Today’s passage: Ezekiel 5
Helpful thoughts:
- In the next prophetic picture portrayed, Ezekiel’s hair represents the people of Israel/Jerusalem.
- God’s people were placed in the “center” of the world, where nations travelled through on a regular basis. They were placed there to tell the world about their God, but instead they rejected Him in favor of the world’s ways.
- Through these judgments, God would use Israel to proclaim Himself to the world after all (Verse 13).
Questions to consider:
- How does verse 12 describe the meaning of what God told Ezekiel to do with his hair?
- Why are chapters and prophesies like this so hard to read? What has God promised to do here? What was going to happen to Israel? Why was it going to happen? What would the world know about God?
- How do we balance this information with our knowledge of the love of God given to us through Christ? How might it help us to understand more what happened to Christ at the cross and why His suffering was necessary? How can all of this help us to better understand the terrible nature of our sin, the holiness and justice of God, and then motivate us toward repentance and righteous living?