Ezekiel’s Call. Ezekiel 2:1-10
- PROPHECIES REGARDING ISRAEL, Ezekiel 1-24
- The Prophet’s Call and Commission, Eze_1:1-28; Eze_2:1-10; Eze_3:1-27
2. What commission did Ezekiel receive and how was he strengthened to perform it?
EZEKIEL’S CALL
Then He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet and I will speak to you.”
Then as He spoke to me the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet; and I heard Him speaking to me.
And He said to me, “I am sending you, son of man, to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people [in both the north and the south] that have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have sinned and revolted against Me to this very day.
I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’
As for them, whether they listen or refuse [to listen]–for they are a rebellious house–yet they will know and be fully aware of the fact that there has been a prophet among them.
And you, son of man, neither fear them nor fear their words; though briars and thorns are all around you and you sit among scorpions, neither fear their words nor be dismayed at their presence, for they are a rebellious house.
But you shall speak My words to them whether they will listen or refuse [to listen], for they are [most] rebellious.
“As for you, son of man, listen to what I say to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”
Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out toward me; and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.
And He spread it before me, and it was written on the front and on the back, and written on it were [words of] lamentation (funeral songs) and mourning and woe.
A HARD COMMISSION
The people were impudent and stiff-hearted; their words as briars and thorns; their speech like the poison of scorpions; but the prophet was commissioned to go on with his divine mission, undeterred by their opposition. Under such circumstances we must be sure of a Thus saith the Lord. But no man can stand against the continual opposition of his fellows, unless his strength is renewed, as Ezekiel’s was, by eating that which God gives. Open thy mouth, and eat that which I give thee, Eze_2:8. Let us specially consider the divine denunciations of sin, that our words may be sharper than any two-edged sword. Nothing makes us so strong as feeding perpetually upon the roll of the Book, and especially on the Word within the words. We must eat the flesh and drink in the life of the Son of man, if we can deal aright with the needs of the sons of men.
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