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Brendaonline.com On April 28, during the twenty-fifth year of our captivity--fourteen years after the fall of Jerusalem--the LORD took hold of me.  Having 45 more years to be in exile, 14 years after the invasion by Nebuchadnezzar,  and about 20 years since Ezekiel last gave us a word of vision from God, God speaks to Ezekiel; In a vision from God he took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. From there I could see toward the south what appeared to be a city.  As he brought me nearer, I saw a man whose face shone like bronze standing beside a gateway entrance. He was holding in his hand a linen measuring cord and a measuring rod.  The bronze man in linen told Ezekiel you are here at the right time and what I will show you tell everyone in Israel. Ezekiel saw a man with the skin tone of a black/brown man. He was dressed in linen and had a measuring rod in his hand; he was standing at the gate entrance. He said to me, "Son of man, watch and ...

Brendaonline.com "Son of man, prophesy against Gog. Give him this message from the Sovereign LORD: I am your enemy, O Gog, ruler of the nations of Meshech and Tubal.  I will turn you around and drive you toward the mountains of Israel, bringing you from the distant north.  I will knock the bow from your left hand and the arrows from your right hand, and I will leave you helpless.  You and your army and your allies will all die on the mountains. I will feed you to the vultures and wild animals.  You will fall in the open fields, for I have spoken, says the Sovereign LORD.  And I will rain down fire on Magog and on all your allies who live safely on the coasts. Then they will know that I am the LORD.  "In this way, I will make known my holy name among my people of Israel. I will not let anyone bring shame on it. And the nations, too, will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.  God again reminds what He sees in the future for Gog and his attemp...

Brendaonline.com And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,  Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,  Tell Gog I have something against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:  Gog is not famous to me in my reading.  This tells me, that no matter who you are, how well known you may be, or how the world does not see you God does.  God brings a rebuke against a place that is not well known.  This place did evil, and God is addressing it. And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:  I will stop you from your wrongdoings.  I will bring you back, and you will not have any power to stop Me. Persia...

Brendaonline.com The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,  God gave Ezekiel a vision of bones. And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.  Ezekiel saw himself walking around the valley, looking at dry bones. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.  Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.  Speak to these dry bones, said the Lord. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:  And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.  God told Ezekiel that the bones would co...

Brendaonline.com "Son of man, prophesy to Israel's mountains. Give them this message: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD!  God told Ezekiel to speak to the mountain.  Mountain?  Was God speaking of a landform?  No!  God used the sound of the mountain because he wanted the space between Himself and His people to be echoed. God also knew that the leader of Israel, who held the highest positions, will repeat what He wanted the people at large to hear.  This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Your enemies have taunted you, saying, 'Aha! Now the ancient heights belong to us!'  Your enemies think and have spoken that they will have the last word.  They said your land belongs to them now! Therefore, son of man, give the mountains of Israel this message from the Sovereign LORD: Your enemies have attacked you from all directions, making you the property of many nations and the object of much mocking and slander.  Therefore, O mountains of ...

Brendaonline.com Nature hates hatred between people.  One of the hardest things to understand is how one person can live and have many relatives and they all hate the same person, the first person hated.  The descendants of Esua never met Jacob.  But the bitterness of their father Esua is expressed through many generations toward the children of Israel.  The only way hatred can be removed is by a transformation of God's Word given to us by the blood of Jesus Christ. In this chapter God judges the rejoicing over a brother's fall.  God corrects those He loves and God's correction is painful.  When Esau saw Isreal great distress, Mount Seir, thought it was a time of rejoicing.  God brought an end to the bullying of Mount Seir against Mount Israel. The lesson learned is vengeance is mine and the result are not to be celebrated.  The celebration should always be, it could have been me who finds themselves against the fist of God.  People will do u...