Transcript EZEKIEL CHAPTER SEVEN PROPHET - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? ESTHER (485-465BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE BELSHAZZAR CYRUS BABYLON DESTROYED DARIUS (605-562BC)? (597-586BC)? (586BC)? (541-523BC)? (559-529BC)? (536BC)? (511-475BC)?

EZEKIEL CHAPTER SEVEN
PROPHET - DATE
JONAH
(825-785BC)?
JOEL
(800BC)?
HOSEA
(785-725BC)?
MICAH
(785-710BC)?
AMOS
(784BC)?
ISAIAH
(701-681BC)?
NAHUM
(700BC)?
ZEPHANIAH
(630BC)?
JEREMIAH
(629-588BC)?
DANIEL
(606-534BC)?
HABAKKUK
(598BC)?
EZEKIEL
(597-573BC)?
OBADIAH
(588-562BC)?
EZRA
(536-456BC)?
HAGGAI
(532-512BC)?
ZECHARIAH
(520-475BC)?
ESTHER
(485-465BC)?
NEHEMIAH
(465-424BC)?
MALACHI
(420-397BC)?
KING / EVENT - DATE
TIGLATH-PILESER
(745-727BC)?
HEZEKIAH (JUDAH)
(726-698BC)?
SHALMANESER
(727-722BC)?
ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)?
SENNACHERIB
(705-681BC)?
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH)
JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE
BELSHAZZAR
CYRUS
BABYLON DESTROYED
DARIUS
(605-562BC)?
(597-586BC)?
(586BC)?
(541-523BC)?
(559-529BC)?
(536BC)?
(511-475BC)?
OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER SEVEN
DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL & JUDAH
V. 1-15
DISTRESS OF THE REMNANT
V. 16-19
DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE
V. 20-22
ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE TO BABYLON
V. 23-27
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:1-4
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
1
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me,
saying,
2
"And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to
the land of Israel: 'An end! The end has come upon the
four corners of the land.
3
Now the end has come upon you, And I will send
My anger against you; I will judge you according to your
ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
4
My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I
will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in
your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!'
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:1-4
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
1
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me,
saying,
2
"And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to
the land of Israel: 'An end! The end has come upon the
four corners of the land.
3
Now the end has come upon you, And I will send
My anger against you; I will judge you according to your
ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
4
My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I
will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in
your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL?
WHAT END HAS COME?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:3
3
Now the end has come upon you, And I will send
My anger against you; I will judge you according to your
ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
WHAT END HAS COME?
WHY?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
WHY?
READ:
GENESIS 6:3
3
And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with
man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be
one hundred and twenty years.“
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:3
3
Now the end has come upon you, And I will send
My anger against you; I will judge you according to your
ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
WHAT END HAS COME? WHY?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AMOS?
WHY?
READ:
AMOS 7:8-9
8
And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you
see?“ And I said, "A plumb line.“ Then the Lord said:
"Behold, I am setting a plumb line In the midst of My
people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.
9
The high places of Isaac shall be desolate, And the
sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste. I will rise with
the sword against the house of Jeroboam." NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:3
3
Now the end has come upon you, And I will send
My anger against you; I will judge you according to your
ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
WHAT END HAS COME? WHY?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AMOS?
WHY?
READ:
AMOS 8:2-3
2
And He said, "Amos, what do you see?“ So I said,
"A basket of summer fruit.“ Then the LORD said to me:
"The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass
by them anymore.
3
And the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in
that day,“ Says the Lord GOD — "Many dead bodies
everywhere, They shall be thrown out in silence." NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:4
4
My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I
will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in
your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!'
WHAT END HAS COME?
WHY?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 13:13-14
13
"Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD:
"Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land — even
the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the
prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem — with
drunkenness!
14
And I will dash them one against another, even the
fathers and the sons together," says the LORD. "I will not
pity nor spare nor have mercy, but will destroy them."'"
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:5-6
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
5
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular
disaster; Behold, it has come!
6
An end has come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:5-6
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
5
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular
disaster; Behold, it has come!
6
An end has come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL?
WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:5-6
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
5
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular
disaster; Behold, it has come!
6
An end has come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
WHY?
READ:
2 KINGS 21:12
12
Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel:
'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and
Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:5-6
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
5
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular
disaster; Behold, it has come!
6
An end has come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO NOAH?
WHY?
READ:
GENESIS 6:13
13
And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has
come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence
through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the
earth. NKJV
(HEBREWS 11:7; 1 PETER 3:20)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:5-6
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
5
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular
disaster; Behold, it has come!
6
An end has come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
WHAT DID ISRAEL NOT CONSIDER?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 32:28-29
28
"For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor is there
any understanding in them.
29
Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their latter end! NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:5-6
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
5
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular
disaster; Behold, it has come!
6
An end has come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT?
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH?
READ:
JEREMIAH 24:5
5
"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Like
these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are
carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out
of this place for their own good, into the land of the
Chaldeans.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:5-6
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
5
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular
disaster; Behold, it has come!
6
An end has come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT?
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH?
READ:
JEREMIAH 29:11
11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give
you a future and a hope.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:5-6
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
5
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular
disaster; Behold, it has come!
6
An end has come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT?
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
WHAT HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM?
READ:
LAMENTATIONS 1:9
9
Her uncleanness is in her skirts; She did not
consider her destiny; Therefore her collapse was
awesome; She had no comforter. "O LORD, behold my
affliction, For the enemy is exalted!" NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:5-6
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
5
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular
disaster; Behold, it has come!
6
An end has come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
WHAT END IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT?
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO DANIEL?
READ:
DANIEL 12:13
13
"But you, go your way till the end; for you shall
rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the
days.“
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:5-6
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
5
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'A disaster, a singular
disaster; Behold, it has come!
6
An end has come, The end has come; It has
dawned for you; Behold, it has come!
WHAT END HAS COME?
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
WHAT DID THE LORD MEAN WHEN HE SAID:
Affliction will not rise up a second time?
READ:
NAHUM 1:9
9
What do you conspire against the LORD? He will
make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second
time. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:7-9
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of
rejoicing in the mountains.
8
Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And
spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to
your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
9
'My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will
repay you according to your ways, And your
abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know
that I am the LORD who strikes.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:7-9
7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of
rejoicing in the mountains.
8
Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And
spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to
your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
9
'My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will
repay you according to your ways, And your
abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know
that I am the LORD who strikes.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHEN?
READ:
PSALMS 101:8
8
Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, That I
may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:7
7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of
rejoicing in the mountains.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHEN?
READ:
ISAIAH 2:12
12
`For the day of the LORD of hosts Shall come upon
everything proud and lofty, Upon everything lifted up —
And it shall be brought low — NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:7
7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of
rejoicing in the mountains.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHEN?
READ:
JEREMIAH 21:12
12
O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "Execute
judgment in the morning; And deliver him who is
plundered Out of the hand of the oppressor, Lest My fury
go forth like fire And burn so that no one can quench it,
Because of the evil of your doings.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:7
7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of
rejoicing in the mountains.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHEN?
READ:
JOEL 2:2
2
A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds
and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over
the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like
of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such
after them, Even for many successive generations.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:7
7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of
rejoicing in the mountains.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHEN?
READ:
AMOS 5:18-20
18
Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! For
what good is the day of the LORD to you? It will be
darkness, and not light.
19
It will be as though a man fled from a lion, And a
bear met him! Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall, And a serpent bit him!
20
Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light?
Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it? NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:7
7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of
rejoicing in the mountains.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHEN?
READ:
ZEPHANIAH 1:14-15
14
The great day of the LORD is near; It is near and
hastens quickly. The noise of the day of the LORD is
bitter; There the mighty men shall cry out.
15
That day is a day of wrath, A day of trouble and
distress, A day of devastation and desolation, A day of
darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick
darkness,
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 6:7
7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of
rejoicing in the mountains.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHEN?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 14:13-14
13
It shall come to pass in that day That a great panic
from the LORD will be among them. Everyone will seize
the hand of his neighbor, And raise his hand against his
neighbor's hand;
14
Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth
of all the surrounding nations Shall be gathered together:
Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 6:7
7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of
rejoicing in the mountains.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHEN?
READ:
MALACHI 3:2
2
"But who can endure the day of His coming? And
who can stand when He appears? For He is like a
refiner's fire And like launderers' soap.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:8
8
Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And
spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to
your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 42:25
25
Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His
anger And the strength of battle; It has set him on fire all
around, Yet he did not know; And it burned him, Yet he
did not take it to heart.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:8
8
Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And
spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to
your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHY?
READ:
HOSEA 5:10
10
"The princes of Judah are like those who remove a
landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.
READ:
NAHUM 1:6
6
Who can stand before His indignation? And who
can endure the fierceness of His anger? His fury is
poured out like fire, And the rocks are thrown down by
Him.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:9
9
'My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will
repay you according to your ways, And your
abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know
that I am the LORD who strikes.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHY?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 32:35
35
Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot
shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at
hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.' NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 9:13-14
13
For the people do not turn to Him who strikes
them, Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.
14
Therefore the LORD will cut off head and tail from
Israel, Palm branch and bulrush in one day.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:9
9
'My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will
repay you according to your ways, And your
abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know
that I am the LORD who strikes.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 21:7
7
And afterward," says the LORD, "I will deliver
Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and
such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the
sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into
the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike
them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them,
or have pity or mercy."'
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:10-11
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
10
'Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has
gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded.
11
Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness;
None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None
of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:10-11
10
'Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has
gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded.
11
Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness;
None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None
of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them.
WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM?
READ:
PSALMS 55:9-11
9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, For I
have seen violence and strife in the city.
10
Day and night they go around it on its walls;
Iniquity and trouble are also in the midst of it.
11
Destruction is in its midst; Oppression and deceit
do not depart from its streets.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:10-11
10
'Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has
gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded.
11
Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness;
None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None
of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM?
READ:
ISAIAH 58:4-5
4
Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike
with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do
this day, To make your voice heard on high.
5
Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to
afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush,
And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call
this a fast, And an acceptable day to the LORD? NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:11
11
Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness;
None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None
of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 16:2-4
2
"You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons
or daughters in this place."
3
For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and
daughters who are born in this place, and concerning
their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot
them in this land:
4
"They shall die gruesome deaths; they shall not be
lamented nor shall they be buried, but they shall be like
refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed
by the sword and by famine, and their corpses shall be
meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the
earth."
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:11
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 16:5-7
5
For thus says the LORD: "Do not enter the house
of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them; for I have
taken away My peace from this people," says the LORD,
"loving-kindness and mercies.
6
Both the great and the small shall die in this land.
They shall not be buried; neither shall men lament for
them, cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for
them.
7
Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to
comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the
cup of consolation to drink for their father or their
mother.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:11
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH? WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 25:33-36
33
"And at that day the slain of the LORD shall be
from one end of the earth even to the other end of the
earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried;
they shall become refuse on the ground.
34
"Wail, shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes,
You leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter
and your dispersions are fulfilled; You shall fall like a
precious vessel.
35
And the shepherds will have no way to flee, Nor
the leaders of the flock to escape.
36
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, And a wailing
of the leaders to the flock will be heard. For the LORD
has plundered their pasture,
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:11
WHO WAS THE LORD’S BATTLE-AX?
NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
READ:
JEREMIAH 51:20-23
20
"You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For
with you I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will
destroy kingdoms;
21
With you I will break in pieces the horse and its
rider; With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its
rider;
22
With you also I will break in pieces man and
woman; With you I will break in pieces old and young;
With you I will break in pieces the young man and the
maiden;
23
With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd
and his flock; With you I will break in pieces the farmer
and his yoke of oxen; And with you I will break in pieces
governors and rulers. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:11
11
Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness;
None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None
of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ZEPHANIAH?
READ:
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18
Neither their silver nor their gold Shall be able to
deliver them In the day of the LORD‘S wrath; But the
whole land shall be devoured By the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make speedy riddance Of all those who dwell
in the land. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:12-13
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
12
The time has come, The day draws near. 'Let not
the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on
their whole multitude.
13
For the seller shall not return to what has been
sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision
concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back;
No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:12-13
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
12
The time has come, The day draws near. 'Let not
the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on
their whole multitude.
13
For the seller shall not return to what has been
sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision
concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back;
No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity.
WHAT IS THIS VISION ABOUT?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE BUYER AND SELLER?
WHAT WILL THE SELLER NOT BE ABLE TO DO?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:12
12
The time has come, The day draws near. 'Let not
the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on
their whole multitude.
WHAT IS THIS VISION ABOUT?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE BUYER AND SELLER?
READ:
ISAIAH 24:2-3
2
And it shall be: As with the people, so with the
priest; As with the servant, so with his master; As with
the maid, so with her mistress; As with the buyer, so with
the seller; As with the lender, so with the borrower; As
with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3
The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly
plundered, For the LORD has spoken this word. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:12
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE LAND? WHY?
WHY RECORD & PROTECT THEIR DEEDS?
READ:
JEREMIAH 32:14-15
14
'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
"Take these deeds, both this purchase deed which is
sealed and this deed which is open, and put them in an
earthen vessel, that they may last many days."
15
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
"Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed
again in this land."'
NKJV
READ:
JEREMIAH 32:37
37
Behold, I will gather them out of all countries
where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in
great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will
cause them to dwell safely.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:12
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE LAND?
WHY RECORD & PROTECT THEIR DEEDS?
READ:
JEREMIAH 32:42-44
42
"For thus says the LORD: 'Just as I have brought
all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on
them all the good that I have promised them.
43
And fields will be bought in this land of which you
say, "It is desolate, without man or beast; it has been
given into the hand of the Chaldeans."
44
Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal
them, and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, in the
places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the
cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, and
in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captives to
return,' says the LORD." NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:13
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
13
For the seller shall not return to what has been
sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision
concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back;
No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity.
WHAT IS THIS VISION ABOUT?
WHAT WILL THE SELLER NOT BE ABLE TO DO?
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE YEAR OF JUBILEE?
WHY?
READ:
LEVITICUS 25:23-28
23
'The land shall not be sold permanently, for the
land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with
Me.
24
And in all the land of your possession you shall
grant redemption of the land.
25
'If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has
sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming
relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his
brother sold.
26
Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he
himself becomes able to redeem it,
27
then let him count the years since its sale, and
restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that
he may return to his possession.
28
But if he is not able to have it restored to himself,
then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who
bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it
shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:13
13
For the seller shall not return to what has been
sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision
concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back;
No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity.
WHAT IS THIS VISION ABOUT?
WHAT WILL THE SELLER NOT BE ABLE TO DO?
WHY?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY CONCERNING HIS WORD?
READ:
ISAIAH 55:11
11
So shall My word be that goes forth from My
mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall
accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the
thing for which I sent it.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:14-15
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
14
'They have blown the trumpet and made everyone
ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all
their multitude.
15
The sword is outside, And the pestilence and
famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the
sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence
will devour him.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:14-15
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
14
'They have blown the trumpet and made everyone
ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all
their multitude.
15
The sword is outside, And the pestilence and
famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the
sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence
will devour him.
WHY BLOW THE TRUMPET?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:14-15
14
'They have blown the trumpet and made everyone
ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all
their multitude.
15
The sword is outside, And the pestilence and
famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the
sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence
will devour him.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE?
WHY?
DID THE LORD WARN THEM THIS WOULD HAPPEN?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 32:25
25
The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be
terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing
child with the man of gray hairs.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:14
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
14
'They have blown the trumpet and made everyone
ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all
their multitude.
WHY BLOW THE TRUMPET?
READ:
JEREMIAH 6:1
1
"O you children of Benjamin, Gather yourselves to
flee from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in
Tekoa, And set up a signal-fire in Beth Haccerem; For
disaster appears out of the north, And great destruction.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:15
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
15
The sword is outside, And the pestilence and
famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the
sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence
will devour him.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE?
WHY?
WHAT DID JEREMIAH BEHOLD?
READ:
JEREMIAH 14:18
18
If I go out to the field, Then behold, those slain with
the sword! And if I enter the city, Then behold, those sick
from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest go about in a
land they do not know.'" NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:15
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
15
The sword is outside, And the pestilence and
famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the
sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence
will devour him.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE?
WHY?
WHAT DID JEREMIAH BEHOLD?
READ:
LAMENTATIONS 1:20
20
"See, O LORD, that I am in distress; My soul is
troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have
been very rebellious. Outside the sword bereaves, At
home it is like death.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:16-17
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
16
'Those who survive will escape and be on the
mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them
mourning, Each for his iniquity.
17
Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be
as weak as water.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:16-17
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
16
'Those who survive will escape and be on the
mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them
mourning, Each for his iniquity.
17
Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be
as weak as water.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
WHERE WILL THEY GO?
EGYPT?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:16-17
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
16
'Those who survive will escape and be on the
mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them
mourning, Each for his iniquity.
17
Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be
as weak as water.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
WHY ARE THEY MOURNING?
READ:
ISAIAH 59:11
11
We all growl like bears And moan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it
is far from us.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:16-17
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
16
'Those who survive will escape and be on the
mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them
mourning, Each for his iniquity.
17
Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be
as weak as water.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
WHY ARE THEY MOURNING?
READ:
JEREMIAH 9:19
19
For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we
are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we
have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out
of our dwellings.'"
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:16
16
'Those who survive will escape and be on the
mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them
mourning, Each for his iniquity.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
WHERE WILL THEY GO?
EGYPT?
READ:
JEREMIAH 41:16-17
16
Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the forces that were with him, took from
Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered
from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah after he had murdered
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam — the mighty men of war and
the women and the children and the eunuchs, whom he
had brought back from Gibeon.
17
And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of
Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, as they went on their
way to Egypt,
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:16
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
WHERE WILL THEY GO?
EGYPT?
WHAT DID THE LORD TO THOSE WHO FLED TO EGYPT?
READ:
JEREMIAH 42:15-17
15
Then hear now the word of the LORD, O remnant of
Judah! Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: 'If
you wholly set your faces to enter Egypt, and go to dwell
there,
16
then it shall be that the sword which you feared
shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; the famine
of which you were afraid shall follow close after you
there in Egypt; and there you shall die.
17
So shall it be with all the men who set their faces
to go to Egypt to dwell there. They shall die by the sword,
by famine, and by pestilence. And none of them shall
remain or escape from the disaster that I will bring upon
them.'
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:16-17
16
'Those who survive will escape and be on the
mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them
mourning, Each for his iniquity.
17
Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be
as weak as water.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
WHAT DID GOD SAY CONCERNING SENNACHERIB?
READ:
2 KINGS 19:25-26
25
'Did you not hear long ago How I made it, From
ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to
pass, That you should be For crushing fortified cities into
heaps of ruins.
26
Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They
were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass
of the field And the green herb, As the grass on the
housetops And grain blighted before it is grown. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:16-17
16
'Those who survive will escape and be on the
mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them
mourning, Each for his iniquity.
17
Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be
as weak as water.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY WOULD HAPPEN?
READ:
ISAIAH 13:6-8
6
Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will
come as destruction from the Almighty.
7
Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man's heart
will melt,
8
And they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will
take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in
childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their
faces will be like flames.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:16-17
16
'Those who survive will escape and be on the
mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them
mourning, Each for his iniquity.
17
Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be
as weak as water.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY WOULD HAPPEN?
READ:
JEREMIAH 47:2-3
2
Thus says the LORD: "Behold, waters rise out of
the north, And shall be an overflowing flood; They shall
overflow the land and all that is in it, The city and those
who dwell within; Then the men shall cry, And all the
inhabitants of the land shall wail.
3
At the noise of the stamping hooves of his strong
horses, At the rushing of his chariots, At the rumbling of
his wheels, The fathers will not look back for their
children, Lacking courage,
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:16-17
16
'Those who survive will escape and be on the
mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them
mourning, Each for his iniquity.
17
Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be
as weak as water.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ESCAPE?
WHAT HAPPENED TO BELSHAZZAR?
WHY?
READ:
DANIEL 5:5-6
5
In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand
appeared and wrote opposite the lamp-stand on the
plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw
the part of the hand that wrote.
6
Then the king's countenance changed, and his
thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were
loosened and his knees knocked against each other.
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:18-19
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
18
They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will
cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all
their heads.
19
'They will throw their silver into the streets, And
their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold
will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of
the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their
stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of
iniquity.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:18-19
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
18
They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will
cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all
their heads.
19
'They will throw their silver into the streets, And
their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold
will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of
the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their
stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of
iniquity.
WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH?
WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD?
WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:18
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
18
They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will
cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all
their heads.
WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH?
WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD?
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL? WHY?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 14:1-2
1
"You are the children of the LORD your God; you
shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head
for the dead.
2
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God,
and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself,
a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the
face of the earth. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:18
18
They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will
cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all
their heads.
WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH?
WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH?
READ:
ISAIAH 3:24-25
24
And so it shall be: Instead of a sweet smell there
will be a stench; Instead of a sash, a rope; Instead of
well-set hair, baldness; Instead of a rich robe, a girding of
sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty.
25
Your men shall fall by the sword, And your mighty
in the war. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:18
18
They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will
cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all
their heads.
WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH?
WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH?
READ:
ISAIAH 15:3
3
In their streets they will clothe themselves with
sackcloth; On the tops of their houses And in their
streets Everyone will wail, weeping bitterly.
NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 22:12
12
And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts Called for
weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding
with sackcloth.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:18
WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH?
WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH?
READ:
JEREMIAH 4:7-8
7
The lion has come up from his thicket, And the
destroyer of nations is on his way. He has gone forth
from his place To make your land desolate. Your cities
will be laid waste, Without inhabitant.
8
For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, Lament
and wail. For the fierce anger of the LORD Has not turned
back from us.
NKJV
READ:
JEREMIAH 48:37
37
"For every head shall be bald, and every beard
clipped; On all the hands shall be cuts, and on the loins
sackcloth — NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:18
WHY GIRD THEMSELVES WITH SACKCLOTH?
WHY ARE THEIR HEADS BALD?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH?
READ:
AMOS 8:10
10
I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your
songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every
waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like
mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.
READ:
MICAH 1:16
16
Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because
of your precious children; Enlarge your baldness like an
eagle, For they shall go from you into captivity. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:19
19
'They will throw their silver into the streets, And
their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold
will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of
the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their
stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of
iniquity.
WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD?
READ:
PROVERBS 11:3-4
3
The integrity of the upright will guide them, But the
perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them.
4
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But
righteousness delivers from death. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:19
19
'They will throw their silver into the streets, And
their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold
will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of
the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their
stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of
iniquity.
WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD?
READ:
LAMENTATIONS 4:1
1
How the gold has become dim! How changed the
fine gold! The stones of the sanctuary are scattered At
the head of every street.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:19
19
'They will throw their silver into the streets, And
their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold
will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of
the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their
stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of
iniquity.
WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD?
READ:
ISAIAH 55:2-3
2
Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen
carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul
delight itself in abundance.
3
Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your
soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant
with you — The sure mercies of David.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:19
19
'They will throw their silver into the streets, And
their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold
will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of
the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their
stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of
iniquity.
WHY THROW AWAY THEIR SILVER & GOLD?
READ:
ZEPHANIAH 1:17-18
17
"I will bring distress upon men, And they shall walk
like blind men, Because they have sinned against the
LORD; Their blood shall be poured out like dust, And
their flesh like refuse."
18
Neither their silver nor their gold Shall be able to
deliver them In the day of the LORD‘S wrath; But the
whole land shall be devoured By the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make speedy riddance Of all those who dwell
in the land. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:20-21
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
20
'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in
majesty; But they made from it The images of their
abominations — Their detestable things; Therefore I have
made it Like refuse to them.
21
I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers,
And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall
defile it.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:20-21
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
20
'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in
majesty; But they made from it The images of their
abominations — Their detestable things; Therefore I have
made it Like refuse to them.
21
I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers,
And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall
defile it.
WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THEIR IDOLS?
WHY?
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THEIR TREASURES?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:20
20
'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in
majesty; But they made from it The images of their
abominations — Their detestable things; Therefore I have
made it Like refuse to them.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT IDOLS?
READ:
JEREMIAH 10:2-5
2
Thus says the LORD: "Do not learn the way of the
Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For
the Gentiles are dismayed at them.
3
For the customs of the peoples are futile; For one
cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the
workman, with the ax.
4
They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it
with nails and hammers So that it will not topple.
5
They are upright, like a palm tree, And they cannot
speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot go by
themselves. Do not be afraid of them, For they cannot do
evil, Nor can they do any good."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:20
20
'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in
majesty; But they made from it The images of their
abominations — Their detestable things; Therefore I have
made it Like refuse to them.
WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THEIR IDOLS? WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 2:20-21
20
In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver
And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself
to worship, To the moles and bats,
21
To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the
crags of the rugged rocks, From the terror of the LORD
And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake
the earth mightily.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:20
20
'As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in
majesty; But they made from it The images of their
abominations — Their detestable things; Therefore I have
made it Like refuse to them.
WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THEIR IDOLS? WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 30:21-22
21
Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
"This is the way, walk in it,“ Whenever you turn to the
right hand Or whenever you turn to the left.
22
You will also defile the covering of your images of
silver, And the ornament of your molded images of gold.
You will throw them away as an unclean thing; You will
say to them, "Get away!"
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:21
21
I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers,
And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall
defile it.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THEIR TREASURES?
WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 24:13-14
13
And he carried out from there all the treasures of
the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's
house, and he cut in pieces all the articles of gold which
Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the
LORD, as the LORD had said.
14
Also he carried into captivity all Jerusalem: all the
captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand
captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None
remained except the poorest people of the land. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:21
21
I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers,
And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall
defile it.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THEIR TREASURES?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 15:13
13
Your wealth and your treasures I will give as
plunder without price, Because of all your sins,
Throughout your territories.
NKJV
READ:
JEREMIAH 17:3
3
O My mountain in the field, I will give as plunder
your wealth, all your treasures, And your high places of
sin within all your borders.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:22-24
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
22
I will turn My face from them, And they will defile
My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it.
23
'Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of
blood, And the city is full of violence.
24
Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And
they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of
the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be
defiled.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:22-24
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
22
I will turn My face from them, And they will defile
My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it.
23
'Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of
blood, And the city is full of violence.
24
Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And
they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of
the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be
defiled.
HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY?
WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT?
WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:22
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
22
I will turn My face from them, And they will defile
My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it.
HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY?
READ:
PSALMS 74:5-8
5
They seem like men who lift up Axes among the
thick trees.
6
And now they break down its carved work, all at
once, With axes and hammers.
7
They have set fire to Your sanctuary; They have
defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
8
They said in their hearts, "Let us destroy them
altogether.“ They have burned up all the meeting places
of God in the land.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:22
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
22
I will turn My face from them, And they will defile
My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it.
HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY?
WHY DID THE LORD PERMIT THIS TO HAPPEN?
READ:
JEREMIAH 2:26-27
26
"As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, So
is the house of Israel ashamed; They and their kings and
their princes, and their priests and their prophets,
27
Saying to a tree, 'You are my father,‘ And to a
stone, 'You gave birth to me.‘ For they have turned their
back to Me, and not their face. But in the time of their
trouble They will say, 'Arise and save us.' NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:22
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
22
I will turn My face from them, And they will defile
My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it.
HOW DID THEY DEFILE THE SANCTUARY?
WHY DID THE LORD PERMIT THIS TO HAPPEN?
READ:
JEREMIAH 19:12-13
12
“Thus I will do to this place," says the LORD, "and
to its inhabitants, and make this city like Tophet.
13
And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of
the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of
Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they
have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and
poured out drink offerings to other gods."'“ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:23
23
'Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of
blood, And the city is full of violence.
WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT? BONDAGE?
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BEGINNING?
WHY DID THE LORD DESTROY ALL FLESH?
READ:
GENESIS 6:11-12
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the
earth was filled with violence.
12
So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:23
23
'Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of
blood, And the city is full of violence.
WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT? BONDAGE?
WHAT DID MANASSEH DO??
READ:
2 KINGS 21:16
16
Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent
blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to
another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in
doing evil in the sight of the LORD. NKJV
WHY DID GOD REFUSE TO HEAR THEIR PRAYERS?
READ:
ISAIAH 1:15
15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide My
eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:23
WHAT WILL THIS CHAIN REPRESENT? BONDAGE?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH?
WHAT DID THE BONDS & YOKES REPRESENT?
READ:
JEREMIAH 27:2-3
2
"Thus says the LORD to me: 'Make for yourselves
bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck,
3
and send them to the king of Edom, the king of
Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and
the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who
come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:23
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH?
WHAT DID THE BONDS & YOKES REPRESENT?
READ:
JEREMIAH 27:4-7
4
And command them to say to their masters, "Thus
says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel — thus you
shall say to your masters:
5
'I have made the earth, the man and the beast that
are on the ground, by My great power and by My
outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed
proper to Me.
6
And now I have given all these lands into the hand
of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and
the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him.
7
So all nations shall serve him and his son and his
son's son, until the time of his land comes; and then
many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:24
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
24
Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And
they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of
the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be
defiled.
WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
WHAT WAS THE STRENGTH OF ISRAEL?
READ:
PSALMS 68:35
35
O God, You are more awesome than Your holy
places. The God of Israel is He who gives strength and
power to His people. Blessed be God!
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:24
24
Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And
they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of
the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be
defiled.
WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
READ:
LEVITICUS 26:18-20
18
'And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will
punish you seven times more for your sins.
19
I will break the pride of your power; I will make
your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20
And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your
land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the
land yield their fruit.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:24
WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
READ:
2 CHRONICLES 7:19-22
19
"But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and
My commandments which I have set before you, and go
and serve other gods, and worship them,
20
then I will uproot them from My land which I have
given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My
name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a
proverb and a byword among all peoples.
21
"And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone
who passes by it will be astonished and say, 'Why has
the LORD done thus to this land and this house?'
22
Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the
LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the
land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped
them and served them; therefore He has brought all this
calamity on them.'"
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:24
24
Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And
they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of
the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be
defiled.
WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST ISRAEL?
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?
READ:
JEREMIAH 51:51
51
We are ashamed because we have heard reproach.
Shame has covered our faces, For strangers have come
into the sanctuaries of the LORD‘S house. NKJV
READ:
LAMENTATIONS 2:7
7
The Lord has spurned His altar, He has abandoned
His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces
Into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in
the house of the LORD As on the day of a set feast.
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:25-27
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
25
Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there
shall be none.
26
Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will
be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a
prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And
counsel from the elders.
27
'The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed
with desolation, And the hands of the common people
will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And
according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then
they shall know that I am the LORD!'"
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:25-27
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
25
Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there
shall be none.
26
Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will
be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a
prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And
counsel from the elders.
27
'The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed
with desolation, And the hands of the common people
will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And
according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then
they shall know that I am the LORD!'"
NKJV
WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES?
WHO WILL THEY SEEK?
WHY?
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:25
25
Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there
shall be none.
WHAT WILL THEY SEEK WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES?
WHAT DID THEIR PROPHETS & PRIESTS SAY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 6:13-15
13
"Because from the least of them even to the
greatest of them, Everyone is given to covetousness;
And from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone deals
falsely.
14
They have also healed the hurt of My people
slightly, Saying, 'Peace, peace!‘ When there is no peace.
15
Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did
they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among
those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be
cast down," says the LORD.
(JEREMIAH 8:10-12)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:25
25
Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there
shall be none.
WHAT WILL THEY SEEK WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES?
READ:
1 THESSALONIANS 5:2-3
2
For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of
the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
3
For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then
sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains
upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:25
25
Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there
shall be none.
WHAT WILL THEY SEEK WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES?
WHY ARE THEY UN-PREPARED?
READ:
2 PETER 3:3-4
3
Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the
last days, walking according to their own lusts,
4
and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as
they were from the beginning of creation.“ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:25
25
Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there
shall be none.
WHAT WILL THEY SEEK WHEN DESTRUCTION COMES?
WHY ARE THEY UN-PREPARED?
READ:
MATTHEW 24:36-39
36
"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even
the angels of heaven, but My Father only.
37
But as the days of Noah were, so also will the
coming of the Son of Man be.
38
For as in the days before the flood, they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noah entered the ark,
39
and did not know until the flood came and took
them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man
be.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:26
WHO WILL THEY SEEK?
WHY?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 31:16-18
16
And the LORD said to Moses: "Behold, you will
rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play
the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land,
where they go to be among them, and they will forsake
Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
17
Then My anger shall be aroused against them in
that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face
from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils
and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that
day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our
God is not among us?'
18
And I will surely hide My face in that day because
of all the evil which they have done, in that they have
turned to other gods.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:26
26
Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will
be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a
prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And
counsel from the elders.
WHO WILL THEY SEEK?
WHY?
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DAYS OF SAMUEL?
READ:
1 SAMUEL 3:1
1
Now the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD
before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those
days; there was no widespread revelation. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:26
26
Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will
be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a
prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And
counsel from the elders.
WHO WILL THEY SEEK?
WHY?
WHO DID ISAIAH SEEK?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 26:9
9
With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes,
by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when
Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the
world will learn righteousness.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:26
26
Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will
be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a
prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And
counsel from the elders.
WHO WILL THEY SEEK?
WHY?
WHY IS THE LORD HIDDEN FROM THEM?
READ:
ISAIAH 47:10
10
"For you have trusted in your wickedness; You
have said, 'No one sees me'; Your wisdom and your
knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your
heart, 'I am, and there is no one else besides me.' NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:26
26
Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will
be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a
prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And
counsel from the elders.
WHO WILL THEY SEEK?
WHY?
WHO DID ZEDEKIAH SEEK?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 37:16-17
16
When Jeremiah entered the dungeon and the cells,
and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
17
then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. The
king asked him secretly in his house, and said, "Is there
any word from the LORD?“ And Jeremiah said, "There
is." Then he said, "You shall be delivered into the hand of
the king of Babylon!"
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:26
WHO WILL THEY SEEK?
WHY?
WHO DID ZEDEKIAH SEEK?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 38:14-16
14
Then Zedekiah the king sent and had Jeremiah the
prophet brought to him at the third entrance of the house
of the LORD. And the king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask
you something. Hide nothing from me."
15
Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I declare it to you,
will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you
advice, you will not listen to me."
16
So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah,
saying, "As the LORD lives, who made our very souls, I
will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand
of these men who seek your life."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:26
26
Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will
be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a
prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And
counsel from the elders.
WHO WILL THEY SEEK?
WHY?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO AMOS?
READ:
AMOS 8:11-12
11
"Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord
GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine
of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words
of the LORD.
12
They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north
to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the
LORD, But shall not find it.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:27
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
27
'The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed
with desolation, And the hands of the common people
will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And
according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then
they shall know that I am the LORD!'"
NKJV
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 3:11-12
11
Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the
reward of his hands shall be given him.
12
As for My people, children are their oppressors,
And women rule over them. O My people! Those who
lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your
paths."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:27
JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL IS NEAR
27
'The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed
with desolation, And the hands of the common people
will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And
according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then
they shall know that I am the LORD!'"
NKJV
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM?
WHY?
HOW SHOULD WE PREPARE FOR JUDGMENT? WHY?
READ:
1 PETER 4:7
7
But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be
serious and watchful in your prayers. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 7:27
HOW SHOULD WE PREPARE FOR JUDGMENT?
WHY?
READ:
ROMANS 13:11-14
11
And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high
time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is
nearer than when we first believed.
12
The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore
let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on
the armor of light.
13
Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry
and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife
and envy.
14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no
provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
NKJV