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“Fine, I’ll Just Leave”

“Fine, I’ll Just Leave”. Ezekiel 8 to 11. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave”. Where is God’s Home?. 1) In Heaven (Psalm 11:4) 2) In a Temple (1 Kings 6:12) 3) Inside of Us (1 Corinthians 3:16). 1 Corinthians 3:16 All of you surely know that you are God’s temple, and that his Spirit lives in you.

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“Fine, I’ll Just Leave”

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  1. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11

  2. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Where is God’s Home? 1) In Heaven (Psalm 11:4) 2) In a Temple (1 Kings 6:12) 3) Inside of Us (1 Corinthians 3:16) 1 Corinthians 3:16 All of you surely know that you are God’s temple, and that his Spirit lives in you. 1 Kings 6:12 “If you obey my commands and do what I say, I will keep the promise I made to your father David. I will live among my people Israel in this temple you are building, and I will not desert them.” Psalm 11:4 The LORD is sitting in his sacred temple, on his throne in heaven. He knows everything we do because he sees us all.

  3. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” What if God’s temple is dirty? Jesus will clean it (John 2:13-17) John 2:13-17 Not long before the Jewish festival of Passover, Jesus went to Jerusalem. There, he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves in the temple. He also saw moneychangers sitting at their tables. So he took some rope and made a whip. Then he chased everyone out of the temple, together with their sheep and cattle. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins…

  4. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” What if we make it dirty again? And again? And again? And again? And again? And again? And again? And again? And again? And still again?

  5. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Historical Context of Ezekiel (687 to 538 BCE) Assyria Israel Babylon Assyria’s power decreases Egypt is kicked out of Palestine Egypt Babylon rises to power Israel is caught in-between

  6. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Historical Context of Ezekiel (687 to 538 BCE) Assyria Israel 687 – King Manasseh’s mess 640 – King Josiah 623 – Ezekiel is born 622 – Josiah begins his reforms 609 – Josiah dies and Israel becomes a mess again 605 – Babylon arrives and Daniel is exiled 597 – Israelites are uppity and Ezekiel gets exiled Babylon Egypt

  7. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Historical Context of Ezekiel (687 to 538 BCE) Assyria 593 – Ezekiel’s first vision 592 – Ezekiel chapters 8 to 11 589 – Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem 587 – Jerusalem is destroyed 586 - Final wave of exiles 585 – Babylon lays siege to Tyre 572 – Babylon takes Tyre 571 – Ezekiel’s last prophecy 538 – 40,000 Jews return under Persian King Cyrus Israel Babylon Egypt

  8. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 An Introduction • King Josiah has been dead for 17 years. • Paganism has returned in force. • Babylon has taken their first captives. • Ezekiel has been in exile for six years. The question everybody’s asking is… “What’s God going to do to rescue his suffering people?”

  9. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 An Introduction The quick answer: God’s gonna leave.

  10. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 An Introduction God Priests To understand Ezekiel’s vision, we need to understand the temple layout. Ezekiel starts outside, at the north gate, and then God takes him on a tour. Israelites

  11. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 First Abomination (8:3-6) 1

  12. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 First Abomination (8:3-6) He stretched out what seemed to be the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up into the air and wafted me away in divine visions to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court, the one that faces north, where the outrageous statue of jealousy was seated. I looked and there was the glory of the God of Israel, just like the apparition that I had seen in the plain! Then he said to me, “Human, look up toward the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and there, to the north of the altar gate, was this statue of jealousy in the entryway! He said to me, “Human, look at what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing here, driving me away from my sanctuary! But you shall see even greater abominations.”

  13. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 First Abomination (8:3-6)

  14. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Second Abomination (8:7-13) 1 2

  15. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Second Abomination (8:7-13) Then he brought me to the entrance of the court. I looked, and there in the wall was a hole! He said to me, “Human, dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall; there was an entryway! He said to me, “Go in and observe the evil abominations that they are committing here.” So I went inside and I looked, and there was every kind of disgusting crawling creature and beast and all the idols of the house of Israel engraved on the wall all around! Seventy men, representing the elders of the house of Israel, were stationed in front of them – with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing in their center – each with his censer in his hand and the scent of the incense cloud rising. He said to me, “Look, human, at what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the carrel of his image! For they rationalize, ‘Yahweh does not see us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.’” Then he said to me, “You will see even greater abominations that they are committing.”

  16. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Second Abomination (8:7-13)

  17. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Third Abomination (8:14-15) 1 2 3

  18. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Third Abomination (8:14-15) Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of Yahweh, and there were the women, sitting and weeping the Tammuz! He said to me, “Look, human! You will see even greater abominations than these.”

  19. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Third Abomination (8:14-15)

  20. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Fourth Abomination (8:16-18) 1 2 3 4

  21. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Fourth Abomination (8:16-18) Then he brought me to the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and there at the entrance of Yahweh’s palace, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, each with his back to Yahweh’s palace, facing toward the east. They were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun. He said to me, “Look, human! Are the abominations that they are committing here too trivial for the house of Judah, that they must also fill the land with violence, thereby provoking me all the more? Look at them, sticking the branch up my nose! Therefore I shall respond with fury. My eye will not pity, nor will I spare. Even though they scream in my ears with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”

  22. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Fourth Abomination (8:16-18)

  23. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 God’s Response How do you think God responded to Israel’s “issues”? Destroy with a vengeance? Ignore ‘em? Pat ‘em on the head? Drop a few grand pianos? Forgive ‘em?

  24. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 God’s Response – “Clean Up!” (9:1-11) Ezekiel 9:4-5 “Take a tour of the city, Jerusalem, that is,” Yahweh instructed him. “Mark an X on the foreheads of those who moan and groan over all the abominations that are being perpetrated inside it.” To the rest he said in my hearing, “Follow him through the city and slaughter. Do not let your eyes show pity, and do not spare.”

  25. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 God’s Response – “I’m Leaving!” (10:1-11:25) Ezekiel 11:22-23 Then, with the wheels beside them and the glory of the God of Israel hovering over them, the cherubim raised their wings. The glory of Yahweh ascended from the midst of the city and stopped on the mountain east of the city.

  26. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 God’s Response – “Start Over!” (11:14-21) Ezekiel 11:17-20 “Therefore, say, ‘Thus has the Lord Yahweh declared: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries in which you have been dispersed, and I will grant to you the land of Israel.’ When they arrive there they will remove all its detestable and abominable things from it. Then I will give them a single heart, and a new spirit I will place within them. I will remove the stony heart from their body, and give to them a heart of flesh, in order that they might follow my decrees and keep my laws and execute them. Then they will become my people, and I will become their God.”

  27. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Remember Josiah? Israel was transformed during Josiah’s time… Why didn’t the change last?

  28. “Fine, I’ll Just Leave” Ezekiel 8 to 11 Our Response So… How will you respond to God’s jealous love for you?

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