11.19.2016 – Old Testament: Eze 20.33–38

To read the Bible in a year, read Ezekiel 20–21 on November 19, In the year of our Lord 2016

By Don Ruhl

The Lord knew what He was doing when He sent His people into captivity, and He did not forget them there, but knew where everyone of them had gone. Therefore, when the time arrived, He would bring them out, showing judgment upon their captors, even as He did with Egypt,

“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you. I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face. Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you,” says the Lord GOD. “I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD” (Ezekiel 20.33–38). 

As Jesus once said, the Father knows us so well that He knows the number of hairs on our heads, on each of us! Amazing! Therefore, He could gather the Jews from everywhere and bring them back to the land of Israel.

Likewise, the Lord can so retrieve us when He returns. You do not have to fear whether He will miss you, or forget you. He knows you and when the Second Coming occurs, He will bring you with Him into glory.

Questions:

• Do you sometimes think that the Lord has overlooked you?
• What things in your life show that He knows you?