There is a special role for priests in the plan of God. The priest ministers to the Lord, but also sets an example for the people. It is by this living example that in Ezekiel 44:23 “they will teach my…
Category: Devotions
This is the Place of My Throne
Ezekiel is having a vision of the temple, not Solomon’s temple as they had known it, but a much larger temple. And it begins with a messenger measuring the temple and guiding Ezekiel as he goes. But now, he sees…
This is the Most Holy Place
The Lord begins to tell the house of Israel what he wants for their future. They are twenty five years into captivity and Ezekiel has a vision of a temple, much larger, much more magnificent than anything they had seen.…
I Will Make Myself Known
The Lord has a plan. It is a plan for good for those that love righteousness. It is a plan for destruction for those that intend evil. Israel has fallen, the people in Ezekiel 37:11 “are saying … our hope…
I Will Consecrate My Great Name
The house of Israel had been removed from the land and dispersed to the nations because in Ezekiel 36:17 “they were dwelling on their soil, and they defiled it with their way and with their deeds”. But they didn’t get…
I Will Be For Them as God
The Lord has spoken against Tyre a city of merchandise, yet it says here in Ezekiel 28:14 “You were an anointed guardian cherub” and in Ezekiel 28:15 “until wickedness was found in you” so the king of Tyre also represents…
You Shall No Longer Exist
We sometimes think that the nations and cities and economies of the world will always be as they are, but Ezekiel presents a very different picture. The Lord will bring righteousness and justice and all will be judged according to…
I Will Walk Before Yahweh (the Lord)
Jeremiah is in Egypt with these who have resisted the word of the Lord at every step. Now they complain that they were better off when they made, in Jeremiah 44:17 “smoke offerings to the queen of heaven”. Jeremiah reacts…
I Am With You to Save You
After about nine months of peace, Ishmael and a small group of men kill Gedaliah and take captives. Johanan and others pursue and in Jeremiah 41:14 “all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and returned…
The Crown Has Fallen From Our Head
This cry to the Lord in Lamentations 5:1–2 “take note, and see our disgrace! 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers” is not news to the Lord. It has only come because of Judah’s hard refusal to listen to…
Let Us Lift Up Our Hearts
The name of this book, Lamentations, describes the state of the house of Israel as they shrink fully into their seventy years of exile. There is a sense of the depths of their despair in Lamentations 3:5-6 “bitterness and hardship.…
I Am For Peace They Are For War
There are those around us that are against us with in Psalm 120:2 “lying lips from a deceitful tongue”. There is a recognition that in Psalm 120:2 “I sojourn in … I dwell among” people that do not know God…
Restore Us O God of Our Salvation
The word of the Lord by his prophets has been fulfilled. The leaders of Judah have been struck down and those that weren’t are deported to Babylon. Some, the poorest, are left behind, but the Lord says in 2 Kings…
I Will Rescue You on That Day
The word of the Lord is fulfilled, the siege of Jerusalem is over. In Jeremiah 39:2 “the city was taken by assault” and the army of Nebuchadnezzar burns the city, takes the gold, silver and bronze from the temple and…