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Am I God's people in Jerusalem and as people are taken into exile, but specifically here in verse 19,

what God will do in Egypt. God says, I'm going to give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar King

of Babylon. He's going to carry off its wealth, to spoil it, plunder it because I give it to him.

And the big picture takeaway from Ezekiel chapter 29 verse 19, and we see this all over the Bible,

is that God is Lord over all the nations, everything happening among all the nations of the world

is ultimately under the umbrella of the sovereignty of God. The Bible teaches. He holds rulers

and nations and the palm of his hand. He is directing ultimately all things. Now there's a lot of

questions that start to come in here because we don't understand why this or that is happening

in the world. And most all of what is happening in the world is a picture of sinful depravity

of people disobeying God and rebelling against God's ways and people given over to their sin.

But the picture is, even all of that is ultimately under the umbrella of God's sovereignty.

In other words, God is in control over it all. And he is bringing all of it to a particular

purpose and praise God. He has given us his word that tells us what that purpose is. Certainly here

in Ezekiel God providing the prophet Ezekiel to say to his people, trust God in the middle of this,

even when you don't understand what's happening to you at the hands of Babylon, what's happening to

Egypt at the hands of Babylon. Here's what I am doing in the big picture. And the same is true in

our lives. We don't always understand what's happening in our lives. What's going on around

each of us in the world? But isn't it good to know that God is in control that things are not

ultimately out of control and that he is accomplishing good purposes and we can trust him in the

middle of it? What encouragement for each of our lives and where we live and what's going on

right around us? And what encouragement will only open up the news and we see what's happening

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