Ezekiel 25 -32
reflections:
Ezekiel 25
Everyone of the nations that opposed Israel was being destroyed. Every single one of them. What I took back from this reading is that though the punishment and destruction that they brought onto Israel was planned by God, I think the context is also, they too were given a choice. whether to oppose Israel and let another nation do the dirty work, or do it themselves. and God is clear, if you attack the chosen ones, he will attack back. So it wasn't just a question of why God attacked them back, I feel like it's also "one cannot attack God's chosen, which includes Christians, and hope to get away with it freely. very reassuring that nothing that happens to me in bad faith will go unpunished.
Ezekiel 26 - 32
I noticed a few things here, the big nations that are being brought low, a lot more account is being devoted to them, lot more writing space is given to them to 1, show how mighty is God, but also no 2, to also show that God judge them with the same measuring stick he judge all nations. all of them disobedient to him, not wanting to follow/ listen to him, he clear them off the deck like the rest. but instead of leaving them alive like Israel or Judah, he wipe them off. no more lineage after that.
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