Ezekiel Part 2 Lesson 7

[1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV] {24} Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

[Zechariah 14:1-11 ESV] {1} Behold, a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. {2} For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. {3} Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. {4} On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. {5} And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. {6} On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. {7} And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light. {8} On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter. {9} And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one. {10} The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. {11} And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

[Ezekiel 43:3 ESV] {3} And the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and just like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar canal. And I fell on my face.

[Ezekiel 40:1-2 ESV] {1} In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me to the city. {2} In visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south.

[Ezekiel 45:6-7 ESV] {6} “Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign for the property of the city an area 5,000 cubits broad and 25,000 cubits long. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel. {7} “And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary

[Hebrews 1:1-14 ESV] {1} Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, {2} but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. {3} He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, {4} having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. {5} For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”? {6} And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.” {7} Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.” {8} But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. {9} You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.” {10} And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; {11} they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment, {12} like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.” {13} And to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? {14} Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

[Acts 4:12 ESV] {12} And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

[Galatians 3:11 ESV] {11} Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

[Galatians 3:24 ESV] {24} So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.

[Revelation 19:11-16 ESV] {11} Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. {12} His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. {13} He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. {14} And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. {15} From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. {16} On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

[Revelation 19:17-21 ESV] {17} Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, “Come, gather for the great supper of God, {18} to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.” {19} And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army. {20} And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. {21} And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

[Revelation 20:1-3 ESV] {1} Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. {2} And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, {3} and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

[Revelation 20:4-6 ESV] {4} Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. {5} The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. {6} Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

[Hebrews 10:5-10 ESV] {5} Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; {6} in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. {7} Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’” {8} When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), {9} then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. {10} And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

[Ephesians 3:1-21 ESV] {1} For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles– {2} assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you, {3} how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. {4} When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, {5} which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. {6} This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. {7} Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power. {8} To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, {9} and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things, {10} so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. {11} This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, {12} in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. {13} So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. {14} For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, {15} from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, {16} that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, {17} so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith–that you, being rooted and grounded in love, {18} may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, {19} and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. {20} Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, {21} to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

[Ephesians 5:25-32 ESV] {25} Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, {26} that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, {27} so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. {28} In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. {29} For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, {30} because we are members of his body. {31} “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” {32} This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

[1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 ESV] {13} But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. {14} For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. {15} For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. {16} For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. {17} Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

[Philippians 1:23 ESV] {23} I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.

[1 Corinthians 15:50-54 ESV] {50} I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. {51} Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, {52} in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. {53} For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. {54} When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

[Revelation 19:7-8, 14 ESV] {7} Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; {8} it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”– for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. … {14} And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.

[Revelation 17:12-14 ESV] {12} And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast. {13} These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast. {14} They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”

[Zechariah 14:5, 9 ESV] {5} And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. … {9} And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one.

[Ezekiel 37:26-28 ESV] {26} I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. {27} My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. {28} Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

[Ezekiel 45:16-17, 21-25 ESV] {16} All the people of the land shall be obliged to give this offering to the prince in Israel. {17} It shall be the prince’s duty to furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel. … {21} “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten. {22} On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering. {23} And on the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering. {24} And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah. {25} In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and for the oil.

[Isaiah 65:19-24 ESV] {19} I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. {20} No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed. {21} They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. {22} They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. {23} They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD, and their descendants with them. {24} Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.

[Matthew 25:31-46 ESV] {31} “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. {32} Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. {33} And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. {34} Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. {35} For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, {36} I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ {37} Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? {38} And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? {39} And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ {40} And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ {41} “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. {42} For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, {43} I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ {44} Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ {45} Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ {46} And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

[Zechariah 14:16-17 ESV] {16} Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths. {17} And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.

[Revelation 20:1-3, 7-10 ESV] {1} Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. {2} And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, {3} and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. … {7} And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison {8} and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. {9} And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, {10} and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

[Matthew 25:34-37 ESV] {34} Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. {35} For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, {36} I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ {37} Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?

[Revelation 21:1 ESV] {1} Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

[Revelation 20:11-15 ESV] {11} Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. {12} And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. {13} And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. {14} Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. {15} And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

[Hebrews 13:10-16 ESV] {10} We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. {11} For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. {12} So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. {13} Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. {14} For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. {15} Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. {16} Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

[Hebrews 11:8-10, 13-16 ESV] {8} By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. {9} By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. {10} For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. … {13} These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. {14} For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. {15} If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. {16} But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

[Ezekiel 3:1-27 ESV] {1} And he said to me, “Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” {2} So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat. {3} And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey. {4} And he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them. {5} For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel– {6} not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. {7} But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. {8} Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. {9} Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.” {10} Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. {11} And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ whether they hear or refuse to hear.” {12} Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great earthquake: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD from its place!” {13} It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and the sound of a great earthquake. {14} The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me. {15} And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days. {16} And at the end of seven days, the word of the LORD came to me: {17} “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. {18} If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. {19} But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. {20} Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand. {21} But if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and you will have delivered your soul.” {22} And the hand of the LORD was upon me there. And he said to me, “Arise, go out into the valley, and there I will speak with you.” {23} So I arose and went out into the valley, and behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the Chebar canal, and I fell on my face. {24} But the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself within your house. {25} And you, O son of man, behold, cords will be placed upon you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people. {26} And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house. {27} But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’ He who will hear, let him hear; and he who will refuse to hear, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

[Ezekiel 33:1-33 ESV] {1} The word of the LORD came to me: {2} “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, {3} and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, {4} then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. {5} He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. {6} But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand. {7} “So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. {8} If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. {9} But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. {10} “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live?’ {11} Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel? {12} “And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins. {13} Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die. {14} Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right, {15} if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die. {16} None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live. {17} “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just. {18} When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it. {19} And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this. {20} Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.” {21} In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has been struck down.” {22} Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute. {23} The word of the LORD came to me: {24} “Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.’ {25} Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land? {26} You rely on the sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land? {27} Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence. {28} And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through. {29} Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed. {30} “As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.’ {31} And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain. {32} And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it. {33} When this comes–and come it will!–then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

[Ezekiel 13:1-23 ESV] {1} The word of the LORD came to me: {2} “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: ‘Hear the word of the LORD!’ {3} Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! {4} Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel. {5} You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD. {6} They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the LORD,’ when the LORD has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. {7} Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Declares the LORD,’ although I have not spoken?” {8} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD. {9} My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord GOD. {10} Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash, {11} say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out. {12} And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the coating with which you smeared it?’ {13} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end. {14} And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD. {15} Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it, {16} the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD. {17} “And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own hearts. Prophesy against them {18} and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive? {19} You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies. {20} “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls whom you hunt go free, the souls like birds. {21} Your veils also I will tear off and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand as prey, and you shall know that I am the LORD. {22} Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life, {23} therefore you shall no more see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. And you shall know that I am the LORD.”

[Ezekiel 22:1-31 ESV] {1} And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, {2} “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations. {3} You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! {4} You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. {5} Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; your name is defiled; you are full of tumult. {6} “Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. {7} Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you. {8} You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths. {9} There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst. {10} In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. {11} One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter. {12} In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD. {13} “Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst. {14} Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it. {15} I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you. {16} And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD.” {17} And the word of the LORD came to me: {18} “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver. {19} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. {20} As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you. {21} I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it. {22} As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD; I have poured out my wrath upon you.” {23} And the word of the LORD came to me: {24} “Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation. {25} The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. {26} Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. {27} Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. {28} And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ when the LORD has not spoken. {29} The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice. {30} And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. {31} Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

[John 8:31 ESV] {31} So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

[2 Peter 3:10-18 ESV] {10} But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. {11} Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, {12} waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! {13} But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. {14} Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. {15} And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, {16} as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. {17} You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. {18} But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.