Chapter 6

A new prophecy begins.  A prophecy to the hills, mountains, and ravines that the high places will be torn down.  This verse:

8 "Yet I will leave some of you alive..." [Eze 6:8a ESV]  God says He will "spend His fury on them..."  Speaks of all the bodies around the high places and altars.  The abominations.  All these idolatrous worship places will be wiped out, along with those who worship there.  They will not be spared, no matter where they are.  Pestilence, famine, and sword, at home or abroad in captivity.  They will die.

All this is about the idols and the things done in the name of those idols.  This punishment, this "spending of fury" this unprecedented venting of God's wrath that will never come again, is about the idols.  So in this country in 2020, as we prepare to elect as president a man who is openly promoting abortion up to the moment of birth, are we worse than Israel?  They were a favored country, God's own chosen, and we are most definitely not that.  Justice seems to say that He won't let us go as far as he let them go.  But we don't do idols...we do "ourselves" and our wealth and our convenience.  But they were surely doing all those too, and added on top of that the rebellion against God.  The whoring against God by worshiping other gods.  We don't do that.  We don't worship anything but ourselves.  Hard to know.  I ask these questions because I don't understand how God has not destroyed us already for our arrogance.   I don't understand why he waits.  Even knowing that if the country goes I go, especially at my age, I still don't know why he waits.

2024 - Note also that only three of the big four are named here.  Same thing in vs 11:

11 Thus says the Lord GOD: "Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. [Eze 6:11 ESV]

2022 - This one:

12 He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them. [Eze 6:12 ESV]

Now.  If you were Prime Minister, President, Czar, Kaiser, King, or Queen, and you knew this verse, would you want big concentrations of Jews in your country?  Would it be easy for you to blame things like the black plague and polio and covid on the Jews if you knew that first phrase?  Would you want them concentrated on your border, giving other nations an excuse to come in and kill them because of that second phrase?  Or if they were just generally scattered around your country, would it be easy to blame famine - and the drought that led to it - on the Jews within your country?  Think the worldwide tendency to anti-Semitism is just some kind of accident?  No.  It is by design, and the designer is God Himself.

2026 - It seems to me this year that Ezekiel is talking about much harsher consequences for Israel - where ever they happen to be located - than either Jeremiah or Isaiah.  This seems odd because Ezekiel is already IN captivity, writing from the Chebar where he lives with the captives already taken from Jerusalem.  It just seems that God's wrath is intensifying as it comes.  We see the same thing in Revelation.