November 7, 2020: Day 77 – Ezekiel 25

I think it is time to see another map.  Find below a map of the oracles that Ezekiel gives against the nations.   As you read this chapter see if you can identify where those nations are as they surround Israel and Judah.  Remember, both Israel and Judah are God’s people.  

Each of these nations will receive the fruits of their rebellion against the people of God.  God says that to each of these nations: “I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful punishments.”  God’s people have been taken away captives and those nations that participated in this will receive their due reward, which is “wrathful punishment”.  

So while many of these oracles and prophecies were written against the people of Israel and described their unfaithfulness, these oracles are written against the foreign nations that contributed to taking the people of Israel away from their God and, as the previous chapter stated, the “delight of your eyes.”  Nice to give the people of God a break here.