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the tribune stouffville ont thursday april 1 1948 sunday school lesson lesson for april 4 golden text son of man i have away of this ungodly king and in the fifth month of the year that ezekiel was appointed by god as his mouthpiece to israel verse 3 the word of the lord made thee a watchman unto the came expressly unto ezekiel in a house of israel ezek 3 17 i very special way he was set apart the lesson as a whole to the prophetic office not by any of all the prophetic books human authority but the hand of ezekiel is the one that has been jehovah was upon him most neglected many people are chap 3 11 go get thee to them repelled by the marvelous vision of jof the captivity ezekiel was sent the opening chapter and finding it jof god not so much to the jews difficult to understand proceed no remaining in the land of palestine further and so lose the blessing but to those who had been carried they might have gained by a careful away already as captives one study of the entire book in depend- might have supposed that their ence upon the holy spirit as afflictions would have softened their teacher who inspired the prophet hearts and exercised their consci ences but the prophet was not to expect this he was to give them gods word whatever their attitude toward it might be verse 17 i have made thee a watchman unto the house of israel solemn are the responsibilities put by god himself upon one whom he calls to be a watchman and to speak for him to his people ezekiel was to give warning of coming judg ments and to call his people to repentance verse is his blood will i to write it 2 pet 121 to the reverent student the book presents no serious difficulties that may not be overcome by a careful compari son of scripture with scripture thus one may be preserved from a private intepretation which would not harmonize with the rest of gods revealed word ezekiel is primarily the prophet of the divine government through out his book he dwells upon the fact that god is over all working out his plans and carrying out his own decisions in spite of satanica require at thine hand much de- efforts to thwart his purpose and annul his counsels the devil may be and is the god and prince of this present world system but over and above all is the throne of the eternal majesty whose ways are past finding out but who controls the destinies of israel and the nations working all things after the counsel of his own will eph 111 there is a very definite and intimate connection between this book and that of the revelation the living creatures of ezekiels visions and those of the apocalypse are clearly one and the same and the closing vision of the restored earthly city and temple in ezekiel 40 to is corresponds to that of johns vision concerning the heavenly city the new jerusalem in which no temple is seen because the whole is one vast sanctuary where the redeemed shall dwell in unclouded light in the presence of god and the lamb many other similarities and contrasts will be observed by the careful student who reads with reverence and dependence upon the holy spirit verso by verso ezek 1 1 now it came to pass in the thirtieth year i saw visions of god it is not easy to pended upon the faithfulness of the watchman if the people failed to heed his warning the responsibility was theirs but if he proved un faithful he would have to account to god for their blood it was this and the kindred passage in chapter 33 undoubtedly that the apostle paul had in mind when ue declared to the ephesian elders 1 take you to record that i am pure from the blood of all men acts 20 2g verse 19 if thou warn the wicked thou has delivered thy soul all that the messenger of god can do is to give out the word in dependence on the holy spirit those who refuse it do so at their own peril but the one who pro claims the truth is blameless verse 20 when a righteous man doth turn from his righteous ness and commit iniquity his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered this is not dealing with the question of the salvation of the soul but it has to do with gods government over men here in this world it is law not grace verse 21 if thou warn the righteous and he doth not sin he shall surely live it is righte- ousness according to the law of moses that is in question which the unyielding wall of iron suggests the mighty power of the babylonian army against which the army of the jews seeking to defend jerusalem would struggle in vain god had been very patient and waited long before visiting judg ment upon a rebllious and gain saying people now his longsuffer ing mercy had come to an end and he was to act toward his people as an enemy taking the part as it were of their foes in order that judah might be chastised for her manifold transgressions the heart of the lesson ezekiel i- the prophet of the divine government which is often lost sight of by those who fail to realize that grace does not annul or set aside government god has not vacated his throne as the supreme ruler over the nations and it still remains as true of nations as of individuals that whatsoever is sown must be reaped this is the great lesson ezekiel sought to impress upon israel and is the back ground for a true philosophy of history explaining much that is going on among the nations in our own times as well as throughout past centuries blessing comes with recognition of our responsibility to obey god disaster follows where this is ignored decide what thirtieth year isiif a man do he shall live in them referred to some conside it the thirtieth year of the dynasty of nabopolassar the father of nebuch adnezzar who founded the baby lonian empire others take it as the thirtieth year of ezekiels life the year when had things been in order and he in the land of israel he would have entered upon his responsibilities as priest but the important thing is the fact that he was called to the prophetic office and given visions of god that he might minister to his stricken people to him it was given to look into the throne room of the heavens as it were and to under stand how the affairs of men and lev 185 this as we are told very plainly in the epistle to the galatians chap 3 is the very opposite of the gospel and should not be confounded with it chap 1 1 take thee a tile and lay it before thee ezekiel was to take a burned brick or tile and draw the attention of the people to it in order that they might have their curiosity aroused as to what the prophet was illustrating the tile represented the city of jerusalem which was again under siege by the armies of the chaldeans during the last day of the reign of zedekiah verse 2 lay siege against it and build a fort against it this of nations were all under the hand was to bring vividly before the of him who occupies that throne in awful and sublime majesty verse 2the fifth year of king jehoiachins captivity it was nearly five years after the carrying captives what was transpiring in the homeland verse 3 take thou unto 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