Ezekiel 14

Ezekiel 14:1

L. God’s Threat to the Idolatrous Elders (Chap. 14)14:1-11 When some of the elders of Israelidolaters at heart visited Ezekiel to get counsel from the Lord, the LORD announced that He would answer idolaters directly, not through a prophet. If a prophet did answer the idolaters, he would be deceived and would be punished together with the inquirers. 14:12-20 Even if three righteous men like Noah, Daniel, and Job should be in the land, God would not hearken but would send famine, wild beasts, the sword, and pestilence on the land. Daniel was living at the court of Nebuchadnezzar when Ezekiel wrote, and yet he was reckoned with God’s righteous men of old. It is not true that there cannot be heroes and heroines of the faith today as there have been in former times. Will you be one of them? 14:21-23 If He would severely judge any land, how much more . . . Jerusalem, where His temple was located. But a remnant would be saved to testify that the LORD was justified in doing what He did. Judah’s guilt was too great to be pardoned, even through the intercession of Noah, Daniel, and Job. What about our society with its crime, violence, abortion, immorality, idolatry, drugs, and secular humanism?