Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000670
00:16 Hello and welcome to "His Words are Life."
00:18 I'm Kelly Mowrer and today 00:20 we are going to be reading in the Book of Ezekiel. 00:22 But let's pray together before we start. 00:25 Dear Heavenly Father, 00:26 thank you so much for this time 00:30 to listen to Your words that will teach us more of You 00:34 and that's what we hunger for. 00:36 Please be with us now as we read and teach us 00:40 what You would have us to know. 00:42 We love You so much and thank you for loving us. Amen. 00:46 We're reading in Ezekiel Chapter 4 00:48 beginning with verse 6 and this is the King James Version. 00:53 "And when thou hast accomplished them, 00:54 lie again on thy right side, 00:56 and thou shalt bear the iniquity 00:58 of the house of Judah forty days. 01:01 I have appointed thee each day for a year. 01:05 Therefore thou shalt set thy face 01:07 toward the siege of Jerusalem, 01:08 and thine arm shall be uncovered, 01:10 and thou shalt prophesy against it. 01:13 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, 01:16 and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, 01:19 till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. 01:23 Take thou also unto thee wheat, 01:26 and barley, and beans, and lentiles, 01:28 and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, 01:31 and make thee bread thereof, 01:33 according to the number of the days 01:35 that thou shalt lie upon thy side, 01:37 three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 01:40 And thy meat which thou shalt eat 01:42 shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day, 01:46 from time to time shalt thou eat it. 01:49 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, 01:51 the sixth part of an hin, 01:52 from time to time shalt thou drink. 01:55 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, 01:57 and thou shalt bake it with dung 01:59 that cometh out of man, in their sight. 02:02 And the Lord said, even thus shall the children of Israel 02:05 eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, 02:09 whither I will drive them. 02:12 Then said I, Ah Lord God! 02:15 Behold, my soul hath not been polluted, 02:18 for from my youth up even till now 02:22 have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, 02:25 or is torn in pieces, 02:27 neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. 02:32 Then he said unto me, 02:33 Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, 02:36 and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. 02:40 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, 02:42 behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. 02:46 And they shall eat bread by weight, and with care, 02:50 and they shall drink water by measure, 02:52 and with astonishment. 02:54 That they may want bread and water, 02:56 and be astonied one with another, 02:58 and consume away for their iniquity." 03:02 Continuing in Ezekiel Chapter 5 03:04 and this is the King James Version. 03:07 "And thou, son of man, 03:08 take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, 03:12 and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard, 03:16 then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 03:19 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part 03:22 in the midst of the city, 03:24 when the days of the siege are fulfilled. 03:26 And thou shalt take a third part, 03:28 and smite about it with a knife. 03:31 And a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind, 03:34 and I will draw out a sword after them. 03:37 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, 03:39 and bind them in thy skirts. 03:41 Then take of them again, 03:43 and cast them into the midst of the fire, 03:45 and burn them in the fire, 03:46 for thereof shall a fire come forth 03:49 into all the house of Israel. 03:52 Thus saith the Lord God, this is Jerusalem. 03:56 I have set it in the midst of the nations 03:58 and countries that are round about her. 04:01 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness 04:05 more than the nations and my statutes 04:08 more than the countries that are round about her, 04:09 for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, 04:12 they have not walked in them. 04:15 Therefore thus saith the Lord God. 04:17 Because ye multiplied more than the nations 04:21 that are round about you, 04:23 and have not walked in my statutes, 04:25 neither have kept my judgments, 04:27 neither have done according to the judgments 04:28 of the nations that are round about you. 04:30 Therefore thus saith the Lord God. 04:33 Behold, I, even I, am against thee, 04:37 and will execute judgments in the midst of thee 04:39 in the sight of the nations. 04:41 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, 04:45 and whereunto I will not do any more the like, 04:49 because of all thine abominations. 04:52 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons 04:55 in the midst of thee, 04:56 and the sons shall eat their fathers, 04:58 and I will execute judgments in thee, 05:00 and the whole remnant of thee 05:02 will I scatter into all the winds. 05:05 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, 05:08 surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary 05:12 with all thy detestable things, 05:14 and with all thine abominations, 05:16 therefore will I also diminish thee, 05:20 neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity. 05:26 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, 05:30 and with famine shall they be consumed 05:32 in the midst of thee. 05:33 And a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee, 05:37 and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, 05:40 and I will draw out a sword after them. 05:43 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, 05:45 and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, 05:49 and I will be comforted. 05:50 And they shall know that I the Lord 05:53 have spoken it in my zeal, 05:55 when I have accomplished my fury in them. 05:58 Moreover I will make thee waste and a reproach 06:01 among the nations that are round about thee, 06:03 in the sight of all that pass by. 06:06 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, 06:09 an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations 06:12 that are round about thee, 06:14 when I shall execute judgments in thee 06:16 in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. 06:21 I the Lord have spoken it. 06:24 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, 06:28 which shall be for their destruction, 06:29 and which I will send to destroy you. 06:32 And I will increase the famine upon you, 06:35 and will break your staff of bread. 06:37 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, 06:40 and they shall bereave thee, 06:42 and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee, 06:45 and I will bring the sword upon thee. 06:48 I the Lord have spoken it." 06:51 Continuing to read in Ezekiel Chapter 6 06:54 and this is the King James Version. 06:57 "And the word of the Lord came unto me, 06:59 saying, Son of man, 07:00 set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, 07:03 and prophesy against them, 07:04 and say, Ye mountains of Israel, 07:07 hear the word of the Lord God, 07:08 thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, 07:12 and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys. 07:15 Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, 07:19 and I will destroy your high places. 07:21 And your altars shall be desolate, 07:24 and your images shall be broken. 07:26 And I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 07:29 And I will lay the dead carcases 07:31 of the children of Israel before their idols, 07:34 and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 07:38 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, 07:42 and the high places shall be desolate, 07:44 that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, 07:47 and your idols may be broken and cease, 07:52 and your images may be cut down, 07:54 and your works may be abolished. 07:58 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, 08:01 and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 08:05 Yet will I leave a remnant. 08:08 That ye may have some that shall escape 08:11 the sword among the nations, 08:13 when ye shall be scattered through the countries. 08:16 And they that escape of you shall remember me 08:19 among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, 08:22 because I am broken with their whorish heart, 08:25 which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, 08:28 which go a whoring after their idols. 08:31 And they shall lothe themselves for the evils 08:35 which they have committed in all their abominations. 08:38 And they shall know that I am the Lord, 08:42 and that I have not said in vain 08:44 that I would do this evil upon them. 08:47 Thus saith the Lord God, Smite with thine hand, 08:50 and stamp with thy foot, and say, 08:53 Alas for all the evil abominations 08:55 of the house of Israel! 08:57 For they shall fall by the sword, 08:59 by the famine, and by the pestilence. 09:02 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence, 09:04 and he that is near shall fall by the sword, 09:07 and he that remaineth and is besieged 09:10 shall die by the famine. 09:12 And thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 09:16 Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, 09:19 when their slain men shall be among their idols 09:22 round about their altars, upon every high hill, 09:26 in all the tops of the mountains, 09:27 and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, 09:30 the place where they did 09:31 offer sweet savour to all their idols. 09:35 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, 09:38 and make the land desolate, yea, 09:40 more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, 09:43 in all their habitations. 09:45 And they shall know that I am the Lord." 09:50 Continuing in the Book of Ezekiel Chapter 7 09:53 and this is the King James Version. 09:56 "Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, 09:58 saying, also, thou son of man, 10:01 thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel, 10:04 an end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 10:09 Now is the end come upon thee, 10:11 and I will send mine anger upon thee, 10:13 and will judge thee according to thy ways, 10:15 and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 10:19 And mine eye shall not spare thee, 10:22 neither will I have pity. 10:23 But I will recompense thy ways upon thee, 10:26 and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. 10:28 And ye shall know that I am the Lord. 10:32 Thus saith the Lord God, an evil, 10:34 an only evil, behold, is come. 10:37 An end is come, the end is come. 10:39 It watcheth for thee, behold, it is come. 10:44 The morning is come unto thee, O thou 10:46 that dwellest in the land, The time is come, 10:48 the day of trouble is near, 10:49 and not the sounding again of the mountains. 10:53 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, 10:56 and accomplish mine anger upon thee, 10:58 and I will judge thee according to thy ways, 11:00 and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. 11:04 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity. 11:07 I will recompense thee according to thy ways 11:10 and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee, 11:13 and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth. 11:18 Behold the day, behold, it is come, 11:21 the morning is gone forth, the rod hath blossomed, 11:25 pride hath budded Violence is risen up 11:29 into a rod of wickedness, 11:31 none of them shall remain, 11:33 nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's, 11:36 neither shall there be wailing for them. 11:39 The time is come, the day draweth near. 11:43 Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, 11:47 for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 11:51 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, 11:55 although they were yet alive, 11:57 for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, 11:59 which shall not return, 12:01 neither shall any strengthen himself 12:03 in the iniquity of his life. 12:06 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready. 12:09 But none goeth to the battle, 12:12 for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 12:15 The sword is without, 12:17 and the pestilence and the famine within. 12:20 He that is in the field shall die with the sword, 12:22 and he that is in the city, 12:24 famine and pestilence shall devour him. 12:28 But they that escape of them shall escape, 12:30 and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, 12:33 all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 12:37 All hands shall be feeble, 12:39 and all knees shall be weak as water. 12:42 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, 12:45 and horror shall cover them, 12:47 and shame shall be upon all faces, 12:49 and baldness upon all their heads. 12:53 They shall cast their silver in the streets, 12:56 and their gold shall be removed. 12:58 Their silver and their gold shall not be able 13:00 to deliver them, in the day of the wrath of the Lord. 13:05 They shall not satisfy their souls, 13:07 neither fill their bowels, because it is 13:10 the stumblingblock of their iniquity. 13:13 As for the beauty of his ornament, 13:15 he set it in majesty. 13:17 But they made the images of their abominations 13:19 and of their detestable things therein. 13:22 Therefore have I set it far from them. 13:26 And I will give it into the hands 13:28 of the strangers for a prey, 13:31 and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil, 13:33 and they shall pollute it. 13:35 My face, will I turn also from them, 13:37 and they shall pollute my secret place, 13:39 for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 13:42 Make a chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, 13:46 and the city is full of violence. 13:48 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, 13:51 and they shall possess their houses. 13:53 I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease, 13:56 and their holy places shall be defiled. 13:59 Destruction cometh and they shall seek peace, 14:02 and there shall be none. 14:04 Mischief shall come upon mischief, 14:06 and rumour shall be upon rumour, 14:07 then shall they seek a vision of the prophet. 14:10 But the law shall perish from the priest, 14:12 and counsel from the ancients. 14:15 The king shall mourn, 14:17 and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, 14:21 and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. 14:25 I will do unto them after their way, 14:27 and according to their deserts will I judge them, 14:30 and they shall know that I am the Lord." 14:35 Thank you, for joining with me to read the word of God 14:37 and please join me again next time, goodbye. |
Revised 2014-12-17