Israel’s New Heart and Spirit. Ezekiel 11:14-25
PROPHECIES REGARDING ISRAEL, Ezekiel 1-24
3. Israel Past and Present, Ezekiel 6-24
4. How would God bless His people who were separated from the Temple?
ISRAEL’S NEW HEART AND SPIRIT
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
“Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the [present] inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Though I had removed Israel far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary for them for a little while in the countries to which they had gone.”‘
Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give [back] to you the land of Israel.”‘
When they return there, they will remove from it all [traces of] its detestable things and all its repulsive things (remnants of paganism).
And I will give them one heart [a new heart], and put a new spirit within them. I will take from them the heart of stone, and will give them a heart of flesh [that is responsive to My touch], [Eze_18:31; Eze_36:26; 2Co_3:3]
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
But as for those whose heart longs for and follows after their detestable things and their repulsive things [associated with idolatry], on their own head I will repay [them in full for] their [vile] conduct,” says the Lord GOD.
Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the [Shekinah] glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.
Then the glory and brilliance of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and paused over the mountain, [the Mount of Olives] which is east of the city.
And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in Chaldea (Babylonia). Then the vision that I had seen left me.
Then I told the exiles everything that the LORD had shown me.
4. How would God bless His people who were separated from the Temple?
A NEW HEART PROMISED
The Spirit of God led the prophet to the East Gate of the Temple, where the Shekinah had settled, Eze_10:19. There He uttered the divine verdict on the priesthood. They had ridiculed Jeremiah’s letter to the captives, among whom Ezekiel lived, Jer_29:5; and had made merry at his comparison between the city and a caldron, Jer_1:13. It was to these scornful men that Ezekiel uttered the scathing denunciations of Eze_11:7-18. The sudden death of Pelatiah, the ringleader of the scorners, gave terrible emphasis to the prophet’s words. Ezekiel was told to look for his true kinsmen not among the doomed priesthood, but among his fellow-exiles whom they of Jerusalem despised. Spiritual ties must supersede natural ones, when the two clash. They might be far removed from the outer Temple, but God would be their asylum and sanctuary. What a sweet promise Eze_11:16 provides for those who are compelled to go far from home! They may always meet their dear ones in God. Note the inclusive promise of Eze_11:19 -unity, newness, and sensitiveness to the least touch of the divine nature.
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