QT 19/07/2024 Fri. Ezekiel 5. Picture the severity. 想象一下其严重性。
QT 19/07/2024 Fri. Ezekiel 5. Picture the severity.
READ http://www.esvbible.org/eze5
MEDITATION: The LORD's message was enacted by Ezekiel on the streets. The cutting of Ezekiel's hair and discarding it in three parts (Ezek 5:2-4) mirrored what would happen to Jerusalem as they faced death, the sword and scattering "to all the winds" (Ezek 5:12).
The LORD had prepared a choice land to set His people "in the centre of the nations" (Ezek 5:5) so as to be strategically placed to testify for the LORD.
However, His people squandered away this opportunity and, instead, did "wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes MORE THAN the countries all around her"! (Ezek 5:6).
REFLECTION: "Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers" (Ezek 5:10), a dreadful phenomenon common in a siege. Are we able to picture the severity of breaking the law of the LORD and His covenant?
星期五 2024年7月19日 今日读经：以西结书5章. 想象一下其严重性。
http://m.bbintl.org/bible/ncv/eze/5/
听以西结书5章
https://www.bible.com/bible/41/eze.5
默想：以西结在街上扮演了耶和华的信息。以西结把须发剃了分成了三分(结5:2-4)表明了耶路撒冷即将面对同样的命运---死亡、利剑和“分散到四方”去(结5:12)。
耶和华已预备了美地把祂的子民安置在“列国中间”(结5:5) 好让他们能够处在关键的位置为耶和华作见证。
然而，祂的子民却白白失去了这个机会。不仅如此，还“行恶胜过列国；触犯我的律例，比环绕着她的万邦更坏”！(结5:6)。
反思:“因此，在你中间，父亲要吃儿子，儿子要吃父亲”(结5:10)，这是被围困时常见的可怕画面。我们能否想象得到，不遵行耶和华的律法和不遵守祂的约的严重后果？
