Ezekiel Chapter 05

Sunday, 12/21/25 at 09:09
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Eze 5:1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s (gal-lawb, only time in OT) razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances (scales) to weigh, and divide (separate) the hair.

Obviously God has decided that Ezekiel has a future in Hollywood, so now he casts him in the role of your friendly neighborhood barber! (I figured I might as well take advantage of every opportunity to exercise my gift of lame humor, as very soon such opportunities shall cease to exist!). He is supposed to find a sharp knife, or more probably a sword, since that would help to enhance and confirm the symbolism of this latest drama of judgment. He is then to shave his head and his face, but to retain the cuttings and weigh them on a scale, in order to equally divide them into 3 parts.

The scale is a common symbol of judgment in the bible, so is very apropos in this scenario. Cutting the hair was a common sign of mourning (see Job 1:20, Is 22:12, Jer 7:29), but the allusion is more likely in line with the following verse:

Isa 7:20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

As Assyria was used to shave Israel, so Babylon will now be used to shave Judah.

Eze 5:2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege (maw-tsore – hemming in, distress) are fulfilled (accomplished): and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife (kheh-reb – cutting instrument, sword,axe): and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind (ruach); and I will draw out a sword (kheh-reb) after them.

Ezekiel is then to take his clippings, and burn a third, chop up the 2nd third, and throw the last third into the wind.

The most probable meaning of burning a third in the midst of the city is that he was supposed to burn them over his miniature that he had made of a besieged Jerusalem in the previous chapter. The last part of the verse indicates that God will not be satisfied in scattering the last third. No, his anger is such that he will continue to pursue them, wherever they flee. There will be no peace to these rebellious souls.

So we see that God wants Ezekiel to act out a second scenario. ‘When the days of the siege are fulfilled’ most likely means that when Ezekiel has completed his 390+40 days of lying on his side, the burning of the third part was to roughly represent the number of people that would be destroyed at the end of the siege of Jerusalem. They are said to be burnt, and who knows how many perished in the flames, once the Chaldeans broke into the city. In either case, these 3 thirds are God’s decision as to the method that this unfortunate generation of Jews would perish, as consequence for their 430 years of rebellion, according to God’s calculations.

Judgment comes in many forms. Some would be burnt alive. Some would perish by the sword. Some would be scattered to the winds, but no matter how far and fast they ran, the sword would continue to pursue them, ensuring that they would find no real escape or rest. Just because you may have escaped judgment round one, did not mean that you were off the hook!

This is a crucial point to keep in mind as we see so many wicked men (and women) seemingly escape the punishment for the several diabolical acts that they have unleashed on an unsuspecting planet. While it is hard to do in the midst of the suffering that they have caused, try to keep in mind the eternal perspective that God is always basing his actions on. For us, a Soros who lives past 90 seems so unjust. For God, a Soros who will spent an eternity screaming in the fires of hell, 90 years of delay in retribution is as nothing in his eyes.

Ezekiel is not being given a typical, or common assignment. God is surely testing the mettle of this prophet. Just how far will he will continue in obedience to the strange commands of the Lord? Recall something that Isaiah was asked to do:

Isa 20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
Isa 20:2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isa 20:3 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
Isa 20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isa 20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Isa 20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

In the midst of several prophecies against the surrounding Gentile nations, God gave Isaiah this word against Egypt and Ethiopia. Not only did he have to speak several words of destruction against all these lands, but God made Isaiah walk naked and barefoot for three years in order to demonstrate the abject humiliation of the people of Egypt and Ethiopia, whom the Israelites placed far too much reliance upon to help them against the Assyrians. We do not know exactly how often Isaiah had to go naked – was it all the time, once each day, or some other set schedule? Regardless, can you imagine the guts it took to obey this command?

And here is where we can talk about the guts (or lack thereof) of our pastors. How many risked getting a ticket by keeping their churches open during covid? How many risked getting their churches vandalized by Antifa and the alphabet crowd by continuing to warn their congregation about the wickedness of all forms of sexual perversion? I mean, who in their right mind wants to attract trouble? From a natural standpoint, it is understandable why the vast majority of pastors are staying silent, in the face of real consequences. But that certainly does not make it right. Only the judgment seat of Christ will reveal the level of guilt and consequence for all those who were too cowardly to stand up for the truth.

Certainly none of us (I hope) are called to walk around naked for three years, or go lay on our side and yell at our model city that we built out of legos for 14 months. We often long for the power that the old time prophets had. But do we have even a fraction of their willingness to obey, no matter how foolish it made them look?

This chapter contains only 17 verses. What we will be introduced to is a preview of the depth of God’s anger over his rebellious people. Note that I said his own people, not the pagans of the eh-rets, or the earth. Not the goy, or the Gentiles. Nothing in the bible causes Yehovah to express his anger more deeply and passionately than the apostasy and wickedness of those who are his own.

I will now summarize all the Hebrew words that are found in this short chapter, that deal with various nuances and expressions of the fearsome anger of God over the sins of his own people:

changed (maw-raw – rebelled, provoked, be made bitter)
wickedness (rish-aw – moral wrongness)
refused (maw-as – spurned, abhor, cast away, disdain, found to be loathsome)
multiplied (haw-mone – tumult of a crowd)
abominations (to-ay-baw – morally disgusting, idolatry).
judgments (sheh-fet – inflict sentencing)
defiled (taw-may – contaminated, polluted)
detestable things (shik-koots – disgusting idolatrous filth)
abominations (to-ay-baw),
diminish (gaw-rah – lessen, make small, scrape you off)
not spare (khoos – pity)
not pity (khaw-mal – compassion)
pestilence (deh-ber – murrain)
famine (raw-awb – hunger, dearth)
consumed (kaw-law – ended)
scatter (zaw-raw – toss about, cast away)
anger (af – enraged as with smoke from the nostril)
accomplished (kaw-law – make a clean riddance of)
fury (khay-maw – heat, poisonous rage)
comforted (naw-kham – avenged, consoled, sigh with pity)
zeal (kin-aw – jealousy, envy)
waste (khor-baw – desolation)
reproach (kher-paw – disgrace, as if exposing the female genitalia)
taunt (ghed-oo-faw – revilement, only time in OT)
instruction (moo-sawr – chastisement, reproof, warning, restraint, correction, rebuke)
astonishment (mesh-am-maw – waste, amazement, desolation)
rebukes (to-khay-kaw – chastisement, reproof)
evil (rah – bad, adverse, exceedingly grievous, miserable, noisome, wretched, vexatious)
arrows (khayts – piercer, wound)
destruction (mash-kheeth – corruption, snare, trap)
destroy (shaw-khath – decay, ruin, corrupt, mar perish, waste)
break (shaw-bar – burst, crush, destroy, tear)
bereave (shaw-kole – miscarry, suffer abortion, make childless, rob you of children)

No one can accuse God of lacking in vocabulary! Ezekiel must have been well educated in order to be able to comprehend all that God wanted to say. A simpler man with a limited vocabulary may not have understood all of what God was speaking. Not that God cannot give someone supernatural complete comprehension of a language, but I have never seen evidence of God working in such a fashion. Sure, he may give you the interpretation of a human tongue on occasion, but as far as understanding your own native language, it is up to you to pursue what you are able to pursue, and let God provide what you cannot.

Take a bit of time to ponder and reflect on all the words above. We will encounter each and every one of them in the last 12 verses of this chapter.

Just how many ways must Yahweh be allowed to express himself before we grasp the dire seriousness of the topic at hand? Is there any topic in the bible that is expressed in so many different words? For example, maybe you would want to compare 1 Corinthians chapter 13, the chapter on love. Fair enough. Love is described using many words. The first major difference is that those are Paul’s words. Inspired by the Spirit, but his words nonetheless. These are God’s words. And he is not describing wrath with many similes, he is stating the absolute reality of his judgments falling on his people, using every imaginable Hebrew word possible, it seems. In 12 verses, he uses up to 33 different words to describe his anger, rage, wrath, and punishments that he is going to bestow upon his own nation. And this is just the beginning.

We are going to find out how God really feels when his own children engage in wilful, unrepentant sin.

It is time to buckle up. We are about to embark on a journey. A journey so stark, so paralyzing, so providing a shock to one’s typical religious sensibilities, that I know that none of you will remain the same once you have completed this journey with me.

Eze 5:3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

God has begun to reveal his intentions in the preceding verse. Basically, all in Judah at this point around 593 BC are going to be judged. God has listed 3 main ways that they will suffer. All involve death of one sort or another.

But wait, what about the remnant? Doesn’t God always have a remnant that he preserves? Well, yes. Or in this case, yes and no.

God instructs Ezekiel to save a few hairs from the pile that he has finished playing around with. A few are to be attached to his garment in some fashion. It is assumed that he is doing all this in front of some sort of prominent audience of the exiled Jews in Babylon, otherwise what would be the point if no one saw this performance? God wants those already exiled (and there have already been 2 deportations to Babylon) to understand that the Jews’ troubles are not over, just because they have already been judged. No, whoever is left will also face God’s wrath. In fact, these exiles should consider themselves very fortunate. When they were judged, God was not in a particularly destructive mood. Yes, they lost house and home. But their lives were spared. Those that escaped round one and round two will not be so blessed. Death in multiple fashions, perhaps even in every way imaginable, is what awaits them.

The bible does teach progressive judgment. Sometimes total judgment seems to occur, as in the case of the flood, or Sodom and Gomorrah. But who knows what sort of warnings those people had beforehand? But when it came to the Hebrews, God sent them warnings time and time again. As judgments fell and the people continued to refuse to repent, the judgments became more severe. The Judeans had been attacked and exiled in 605 and 597 BC. It is now 593 BC and God has seen absolutely no sign of repentance from almost everyone who was still left in the land. Jeremiah would attest to this awful truth in Jerusalem, while Ezekiel would attest to it from a distance in Babylon.

For those of you who studied the book of Jeremiah along with me, one of the most frightening truths that was taught was that even after total judgment, ie, the complete destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, the few people left still had an unrepentant heart, as evidenced by their continual refusal to believe and obey Jeremiah’s words. They were still literally hell bent on doing what seemed right in their own eyes, by their fleeing to Egypt, when God had just commanded them to stay and submit to the Babylonians.

If total destruction could not change their heart, then what else did God have in his arsenal? Nothing. There is nothing more that God can do to someone, once he has punished them in every form and fashion, save taking their life.

This is why so little real repentance is still taking place, even after covid. That was a small, partial judgment, in comparison to what Judah had to go through. While there are some positive signs in America, there is virtually none in Canada, nor much that I can discern in the rest of the west. We seem to be set on the path of national suicide, even as the Judeans chose to be.

God help us all.

So there is a remnant of Judeans. Let us see what God will say about them.

Eze 5:4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

Normally, something positive is said about the remnant. In this case however, even this tiny fraction of souls that somehow escaped all the death that has already been dealt out, shall not permanently escape. God is bound and determined that everyone shall taste of his wrath. Something about this situation has so ticked Yahweh off, that he has his eye on every last soul.

As we discussed in the previous verse, even after the Chaldeans (Babylon) had completely destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC, the few people that were left behind would still not repent. In fact, the puppet ruler that Babylon put in place, a man named Gedaliah, was assassinated by Ishmael, who then grabbed the remnant of the people left behind (including Jeremiah himself), and forced them to flee to Egypt. When the rulers of Babylon heard of this treachery, they pursued those traitors into Egypt and dealt retribution to them. You can read all about this in Jeremiah chapters 40 through 44. So in this case, the remnant was not a righteous remnant, but a rotten one. Even though they had somehow escaped the great judgments right through the burning of their land, God had his eye on them. Not for good, but for evil. Not to preserve, but to destroy. The assassination of Gedaliah, and the subsequent fallout, was a fulfilment of the promise in this verse.

Lest we think that every last soul was destroyed, we must temper this verse with Eze 6:8, where God does say that a few will be left alive. And those very, very few, will finally wake up and begin to embrace the proper attitude towards themselves, and towards their God (Eze 6:9,10).

One could also make the case that the remnant would go through a spiritual fire, a cleansing fire that would purify them. While the former meaning is primarily intended, as even the escapees would be chased down and slaughtered, God always has some who are allowed to escape, for the right reasons, because they are not like the majority.

Eze 5:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations (goy) and countries (eh-rets – earth, nations, lands) that are round about (encircling) her.

This is a very important statement, as far as God is concerned. Yehovah knew the future. He knew how the Gentiles would rage and fight and engage in all sorts of wicked behavior over this city. Why does the world focus their attention on this city, more than all the other cities of the world combined? What is so special about this one city? It is not especially beautiful. The land is rocky and barren. It is not particularly large. It has no wealth hidden underneath its soil. Yet a whole religion was created, it seems, specifically to oppose the Jews and their rightful land. Billions of people hold an irrational hatred of Jerusalem, and Israel.

God says that Jerusalem is to be the center of all things. Jesus is coming back to rule and reign from here. For man to attempt to circumvent God’s unchangeable decrees about this city, and this land, which is also called Zion, is the height of folly and madness. And yet here we are. It is not surprising that the demonic religion of islam does what it does. But what is so disheartening is how so many conservatives, especially conservative so called Christians, have no fear in denouncing Israel and the Jews. They say they are only denouncing the evil leaders of Israel, but in reality it is one and the same. God has placed those leaders there. Regardless that Israel is fighting an 8 front war, and is winning spectacularly, does not faze any of these modern day Amalekites, who hate the Jews just because they are Jews. They impose a standard of behavior on them that they impose on no one else. No matter what Israel does, it is never enough. No matter that they engage in the most righteous behavior in wartime of any army in the history of mankind, these false believers choose to believe the press releases of Hamas and every other muslim news outlet instead of the one nation in that region that lives and conducts itself by the Torah.

It boggles the mind. But that is sin. If you want to divide a crowd really quickly, just start praising Israel, and watch how quickly the room clears.

If only so called Christian nations conducted themselves as ethically as Israel does. What other nation warns their enemy’s civilian populations to flee the area before they attack, thus losing the element of surprise, and putting their own soldiers in infinitely more danger? Who helps those enemy civilians escape by providing a secure corridor for them to flee, while Hamas themselves try to force them to stay so they can use them as human shields in order to drum up more support in the retarded west when some are inevitably killed? Who feeds their enemy, while they are still at war with them? Who refuses to take out terrorists time and time again, when they use human shields, so as not to harm civilians, even if those enemy civilians hate Israel themselves? Who else trades hundreds of psychopathic terrorist murderers for even one of their own citizens, knowing that all those that they release will simply kill more Jews in the future? Only the state of Israel.

Eze 5:6 And she hath changed (maw-raw – rebelled, provoked, be made bitter) my judgments (mish-pat – verdict, sentence, decree) into wickedness (rish-aw – moral wrongness) more than the nations (goy), and my statutes (khook-kaw – ordinances) more than the countries (eh-rets) that are round about (saw-beeb – encompass, encircle) her: for they have refused (maw-as – spurned, abhor, cast away, disdain, found to be loathsome) my judgments (mish-pat) and my statutes (khook-kaw), they have not walked in them.

Here is a shocking truth. God’s people turned mishpat, or the verdicts or decisions that they would render regarding what is good and what is evil, into worse statutes than any pagan nation had ever even conceived to do.

Do we think that this is unique to Israel and Judah? Think again. Only our very own ‘Christian’ nations have come up with such unbelievably vile things such as transgenderism. Or gay pride parades. Or climate change hysteria, where carbon dioxide is treated as a poison. Or geoengineering, where they are spraying us with metallic nanoparticles, that is damaging all life on the planet. Or 73 vaccines to inject our children with, all containing heavy metals such as mercury and aluminum, glycols, and God knows what other toxic substances, all in the name of preventing disease. In Canada, we have gone a lot farther. Unlimited abortion. We provide MAID (medical assistance in dying) as health care. Not just for the terminally ill, but for teenagers. For those suffering from depression. Or mental illness. Or poverty. Or any damn reason at all. We provide free opioids in some provinces for any addict who wants it. They in turn sell them to young children, so they can then go and buy fentanyl. Not only are we killing off all sorts of addicts instead of trying to help them, but also ensuring that the next generation is introduced and fully addicted to these lethal substances. All in the name of safe supply. Our inner cities have become something that looks like a scene from the walking dead. We also unanimously passed a conversion therapy prohibition. Every single conservative also voted for this, and gave themselves a standing ovation when they did so. Basically, this makes it a criminal offence to counsel anyone who desires help in breaking free of any form of unwanted sexual attraction. Parents cannot even suggest to their child that wanting to mutilate their bodies is a bad thing. We are imprisoning pastors and freedom protesters, and anyone who dares confront child groomers. And on and on it goes. As evil imaginations conceive of new ways to blaspheme, a new law is created to enforce it.

The Communists did not think of these things. The Muslim nations never dreamed up such wickedness. The Russians would never have engaged in such nonsense. You won’t find any pagan culture engaging in such obscenities and abominations. No, the nations of the world have more righteous mishpat than the Christian nations of today.

This is why I make the claim that the book of Ezekiel is so vital to understand today. Our western nations are engaging in the same types of behaviors that the Judeans of Ezekiel’s day were engaging in. This book describes in very minute and repetitious detail exactly how Yahweh feels about that. And let me tell you, he is not happy. Not happy at all. In fact, even from reading this short chapter, one gets the sense that God has simply run out of Hebrew words in trying to communicate the depth of his anger and disgust over his own people’s behavior. Not the pagan’s conduct. Not the communists or the muslims, or the hindus, or the buddhists. No, the people of God. Those who are called by his name. This book will in no uncertain terms make it as crystal clear as can be exactly how God feels about his people, when they descend into the depths of apostasy and rebellion, as we have.

Eze 5:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied (haw-mone – tumult of a crowd, from a root meaning to rage at) more than the nations (goy) that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes (khook-kaw), neither have kept my judgments (mish-pat), neither have done according to the judgments (mish-pat) of the nations (goy) that are round about you;

These Jews raged at God’s laws. Sounds like the alphabet crowd today, does it not? How anyone can even be slightly sympathetic to these wicked, vile creatures, who lace all their mindless tirades against the biblical laws of sexual conduct with endless profanity, is beyond me. These sons and daughters of Belial do not deserve freedom of speech. Let me make this perfectly clear. Freedom of speech is an American and a human idea, not a divine one. Think I’m nuts? Then what do you do with passages such as this:

Deu 13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Deu 13:7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
Deu 13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
Deu 13:9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Deu 13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deu 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
Deu 13:12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
Deu 13:13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
Deu 13:14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
Deu 13:15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Deu 13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
Deu 13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
Deu 13:18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

Note verses 6, 12, and 13. If you hear someone ‘saying’. Depending on what is said, God has a commandment for it. And that commandment is death. God did not say to always wait and see if an actual crime was committed. If a person is attempting to incite you to apostatize, and go and embrace other gods, then there is only one sentence. Of course, this would also challenge the freedom of religion that we also so cherish, but that is not the issue at hand.

Suffice it to say that those who chafe under a nation that from its inception honored the 10 commandments as the basis of all its laws, would have positively freaked out if they were living under all of God’s moral and civil law, as found in the Torah.

Now I am not suggesting that America should attempt to turn itself into an identical, theocratic state that imitates the Israel of the bible. There is a distinction between embracing the actual moral law, and the development of a civil law which pertains to the appropriate punishments meted out for violations thereof. As there is a difference from those 2 aspects of Torah and the ceremonial law that had to do with the temple sacrifices.

We all agree that Jesus fulfilled the ceremonial laws of the Torah, putting an end to them. True bible believers ‘should’ all agree that the moral law of Torah is eternal and unchanging. Where there is room for honest debate is in this third area of civil law. That is, the appropriate punishments that a Christian nation should adopt for law breakers.

One can legitimately argue that Jesus has come to show us a more compassionate and merciful way. The problem is that, most of these souls use this as an excuse to not punish the wicked sufficiently. We have observed the results of these misguided policies over our lifetimes. As punishments for biblical transgressions became ever more lenient, the concept of deterrence was abandoned. Less and less people feared to break the law, due to a lack of real consequence.

How has that worked out for us so far?

Did God say that Israel was to put the concept of free speech above everything else? Not even close. He said if anyone, even your own parent, spoke to try and get you to apostasize, and go serve other gods, then you are supposed to kill them. Kill them. Not demonetize them. Not cancel them. Not ban them off facebook. Not fire them from their job. But kill them.

How many of you are squirming in your seats right now? I would venture that 99.9% of all Christians are embarrassed that this passage is a part of the bible. This sounds like the Sharia blasphemy laws. No, the truth is that the Sharia blasphemy laws do sound like this. Islam took all its ideas from the Old Testament, and inverted them in the service of satan, their true god, in order to destroy the true servants of the most high God.

When Jesus returns to the earth in the Millenium, do you think he will disobey his own law, the one he has written in the first place? Remember that Jesus is the Word of God.

Free speech is not some sacred thing, to be cherished and preserved at all costs. We have given the wicked and the vile certain rights that God never intended the wicked to have. They have used the freedoms that the bible gives to righteous men, and used those freedoms to destroy us. And we let them, all in the name of fair play. As if the wicked should be allowed to publicly blaspheme in front of our children, and incite the nation to violence and treason. Incitement to commit a crime is still a crime, and needs to return to our apostatized land.

The problem is when wicked men take the reins of power. They use incitement laws against the righteous, prosecuting the souls who speak the truth of God’s morality. Since the morality of Torah is considered as a crime by the wicked, so we saw men of good will locked up on January 6th, and the truckers convoy in Canada. This is why constructing a society based on the bible only works when a people in a nation are generally moral. When the nation apostatizes, those same laws will be used to destroy the righteous. But that does not mean that those seemingly strict laws were wrong in the first place. That simply means that we desperately need revival!

Thus it is with the latest controversy over free speech. We have the lunatic left celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025. They are encouraging and tempting others to go and take out more of those who believe like Charlie believed. And many on the right are more worried about defending the concept of free speech, rather than properly dealing with the imminent threat that is right before their face. Do you want to live in an assassination culture, in order to protect this concept? Are you okay with more people being shot for speaking the truth of God’s word? How many more murders are you willing to accept, all in the name of protecting your sacred cow of free speech?

The argument goes that protecting the 1st amendment is what protects everything else. That is only half true. Protecting righteous speech is what protects the rest of the constitution. Protecting the speech of seditious traitors, who are enemies of the constitution, does not.

The problem is that people’s reasonings do not look to the scripture for answers. They will use logic, history, precedent, and any and everything else. But what does the bible say? The freedoms that the bible offers are not for the wicked. The Torah, and indeed, all of the bible, consistently teach the idea of consequence for evil. Indeed, the whole book of Ezekiel centers around the idea of God clearly telling us that there are unimaginably grave consequences for our sin. Rulers are to execute mishpat, or biblically based verdicts, on the guilty.

As a side note, you will not find a single verse suggesting any sort of prison term for the guilty. God is big on execution, on severe fines, and on banishment. But that is well beyond the scope of this lesson!

We are on the cusp of losing our nations. Because we cherish the wisdom of men far more than the eternal wisdom of Yehovah.

God is saying that my people are raging against my laws more than the pagans on the planet, who don’t even know me. Even the pagans know by the witness that I have placed in all men’s hearts that certain things are just not acceptable, yet my people have cast off even the most basic standards of decency.

Eze 5:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments (mish-pat) in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations (goy).

So what does God say? Remember during covid, how the song called ‘The Blessing’ rocketed in popularity, as all nations produced their own version? There was a phrase in there where it was sung over and over about how God was for you, he was for you. And we all got goosebumps and cried!

Well, here in the land of the Word of God, the truth is that we should have been singing this verse instead. ‘He is against us, he is against us’. And why is Yehovah against us? Because we have raged against his commandments. We have shunned his precepts. We mocked his ordinances, and jeered at his statutes. Therefore, Yehovah is against his own people, and now he will execute mishpat on us. And he will do it out in the open.

All we need to do is look at Canada, as the poster child as to what happens to a land that once knew God, but now despises him. Look at the latest debacle. Sean Feucht had been ministering in Canada for several years, without a hint of a problem. Now, in this year, he was banned from 8 of 11 locales, as the lunatic sex crazed activists decided to make an issue of his personal beliefs. And most politicians caved to these psychopaths. Even our most prominent Christian podcaster in Canada turned against him, whom I shall not name at this time. It was so fitting that Sean led the worship at the vigil for Mr. Kirk in Washington, DC. Nothing showed the opposite directions that these 2 nations are taking here in 2025. That service contained the most amazing Jesus honoring speeches by America’s top leaders that I have ever witnessed. I think they were the most Christ honoring messages by any American politician in the nation’s history. And then there is Canada. Even our own most famous Christian podcaster turned against Sean, joining the mainstream media’s point of view. Such is the state of the church in this cursed land.

Eze 5:9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more (ever again) the like, because (the purpose being) of all thine abominations (to-ay-baw – morally disgusting, idolatry).

Because you are so morally disgusting, I am going to do something that is a one off. That is, this particular form of judgment has never been seen before, and will never be seen again. At least, never was I personally responsible for seeing that something like this should occur.

Eze 5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons (bane) in the midst of thee, and the sons (bane) shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments (sheh-fet – inflict sentencing) in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds (ruach).

The judgment is that fathers shall eat their sons, and the sons shall eat their fathers. God says in verse 9 that he will do this. Not the devil. Not any human. He will ensure that this will happen. You are going to starve so severely in the upcoming siege, that you will resort to cannibalism, at my direction.

Why was God going to make sure this would take place? Because the punishment must fit the crime. Can you think of anything more repulsive than eating mom? Or dad? God wants this image in our heads, in order for us to understand just how repulsive he is finding his own people’s behavior and moral choices. Their lifestyle is just as disgusting as if you cooked up dad, and served him for supper. Or junior.

Remember, this is God speaking, not I, not Ezekiel.

I suppose the bright side to this verse is that God promises that we will not have to face this in the great tribulation, as God promises that this is a one time thing.

Eze 5:11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled (taw-may – contaminated, polluted) my sanctuary (mik-dawsh – consecrated place) with all thy detestable things (shik-koots – disgusting idolatrous filth), and with all thine abominations (to-ay-baw), therefore will I also diminish (gaw-rah – lessen, make small, scrape you off) thee; neither shall mine eye spare (khoos – pity), neither will I have any pity (khaw-mal – compassion).

The mega church ministers love to churn out book after book about how to walk in God’s love, or his continual blessing, or the 7 steps to total fulfilment and happiness. Not quite as easy to lay hold of a copy of a book about how to get God to not spare you, to have no pity toward you, or to scrape you off, as you would scrape scraps off a plate into the garbage.

Yehovah minces no words here. These people have contaminated the house of the Lord. This is to be a consecrated, a holy place. But these people have filled it with disgusting idolatrous filth. To-ay-baw means morally disgusting. Moral filth in the house of the Lord. Sound familiar?

I could now go on and make an endless list of the abominations that are to be found in the western churches of our day. From covetousness to lewdness, heresy to blasphemy. But I know that all of my readers can think of many, many examples of what I am speaking of. Let us meditate not on the particular detestable practices, but on the fact that God sees all, and will never let the guilty go unpunished.

This nonsense that God is love, and only love, must stop right now. As America is in real danger of descending into its second civil war, while the rest of the west is already lost, does it not seem that God is at least beginning to treat us like he treated the Jews in Ezekiel’s time? If we behave the same way as the Jews did here, why do we think that God will react any differently?

And yet, I believe most Christians actually believe that yes, even if we commit the same sins as these Jews, God will not treat us the same way. They say that the cross has paid for all sins, therefore the wrath of God was somehow totally spent at the cross, so there’s really no more wrath for those who have accepted Christ as their savior.

We are certainly attempting to win the award for mental retard of the year, are we not? Has God changed? Does he play favorites? Is not his moral law eternal and unchangeable? The soul that sins shall die. The same sin merits the same punishment. The true Christian has fled to the cross and received his pardon for his sin. But for the unrepentant, backslidden church, how shall you escape the same wrath that backslidden, unrepentant Judah faced? Are you better than they? Why do you think God wrote words such as these? To marvel at the deep sinfulness of the Jew? Or to serve as a warning to all who do such things? You know the answer to that.

Eze 5:12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence (deh-ber – murrain), and with famine (raw-awb – hunger, dearth) shall they be consumed (kaw-law – ended) in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall (naphal) by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter (zaw-raw – toss about, cast away) a third part into all the winds (ruach), and I will draw out a sword after them.

God now decides to expand and elaborate on the judgment that he has already pronounced. Here we see that when he said the first third would perish in the fire, he meant the fire that culminated, or was the final act, of the long, miserable siege that they would have to endure. During that evil time, hunger would ravage them. Their weakened bodies would be susceptible to all sorts of disease and pestilence. The second third would die in battle, or simply be chopped down by the enemy. And the last third will be forced to flee, but they would not escape. God would continue to pursue them for harm wherever they went. Thus we see that just because one verse says that such and such dies by fire, we need to see what the entire word of God had to say on the topic. In this verse we find that fire meant the final act of the 18 month siege. Much of this third would have already died via pestilence and starvation, with some survivors being burned when the city was put to the flame when it was breached by the Babylonians.

This is a crucial truth. Be not so quick to pronounce a doctrine based on one verse that you like. Take the time to see what all of the word has to say on the matter. This reminds me of this verse:

Pro_18:17 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

This is how false teachers seduce and deceive the immature. They quote one verse concerning something, while leaving out other verses that say something entirely different.

Eze 5:13 Thus shall mine anger (af – enraged as with smoke from the nostril) be accomplished (kaw-law – make a clean riddance of), and I will cause my fury (khay-maw – heat, poisonous rage) to rest (noo-akh – settle down, remain) upon them, and I will be comforted (naw-kham – avenged, consoled, sigh with pity): and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal (kin-aw – jealousy, envy), when I have accomplished (kaw-law) my fury (khay-maw) in them.

I don’t know how Yehovah can express himself more forcefully than in this verse. He is smoke in the nostril angry. His wrath is as a poisonous rage, so intense is it. He will cause this rage to rest or remain on his people. Not on the wicked pagan, but on his own rebellious nation. This will allow him to make a clean riddance of these offensive souls. And guess what? Yehovah then says that when he does this, he will be comforted. He will have had his vengeance, as his jealousy over his holy name will finally be satiated. When they eat each other’s family members, when they are burned alive, and chopped up with every sort of cutting instrument. When they are scattered to the ends of the earth, and God hunts them down anyway. Then, and only then, will he be comforted, when he has finally accomplished his fury upon them.

Are you starting to feel a bit disquieted? At bit uneasy? How about absolutely horrified? Are you beginning to grasp the concept of the terror of the Lord? Not yet? Well, let’s read on then.

Eze 5:14 Moreover I will make thee waste (khor-baw – desolation), and a reproach (kher-paw – disgrace, as if exposing the female genitalia) among the nations (goy) that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

God is going to waste them. Not only that, but here he uses the strongest language possible. He is going to expose these Jews to the entire planet, as if a woman exposed her genitalia in front of the entire world. In our culture, which is drowning in pornography and sexual depravity, the weight of this statement eludes us. In this ancient culture, this would be the absolute pinnacle of shame. I don’t even know what to compare it to in our culture, since we are so shameless in general. Think of the most shameful thing that could ever happen to you. This is what God is trying to get across. Maybe if you were exposed as a baby raper. Think of the shame you would feel, if the whole world knew that about you. This is the level of shame that God will cause to fall upon all his people, his entire nation. Everyone shall see it.

Eze 5:15 So it shall be a reproach (kher-paw) and a taunt (ghed-oo-faw – revilement, only time in OT), an instruction (moo-sawr – chastisement, reproof, warning, restraint, correction, rebuke) and an astonishment (mesh-am-maw – waste, amazement, desolation) unto the nations (goy) that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments (sheh-fet) in thee in anger (af) and in fury (khay-maw) and in furious (khay-maw) rebukes (to-khay-kaw – chastisement, reproof). I the LORD have spoken it.

God reiterates what he has just said. When I finally release my pent up emotion, my smoke in the nostril type anger, my poisonous rage, my chastisement and reproof of you, you will be an exposed genitalia, a revilement, a warning, and an amazing desolation to all the heathen round about you.

You think you have a temper. Your emotion is as a still pond in comparison to the anger of God. And this anger is triggered not by satanists, or muslims, or the cabal, or Fauci, or knock off goods made in China. No, this emotion is triggered by God’s people, when they refuse to repent over a long period of time. God said he has somehow counted 390 years of rebellion by the northern kingdom, and 40 more years by Judah. As we discussed previously, no one knows for certain where God got those numbers from. But that is not the issue. The issue is what those years of rebellion have triggered, as far as God’s response. And the response is not rainbows and unicorns.

Eze 5:16 When I shall send upon them the evil (rah – bad, adverse, exceedingly grievous, miserable, noisome, wretched, vexatious) arrows (khayts – piercer, wound) of famine (raw-awb – hunger, dearth), which shall be for their destruction (mash-kheeth – corruption, snare, trap), and which I will send to destroy (shaw-khath – decay, ruin, corrupt, mar, perish, waste) you: and I will increase (yaw-saf – add, augment, continue to do) the famine (raw-awb) upon you, and will break (shaw-bar – burst, crush, destroy, tear) your staff of bread:

Not ‘if’ God sends the evil. Not ‘if’ Yehovah sends the exceedingly grievous and miserable and noisome and wretched and vexatious judgments. But ‘when’. When God sends his judgments, they will be like piercing arrows. Arrows of such extreme hunger, that the only purpose is to utterly destroy them. It will be sent to ruin them. To decay, corrupt, mar, waste and perish them. And not only that, I will increase the level of famine upon you, until all your source of food is gone.

While we look on with genuine alarm at all the GMO foods, and the rumors that mRNA is possibly being injected in our food supply, we are nowhere near the level of food scarcity as these people faced. This is why so many believers skip over scriptures such as these. They say to themselves that things are nowhere near as bad as this. Therefore, we are not sinning near as much as this, so we can safely ignore all these terrible warnings.

And that is how the devil keeps us in sin for long enough, until these same judgments manifest in our nations. I am sure Judah never saw these terrible judgments coming either. As long as they had food and some sense of security and some shekels of silver in their pocket, all was well. But does not the scripture speak time and time again of the suddenness of the judgment of God?

Rom_2:3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

1Th_5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Heb_2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

Heb_12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

None of us shall escape the judgment of God, if we refuse him who is speaking to us today.

Eze 5:17 So will I send upon you famine (raw-awb) and evil (rah) beasts (khahee – raw flesh, creature), and they shall bereave (shaw-kole – miscarry, suffer abortion, make childless, rob you of children) thee; and pestilence (deh-ber) and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

God keeps expanding upon this theme of famine in judgment. Now he introduces the concept of evil beasts. In Judah’s time, they most likely referred to the wild animals that would attack them. We have read more than once of lions and bears in the Old Testament. For us today, perhaps the evil beasts are the things they put in the jabs. Or in some foods. Or in the air. Or straight from your friendly neighborhood Ukraine bio lab to you!

The jab has certainly caused our women to miscarry and suffer spontaneous abortions in record numbers. Our children are being taken away from us in so many ways. The men are losing their testosterone, the women are being sterilized by the jabs, children not aborted are being groomed and molested and told to mutilate their bodies. They are told to abandon all sexual restraint, and experiment in every abomination imaginable.

They are feverishly attempting to cook up new diseases and seeing which ones will stick. All these terms in this verse can also refer to the Babylonian conquerors. They would act like evil beasts, robbing them of all their children, as they killed them or took them away as slaves. The famine would bring pestilence. Blood passing through thee is the slaughter that the enemy soldiers would bring.

The chapter ends with a reminder that Yehovah himself has spoken all this. Not some deranged backwoods hellfire and brimstone preacher. Not some cult leader. Not some mentally unstable lunatic. No, Yehovah himself has spoken.

How many churches today could tolerate a sermon such as this? 1% maybe? Probably not even that high a percentage.. This is the bible that you’ve never heard of. This is the Word of God that shall never be spoken.

Well, I am speaking it. Do with it as you will, for Yehovah is only getting warmed up. If this was far too much for your tender ears to hear, then how shall you make it the end of this book?

By the grace of God, that’s how.

Ezekiel’s acting career is now about over. He will now primarily minister to us through the spoken word.

Solitary Man
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