[:en]Our Daily Verse (10/11/21) [:]

[:en]SCRIPTURE:  EZEKIEL 22

“I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.  When you have been defiled in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 22:15-16)

“As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you” (Ezekiel 22:22)

“So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bring down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord” (Ezekiel 22:31)

JERUSALEMS’S SINS:

  1.  They have treated their father and mother with contempt (v. 7a)
  2. They have oppressed the alien and mistreated the fatherless and the widow (v. 7b)
  3. They have despised His holy things and desecrated Sabbath (v. 8)
  4. The shed blood , ate at the mountain shrine and committed lewd acts (v. 9)
  5. They dishonored their father’s bewd and violated women during their period (v. 10)
  6. They committed detestable offense with either neighbor’s wife, defiles his daughter-in0law and violates their sisters (v. 11)
  7. They accepted bribes to shed blood, took usury and excessive interest and make unjust gain from their neighbors by extortion (v. 12a)
  8. They have forgotten God (v. 12b)
  9. Their priests doe violence to God’s law, profane His holy thing, and did not keep Sabbath day holy (v. 26)
  10. Their officials shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain (v. 27)
  11. Their prophets prophesied false visions and lying divination (v. 28)
  12. They practice extortion, commit robbery, oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the alien denying them justice (v. 29)

The people of Israel committed many sins.  God wanted to look for a man among them to build up the wall and stand before Him so that He would not have to destroy it, but He found none (v. 30).  Today, God is looking for people who can not only build strong walls, but can become walls to stand during the hour of danger.  God needs “gap people” with the courage to stand for what is right, even if they must stand alone.  Are you willing to become one?[:]