Transcript EZEKIEL CHAPTER TWENTY 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 TWENTY
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 TWENTY
ISRAEL ASKS FOR COUNSEL OF GOD
V. 1
THE REBELLION & IDOLATRY OF ISRAEL
IN EGYPT
V. 2-9
IN THE WILDERNESS
V. 10-27
AND IN CANAAN
V. 28-32
PROMISE TO RESTORE THEM WHEN
THEY ARE PURGED OF THEIR SINS
V. 33-44
PROPHECY AGAINST JERUSALEM
THE EMBLEM OF A FOREST DOOMED
TO BE DESTROYED BY FIRE
V. 45-49
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:1-4
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
1
It came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the
elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat
before me.
2
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
3
"Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say
to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Have you come to
inquire of Me? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be
inquired of by you."'
4
Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge
them? Then make known to them the abominations of
their fathers.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:1-4
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
1
It came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the
elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat
before me.
2
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
3
"Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say
to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Have you come to
inquire of Me? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be
inquired of by you."'
4
Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge
them? Then make known to them the abominations of
their fathers.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:1
1
It came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the
elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat
before me.
WHO CAME TO ENQUIRE OF THE LORD?
ELDERS OF ISRAEL?
JUDAH?
READ:
EZEKIEL 14:1
1
Now some of the elders of Israel came to me and
sat before me.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 8:1
2
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth
month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house
with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand
of the Lord GOD fell upon me there. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:1
1
It came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the
elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat
before me.
WHO CAME TO ENQUIRE OF THE LORD?
ELDERS OF ISRAEL?
JUDAH?
WHEN?
2 YEARS AFTER THIS EVENT?
READ:
EZEKIEL 1:2-3
2
On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth
year of King Jehoiachin's captivity,
3
the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel
the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans
by the River Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was upon
him there. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:3
2
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
3
"Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say
to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Have you come to
inquire of Me? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be
inquired of by you."'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE ELDERS?
WHY?
WHY DID THE LORD NOT ANSWER SAUL?
READ:
1 SAMUEL 28:6
6
And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD
did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by
the prophets.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:3
3
"Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say
to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Have you come to
inquire of Me? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be
inquired of by you."'
WHY WILL THE LORD NOT ANSWER PRAYER?
READ:
PSALMS 66:18
18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not
hear. NKJV
READ:
PROVERBS 15:29
29
The LORD is far from the wicked, But He hears the
prayer of the righteous. NKJV
READ:
PROVERBS 28:9
9
One who turns away his ear from hearing the law,
Even his prayer is an abomination. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:3
3
"Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say
to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Have you come to
inquire of Me? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be
inquired of by you."'
WHY WILL THE LORD NOT ANSWER PRAYER?
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
READ:
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. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:3
3
"Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say
to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Have you come to
inquire of Me? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be
inquired of by you."'
WHY WILL THE LORD NOT ANSWER PRAYER?
READ:
EZEKIEL 14:3
3
"Son of man, these men have set up their idols in
their hearts, and put before them that which causes them
to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of
at all by them?
NKJV
READ:
AMOS 8:12
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 20:4
4
Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge
them? Then make known to them the abominations of
their fathers.
WHAT DID THE LORD ASK EZEKIEL TO DO?
READ:
EZEKIEL 16:2
2
"Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her
abominations,”
NKJV
WHY?
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:5-6
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
5
"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the
day when I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to
the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself
known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in
an oath to them, saying, 'I am the LORD your God.'
6
On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had
searched out for them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:5-6
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
5
"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the
day when I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to
the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself
known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in
an oath to them, saying, 'I am the LORD your God.'
6
On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had
searched out for them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands.
HOW DID THE LORD IDENTIFY HIMSELF?
HOW DID THE LORD MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN?
WHAT DID THE LORD PROMISE THEM?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:5
5
"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the
day when I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to
the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself
known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in
an oath to them, saying, 'I am the LORD your God.'
HOW DID THE LORD MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN?
READ:
EXODUS 4:29-31
29
Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together
all the elders of the children of Israel.
30
And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD
had spoken to Moses. Then he did the signs in the sight
of the people.
31
So the people believed; and when they heard that
the LORD had visited the children of Israel and that He
had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their
heads and worshiped. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:5
5
"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the
day when I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to
the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself
known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in
an oath to them, saying, 'I am the LORD your God.'
HOW DID THE LORD MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN?
READ:
EXODUS 4:29-31
29
Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together
all the elders of the children of Israel.
30
And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD
had spoken to Moses. Then he did the signs in the sight
of the people.
31
So the people believed; and when they heard that
the LORD had visited the children of Israel and that He
had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their
heads and worshiped. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:5
5
"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the
day when I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to
the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself
known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in
an oath to them, saying, 'I am the LORD your God.'
HOW DID THE LORD IDENTIFY HIMSELF?
READ:
EXODUS 6:2-3
2
God spoke to Moses and said to him: "I am the
LORD.
3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as
God Almighty, but by My name LORD I was not known to
them.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:5
5
"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the
day when I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to
the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself
known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in
an oath to them, saying, 'I am the LORD your God.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE ISRAELITES?
READ:
LEVITICUS 11:44-45
44
'For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore
consecrate ourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am
holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any
creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
45
‘For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the
land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be
holy, for I am holy. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:5
5
"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the
day when I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to
the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself
known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in
an oath to them, saying, 'I am the LORD your God.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE ISRAELITES?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 7:6
6
You are a holy people to the LORD your God; the
LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for
Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the
face of the earth. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:6
6
On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had
searched out for them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM?
READ:
EXODUS 3:8
8
"So I have come down to deliver them out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that
land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk
and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites
and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and
the Jebusites.
(NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:6
6
On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had
searched out for them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands.
WHAT DID THE LORD PROMISE THEM?
READ:
EXODUS 6:8
8
I will bring you into the land which I swore to give
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as
a heritage: I am the LORD.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:6
6
On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had
searched out for them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands.
WHAT DID THE LORD PROMISE THEM?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 8:6-9
6
"Therefore you shall keep the commandments of
the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
7
"For the LORD your God is bringing you into a
good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and
springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;
8
"a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees
and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;
9
"a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity,
in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are
iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
(NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:6
6
On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had
searched out for them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE ISRAELITES?
WHY?
READ:
NUMBERS 14:29-30
29
The carcasses of you who have complained
against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who
were numbered, according to your entire number, from
twenty years old and above.
30
Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua
the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land
which I swore I would make you dwell in.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:6
6
On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had
searched out for them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE ISRAELITES?
READ:
MALACHI 3:12
12
"And all nations will call you blessed, for you will
be a delightful land," says the LORD of hosts.
(NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:6
6
On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had
searched out for them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE ISRAELITES?
WHY?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 7:14
14
"But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all
the nations which they had not known. Thus the land
became desolate after them, so that no one passed
through or returned; for they made the pleasant land
desolate.“ (NKJ)
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:7-9
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
7
Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away the
abominations which are before his eyes, and do not
defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD
your God.'
8
But they rebelled against Me and would not obey
Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which
were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of
Egypt. Then I said, 'I will pour out My fury on them and
fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt.'
9
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not
be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were,
in whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:7-9
7
Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away the
abominations which are before his eyes, and do not
defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD
your God.'
8
But they rebelled against Me and would not obey
Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which
were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of
Egypt. Then I said, 'I will pour out My fury on them and
fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt.'
9
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not
be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were,
in whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:7
7
Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away the
abominations which are before his eyes, and do not
defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD
your God.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
EXODUS 20:2-3
2
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3
"You shall have no other gods before Me.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:7
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
EXODUS 20:4-6
4
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or
any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth;
5
you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.
For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and
fourth generations of those who hate Me,
6
but showing mercy to thousands, to those who
love Me and keep My commandments.
(NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:7
7
Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away the
abominations which are before his eyes, and do not
defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD
your God.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
LEVITICUS 18:2-3
2
"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'I
am the LORD your God.
3
'According to the doings of the land of Egypt,
where you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the
doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you,
you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.
(NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:7
7
Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away the
abominations which are before his eyes, and do not
defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD
your God.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 29:18
18
there may not be among you man or woman or
family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the
LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these
nations, and that there may not be among you a root
bearing bitterness or wormwood;
(NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:7
7
Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away the
abominations which are before his eyes, and do not
defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD
your God.'
WHAT DID JOSHUA SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
JOSHUA 24:14-15
14
"Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in
sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your
fathers served on the other side of the River and in
Egypt. Serve the LORD!
15
"And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD,
choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve,
whether the gods which your fathers served that were on
the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in
whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we
will serve the LORD.“
(NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:7
7
Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away the
abominations which are before his eyes, and do not
defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD
your God.'
WHAT DID DAVID SAY TO THE LORD?
READ:
2 SAMUEL 7:23
23
"And who is like Your people, like Israel, the one
nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for
Himself as a people, to make for Himself a name-- and to
do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land-before Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself
from Egypt, the nations, and their gods?
(NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:8
8
But they rebelled against Me and would not obey
Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which
were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of
Egypt. Then I said, 'I will pour out My fury on them and
fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
READ:
EXODUS 32:7-8
7
And the LORD said to Moses, "Go, get down! For
your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt
have corrupted themselves.
8
"They have turned aside quickly out of the way
which I commanded them. They have made themselves a
molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and
said, 'This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of
the land of Egypt!'“
(NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:8
8
But they rebelled against Me and would not obey
Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which
were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of
Egypt. Then I said, 'I will pour out My fury on them and
fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 9:7-8
7
"Remember Do not forget how you provoked the
LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day
that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came
to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
8
"Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath,
so that the LORD was angry enough with you to have
destroyed you.
(NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:8
8
But they rebelled against Me and would not obey
Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which
were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of
Egypt. Then I said, 'I will pour out My fury on them and
fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THEM?
READ:
ISAIAH 63:10
10
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; so
He turned Himself against them as an enemy, and He
fought against them.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:8
8
But they rebelled against Me and would not obey
Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which
were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of
Egypt. Then I said, 'I will pour out My fury on them and
fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THEM?
READ:
JEREMIAH 7:26
26
"Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but
stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
READ:
JEREMIAH 11:10
10
"They have turned back to the iniquities of their
forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have
gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel
and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I
made with their fathers.“ (NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:9
9
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not
be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were,
in whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 48:10-11
10
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have
tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11
For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; for
how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My
glory to another. (NKJ)
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:9
9
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not
be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were,
in whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to
bring them out of the land of Egypt.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT PHARAOH?
READ:
ROMANS 9:17
17
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very
purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power
in you, and that My name may be declared in all the
earth.“
(NKJ)
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:10-12
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
10
"Therefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt
and brought them into the wilderness.
11
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My
judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them.'
12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a
sign between them and Me, that they might know that I
am the LORD who sanctifies them.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:10-12
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
10
"Therefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt
and brought them into the wilderness.
11
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My
judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them.'
12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a
sign between them and Me, that they might know that I
am the LORD who sanctifies them.
WHO LED ISRAEL TO MOUNT SINAI?
WHO GAVE ISRAEL THE LAW?
WHY?
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE ISRAEL HIS SABBATHS?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:10
10
"Therefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt
and brought them into the wilderness.
WHO LED ISRAEL TO MOUNT SINAI?
READ:
EXODUS 13:18
18
So God led the people around by way of the
wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel
went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.
READ:
EXODUS 19:1
ISRAEL AT MOUNT SINAI
1
In the third month after the children of Israel had
gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they
came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:11
11
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My
judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them.'
WHO GAVE ISRAEL THE LAW?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 30:15-16
15
"See, I have set before you today life and good,
death and evil,
16
in that I command you today to love the LORD your
God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His
commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that
you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will
bless you in the land which you go to possess. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:11
11
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My
judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them.'
WHO GAVE ISRAEL THE LAW?
WHO WAS KING OF JESHURUN?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 33:4-5
4
Moses commanded a law for us, A heritage of the
congregation of Jacob.
5
And He was King in Jeshurun, When the leaders of
the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:11
11
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My
judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them.'
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
LEVITICUS 18:4-5
4
You shall observe My judgments and keep My
ordinances, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God.
5
You shall therefore keep My statutes and My
judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I
am the LORD.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:11
11
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My
judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them.'
HOW DID ISRAEL RESPOND TO THE LORD?
READ: DEUTERONOMY 4:7-8
7 "For what great nation is there that has God so near
to it, as the LORD our God is to us, for whatever reason
we may call upon Him?
8 And what great nation is there that has such statutes
and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set
before you this day?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:11
11
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My
judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them.'
WHAT DID PAUL SAY ABOUT THIS?
READ:
JEREMIAH 23:16
16
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the
words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make
you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the LORD. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:11
11
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My
judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them.'
WHAT DID MOSES WRITE ABOUT THE LAW?
READ: ROMANS 10:5
5
For Moses writes about the righteousness which is
of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by
them."
WHAT DID PAUL SAY ABOUT THIS?
READ: GALATIANS 3:12
12 Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who does
them shall live by them." NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:12
12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a
sign between them and Me, that they might know that I
am the LORD who sanctifies them.
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE ISRAEL HIS SABBATHS?
READ:
EXODUS 20:8-10
8
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD
your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son,
nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your
female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is
within your gates. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:12
12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a
sign between them and Me, that they might know that I
am the LORD who sanctifies them.
WHAT IS THE SABBATH DAY?
READ:
GENESIS 2:2-3
2
And on the seventh day God ended His work which
He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all
His work which He had done.
3
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified
it, because in it He rested from all His work which God
had created and made. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:12
12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a
sign between them and Me, that they might know that I
am the LORD who sanctifies them.
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE ISRAEL HIS SABBATHS?
READ:
EXODUS 31:13-14
13
"Speak also to the children of Israel, saying:
'Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign
between Me and you throughout your generations, that
you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
READ:
LEVITICUS 20:7-8
7
Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I
am the LORD your God.
8
And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them:
I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:12
12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a
sign between them and Me, that they might know that I
am the LORD who sanctifies them.
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE ISRAEL HIS SABBATHS?
READ: DUETERONOMY 5:14-15
15
And remember that you were a slave in the land of
Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from
there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm;
therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep
the Sabbath day. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:12
12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a
sign between them and Me, that they might know that I
am the LORD who sanctifies them.
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE ISRAEL HIS SABBATHS?
READ: NEHEMIAH 9:14
14 You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, And
commanded them precepts, statutes and laws, By the
hand of Moses Your servant. NKJV
HOW DID ISRAEL RESPOND?
READ:
JEREMIAH 17:23
23
But they did not obey nor incline their ear, but
made their neck stiff, that they might not hear nor receive
instruction. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:12
12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a
sign between them and Me, that they might know that I
am the LORD who sanctifies them.
WHY SHOULD ISRAEL KEEP THE SABBATHS?
READ: ISAIAH 58:13-14
13
"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From
doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath
a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor
finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own
words,
14
Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; And I
will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, And
feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The
mouth of the LORD has spoken."
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:13-14
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the
wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they
despised My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall
live by them'; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then
I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness,
to consume them.
14
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not
be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had
brought them out.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:13-14
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the
wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they
despised My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall
live by them'; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then
I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness,
to consume them.
14
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not
be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had
brought them out.
WHAT DID ISRAEL FAIL TO DO?
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:13
13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the
wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they
despised My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall
live by them'; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then
I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness,
to consume them.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
READ:
EXODUS 32:9-10
9
And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this
people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people!
10
Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may
burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I
will make of you a great nation."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:13
DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL?
READ:
LEVITICUS 26:14-17
14
'But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all
these commandments,
15
and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul
abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My
commandments, but break My covenant,
16
I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror
over you, wasting disease and fever which shall
consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you
shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17
I will set My face against you, and you shall be
defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall
reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues
you. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:13
13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the
wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they
despised My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall
live by them'; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then
I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness,
to consume them.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
LEVITICUS 26:43
43
The land also shall be left empty by them, and will
enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they despised My
judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:13
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
NUMBERS 14:29-32
29
The carcasses of you who have complained
against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who
were numbered, according to your entire number, from
twenty years old and above.
30
Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua
the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land
which I swore I would make you dwell in.
31
But your little ones, whom you said would be
victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which
you have despised.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:13
13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the
wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they
despised My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall
live by them'; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then
I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness,
to consume them.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 9:7-8
7
"Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the
LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day
that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came
to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
8
Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so
that the LORD was angry enough with you to have
destroyed you.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:13
13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the
wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they
despised My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall
live by them'; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then
I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness,
to consume them.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
PSALMS 78:40-41
40
How often they provoked Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!
41
Yes, again and again they tempted God, And
limited the Holy One of Israel.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:13
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
PSALMS 95:8-10
8
"Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,
As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
9
When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me,
though they saw My work.
10
For forty years I was grieved with that generation,
And said, 'It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.'
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:13
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 6:19
19
Hear, O earth! Behold, I will certainly bring calamity
on this people — The fruit of their thoughts,
Because they have not heeded My words Nor My law, but
rejected it. NKJV
READ:
JEREMIAH 11:8
8
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but
everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart; therefore
I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant,
which I commanded them to do, but which they have not
done.'"
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:14
14
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not
be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had
brought them out.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHAT WOULD THE EGYPTIANS SAY?
READ:
EXODUS 32:12
12
Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, 'He
brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the
mountains, and to consume them from the face of the
earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this
harm to Your people.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:14
14
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not
be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had
brought them out.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHAT WOULD THE EGYPTIANS SAY?
READ:
NUMBERS 14:13-14
13
And Moses said to the LORD: "Then the Egyptians
will hear it, for by Your might You brought these people
up from among them,
14
and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land.
They have heard that You, LORD, are among these
people; that You, LORD, are seen face to face and Your
cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a
pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:14
14
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not
be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had
brought them out.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 48:11
11
For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For
how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My
glory to another. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:15-17
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
15
So I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the
wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land
which I had given them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands,
16
because they despised My judgments and did not
walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their
heart went after their idols.
17
Nevertheless My eye spared them from
destruction. I did not make an end of them in the
wilderness.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:15-17
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
15
So I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the
wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land
which I had given them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands,
16
because they despised My judgments and did not
walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their
heart went after their idols.
17
Nevertheless My eye spared them from
destruction. I did not make an end of them in the
wilderness.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:15
15
So I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the
wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land
which I had given them, 'flowing with milk and honey,' the
glory of all lands,
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? WHY?
WHO DID MOSES SEND OUT AS SPIES?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 1:23-24
23
"The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of your
men, one man from each tribe.
24
And they departed and went up into the mountains,
and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:15
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM?
WHY?
READ:
PSALMS 95:10-11
10
For forty years I was grieved with that generation,
And said, 'It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.'
11
So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My
rest.'"
NKJV
READ:
PSALMS 106:26-27
26
Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against
them, To overthrow them in the wilderness,
27
To overthrow their descendants among the
nations, And to scatter them in the lands. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:16
16
because they despised My judgments and did not
walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their
heart went after their idols.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? WHY?
READ:
NUMBERS 14:22-23
22
Because all these men who have seen My glory
and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness,
and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and
have not heeded My voice,
23
they certainly shall not see the land of which I
swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who
rejected Me see it. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:16
16
because they despised My judgments and did not
walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their
heart went after their idols.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? WHY?
READ:
PSALMS 78:37
37
For their heart was not steadfast with Him, Nor
were they faithful in His covenant.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:16
16
because they despised My judgments and did not
walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their
heart went after their idols.
WHAT DID THE LORD ASK THEM?
WHY?
READ:
AMOS 5:25
25
"Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the
wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:16
16
because they despised My judgments and did not
walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their
heart went after their idols.
HOW DID THE LORD THEY RESPOND?
READ:
JEREMIAH 11:7-8
7
For I earnestly exhorted your fathers in the day I
brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day,
rising early and exhorting, saying, "Obey My voice."
8
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but
everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart; therefore
I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant,
which I commanded them to do, but which they have not
done.'"
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:16
16
because they despised My judgments and did not
walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their
heart went after their idols.
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
WHY?
READ:
AMOS 2:4-5
4
Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of
Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they have despised the law of the LORD, And
have not kept His commandments. Their lies lead them
astray, Lies which their fathers followed.
5
But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall
devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:17
17
Nevertheless My eye spared them from
destruction. I did not make an end of them in the
wilderness.
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEIR INQUITY?
WHY?
READ:
PSALMS 78:38-39
38
But He, being full of compassion, forgave their
iniquity, And did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He
turned His anger away, And did not stir up all His wrath;
39
For He remembered that they were but flesh, A
breath that passes away and does not come again. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:17
17
Nevertheless My eye spared them from
destruction. I did not make an end of them in the
wilderness.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM? WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 4:27
27
For thus says the LORD: "The whole land shall be
desolate; Yet I will not make a full end.
NKJV
READ:
JEREMIAH 30:11
11 For I am with you,' says the LORD, 'to save you;
Though I make a full end of all nations where I have
scattered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you.
But I will correct you in justice, And will not let you go
altogether unpunished.' NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:18-20
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
18
"But I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do
not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their
judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
19
I am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, keep
My judgments, and do them;
20
hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign
between Me and you, that you may know that I am the
LORD your God.'
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:18-20
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
18
"But I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do
not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their
judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
19
I am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, keep
My judgments, and do them;
20
hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign
between Me and you, that you may know that I am the
LORD your God.'
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:18
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
18
"But I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do
not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their
judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISARAEL?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 1:4
4
"Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former
prophets preached, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of
hosts: "Turn now from your evil ways and your evil
deeds."' But they did not hear nor heed Me," says the
LORD.
NKJV
READ:
PSALMS 106:39
39
Thus they were defiled by their own works, And
played the harlot by their own deeds.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:19
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
19
I am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, keep
My judgments, and do them;
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
EXODUS 20:2-3
2
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3
"You shall have no other gods before Me. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:19
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
19
I am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, keep
My judgments, and do them;
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 5:32-33
32
"Therefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD
your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside
to the right hand or to the left.
33
You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your
God has commanded you, that you may live and that it
may be well with you, and that you may prolong your
days in the land which you shall possess. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:19
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
19
I am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, keep
My judgments, and do them;
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 6:1-2
THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT
1
"Now this is the commandment, and these are the
statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has
commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in
the land which you are crossing over to possess,
2
that you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all
His statutes and His commandments which I command
you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of
your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:20
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
20
hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign
between Me and you, that you may know that I am the
LORD your God.'
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
EXODUS 20:8-10
8
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10
But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD
your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son,
nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your
female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is
within your gates. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:20
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
20
hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign
between Me and you, that you may know that I am the
LORD your God.'
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
EXODUS 31:13-14
13
"Speak also to the children of Israel, saying:
'Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign
between Me and you throughout your generations, that
you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
14
You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy
to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to
death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall
be cut off from among his people.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:20
THE REBELLIONS OF ISRAEL
20
hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign
between Me and you, that you may know that I am the
LORD your God.'
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
JEREMIAH 17:21-23
21
Thus says the LORD: "Take heed to yourselves,
and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by
the gates of Jerusalem;
22
nor carry a burden out of your houses on the
Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath
day, as I commanded your fathers.
23
But they did not obey nor incline their ear, but
made their neck stiff, that they might not hear nor receive
instruction.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:21-22
21
"Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me;
they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to
observe My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall
live by them'; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said
I would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger
against them in the wilderness.
22
Nevertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My
name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of
the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:21-22
21
"Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me;
they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to
observe My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall
live by them'; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said
I would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger
against them in the wilderness.
22
Nevertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My
name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of
the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.
WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO?
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:21
21
"Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me;
they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to
observe My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live
by them'; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I
would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger
against them in the wilderness.
WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO?
WHAT DID MOSES SAY ABOUT THEM?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 31:27
27
for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. If
today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been
rebellious against the LORD, then how much more after
my death? NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:21
21
"Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me;
they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to
observe My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live
by them'; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I
would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger
against them in the wilderness.
WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO?
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
READ:
NUMBERS 25:1-4
1
Now Israel remained in Acacia Grove, and the
people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.
2
They invited the people to the sacrifices of their
gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
3
So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger
of the LORD was aroused against Israel.
4
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders
of the people and hang the offenders before the LORD,
out in the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn
away from Israel."
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:21
21
"Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me;
they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to
observe My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live
by them'; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I
would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger
against them in the wilderness.
WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO?
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
READ:
JEREMIAH 7:25-26
25
Since the day that your fathers came out of the land
of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My
servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending
them.
26
Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but
stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:21-22
21
"Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me;
they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to
observe My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live
by them'; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I
would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger
against them in the wilderness.
WHAT DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DO?
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:7-8
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.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:22
22
Nevertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My
name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of
the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
WHY?
READ:
PSALMS 78:38-39
38
But He, being full of compassion, forgave their
iniquity, And did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He
turned His anger away, And did not stir up all His wrath;
39
For He remembered that they were but flesh, A
breath that passes away and does not come again. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:22
22
Nevertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My
name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of
the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 48:11
11
For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For
how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My
glory to another. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:23-24
23
Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in the
wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles
and disperse them throughout the countries,
24
because they had not executed My judgments, but
had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and
their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:23-24
23
Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in the
wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles
and disperse them throughout the countries,
24
because they had not executed My judgments, but
had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and
their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.
DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
WHY DID THE LORD REJECT ISRAEL?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:23
23
Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in the
wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles
and disperse them throughout the countries,
DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
READ:
LEVITICUS 26:33-35
33
I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a
sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your
cities waste.
34
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it
lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land; then the
land shall rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
35
As long as it lies desolate it shall rest — for the
time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in
it. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:23
23
Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in the
wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles
and disperse them throughout the countries,
DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 28:64
64
Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples,
from one end of the earth to the other, and there you
shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your
fathers have known — wood and stone.
NKJV
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 29:4
4
Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive
and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:23
23
Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in the
wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles
and disperse them throughout the countries,
DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
READ:
PSALMS 9:12
12
When He avenges blood, He remembers them; He
does not forget the cry of the humble. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:24
24
because they had not executed My judgments, but
had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and
their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 2:3
3
And He said to me: "Son of man, I am sending you
to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has
rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have
transgressed against Me to this very day. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:24
24
because they had not executed My judgments, but
had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and
their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.
DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 6:9
9
Then those of you who escape will remember Me
among the nations where they are carried captive,
because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which
has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the
harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the
evils which they committed in all their abominations.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:24
24
because they had not executed My judgments, but
had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and
their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.
DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JUDAH?
READ:
AMOS 2:4
4
Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of
Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they have despised the law of the LORD, And
have not kept His commandments. Their lies lead them
astray, Lies which their fathers followed.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:25-26
25
"Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that
were not good, and judgments by which they could not
live;
26
and I pronounced them unclean because of their
ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass
through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that
they might know that I am the LORD."'
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:25-26
25
"Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that
were not good, and judgments by which they could not
live;
26
and I pronounced them unclean because of their
ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass
through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that
they might know that I am the LORD."'
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE ISRAEL STATUTES?
HOW DID ISRAEL BECOME UNCLEAN?
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE THEM UP?
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:25
25
"Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that
were not good, and judgments by which they could not
live;
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE ISRAEL STATUTES?
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE THEM UP?
READ:
PSALMS 81:12
12
I gave them over to their own stubborn heart,
To walk in their own counsels. NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 66:4
4
“So I will choose their delusions, And bring their
fears on them; Because, when I called, no one answered,
When I spoke they did not hear; But they did evil before
My eyes, And chose that in which I do not delight." NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:25
25
"Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that
were not good, and judgments by which they could not
live;
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE ISRAEL STATUTES?
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE THEM UP?
READ:
ROMANS 1:24-25
24
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,
in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies
among themselves,
25
who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and
worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
NKJV
READ:
ROMANS 1:28-32
28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do
those things which are not fitting;
29
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual
immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;
full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they
are whisperers,
30
backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31
undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving,
unforgiving, unmerciful;
32
death who, knowing the righteous judgment of
God, that those who practice such things are deserving
of, not only do the same but also approve of those who
practice them.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:25
25
"Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that
were not good, and judgments by which they could not
live;
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE ISRAEL STATUTES?
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE THEM UP?
READ:
2 THESSALONIANS 2:11-12
11
And for this reason God will send them strong
delusion, that they should believe the lie,
12
that they all may be condemned who did not
believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:26
26
and I pronounced them unclean because of their
ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass
through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that
they might know that I am the LORD."'
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE ISRAEL STATUTES?
HOW DID ISRAEL BECOME UNCLEAN?
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
EXODUS 13:12
12
You shall set apart to the LORD all that open the
womb, that is, every firstborn that comes from an animal
which you have; the males shall be the LORD‘S. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:26
26
and I pronounced them unclean because of their
ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass
through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that
they might know that I am the LORD."'
HOW DID ISRAEL BECOME UNCLEAN?
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
LEVITICUS 18:21
21
And you shall not let any of your descendants
pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the
name of your God: I am the LORD. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:26
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
LEVITICUS 20:2-5
2
"Again, you shall say to the children of Israel:
'Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who
dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to
Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the
land shall stone him with stones.
3
I will set My face against that man, and will cut him
off from his people, because he has given some of his
descendants to Molech, to defile My sanctuary and
profane My holy name.
4
And if the people of the land should in any way
hide their eyes from the man, when he gives some of his
descendants to Molech, and they do not kill him,
5
then I will set My face against that man and against
his family; and I will cut him off from his people, and all
who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry
with Molech.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:26
26
and I pronounced them unclean because of their
ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass
through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that
they might know that I am the LORD."'
HOW DID ISRAEL BECOME UNCLEAN?
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 18:10-12
10
There shall not be found among you anyone who
makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or
one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one
who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
11
or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a
spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:26
26
and I pronounced them unclean because of their
ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass
through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that
they might know that I am the LORD."'
HOW DID ISRAEL BECOME UNCLEAN?
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE UP ON ISRAEL?
READ:
2 KINGS 17:17-18
17
And they caused their sons and daughters to pass
through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying,
and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD,
to provoke Him to anger.
18
Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel,
and removed them from His sight; there was none left but
the tribe of Judah alone. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:27-28
27
"Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of
Israel, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "In this
too your fathers have blasphemed Me, by being
unfaithful to Me.
28
When I brought them into the land concerning
which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and
they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there
they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their
offerings. There they also sent up their sweet aroma and
poured out their drink offerings.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:27-28
27
"Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of
Israel, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "In this
too your fathers have blasphemed Me, by being
unfaithful to Me.
28
When I brought them into the land concerning
which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and
they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there
they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their
offerings. There they also sent up their sweet aroma and
poured out their drink offerings.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
HOW DID ISRAEL BRING REPROACH ON THE LORD?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:27
27
"Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of
Israel, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "In this
too your fathers have blasphemed Me, by being
unfaithful to Me.
HOW DID ISRAEL BRING REPROACH ON THE LORD?
READ:
NUMBERS 15:30-31
30
The person who does anything presumptuously,
whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings
reproach on the LORD, and he shall be cut off from
among his people.
31
Because he has despised the word of the LORD,
and has broken His commandment, that person shall be
completely cut off; his guilt shall be upon him.
NKJV
READ:
ROMANS 2:24
24
"the name of God is blasphemed among the
Gentiles because of you," as it is written. NJKV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:28
28
When I brought them into the land concerning
which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and
they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there
they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their
offerings. There they also sent up their sweet aroma and
poured out their drink offerings.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO FOR THEM?
READ:
NEHEMIAH 9:23
23
You multiplied their children as the stars of
heaven, And brought them into the land Which You had
told their fathers To go in and possess.
NKJV
READ:
PSALMS 78:55
55
He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted
of Israel dwell in their tents.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:28
28
When I brought them into the land concerning
which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and
they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there
they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their
offerings. There they also sent up their sweet aroma and
poured out their drink offerings.
HOW DID ISRAEL BRING REPROACH ON THE LORD?
READ:
PSALMS 78:56-58
56
Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God,
And did not keep His testimonies,
57
But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their
fathers; They were them an inheritance by survey, And
made the tribes turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58
For they provoked Him to anger with their high
places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved
images.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:28
HOW DID ISRAEL BRING REPROACH ON THE LORD?
READ:
JEREMIAH 2:7
7
I brought you into a bountiful country, To eat its
fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled
My land And made My heritage an abomination. NKJV
READ:
JEREMIAH 3:6
6
The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the
king: "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done?
She has gone up on every high mountain and under
every green tree, and there played the harlot. NKJV
READ:
JEREMIAH 19:13
13
And all the houses on whose roofs they have
burned incense the houses of Jerusalem and the houses
of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of
Tophet, because of to all the host of heaven, and poured
out drink offerings to other gods.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:28
WHY DID THE LORD HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE?
READ:
EZEKIEL 18:24
24
But when a righteous man turns away from his
righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according
to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall
he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall
not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of
which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed,
because of them he shall die. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:29-30
29
Then I said to them, 'What is this high place to
which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."‘
30
Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the
Lord GOD: "Are you defiling yourselves in the manner of
your fathers, and committing harlotry according to their
abominations?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:29-30
29
Then I said to them, 'What is this high place to
which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."‘
30
Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the
Lord GOD: "Are you defiling yourselves in the manner of
your fathers, and committing harlotry according to their
abominations?
WHY IS IT CALLED BAMAH?
“HIGH PLACE”?
WHAT DID THEY GO TO WORSHIP?
DID THE LORD TELL THEM WHERE TO WORSHIP?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:29
29
Then I said to them, 'What is this high place to
which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."‘
WHY IS IT CALLED BAMAH?
“HIGH PLACE”?
WHAT DID THE PEOPLE SAY TO SAUL?
WHAT WAS SAMUEL DOING?
READ:
1 SAMUEL 9:12
12
And they answered them and said, "Yes, there he
is, just ahead of you. Hurry now; for today he came to
this city, because there is a sacrifice of the people today
on the high place. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:29
29
Then I said to them, 'What is this high place to
which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."‘
WHY IS IT CALLED BAMAH?
“HIGH PLACE”?
WHERE DID SOLOMON GO TO WORSHIP? WHY?
2 CHRONICLES 1:3
3
Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to
the high place that was at Gibeon; for the tabernacle of
meeting with God was there, which Moses the servant of
the LORD had made in the wilderness.
NKJV
1 KINGS 3:4
4
The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that
was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand
burnt offerings on that altar.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:29
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL? WHY?
WHERE DID THE LORD WANT ISRAEL TO WORSHIP?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 12:2-5
2
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the
nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on
the high mountains and on the hills and under every
green tree.
3
And you shall destroy their altars, break their
sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire;
you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and
destroy their names from that place.
4
You shall not worship the LORD your God with
such things.
5
"But you shall seek the place where the LORD your
God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for
His dwelling place; and there you shall go.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:29
29
Then I said to them, 'What is this high place to
which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."‘
WHY IS IT CALLED BAMAH?
“HIGH PLACE”?
WHERE DID ISRAEL GO TO WORSHIP?
READ:
EZEKIEL 16:16
16
You took some of your garments and adorned
multicolored high places for yourself, and played the
harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:30
30
Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the
Lord GOD: "Are you defiling yourselves in the manner of
your fathers, and committing harlotry according to their
abominations?
WHAT DID THE LORD ASK THEM?
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE THEM JUDGES?
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE JUDGES DIED?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:30
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE THEM JUDGES?
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE JUDGES DIED?
READ:
JUDGES 2:16-17
16
Nevertheless, the LORD raised up judges who
delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered
them.
17
Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they
played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to
them. They turned quickly from the way in which their
fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the
LORD; they did not do so.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:30
WHY DID THE LORD GIVE THEM JUDGES?
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE JUDGES DIED?
READ:
JUDGES 2:18-19
18
And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the
LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of the
hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the
LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of
those who oppressed them and harassed them.
19
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead,
that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their
fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and bow
down to them. They did not cease from their own doings
nor from their stubborn way. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:30
30
Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the
Lord GOD: "Are you defiling yourselves in the manner of
your fathers, and committing harlotry according to their
abominations?
WHAT DID THE LORD ASK THEM?
WHY WERE THEY WORSE THAN THEIR FATHERS?
READ:
JEREMIAH 16:12
12
And you have done worse than your fathers, for
behold, each one follows the dictates of his own evil
heart, so that no one listens to Me.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:31-32
31
For when you offer your gifts and make your sons
pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your
idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, O
house of Israel? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not
be inquired of by you.
32
What you have in your mind shall never be, when
you say, 'We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in
other countries, serving wood and stone.'
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:31-32
31
For when you offer your gifts and make your sons
pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your
idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, O
house of Israel? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not
be inquired of by you.
32
What you have in your mind shall never be, when
you say, 'We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in
other countries, serving wood and stone.'
WHAT WAS IN THE MINDS OF THE ISRAELITES?
WHAT DID THE KING OF MOAB DO? WHY?
READ:
2 KINGS 3:26-27
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:31-32
32
What you have in your mind shall never be, when
you say, 'We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in
other countries, serving wood and stone.'
WHAT WAS IN THE MINDS OF THE ISRAELITES?
WHAT DID THE KING OF MOAB DO?
READ:
2 KINGS 3:26-27
26
And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was
too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred men
who drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom,
but they could not.
27
Then he took his eldest son who would have
reigned in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering
upon the wall; and there was great indignation against
Israel. So they departed from him and returned to their
own land. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:31-32
32
What you have in your mind shall never be, when
you say, 'We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in
other countries, serving wood and stone.'
WHAT WAS IN THE MINDS OF THE ISRAELITES?
WHAT DID ISRAEL DO?
READ:
PSALMS 106:37-39
37
They even sacrificed their sons And their
daughters to demons,
38
And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons
and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of
Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.
39
Thus they were defiled by their own works, And
played the harlot by their own deeds. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:31-32
32
What you have in your mind shall never be, when
you say, 'We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in
other countries, serving wood and stone.'
WHAT WAS IN THE MINDS OF THE ISRAELITES?
WHAT DID ISRAEL DO?
READ:
EZEKIEL 16:20-22
20
"Moreover you took your sons and your daughters,
whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them
to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,
21
that you have slain My children and offered them
up to them by causing them to pass through the fire?
22
And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry
you did not remember the days of your youth, when you
were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:31-32
32
What you have in your mind shall never be, when
you say, 'We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in
other countries, serving wood and stone.'
WHAT WAS IN THE MINDS OF THE ISRAELITES?
WHAT DID ISRAEL DO?
READ:
JEREMIAH 7:31
31
And they have built the high places of Tophet,
which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their
sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not
command, nor did it come into My heart.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:31-32
32
What you have in your mind shall never be, when
you say, 'We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in
other countries, serving wood and stone.'
WHAT WAS IN THE MINDS OF THE ISRAELITES?
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
READ:
EZEKIEL 14:13
13
"Son of man, when a land sins against Me by
persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand
against it; I will cut off its supply of bread, send famine
on it, and cut off man and beast from it.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:31-32
32
What you have in your mind shall never be, when
you say, 'We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in
other countries, serving wood and stone.'
WHAT WAS IN THE MINDS OF THE ISRAELITES?
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
WHY?
READ:
AMOS 8:12
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 20:31-32
32
What you have in your mind shall never be, when
you say, 'We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in
other countries, serving wood and stone.'
WHAT WAS IN THE MINDS OF THE ISRAELITES?
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 7:13-8:1
13
Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed
and they would not hear, so they called out and I would
not listen," says the LORD of hosts.
14
"But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all
the nations which they had not known. Thus the land
became desolate after them, so that no one passed
through or returned; for they made the pleasant land
desolate." NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:33-34
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
33
"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a
mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury
poured out, I will rule over you.
34
I will bring you out from the peoples and gather
you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a
mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury
poured out.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:33-34
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
33
"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a
mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury
poured out, I will rule over you.
34
I will bring you out from the peoples and gather
you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a
mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury
poured out.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:33
33
"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a
mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury
poured out, I will rule over you.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
WHY?
HOW DID THE LORD DELIVER ISRAEL?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 4:34
34
Did God ever try to go and take for Himself a
nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by
signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an
outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all
that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your
eyes? NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:33
33
"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a
mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury
poured out, I will rule over you.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
WHY?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 7:15-16
15
The LORD will take away from you all sickness,
and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of
Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all
those who hate you.
16
Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the
LORD your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have
no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that
will be a snare to you.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:33
33
"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a
mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury
poured out, I will rule over you.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
WHY?
READ:
EZEKIEL 16:27-29
27
"Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against
you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the
will of those who hate you, the daughters of the
Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
28
You also played the harlot with the Assyrians,
because you were insatiable; indeed you played the
harlot with them and still were not satisfied.
29
Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as
far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you
were not satisfied. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:33
33
"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a
mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury
poured out, I will rule over you.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 21:5-6
5
I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched
hand and with a strong arm, even in anger and fury and
great wrath.
6
I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man
and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:33
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
33
"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a
mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury
poured out, I will rule over you.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
WHEN?
READ:
HOSEA 2:14-15
14
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her
into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her.
15
I will give her her vineyards from there, And the
Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there,
As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came
up from the land of Egypt.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:34
34
I will bring you out from the peoples and gather
you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a
mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury
poured out.
WHAT DID THE PSALMIST ASK THE LORD?
WHY?
READ:
PSALMS 106:47
47
Save us, O LORD our God, And gather us from
among the Gentiles, To give thanks to Your holy name,
To triumph in Your praise.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:34
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
IS THIS CONDITIONAL?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 30:4-6
4
If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts
under heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather
you, and from there He will bring you.
5
Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land
which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it.
He will prosper you and multiply you more than your
fathers.
6
And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart
and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD
your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that
you may live. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:34
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
IS THIS CONDITIONAL?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 31:2-3
2
Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster, And will
not call back His words, But will arise against the house
of evildoers, And against the help of those who work
iniquity.
3
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; And
their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD
stretches out His hand, Both he who helps will fall, And
he who is helped will fall down; They all will perish
together.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:34
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
IS THIS CONDITIONAL?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 27:12-13
12
And it shall come to pass in that day That the
LORD will thresh, From the channel of the River to the
Brook of Egypt; And you will be gathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.
13
So it shall be in that day: The great trumpet will be
blown; They will come, who are about to perish in the
land of Assyria, And they who are outcasts in the land of
Egypt, And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at
Jerusalem. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:34
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 44:4-6
4
However I have sent to you all My servants the
prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, "Oh, do
not do this abominable thing that I hate!"
5
But they did not listen or incline their ear to turn
from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
6
So My fury and My anger were poured out and
kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this
day. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:34
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
EZEKIEL 6:14
14
So I will stretch out My hand against them and
make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the
wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places.
Then they shall know that I am the LORD. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:34
READ:
2 CORINTHIANS 6:17-18
17
Therefore "Come out from among them And be
separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you."
18
‘I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons
and daughters, Says the LORD Almighty." NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:35-36
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the
peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to
face.
36
Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case
with you," says the Lord GOD.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:35-36
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the
peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to
face.
36
Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case
with you," says the Lord GOD.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
HOW DID THE LORD PLEAD WITH THEIR FATHERS?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:35
35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the
peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to
face.
WHAT DID SAMUEL SAY TO THE PEOPLE?
WHY?
READ:
1 SAMUEL 12:6-8
6
Then Samuel said to the people, "It is the LORD
who raised up Moses and Aaron, and who brought your
fathers up from the land of Egypt.
7
Now therefore, stand still, that I may reason with
you before the LORD concerning all the righteous acts of
the LORD which He did to you and your fathers: NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:35
35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the
peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to
face.
WHAT DID DANIEL PROPHECY?
PROPHECY OF THE END TIME?
READ:
DANIEL 12:1
1
At that time Michael shall stand up, The great
prince who stands watch over the sons of your people;
And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was
since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that
time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is
found written in the book.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:35
35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the
peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to
face.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 2:9
9
‘Therefore I will yet bring charges against you,
says the LORD, "And against your children's children I
will bring charges.
NKJV
HOW DID THEY RESPOND TO THE LORD?
READ:
JEREMIAH 2:35
35
Yet you say, 'Because I am innocent, Surely His
anger shall turn from me.‘ Behold, I will plead My case
against you, Because you say, 'I have not sinned.' NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:35
35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the
peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to
face.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
GOD PLEADS WITH ISRAEL
READ:
MICAH 6:1-2
1
Hear now what the LORD says: "Arise, plead your
case before the mountains, And let the hills hear your
voice.
2
Hear, O you mountains, the LORD‘S complaint,
And you strong foundations of the earth; For the LORD
has a complaint against His people, And He will contend
with Israel. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:36
36
Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case
with you," says the Lord GOD.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED?
READ: NUMBERS 11:1
1
Now when the people complained, it displeased
the LORD; for the LORD heard it, and His anger was
aroused. So the fire of the LORD burned among them,
and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:36
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED?
READ:
NUMBERS 14:26-29
DEATH SENTENCE ON THE REBELS
25
And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
27
"How long shall I bear with this evil congregation
who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints
which the children of Israel make against Me.
28
Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you
have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:
29
The carcasses of you who have complained
against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who
were numbered, according to your entire number, from
twenty years old and above.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:36
36
Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case
with you," says the Lord GOD.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE COMPLAIN?
READ:
JUDE 1:5
5
I want to remind you, though you once knew this,
that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of
Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:36
READ:
1 CORINTHIANS 10:4-11
5
But with most of them God was not well pleased,
for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6
Now these things became our examples, to the
intent that we should not lust after evil things as they
also lusted.
7
And do not become idolaters as were some of
them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and
drink, and rose up to play."
8
Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of
them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;
9
nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also
tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;
10
nor complain, as some of them also complained,
and were destroyed by the destroyer.
11
Now all these things happened to them as
examples, and they were written for our admonition,
upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:37-38
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
37
"I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring
you into the bond of the covenant;
38
I will purge the rebels from among you, and those
who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the
country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the
land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:37-38
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
37
"I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring
you into the bond of the covenant;
38
I will purge the rebels from among you, and those
who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the
country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the
land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHO DID THE LORD MAKE THE COVENANT WITH?
WHO BROKE THE COVENANT?
WHO WILL THE LORD PURGE FROM AMONG THEM?
WHO WILL ENTER HIS REST?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:37
37
"I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring
you into the bond of the covenant;
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
‘I will make you pass under the rod’
READ:
LEVITICUS 27:32
32
And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of
whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be
holy to the LORD. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:37
37
"I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring
you into the bond of the covenant;
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
‘I will bring you into the bond of the covenant‘
WHO DID THE LORD MAKE THE COVENANT WITH?
READ:
NEHEMIAH 9:8
8
You found his heart faithful before You, And made
a covenant with him To give the land of the Canaanites,
The Hittites, the Amorites, The Perizzites, the Jebusites,
And the Girgashites — To give it to his descendants.
You have performed Your words, For You are righteous.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:37
37
"I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring
you into the bond of the covenant;
WHO DID THE LORD MAKE THE COVENANT WITH?
WHO BROKE THE COVENANT?
READ:
NEHEMIAH 9:26
26
"Nevertheless they were disobedient And rebelled
against You, Cast Your law behind their backs And killed
Your prophets, who testified against them To turn them
to Yourself; And they worked great provocations. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:37
WHO DID THE LORD MAKE THE COVENANT WITH?
WHO BROKE THE COVENANT?
READ:
NEHEMIAH 9:32
32
"Now therefore, our God, The great, the mighty,
and awesome God, Who keeps covenant and mercy: Do
not let all the trouble seem small before You That has
come upon us, Our kings and our princes, Our priests
and our prophets, Our fathers and on all Your people,
From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
READ:
NEHEMIAH 9:38
38
"And because of all this, We make a sure covenant
and write it; Our leaders, our Levites, and our priests seal
it.”
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:37
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
37
"I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring
you into the bond of the covenant;
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
READ:
ISAIAH 52:1-2
GOD REDEEMS JERUSALEM
1
Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; Put
on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean Shall no longer
come to you.
2
Shake yourself from the dust, arise; Sit down, O
Jerusalem! Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion!
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:37
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 54:10-13
10
For the mountains shall depart And the hills be
removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you,
Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,” Says the
LORD, who has mercy on you.
11
"O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, and not
comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful
gems, And lay your foundations with sapphires.
12
I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates of
crystal, And all your walls of precious stones.
13
All your children shall be taught by the LORD,
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:37
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 33:13
13
In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the
lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of
Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the
cities of Judah, the flocks shall again pass under the
hands of him who counts them,' says the LORD. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 16:62-63
62
And I will establish My covenant with you. Then
you shall know that I am the LORD,
63
that you may remember and be ashamed, and
never open your mouth anymore because of your shame,
when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,"
says the Lord GOD.'"
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:37
37
"I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring
you into the bond of the covenant;
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
MICAH 7:14
14
Shepherd Your people with Your staff, The flock of
Your heritage, Who dwell solitarily in a woodland, In the
midst of Carmel; Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,
As in days of old. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:37
37
"I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring
you into the bond of the covenant;
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
READ:
JOHN 10:27-29
27
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and
they follow Me.
28
And I give them eternal life, and they shall never
perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
29
My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater
than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My
Father's hand.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:38
38
I will purge the rebels from among you, and those
who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the
country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the
land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
WHO WILL THE LORD PURGE FROM AMONG THEM?
WHY?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 13:8-9
8
And it shall come to pass in all the land,” Says the
LORD, "That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But
one-third shall be left in it:
9
I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine
them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will
say, 'This is My people'; And each one will say, 'The
LORD is my God.'”
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:38
WHO WILL THE LORD PURGE FROM AMONG THEM?
WHY?
READ:
EZEKIEL 13:9
9
My hand will be against the prophets who envision
futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the
assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of
the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of
Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
READ:
JEREMIAH 44:13-14
13
I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt,
as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by famine,
and by pestilence,
14
so that none of the remnant of Judah who have
gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there shall escape or
survive, lest they return to the land of Judah, to which
they desire to return and dwell. For none shall return
except those who escape.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:38
38
I will purge the rebels from among you, and those
who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the
country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the
land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
WHO WILL THE LORD PURGE FROM AMONG THEM?
WHY?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 13:8-9
8
And it shall come to pass in all the land,” Says the
LORD, "That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But
one-third shall be left in it:
9
I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine
them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will
say, 'This is My people'; And each one will say, 'The
LORD is my God.'”
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:38
38
I will purge the rebels from among you, and those
who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the
country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the
land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
WHO WILL THE LORD PURGE FROM AMONG THEM?
WHY?
READ:
AMOS 9:9-10
9
"For surely I will command, And will sift the house
of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve;
Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.
10
All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
Who say, 'The calamity shall not overtake nor confront
us.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:38
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
38
I will purge the rebels from among you, and those
who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the
country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the
land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
WHO WILL THE LORD PURGE FROM AMONG THEM?
WHY?
READ:
HOSEA 2:14
GOD'S MERCY ON HIS PEOPLE
14
'Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her
into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:38
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
38
I will purge the rebels from among you, and those
who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the
country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the
land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
WHO WILL THE LORD PURGE FROM AMONG THEM?
WHY?
READ:
MALACHI 3:3
3
He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He
will purify the sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and
silver, That they may offer to the LORD An offering in
righteousness.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:38
WHO WILL THE LORD PURGE FROM AMONG THEM?
WHY?
WHO WILL ENTER HIS REST?
READ:
MALACHI 4:1-3
1
Behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven,
And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be
stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them
up,” Says the LORD of hosts, "That will leave them
neither root nor branch.
2
But to you who fear My name The Sun of
Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
3
You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be
ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do
this,” Says the LORD of hosts. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:38
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
38
I will purge the rebels from among you, and those
who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the
country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the
land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
WHO WILL ENTER HIS REST?
READ:
HEBREWS 4:3
3
For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He
has said: "So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter
My rest,'” although the works were finished from the
foundation of the world. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:39-40
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
39
"As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord
GOD: "Go, serve every one of you his idols — and
hereafter — if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy
name no more with your gifts and your idols.
40
For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height
of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of
Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will
accept them, and there I will require your offerings and
the first-fruits of your sacrifices, together with all your
holy things.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:39-40
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
39
"As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord
GOD: "Go, serve every one of you his idols — and
hereafter — if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy
name no more with your gifts and your idols.
40
For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height
of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of
Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will
accept them, and there I will require your offerings and
the first-fruits of your sacrifices, together with all your
holy things.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:39
39
"As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord
GOD: "Go, serve every one of you his idols — and
hereafter — if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy
name no more with your gifts and your idols.
WHAT DID ELIJAH SAY TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL?
HOW DID ISRAEL RESPOND?
READ:
1 KINGS 18:21
21
Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long
will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God,
follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people
answered him not a word.
NKJV
READ:
2 KINGS 17:40
They did not obey but they followed their former rituals.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:39
39
"As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord
GOD: "Go, serve every one of you his idols — and
hereafter — if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy
name no more with your gifts and your idols.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE HOUSE OF
ISRAEL?WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 44:25
25
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying: 'You and your wives have spoken with your
mouths and fulfilled with your hands, saying, "We will
surely keep our vows that we have made, to burn incense
to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to
her." You will surely keep your vows and perform your
vows.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:39
39
"As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord
GOD: "Go, serve every one of you his idols — and
hereafter — if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy
name no more with your gifts and your idols.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE HOUSE OF
ISRAEL?WHY?
READ:
EZEKIEL 13:19
19
Will you profane Me among My people for handfuls
of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who
should not die, and keeping people alive who should not
live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies? NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:39
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL?
READ:
AMOS 5:21-22
21
I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor
your sacred assemblies.
22
Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your
grain offerings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard
your fattened peace offerings. NKJV
READ:
AMOS 5:25-26
25
"Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the
wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26
You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun,
your idols, The star of your gods, Which you made for
yourselves. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:39
39
"As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord
GOD: "Go, serve every one of you his idols — and
hereafter — if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy
name no more with your gifts and your idols.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL?
WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO THE JEWS?
READ:
MATTHEW 6:24
24
"No one can serve two masters; for either he will
hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to
the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and
mammon. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:39
WHAT DID GOD SAY TO THE CHURCH AT LAODICEA?
READ:
REVELATION 3:15-16
15
"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor
hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
16
So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither
cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JOHN?
WHY?
READ:
REVELATION 22:11
11
He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is
filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him
be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:40
40
For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height
of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of
Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will
accept them, and there I will require your offerings and
the first-fruits of your sacrifices, together with all your
holy things.
WHAT WILLTHE LORD DO ON HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN?
WHEN?
READ:
ISAIAH 2:2-3
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:40
WHAT WILLTHE LORD DO ON HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN?
WHEN?
READ:
ISAIAH 2:2-3
2
Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That
the mountain of the LORD's house Shall be established
on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above
the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.
3
Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let
us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of
the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we
shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the
law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:40
40
For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height
of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of
Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will
accept them, and there I will require your offerings and
the first-fruits of your sacrifices, together with all your
holy things.
WHO WILLTHE LORD BRING TO HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 56:7
7
Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And
make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt
offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My
altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for
all nations.” NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:40
40
For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height
of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of
Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will
accept them, and there I will require your offerings and
the first-fruits of your sacrifices, together with all your
holy things.
WHO WILL THE LORD BRING TO HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN?
READ:
ISAIAH 60:7
7
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together
to you, The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; They
shall ascend with acceptance on My altar, And I will
glorify the house of My glory. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:40
40
For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height
of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of
Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will
accept them, and there I will require your offerings and
the first-fruits of your sacrifices, together with all your
holy things.
WHO WILL THE LORD BRING TO HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN?
WHY?
READ:
MALACHI 3:4
4
"Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem Will be
pleasant to the LORD, As in the days of old, As in former
years.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:40
40
For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height
of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of
Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will
accept them, and there I will require your offerings and
the first-fruits of your sacrifices, together with all your
holy things.
WHO WILL THE LORD BRING TO HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN?
IS THIS CONDITIONAL?
READ:
ROMANS 11:26-27
26
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The
Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away
ungodliness from Jacob;
27
For this is My covenant with them, When I take
away their sins. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:40
40
For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height
of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of
Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will
accept them, and there I will require your offerings and
the first-fruits of your sacrifices, together with all your
holy things.
WHO WILL THE LORD BRING TO HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN?
WHAT KINGDOM IS THIS?
READ:
REVELATION 11:15
15
Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were
loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this
world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His
Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:40
40
For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height
of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of
Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will
accept them, and there I will require your offerings and
the first-fruits of your sacrifices, together with all your
holy things.
WHO WILL THE LORD BRING TO HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN?
WHAT DID JOHN SEE?
READ:
REVELATION 21:2
2
Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:39-44
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
41
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of the
countries where you have been scattered; and I will be
hallowed in you before the Gentiles.
42
Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I
bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for
which I raised My hand in an oath to give to your fathers.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:41-42
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
41
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of the
countries where you have been scattered; and I will be
hallowed in you before the Gentiles.
42
Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I
bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for
which I raised My hand in an oath to give to your fathers.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:41
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
41
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of the
countries where you have been scattered; and I will be
hallowed in you before the Gentiles.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
IS THIS PROMISE CONDITIONAL?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 30:4
4
If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts
under heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather
you, and from there He will bring you.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:41
41
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of the
countries where you have been scattered; and I will be
hallowed in you before the Gentiles.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL? WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 66:18-19
18
"For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall
be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they
shall come and see My glory.
19
I will set a sign among them; and those among
them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish
and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and
Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My
fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory
among the Gentiles.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:41
41
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of the
countries where you have been scattered; and I will be
hallowed in you before the Gentiles.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 33:8
9
Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and
an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear
all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble
for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide
for it.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:41
41
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of the
countries where you have been scattered; and I will be
hallowed in you before the Gentiles.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
WHY?
WHAT WILL ALL THE NATIONS DO?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 14:16
16
And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left
of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go
up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of
hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:41
41
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of the
countries where you have been scattered; and I will be
hallowed in you before the Gentiles.
WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO?
WHY?
READ:
2 CORINTHIANS 2:14-15
14
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in
triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance
of His knowledge in every place.
15
For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among
those who are being saved and among those who are
perishing. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:41
41
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of the
countries where you have been scattered; and I will be
hallowed in you before the Gentiles.
WHAT DOES THE LORD WANT US TO DO?
WHY?
READ:
GALATIANS 5:1-2
1
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.
2
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and
given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God
for a sweet-smelling aroma.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:42
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
42
Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I
bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for
which I raised My hand in an oath to give to your fathers.
WHAT WILL ISRAEL KNOW?
WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN?
READ:
JEREMIAH 30:3
3
For behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD,
'that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and
Judah,' says the LORD. 'And I will cause them to return
to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall
possess it.'”
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:43-44
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
43
And there you shall remember your ways and all
your doings with which you were defiled; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the
evils that you have committed.
44
Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I
have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to
your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings,
O house of Israel," says the Lord GOD.'"
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:43-44
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
43
And there you shall remember your ways and all
your doings with which you were defiled; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the
evils that you have committed.
44
Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I
have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to
your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings,
O house of Israel," says the Lord GOD.'"
WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER?
WHAT WILL THEY KNOW?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:43
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
43
And there you shall remember your ways and all
your doings with which you were defiled; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the
evils that you have committed.
WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER?
WHEN?
READ:
LEVITICUS 26:40-41
40
if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of
their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were
unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary
to Me,
41
and that I also have walked contrary to them and
have brought them into the land of their enemies; NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:43
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
43
And there you shall remember your ways and all
your doings with which you were defiled; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the
evils that you have committed.
WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER?
WHEN?
READ:
JEREMIAH 30:3
3
‘For behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD,
'that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and
Judah,' says the LORD. 'And I will cause them to return
to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall
possess it.'”
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:43
WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER?
WHEN?
READ:
EZEKIEL 14:22-23
22
Yet behold, there shall be left in it a remnant who
will be brought out, both sons and daughters; surely they
will come out to you, and you will see their ways and
their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the
disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, all that I
have brought upon it.
23
And they will comfort you, when you see their
ways and their doings; and you shall know that I have
done nothing without cause that I have done in it," says
the Lord GOD.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:43
WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER?
WHEN?
READ:
EZEKIEL 16:60-63
60
"Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with
you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an
everlasting covenant with you.
61
Then you will remember your ways and be
ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger
sisters; for I will give them to you for daughters, but not
because of My covenant with you.
62
And I will establish My covenant with you. Then
you shall know that I am the LORD,
63
that you may remember and be ashamed, and
never open your mouth anymore because of your shame,
when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,"
says the Lord
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:43
WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER?
WHEN?
READ:
HOSEA 5:15
15
I will return again to My place Till they
acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.
NKJV
READ:
HOSEA 6:1
1
Come, and let us return to the LORD; For He has
torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind
us up.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:43
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
43
And there you shall remember your ways and all
your doings with which you were defiled; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the
evils that you have committed.
WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER?
WHEN?
READ:
HOSEA 3:4-5
4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days
without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar,
without ephod or teraphim.
5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and
seek the LORD their God and David their king. They shall
fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:43
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
43
And there you shall remember your ways and all
your doings with which you were defiled; and you shall
loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the
evils that you have committed.
WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER?
WHEN?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 12:10
10
And I will pour on the house of David and on the
inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and
supplication; then they will look on Me whom they
pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for
his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a
firstborn.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:44
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
44
Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I
have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to
your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings,
O house of Israel," says the Lord GOD.'"
WHAT WILL THEY KNOW?
WHY?
READ:
PSALMS 109:21
21
But You, O GOD the Lord, Deal with me for Your
name's sake; Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:44
GOD WILL RESTORE ISRAEL
44
Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I
have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to
your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings,
O house of Israel," says the Lord GOD.'"
WHAT WILL THEY KNOW?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 43:25-26
25
I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions
for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.
26
Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together;
State your case, that you may be acquitted. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:45-46
FIRE IN THE FOREST
45
Furthermore the word of the LORD came to me,
saying,
46
"Son of man, set your face toward the south;
preach against the south and prophesy against the forest
land, the South,
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:45-46
FIRE IN THE FOREST
45
Furthermore the word of the LORD came to me,
saying,
46
"Son of man, set your face toward the south;
preach against the south and prophesy against the forest
land, the South,
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
WHAT WAS THE LAND OF THE SOUTH?
WHAT HAPPENED TO JUDAH?
WHY?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:46
46
"Son of man, set your face toward the south;
preach against the south and prophesy against the forest
land, the South,
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
WHY?
WHAT LAND DID JUDAH POSSESS?
READ:
JOSHUA 15:1-2
1
This was the lot of the tribe of the children of
Judah according to their families: The border of Edom at
the Wilderness of Zin southward was the extreme
southern boundary.
2
And their southern border began at the shore of
the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:46
46
"Son of man, set your face toward the south;
preach against the south and prophesy against the forest
land, the South,
WHAT DID THE LORD TELL EZEKIEL TO DO?
WHY?
WHAT HAPPENED TO JUDAH?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 13:19
19
The cities of the South shall be shut up, And no
one shall open them; Judah shall be carried away
captive, all of it; It shall be wholly carried away captive.
READ:
JEREMIAH 21:14
14
“But I will punish you according to the fruit of your
doings," says the LORD; "I will kindle a fire in its forest,
And it shall devour all things around it.”
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:46
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE FALSE PROPHETS?
READ:
EZEKIEL 13:15-17
15
“Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and
on those who have plastered it with un-tempered mortar;
and I will say to you, ‘The wall is no more, nor those who
plastered it,
16
that is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy
concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for
her when there is no peace,’” says the Lord GOD.
17
Likewise, son of man, set your face against the
daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own
heart; prophesy against them, NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:46
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE FALSE PROPHETS?
READ:
AMOS 7:16
6
Therefore, hear the word of the LORD: You say, 'Do
not prophesy against Israel, And do not spout against the
house of Isaac.’
NKJV
READ:
MICAH 2:6-7
6
"Do not prattle," you say to those who prophesy.
So they shall not prophesy to you; They shall not return
insult for insult.
7
You who are named the house of Jacob: "Is the
Spirit of the LORD restricted? Are these His doings?
Do not My words do good To him who walks uprightly?”
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:47-48
FIRE IN THE FOREST
47
and say to the forest of the South, 'Hear the word
of the LORD! Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will
kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree
and every dry tree in you; the blazing flame shall not be
quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall
be scorched by it.
48
All flesh shall see that I, the LORD, have kindled it;
it shall not be quenched."'"
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:47-48
FIRE IN THE FOREST
47
and say to the forest of the South, 'Hear the word
of the LORD! Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will
kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree
and every dry tree in you; the blazing flame shall not be
quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall
be scorched by it.
48
All flesh shall see that I, the LORD, have kindled it;
it shall not be quenched."'"
WHAT DID GOD SAY TO THE FOREST?
WHAT WILL ALL FLESH SEE?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:47-48
47
and say to the forest of the South, 'Hear the word
of the LORD! Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will
kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree
and every dry tree in you; the blazing flame shall not be
quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall
be scorched by it.
WHAT DID GOD SAY TO THE FOREST?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 9:18-19
18
For wickedness burns as the fire; It shall devour
the briers and thorns, And kindle in the thickets of the
forest; They shall mount up like rising smoke.
19
Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts The land
is burned up, And the people shall be as fuel for the fire;
No man shall spare his brother.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:47
47
and say to the forest of the South, 'Hear the word
of the LORD! Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will
kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree
and every dry tree in you; the blazing flame shall not be
quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall
be scorched by it.
WHAT DID GOD SAY TO THE FOREST?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 21:14
14
“But I will punish you according to the fruit of your
doings," says the LORD; "I will kindle a fire in its forest,
And it shall devour all things around it.”
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:47
WHAT DID GOD SAY TO THE FOREST?
WHY?
READ:
EZEKIEL 19:12-14
12
But she was plucked up in fury, She was cast down
to the ground, And the east wind dried her fruit.
Her strong branches were broken and withered; The fire
consumed them.
13
And now she is planted in the wilderness, In a dry
and thirsty land.
14
Fire has come out from a rod of her branches And
devoured her fruit, So that she has no strong branch — a
scepter for ruling.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:47-48
FIRE IN THE FOREST
48
All flesh shall see that I, the LORD, have kindled it;
it shall not be quenched."'"
WHAT DID GOD SAY TO THE FOREST?
WHY?
WHAT WILL ALL FLESH SEE?
READ:
JEREMIAH 7:20
20
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, My
anger and My fury will be poured out on this place—on
man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the
fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be
quenched.”
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:49
FIRE IN THE FOREST
49
Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! They say of me, 'Does
he not speak parables?'"
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:49
FIRE IN THE FOREST
49
Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! They say of me, 'Does
he not speak parables?'"
READ:
PSALMS 78:1 -3
1
Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears
to the words of my mouth.
2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark
sayings of old,
3
Which we have heard and known, And our fathers
have told us.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:49
49
Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! They say of me, 'Does
he not speak parables?'"
WHAT DID THE PEOPLE SAY TO EZEKIEL? WHY?
READ:
EZEKIEL 12:9-11
9
“Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the
rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
10
Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “This
burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the
house of Israel who are among them.”’
11
Say, ‘I am a sign to you. As I have done, so shall it
be done to them; they shall be carried away into
captivity.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:49
WHAT DID THE DISCIPLES ASK JESUS?
HOW DID JESUS RESPOND?
READ:
MATTHEW 13:10-14
10
And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do
You speak to them in parables?”
11
He answered and said to them, “Because it has
been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom
of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
12
For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he
will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even
what he has will be taken away from him.
13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because
seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor
do they understand.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 20:49
WHAT DID THE DISCIPLES ASK JESUS?
HOW DID JESUS RESPOND?
READ:
JOHN 16:25-27
25
“These things I have spoken to you in figurative
language; but the time is coming when I will no longer
speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you
plainly about the Father.
26
In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not
say to you that I shall pray the Father for you;
27
for the Father Himself loves you, because you have
loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
NKJV