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July 09, 2024Ep. 191. Ezekiel 10-11 | The Glory Departs
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These two chapters mark the culmination of Ezekiel's vision of God's judgment for Jerusalem and his departure from the city. We are presented with the promise of a new heart and spirit for the rebels of Judah. They will once again be God's people, and they will once again worship him. However, this promise is yet to be fully realized. We often interpret a promise like this as being fulfilled by the people returning to Jerusalem at the end of the seventy-year captivity, but the true fulfillment of this promise of a new heart and new spirit is reserved for the last days. The prophets consistently proclaim judgment on the rebellious people of Israel and Judah, while also promising restoration and healing for the nation. Amidst these blessings, we find the Branch of Righteousness, who will ultimately lead the people in power and glory. We understand this to refer to Christ and the time he will come to make all things new, and we are eagerly awaiting the fulfillment of these days.
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July 08, 2024Ep. 190. Ezekiel 8-9 | A Man Clothed in Linen
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Remember in Ezekiel 8-9 that the prophet has a vision of things back in Jerusalem. He gives us the timeline here of the fifth day, the sixth month, and the sixth year of exile. God showed the prophet what was happening hundreds of miles away, back at home. Remember that false prophets in Babylon told the Hebrew people that they would only be in exile for another two years. Remember also that there were false prophets in Jerusalem sending messages to the exiles that they would soon be restored to Judah. This chapter also closely corresponds with Jeremiah's letter to the exiles in Babylon back in Jeremiah 29, saying that they would spend seventy years in exile.

Ezekiel was shown the glory of God departing from the temple and leaving the city of God. It would have been a heartbreaking vision. He also sees God call for six warriors to come and bring judgjment on Jerusalem starteing at the house of the Lord. But before God sends judgment, he first sends a man with a writing case at his side to put a mark on the foreheads of everyone who grieves over the sins of Jerusalem. The six warriors were forbidden from laying a hand on those marked for God. Similarly, God made a way of escape for Noah and his family; he rescued righteous Lot before destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, and he will gather the wheat in his barn before he burns up all the weeds. God will NOT destroy the righteous along with the wicked, but will always make a way of escape.
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July 07, 2024Episodes 183-189 summary
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July 07, 2024Ep. 189. Ezekiel 4-5,7 | Use it as a Barber's Razor
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Prophets had to do some weird things, to be sure. Isaiah walked around naked for three years so that when people would ask him about it, he could say to them, "Similarly, you will go away in shame." I feel I could have made a point about shame by walking around naked for a week. A month tops. But three years!? That's excessive.

Jeremiah wore a wooden yoke on his neck for an unknown period of time. Was he the first prophet of God to engage in functional strength training?

Ezekiel lay on his side for 430 days, bound and cooking his meals over cow dung he had stored up. He did this all while lying next to a model of Jerusalem. Let's not even ask what he did for bathroom breaks. Most prophets seemed to have a servant, so maybe emptying the bucket was that guy's job? Or did Ezekiel's wife help out?

Speaking of Ezekiel's wife, God kills her in chapter 24 to show the exiles in Babylon that, in the same way, the pride of their eyes, Jerusalem, would fall and be taken from them suddenly. Now, keep in mind that God told Ezekiel the people would NEVER listen to him. They would NEVER hear what he had to say.
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July 06, 2024Ep. 188. Ezekiel 1-3 | The Young Prophet
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Ezekiel starts recording his book for us in the fifth year of the exile of Jehoiachin (aka Jeconiah). Ezekiel is 30 at this point and, therefore, would have been 25 when he was taken into captivity. Daniel would have beaten Ezekiel to Babylon by eight years and been in leadership for seven years before Ezekiel showed up. Five years later, when Ezekiel began to have visions and recounted the word of God to the people, Daniel would have been in Babylon for 13 years (in Leadership 12). During this same time, the fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile, Jeremiah would have been a prophet for 34 years. Ezekiel was a prophet to the exiles, and Jeremiah was still in Jerusalem. As God commissioned Jeremiah to speak to the rebels in Jerusalem, Ezekiel would speak to the rebellious exiles in Babylon.

God tells Ezekiel from the beginning that the people are hard-headed and will not listen to him, but God will also make Ezekiel's head hard. This is similar to what we saw with God's call upon Jeremiah to be a "fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall." In both cases, the people would be against the prophets.
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July 05, 2024Ep. 187. Lamentations | Isn't This Depressing
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"Lament: a passionate expression of grief or sorrow."

After Jeremiah has prophesied to rebellious people for forty years, after the city has fallen, after the King has been captured, after the people double down on rebellion, after the nation of God has been brought to nothing, Jeremiah laments.

When the prophet has become a laughingstock, has been filled with bitterness, cowered in ashes, lost all peace, forgotten happiness, and has no endurance left, in that destitute place, he remembers God. He remembers that the steadfast love of God never ceases, he calls to mind the newness of God's mercy each morning, he remembers that God is the portion of his life, and in that remembrance, he finds his hope.
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July 04, 2024Ep. 186. Jeremiah 40-44 | After the Fall
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Jeremiah is a mess. Chronologically speaking, these are the final five chapters of Jeremiah. I genuinely don't know why we haven't moved these five chapters to the end of the book of Jeremiah, except that if we did, someone would shout and stamp their feet, "They're changing the Bible." To be fair, I suppose that would constitute a change, but only in the order of the Bible and not the content. Sadly, most people aren't well enough read in the Bible to even notice that the chapters of this particular book are woefully out of order.

Tradition tells us that Jeremiah was murdered in Egypt, but there isn't any biblical evidence for that, and historical evidence is sparse at best.

What we do see is that Jeremiah had a ministry to declare to the rebels their sins. He does this in Jerusalem and then follows them to Egypt.

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July 03, 2024Ep. 185. Jeremiah 51-52 | The Fall of Jerusalem
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July 02, 2024Ep. 184. Jeremiah 31,33 | Call to Me
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To get a better sense of today's reading, it is helpful to know that this coincides with Nebuchadnezzar's attack on Jerusalem. "Call to me and I will answer you, and tell you great and hidden things that you have not known." The "great" and "hidden" things are the impending destruction of Jerusalem. But God will not leave the city destroyed. He will bring health to it and restore it to its former beauty. After all, he has plans to rebuild Jerusalem, as we saw in the reading yesterday related to Jeremiah 29. God will cleanse his people and forgive their sins. Now, remember that he had previously told Jeremiah not to pray for the forgiveness of the people of Judah because God was intent on destroying the city and the people therein. But after God has meted out his judgment on the rebels, he will return to the covenant he made with Abraham and cleans his sinful bride.

We often miss this in the prophets. The prophets prophesy judgment and blessing, but the blessing they promise is always AFTER the judgment of sin. God does not ignore sin. He punishes sin. He disciplines his people. Then, he rebuilds them.
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July 01, 2024Ep. 183. Jeremiah 28-29 | I Know the Plans I Have
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Context matters. It has to. When we presume to use a passage without regard to its context we engage in dangerous business and run the high risk of twisting the Scripture to suit our own desires and biases.

Jeremiah 29:11 is NOT God speaking to you and me about his plans for our prosperous future, any more than Jeremiah 21:10 is about how God intends to harm us and destroy us in the fire. We can't take one verse out of context and apply it to ourselves without doing that for every other verse. I have never heard anyone use Jeremiah 21:10 as their life verse, but people stumble over one another to raise Jeremiah up as a bastion of hope for all Christians.

Jeremiah 29 is a copy of a letter Jeremiah wrote to the exiles in Babylon. It is consistent with everything he has proclaimed in his ministry for the previous 34 years and will agree with everything he has yet to proclaim to these people in the remaining 6-7 years of ministry. He is writing to Jews who submitted themselves to God's discipline at the hands of Babylon. He reminds the exiles of God's covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is showing that God is faithful to his word. But he also tells them in Jeremiah 29:10 that these things will come to pass when the seventy years for Judah are finished. (at this point they are 12-13 years into that 70 years leaving them another 57-58 years before God is going to bring about this blessing) But no one talks about the seventy years because it doesn't fit their twisted scripture narrative. As of the writing of this blog, I'm 49 years old. There's no way I'm making it another 57 or 58 years. Neither will most of the people who wrongly claim Jeremiah 29:11 for themselves.
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