and one path leads to Amman's capital where the |
1:00.3 | Ammonites live, and the other leads to Jerusalem. |
1:03.8 | God says King Nebuchadnezzar is using divination that is seeking the direction of evil spirits |
1:08.7 | to determine which path he should take first, i.e. who's getting destroyed first. |
1:13.5 | Survey says Jerusalem. |
1:15.7 | And in verse 27, God says this ruin, ruin, ruin will happen when Zedakaya becomes |
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