EZEKIEL CHAPTER SEVEN.

EZEKIEL CHAPTER SEVEN

PROPHET - DATE JONAH ( BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA ( BC)? MICAH ( BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH ( BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH ( BC)? DANIEL ( BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL ( BC)? OBADIAH ( BC)? EZRA ( BC)? HAGGAI ( BC)? ZECHARIAH ( BC)? ESTHER ( BC)? NEHEMIAH ( BC)? MALACHI ( BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER ( BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) ( BC)? SHALMANESER ( BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB ( BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR ( BC)? ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) ( BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? BELSHAZZAR ( BC)? CYRUS ( BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? DARIUS ( BC)?

OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER SEVEN
DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL & JUDAH V. 1-15 DISTRESS OF THE REMNANT V DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE V ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE TO BABYLON V

JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
READ: EZEKIEL 7:1-4 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: 'An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. 4 My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!'

JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:1-4 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: 'An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. 4 My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!' WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL? WHAT END HAS COME? WHY?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:3 3 Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. WHAT END HAS COME? WHY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY? WHY? READ: GENESIS 6:3 3 And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.“ NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AMOS? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:3 3 Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. WHAT END HAS COME? WHY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AMOS? WHY? READ: AMOS 7:8-9 8 And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?“ And I said, "A plumb line.“ Then the Lord said: "Behold, I am setting a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore. 9 The high places of Isaac shall be desolate, And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste. I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam." NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AMOS? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:3 3 Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. WHAT END HAS COME? WHY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AMOS? WHY? READ: AMOS 8:2-3 2 And He said, "Amos, what do you see?“ So I said, "A basket of summer fruit.“ Then the LORD said to me: "The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore. 3 And the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in that day,“ Says the Lord GOD — "Many dead bodies everywhere, They shall be thrown out in silence." NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:4 4 My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!' WHAT END HAS COME? WHY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 13:13-14 13 "Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land — even the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem — with drunkenness! 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together," says the LORD. "I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy, but will destroy them."'" NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 7:5-6 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come!

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:5-6 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL? WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT?

JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:5-6 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL? WHY? READ: 2 KINGS 21:12 12 Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:5-6 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO NOAH? WHY? READ: GENESIS 6:13 13 And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. NKJV (HEBREWS 11:7; 1 PETER 3:20)

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:5-6 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES? WHAT DID ISRAEL NOT CONSIDER? READ: DEUTERONOMY 32:28-29 28 "For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor is there any understanding in them. 29 Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end! NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:5-6 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT? WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? READ: JEREMIAH 24:5 5 "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:5-6 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT? WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? READ: JEREMIAH 29:11 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:5-6 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT? WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS? WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM? READ: LAMENTATIONS 1:9 9 Her uncleanness is in her skirts; She did not consider her destiny; Therefore her collapse was awesome; She had no comforter. "O LORD, behold my affliction, For the enemy is exalted!" NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:5-6 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT? WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO DANIEL? READ: DANIEL 12:13 13 "But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.“ NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:5-6 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 5 "Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come! WHAT END HAS COME? WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS? WHAT DID THE LORD MEAN WHEN HE SAID: Affliction will not rise up a second time? READ: NAHUM 1:9 9 What do you conspire against the LORD? He will make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 7:7-9 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains. 8 Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. 9 'My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHEN?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:7-9 7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains. 8 Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. 9 'My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHEN? READ: PSALMS 101:8 8 Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, That I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:7 7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHEN? READ: ISAIAH 2:12 12 `For the day of the LORD of hosts Shall come upon everything proud and lofty, Upon everything lifted up — And it shall be brought low — NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:7 7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHEN? READ: JEREMIAH 21:12 12 O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "Execute judgment in the morning; And deliver him who is plundered Out of the hand of the oppressor, Lest My fury go forth like fire And burn so that no one can quench it, Because of the evil of your doings NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:7 7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHEN? READ: JOEL 2:2 2 A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:7 7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHEN? READ: AMOS 5:18-20 18 Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! For what good is the day of the LORD to you? It will be darkness, and not light. 19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him! Or as though he went into the house, Leaned his hand on the wall, And a serpent bit him! 20 Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it? NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:7 7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHEN? READ: ZEPHANIAH 1:14-15 14 The great day of the LORD is near; It is near and hastens quickly. The noise of the day of the LORD is bitter; There the mighty men shall cry out. 15 That day is a day of wrath, A day of trouble and distress, A day of devastation and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:7 7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHEN? READ: ZECHARIAH 14:13-14 13 It shall come to pass in that day That a great panic from the LORD will be among them. Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor, And raise his hand against his neighbor's hand; 14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations Shall be gathered together: Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:7 7 Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHEN? READ: MALACHI 3:2 2 "But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire And like launderers' soap. NKJV

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:8 8 Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 42:25 25 Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger And the strength of battle; It has set him on fire all around, Yet he did not know; And it burned him, Yet he did not take it to heart NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:8 8 Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHY? READ: HOSEA 5:10 10 "The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water. READ: NAHUM 1:6 6 Who can stand before His indignation? And who can endure the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, And the rocks are thrown down by Him NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:9 9 'My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHY? READ: DEUTERONOMY 32:35 35 Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.' NKJV READ: ISAIAH 9:13-14 13 For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off head and tail from Israel, Palm branch and bulrush in one day NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:9 9 'My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 21:7 7 And afterward," says the LORD, "I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them, or have pity or mercy."' NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 7:10-11 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 10 'Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded. 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them.

WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:10-11 10 'Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded. 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them. WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM? READ: PSALMS 55:9-11 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they go around it on its walls; Iniquity and trouble are also in the midst of it. 11 Destruction is in its midst; Oppression and deceit do not depart from its streets NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:10-11 10 'Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded. 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM? READ: ISAIAH 58:4-5 4 Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do this day, To make your voice heard on high. 5 Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the LORD? NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:11 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 16:2-4 2 "You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place." 3 For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land: 4 "They shall die gruesome deaths; they shall not be lamented nor shall they be buried, but they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth."

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:11 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 16:5-7 5 For thus says the LORD: "Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people," says the LORD, "loving-kindness and mercies. 6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; neither shall men lament for them, cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them. 7 Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:11 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 25:33-36 33 "And at that day the slain of the LORD shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground. 34 "Wail, shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, You leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled; You shall fall like a precious vessel. 35 And the shepherds will have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape. 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, And a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be heard. For the LORD has plundered their pasture, NKJV

WHO WAS THE LORD’S BATTLE-AX?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:11 WHO WAS THE LORD’S BATTLE-AX? NEBUCHADNEZZAR? READ: JEREMIAH 51:20-23 20 "You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For with you I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms; 21 With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider; With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider; 22 With you also I will break in pieces man and woman; With you I will break in pieces old and young; With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden; 23 With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ZEPHANIAH?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:11 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ZEPHANIAH? READ: ZEPHANIAH 1:18 18 Neither their silver nor their gold Shall be able to deliver them In the day of the LORD‘S wrath; But the whole land shall be devoured By the fire of His jealousy, For He will make speedy riddance Of all those who dwell in the land. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 7:12-13 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 12 The time has come, The day draws near. 'Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude. 13 For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back; No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:12-13 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 12 The time has come, The day draws near. 'Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude. 13 For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back; No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity. WHAT IS THIS VISION ABOUT? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE BUYER AND SELLER? WHAT WILL THE SELLER NOT BE ABLE TO DO? WHY?

WHAT IS THIS VISION ABOUT? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE BUYER AND SELLER?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:12 12 The time has come, The day draws near. 'Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude. WHAT IS THIS VISION ABOUT? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE BUYER AND SELLER? READ: ISAIAH 24:2-3 2 And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; As with the servant, so with his master; As with the maid, so with her mistress; As with the buyer, so with the seller; As with the lender, so with the borrower; As with the creditor, so with the debtor. 3 The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, For the LORD has spoken this word. NKJV

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE LAND? WHY? WHY RECORD & PROTECT THEIR DEEDS?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:12 WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE LAND? WHY? WHY RECORD & PROTECT THEIR DEEDS? READ: JEREMIAH 32:14-15 14 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Take these deeds, both this purchase deed which is sealed and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days." 15 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land."' NKJV READ: JEREMIAH 32:37 37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely NKJV

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE LAND? WHY RECORD & PROTECT THEIR DEEDS?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:12 WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE LAND? WHY RECORD & PROTECT THEIR DEEDS? READ: JEREMIAH 32:42-44 42 "For thus says the LORD: 'Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them. 43 And fields will be bought in this land of which you say, "It is desolate, without man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans." 44 Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captives to return,' says the LORD." NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:13 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 13 For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back; No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity. WHAT IS THIS VISION ABOUT? WHAT WILL THE SELLER NOT BE ABLE TO DO? WHAT HAPPENED IN THE YEAR OF JUBILEE? WHY?

READ: LEVITICUS 25:23-28 23 'The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me. 24 And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land. 25 'If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold. 26 Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, 27 then let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession. 28 But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.

WHAT IS THIS VISION ABOUT? WHAT WILL THE SELLER NOT BE ABLE TO DO?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:13 13 For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back; No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity. WHAT IS THIS VISION ABOUT? WHAT WILL THE SELLER NOT BE ABLE TO DO? WHY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY CONCERNING HIS WORD? READ: ISAIAH 55:11 11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 7:14-15 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 14 'They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all their multitude. 15 The sword is outside, And the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence will devour him.

JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:14-15 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 14 'They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all their multitude. 15 The sword is outside, And the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence will devour him. WHY BLOW THE TRUMPET? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE? WHY?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:14-15 14 'They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all their multitude. 15 The sword is outside, And the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence will devour him. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE? WHY? DID THE LORD WARN THEM THIS WOULD HAPPEN? READ: DEUTERONOMY 32:25 25 The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:14 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 14 'They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all their multitude. WHY BLOW THE TRUMPET? READ: JEREMIAH 6:1 1 "O you children of Benjamin, Gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, And set up a signal-fire in Beth Haccerem; For disaster appears out of the north, And great destruction.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:15 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 15 The sword is outside, And the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence will devour him. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE? WHY? WHAT DID JEREMIAH BEHOLD? READ: JEREMIAH 14:18 18 If I go out to the field, Then behold, those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, Then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know.'" NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:15 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 15 The sword is outside, And the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence will devour him. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE? WHY? WHAT DID JEREMIAH BEHOLD? READ: LAMENTATIONS 1:20 20 "See, O LORD, that I am in distress; My soul is troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. Outside the sword bereaves, At home it is like death. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 7:16-17 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 16 'Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. 17 Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:16-17 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 16 'Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. 17 Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHERE WILL THEY GO? EGYPT?

JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:16-17 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 16 'Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. 17 Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHY ARE THEY MOURNING? READ: ISAIAH 59:11 11 We all growl like bears And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us. NKJV

JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:16-17 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 16 'Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. 17 Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHY ARE THEY MOURNING? READ: JEREMIAH 9:19 19 For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out of our dwellings.'" NKJV

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHERE WILL THEY GO? EGYPT?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:16 16 'Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHERE WILL THEY GO? EGYPT? READ: JEREMIAH 41:16-17 16 Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah after he had murdered Gedaliah the son of Ahikam — the mighty men of war and the women and the children and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon. 17 And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, as they went on their way to Egypt, NKJV

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHERE WILL THEY GO? EGYPT?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:16 WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHERE WILL THEY GO? EGYPT? WHAT DID THE LORD TO THOSE WHO FLED TO EGYPT? READ: JEREMIAH 42:15-17 15 Then hear now the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: 'If you wholly set your faces to enter Egypt, and go to dwell there, 16 then it shall be that the sword which you feared shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; the famine of which you were afraid shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die. 17 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to dwell there. They shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. And none of them shall remain or escape from the disaster that I will bring upon them.' NKJV

17 Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water.
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:16-17 16 'Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. 17 Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHAT DID GOD SAY CONCERNING SENNACHERIB? READ: 2 KINGS 19:25-26 25 'Did you not hear long ago How I made it, From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to pass, That you should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins. 26 Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field And the green herb, As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:16-17 16 'Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. 17 Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY WOULD HAPPEN? READ: ISAIAH 13:6-8 6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man's heart will melt, 8 And they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces will be like flames NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:16-17 16 'Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. 17 Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY WOULD HAPPEN? READ: JEREMIAH 47:2-3 2 Thus says the LORD: "Behold, waters rise out of the north, And shall be an overflowing flood; They shall overflow the land and all that is in it, The city and those who dwell within; Then the men shall cry, And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. 3 At the noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses, At the rushing of his chariots, At the rumbling of his wheels, The fathers will not look back for their children, Lacking courage, NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:16-17 16 'Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity. 17 Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE? WHAT HAPPENED TO BELSHAZZAR? WHY? READ: DANIEL 5:5-6 5 In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote opposite the lamp-stand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

READ: EZEKIEL 7:18-19 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 18 They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads. 19 'They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:18-19 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 18 They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads. 19 'They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity. WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH? WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD? WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:18 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 18 They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads. WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH? WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD? WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL? WHY? READ: DEUTERONOMY 14:1-2 1 "You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead. 2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. NKJV

WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH? WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:18 18 They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads. WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH? WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH? READ: ISAIAH 3:24-25 24 And so it shall be: Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench; Instead of a sash, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, baldness; Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty. 25 Your men shall fall by the sword, And your mighty in the war. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:18 18 They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads. WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH? WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH? READ: ISAIAH 15:3 3 In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth; On the tops of their houses And in their streets Everyone will wail, weeping bitterly NKJV READ: ISAIAH 22:12 12 And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:18 WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH? WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH? READ: JEREMIAH 4:7-8 7 The lion has come up from his thicket, And the destroyer of nations is on his way. He has gone forth from his place To make your land desolate. Your cities will be laid waste, Without inhabitant. 8 For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, Lament and wail. For the fierce anger of the LORD Has not turned back from us NKJV READ: JEREMIAH 48:37 37 "For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped; On all the hands shall be cuts, and on the loins sackcloth — NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:18 WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH? WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH? READ: AMOS 8:10 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day. READ: MICAH 1:16 16 Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because of your precious children; Enlarge your baldness like an eagle, For they shall go from you into captivity. NKJV

WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:19 19 'They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity. WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD? READ: PROVERBS 11:3-4 3 The integrity of the upright will guide them, But the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them. 4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:19 19 'They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity. WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD? READ: LAMENTATIONS 4:1 1 How the gold has become dim! How changed the fine gold! The stones of the sanctuary are scattered At the head of every street NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:19 19 'They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity. WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD? READ: ISAIAH 55:2-3 2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance. 3 Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you — The sure mercies of David. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:19 19 'They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity. WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD? READ: ZEPHANIAH 1:17-18 17 "I will bring distress upon men, And they shall walk like blind men, Because they have sinned against the LORD; Their blood shall be poured out like dust, And their flesh like refuse." 18 Neither their silver nor their gold Shall be able to deliver them In the day of the LORD‘S wrath; But the whole land shall be devoured By the fire of His jealousy, For He will make speedy riddance Of all those who dwell in the land. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 7:20-21 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 20 'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations — Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them. 21 I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:20-21 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 20 'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations — Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them. 21 I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it. WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THEIR IDOLS? WHY? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THEIR TREASURES?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT IDOLS?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:20 20 'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations — Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them. WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT IDOLS? READ: JEREMIAH 10:2-5 2 Thus says the LORD: "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. 4 They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it will not topple. 5 They are upright, like a palm tree, And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot go by themselves. Do not be afraid of them, For they cannot do evil, Nor can they do any good." NKJV

WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THEIR IDOLS? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:20 20 'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations — Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them. WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THEIR IDOLS? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 2:20-21 20 In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats, 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the crags of the rugged rocks, From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily. NKJV

WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THEIR IDOLS? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:20 20 'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations — Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them. WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THEIR IDOLS? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 30:21-22 21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it,“ Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left. 22 You will also defile the covering of your images of silver, And the ornament of your molded images of gold. You will throw them away as an unclean thing; You will say to them, "Get away!" NKJV

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THEIR TREASURES?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:21 21 I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THEIR TREASURES? WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR DO? READ: 2 KINGS 24:13-14 13 And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house, and he cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. 14 Also he carried into captivity all Jerusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land. NKJV

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THEIR TREASURES?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:21 21 I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THEIR TREASURES? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 15:13 13 Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder without price, Because of all your sins, Throughout your territories. NKJV READ: JEREMIAH 17:3 3 O My mountain in the field, I will give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures, And your high places of sin within all your borders. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 7:22-24 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 22 I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it. 23 'Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence. 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:22-24 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 22 I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it. 23 'Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence. 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled. HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY? WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT? WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?

JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:22 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 22 I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it. HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY? READ: PSALMS 74:5-8 5 They seem like men who lift up Axes among the thick trees. 6 And now they break down its carved work, all at once, With axes and hammers. 7 They have set fire to Your sanctuary; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground. 8 They said in their hearts, "Let us destroy them altogether.“ They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:22 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 22 I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it. HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY? WHY DID THE LORD PERMIT THIS TO HAPPEN? READ: JEREMIAH 2:26-27 26 "As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, So is the house of Israel ashamed; They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their prophets, 27 Saying to a tree, 'You are my father,‘ And to a stone, 'You gave birth to me.‘ For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble They will say, 'Arise and save us.' NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:22 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 22 I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it. HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY? WHY DID THE LORD PERMIT THIS TO HAPPEN? READ: JEREMIAH 19:12-13 12 “Thus I will do to this place," says the LORD, "and to its inhabitants, and make this city like Tophet. 13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to other gods."'“ NKJV

WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT? BONDAGE?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:23 23 'Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence. WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT? BONDAGE? WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BEGINNING? WHY DID THE LORD DESTROY ALL FLESH? READ: GENESIS 6:11-12 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT? BONDAGE? WHAT DID MANASSEH DO??
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:23 23 'Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence. WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT? BONDAGE? WHAT DID MANASSEH DO?? READ: 2 KINGS 21:16 16 Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD. NKJV WHY DID GOD REFUSE TO HEAR THEIR PRAYERS? READ: ISAIAH 1:15 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood NKJV

WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT? BONDAGE?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:23 WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT? BONDAGE? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHAT DID THE BONDS & YOKES REPRESENT? READ: JEREMIAH 27:2-3 2 "Thus says the LORD to me: 'Make for yourselves bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck, 3 and send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:23 WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHAT DID THE BONDS & YOKES REPRESENT? READ: JEREMIAH 27:4-7 4 And command them to say to their masters, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel — thus you shall say to your masters: 5 'I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me. 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. 7 So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:24 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled. WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? WHAT WAS THE STRENGTH OF ISRAEL? READ: PSALMS 68:35 35 O God, You are more awesome than Your holy places. The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God! NKJV

WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:24 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled. WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? READ: LEVITICUS 26:18-20 18 'And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19 I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:24 WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? READ: 2 CHRONICLES 7:19-22 19 "But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them, 20 then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 "And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and this house?' 22 Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.'" NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:24 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled. WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? READ: JEREMIAH 51:51 51 We are ashamed because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD‘S house. NKJV READ: LAMENTATIONS 2:7 7 The Lord has spurned His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the LORD As on the day of a set feast.

READ: EZEKIEL 7:25-27 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 25 Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none. 26 Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders. 27 'The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then they shall know that I am the LORD!'" NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:25-27 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 25 Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none. 26 Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders. 27 'The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then they shall know that I am the LORD!'" NKJV WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES? WHO WILL THEY SEEK? WHY? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHY?

25 Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none.
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:25 25 Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none. WHAT WILL THEY SEEK WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES? WHAT DID THEIR PROPHETS & PRIESTS SAY? READ: JEREMIAH 6:13-15 13 "Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is given to covetousness; And from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone deals falsely. 14 They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, 'Peace, peace!‘ When there is no peace. 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD. (JEREMIAH 8:10-12)

25 Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none.
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:25 25 Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none. WHAT WILL THEY SEEK WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES? READ: 1 THESSALONIANS 5:2-3 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

WHAT WILL THEY SEEK WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES? WHY ARE THEY UN-PREPARED?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:25 25 Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none. WHAT WILL THEY SEEK WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES? WHY ARE THEY UN-PREPARED? READ: 2 PETER 3:3-4 3 Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.“ NKJV

WHAT WILL THEY SEEK WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES? WHY ARE THEY UN-PREPARED?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:25 25 Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none. WHAT WILL THEY SEEK WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES? WHY ARE THEY UN-PREPARED? READ: MATTHEW 24:36-39 36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:26 WHO WILL THEY SEEK? WHY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES? READ: DEUTERONOMY 31:16-18 16 And the LORD said to Moses: "Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?' 18 And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods. NKJV

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DAYS OF SAMUEL?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:26 26 Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders. WHO WILL THEY SEEK? WHY? WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DAYS OF SAMUEL? READ: 1 SAMUEL 3:1 1 Now the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:26 26 Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders. WHO WILL THEY SEEK? WHY? WHO DID ISAIAH SEEK? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 26:9 9 With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. NKJV

WHY IS THE LORD HIDDEN FROM THEM?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:26 26 Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders. WHO WILL THEY SEEK? WHY? WHY IS THE LORD HIDDEN FROM THEM? READ: ISAIAH 47:10 10 "For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, 'No one sees me'; Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one else besides me.' NKJV

WHO DID ZEDEKIAH SEEK? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:26 26 Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders. WHO WILL THEY SEEK? WHY? WHO DID ZEDEKIAH SEEK? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 37:16-17 16 When Jeremiah entered the dungeon and the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, 17 then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, "Is there any word from the LORD?“ And Jeremiah said, "There is." Then he said, "You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon!" NKJV

WHO DID ZEDEKIAH SEEK? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:26 WHO WILL THEY SEEK? WHY? WHO DID ZEDEKIAH SEEK? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 38:14-16 14 Then Zedekiah the king sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance of the house of the LORD. And the king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me." 15 Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you advice, you will not listen to me." 16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, "As the LORD lives, who made our very souls, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life." NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AMOS?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:26 26 Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders. WHO WILL THEY SEEK? WHY? WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AMOS? READ: AMOS 8:11-12 11 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD. 12 They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, But shall not find it. NKJV

JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:27 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 27 'The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then they shall know that I am the LORD!'" NKJV WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 3:11-12 11 Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12 As for My people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths." NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:27 JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR 27 'The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then they shall know that I am the LORD!'" NKJV WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHY? HOW SHOULD WE PREPARE FOR JUDGMENT? WHY? READ: 1 PETER 4:7 7 But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. NKJV

HOW SHOULD WE PREPARE FOR JUDGMENT? WHY?
QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 7:27 HOW SHOULD WE PREPARE FOR JUDGMENT? WHY? READ: ROMANS 13:11-14 11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. NKJV

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