Today, I am reading and commenting on  Ezekiel 5-8.

God gave Ezekiel a prophecy about the destruction of Jerusalem and the disaster He was bringing upon the people of Israel for the sins they had committed, and were continuing to commit.  As part of this prophecy, God told Ezekiel that the result of all of these terrible things would be that then they would know that He was the Lord.  God was bringing this judgement upon the people of Israel because they had not listened to the prophets and nothing He had done had brought them to Him.  So, He was going to do this terrible thing, and then His people would turn to Him.  Only when everything else has failed to turn us to Him does God bring His terrible judgement upon us, and even then He only does so in order to get us to turn to Him.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.