Almost every time in scripture you hear the words “a man” in a general sense, it is referring to any person…not just of the male gender. It could almost be thought of as our word SOMEONE! Since today is Father’s Day, and the focus is on DADs and MEN, I thought this would be a fitting way to bring out a major point from God’s Word that He has placed on my heart for this community!
With that in mind, let’s read together today. In the Book of Ezekiel chapter 22, we find a long list of things that God is angry with Israel for…things they as a nation knew were wrong and displeasing to Him, but yet they were doing them with NO REGARD for God or the Things of God. They were mixing the holy and the profane (or evil)..and not thinking anything of it…and as God is winding down this list of grievances with them, this is what He says in verse 30:
Ezekiel 22:30 (KJV)
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.