Catching up on posts … August 28, 2025 This would be a good week to read about whirlwinds, since the last 24 hours feels like one, which is why this reading reached you a day later than usual. Add to the whirlwind a website migration. After the parenthetical prophecy against…
At the beginning of this scene, the Lord established Ezekiel as a “watchman” for the Israelites. “Ezekiel had already been commissioned as a ‘watchman’ (Ezek. 3:17), but God renewed this commission because Ezekiel’s message was being changed to one of future cleansing of the people and hope for their return…
Good intentions turned into sun on beach waves that overpowered the computer screen. (Please excuse typos, etc. as I’m writing Friday afternoon at home after vacation!) Last week we observed a cleansing as a result of Israel’s wickedness, although God preserved for Himself a remnant. “I looked, and I saw…
We left off with Ezekiel repeating his theme, the reason for writing down God’s spoken message: that people might know that I AM the Lord. “In the sixth year, in the sixth month on the fifth day, while I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were…