From the Pulpit...

In Ezekiel chapter twenty-three we see God explains what is happened with the northern and southern kingdoms using the figure of two immoral sisters. The older is Samaria and the younger Jerusalem, expresses these nations as idolatrous and we see God's judgement on both. In chapter twenty-four we see two components, judgement on Israel (symbol of the cooking pot) and the thoroughness of God's judgement on Israel through Babylon. In chapters twenty-five through thirty-two, we see prophecies of retribution to the nations of Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, Sidon, Excurses (the restoration of Israel), and Egypt. In chapters thirty-three and thirty-four we see God calling Israel to repentance along with a future restoration.