EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX. PROPHET - DATE JONAH(825-785BC)? JOEL(800BC)? HOSEA(785-725BC)?...

EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

PROPHET - DATE

JONAH (825-785BC)?

JOEL (800BC)?

HOSEA (785-725BC)?

MICAH (785-710BC)?

AMOS (784BC)?

ISAIAH (701-681BC)?

NAHUM (700BC)?

ZEPHANIAH (630BC)?

JEREMIAH (629-588BC)?

DANIEL (606-534BC)?

HABAKKUK (598BC)?

EZEKIEL (597-573BC)?

OBADIAH (588-562BC)?

EZRA (536-456BC)?

HAGGAI (532-512BC)?

ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)?

ESTHER (485-465BC)?

NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)?

MALACHI (420-397BC)?

KING / EVENT - DATE

TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)?

HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)?

SHALMANESER (727-722BC)?

ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)?

SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)?

NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)?

ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)?

JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)?

BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)?

CYRUS (559-529BC)?

BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)?

DARIUS (511-475BC)?

OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

BLESSING OF ISRAEL V. 1-15

RENEWAL OF ISRAEL V. 16-38

READ: EZEKIEL 36:1-3

BLESSING ON ISRAEL 1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD!

2 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because the enemy has said of you, 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’

3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people" —

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 36:1-3

1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD! 2 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because the enemy has said of you: 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’ 3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people"

WHO IS THE LORD SPEAKING TO? WHY?'O mountains of Israel’

WHO SAID THIS?'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession’

WHO DID THIS TO ISRAEL? WHY?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 36:1

BLESSING ON ISRAEL 1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD!


READ: EZEKIEL 6:2-32 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: ‘Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.’ NKJV


1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD!


WHAT DID THE LORD SAY HE WOULD DO?WAS THIS CONCERNING ISRAEL?

READ: EZEKIEL 17:2222 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I will take also one of the highest branches of the high cedar and set it out. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and prominent mountain.’


2 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because the enemy has said of you: 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’

WHO SAID THIS?'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession’

AMMONITES?

READ: EZEKIEL 25:33 Say to the Ammonites, 'Hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD: Because you said: 'Aha!' against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity’ NKJV


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 2 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because the enemy has said of you: 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’

WHO SAID THIS? 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession’

MOUNT SEIR? EDOM?

READ: EZEKIEL 35:10-1110 Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there, 11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, ‘I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.’ NKJV


3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ’Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people’

WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO? ISRAEL?

WHO DID THIS TO ISRAEL? WHY?

READ PSALMS 44:13-1413 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those all around us. 14 You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples. NKJV


3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ’Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people’


DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS?

READ: DEUTERONOMY 28:36-3736 The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods — wood and stone. 37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD will drive you. NKJV


3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people’


WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?

READ: ISAIAH 42:14-1514 I have held My peace a long time, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in labor, I will pant and gasp at once. 15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools. NKJV


3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people’



READ: JEREMIAH 24:9-109 I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.10 I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ NKJV


3 therefore prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord GOD: ’Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people’



READ : LAMENTATIONS 2:1616 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, ‘We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day we have waited for; We have found it, we have seen it!’ NKJV


3 therefore prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord GOD: ’Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people’


WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EDOM?

READ: OBADIAH 1313 You should not have entered the gate of My people In the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction In the day of their calamity, Nor laid hands on their substance In the day of their calamity.


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations all around —

5 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.'


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations all around — 5 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.'

WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?


4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations all around —

WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?‘O mountains of Israel’

READ: EZEKIEL 6:33 Say: 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: ‘Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.’ NKJV


4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations all around —

WHAT HAPPENED TO ISRAEL?‘became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations’

WHAT WERE THE PEOPLE SAYING?READ: EZEKIEL 33:24

24 Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Israel are saying: 'Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.' NKJV


5 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.'

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?‘I have spoken in My burning jealousy against them’

BECAUSE:‘they gave My land to themselves as a possession’

WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?





READ: JEREMIAH 2:26-2726 As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, So is the house of Israel ashamed; They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their prophets, NKJV27 Saying to a tree, 'You are my father,‘ And to a stone, 'You gave birth to me.‘ For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble They will say: 'Arise and save us.’ NKJV




READ: JEREMIAH 25:3131 ‘A noise will come to the ends of the earth: For the LORD has a controversy with the nations; He will plead His case with all flesh. He will give those who are wicked to the sword,' says the LORD. NKJV




READ: JEREMIAH 50:11-1211 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced,You destroyers of My heritage, Because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, And you bellow like bulls, 12 Your mother shall be deeply ashamed; She who bore you shall be ashamed. Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness, A dry land and a desert.





READ: EZEKIEL 25:12-1412 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because of what Edom did against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended by avenging itself on them,’14 I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance,’ says the Lord GOD. NKJV





READ: EZEKIEL 33:28-2928 ‘I will make the land most desolate, her arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through.’ 29 ‘Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.’ NKJV





READ: EZEKIEL 35:14-1514 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. 15 As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, So I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom - all of it! Then they shall know that I am the LORD.' NKJV





READ: JOEL 3:22 I will also gather all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land. NKJV


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations."

7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I have raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are around you shall bear their own shame.


6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations." 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I have raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are around you shall bear their own shame.

WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?‘because you have borne the shame of the nations’

BECAUSE:‘the nations are around you shall bear their own shame’

WHAT DID THE LORD DO? WHY?‘I raised My hand in an oath’

‘the nations around you shall bear their own shame’


6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations."


READ: PSALMS 123:44 Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scorn of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.


6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations."


WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?READ: EZEKIEL 34:29

29 I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore. NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD DO?‘I raised My hand in an oath’


READ: EZEKIEL 20:55 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘On the day when I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in an oath to them, saying, 'I am the LORD your God.' NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD DO? WHY?‘I raised My hand in an oath’

‘the nations around you shall bear their own shame’

READ: JEREMIAH 25:99 ‘Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel, for they are about to come.

9 For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

11 I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel, for they are about to come. 9 For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown. 10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. 11 I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

HOW WILL THE LORD BLESS ISRAEL? WHEN?


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel, for they are about to come.


READ: ISAIAH 4:2

2 In that day the Branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious; And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing For those of Israel who have escaped. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 27:6

6 Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, And fill the face of the world with fruit. NKJV


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 9 For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.


READ: JEREMIAH 31:27-2827 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to pass, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD. NKJV


WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?READ: ISAIAH 49:17-23

17 ‘Your sons shall make haste; Your destroyers and those who laid you waste Shall go away from you. 21 Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has begotten these for me, Since I have lost my children and am desolate, A captive, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought these up? There I was, left alone; But these, where were they?’ 22 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My standard for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their arms,And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders; 23 Kings shall be your foster fathers, And their queens your nursing mothers; They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, And lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD, For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.’ NKJV


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?READ: ISAIAH 58:12

12 Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 61:44 They shall rebuild the old ruins, They shall raise up the former desolations, And they shall repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many generations. NKJV


10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?

READ: JEREMIAH 30:18

18 Thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacob's tents, And have mercy on his dwelling places; The city shall be built upon its own mound; And the palace shall remain according to its own plan. NKJV


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.


READ: AMOS 9:11-1211 On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old; 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the Gentiles who are called by My name, Says the LORD who does this thing. NKJV



WHAT DID JAMES SAY?

READ: ACTS 15:13-1713 After they had become silent, James answered, saying, ‘Men and brethren, listen to me: 14 Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name. 15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written: 16 'After! this I will return And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up; 17 So that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD,Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, Says the LORD who does all these things.' NKJV


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 11 I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.


WHAT DID GOD DO FOR THEM IN THE BEGINNING?

READ: LEVITICUS 26:99 'I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.’ NKJV




WHAT WAS THEIR FORMER STATUS?

READ: EZEKIEL 16:5555 ‘When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state.’ NKJV




WHAT WAS THEIR FORMER STATUS?

READ: ZECHARIAH 10:88 ‘I will whistle for them and gather them, For I will redeem them; And they shall increase as they once increased.’ NKJV


11 I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

REMEMBER WHAT THE LORD DID FOR JOB?

READ: JOB 42:12-1512 The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. 15 In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them aninheritance among their brothers. NKJV


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inheritance; no more shall you bereave them of children.’

13 Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because they say to you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of children,'

14 therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nation anymore," says the Lord GOD.

15 Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore," says the Lord GOD.'


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inheritance; no more shall you bereave them of children.’ 13 Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because they say to you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of children,' 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nation anymore," says the Lord GOD. 15 Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore," says the Lord GOD.'

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inheritance; no more shall you bereave them of children.’

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?‘I will cause men to walk on you’

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?My people will again walk on the mountains of Israel?

READ: EZEKIEL 34:2726 I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing. NKJV


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 13 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because they say to you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of children,' 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nation anymore,’ says the Lord GOD.

WHO SAID THIS? WHEN?'You devour men and bereave your nation of children'

READ: NUMBERS 13:3232 They gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, ‘The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.’ NKJV


BLESSING ON ISRAEL 13 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because they say to you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of children,' 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nation anymore,’ says the Lord GOD.

HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?‘you shall devour men no more’

‘nor bereave your nation anymore’

READ: 2 KINGS 17:2525 And it was so, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they did not fear the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.


15 Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore,’ says the Lord GOD.

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY? WHY?

WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?

READ: PSALMS 89:50-5150 ‘Remember, Lord, the reproach of Your servants — How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples,’ 51 ‘With which Your enemies have reproached, O LORD, With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.’ NKJV


15 Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore,’ says the Lord GOD.

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY? WHY?

READ: ISAIAH 54:44 ‘Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.’


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 16 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

17 ‘Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.

18 Therefore I poured out My fury on them for the blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols with which they had defiled it.


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 16 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying:17 ‘Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity. 18 Therefore I poured out My fury on them for the blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols with which they had defiled it.

HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?‘they defiled it by their own ways and deeds’

HOW DID THE LORD LIKEN THIS?‘like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity’

HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS?




READ: PSALMS 106:37-3837 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. 38 And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood. NKJV




READ: JEREMIAH 2:77 I brought you into a bountiful country, To eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled My land And made My heritage an abomination. NKJV





READ: LEVITICUS 12:22 ….'If a woman has conceived, and borne a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her customary impurity she shall be unclean.’





READ: LEVITICUS 15:19-2419 If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she shall be set apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. NKJV



HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS?‘I poured out My fury on them ‘

‘for the blood they had shed on the land’

WHAT DID JOSIAH SAY?

READ: 2 KINGS 22:1313 ‘Go, inquire of the LORD for me, for the people and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is aroused against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.’ NKJV



HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS?‘I poured out My fury on them ‘

‘for the blood they had shed on the land’

WHAT DID JOSIAH SAY?

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 34:2121 ‘Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who are left in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book.’ NKJV


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 19 So I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.

20 When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name — when they said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they have gone out of His land.'

21 But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went.


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 19 So I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds. 20 When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name — when they said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they have gone out of His land.' 21 But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went.

HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEM?WHY?


19 So I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.

HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEM?

DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL?

READ: DEUTERONOMY 28:6464 The LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known — wood and stone. NKJV


DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL?READ: LEVITICUS 18:24-28

24 'Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. 25 For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants. 26 You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you 27 (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled), 28 lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. NKJV


19 So I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.

HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEM?

READ: EZEKIEL 7:88 Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.

READ: EZEKIEL 24:1414 ‘I, the LORD, have spoken it; It shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not hold back, Nor will I spare, Nor will I relent; According to your ways And according to your deeds They will judge you,’ Says the Lord GOD.



WHAT DID THE LORD’S PEOPLE DO?‘they profaned My holy name’

WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?

READ: LEVITICUS 18:2121 You shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. NKJV




HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?READ: ISAIAH 52:4-5

4 ‘My people went down at first Into Egypt to dwell there; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5 Now therefore, what have I here,’ says the LORD,‘My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them Make them wail,’ says the LORD, ‘And My name is blasphemed continually every day.’ NKJV




HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

READ: JEREMIAH 33:2424 Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off'? Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them. NKJV




HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

READ: EZEKIEL 13:1919 Will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies? NKJV




WHY WOULD THE LORD SPARE ANY OF THEM?

READ: EZEKIEL 12:1616 ‘I will spare a few of their men from the sword, from famine, and from pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the Gentiles wherever they go. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.’ NKJV




WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE JEWS?

READ: ROMANS 2:23-2423 You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? 24 For ‘the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,’ as it is written. NKJV


21 But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went.

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM?‘I had concern for My holy name’

‘Which the house of Israel had profaned’

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?READ: ISAIAH 48:9-11

9 ‘For My name's sake I will defer My anger, And for My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off.‘10 ‘Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.’ 11 ‘For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.’ NKJV


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went.

23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD," says the Lord GOD, "when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went. 23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD," says the Lord GOD, "when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.

WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?‘for My holy name's sake’

‘I will sanctify My great name’‘the nations shall know that I am the LORD’


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went.


READ: PSALMS 106:88 He saved them for His name's sake, That He might make His mighty power known. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 37:3535 'I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David's sake.’ NKJV



READ: EZEKIEL 20:99 I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were, in whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 20:4444 ‘You shall know that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel,’ says the Lord GOD. NKJV



WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?‘I will sanctify My great name’

‘the nations shall know that I am the LORDwhen I am hallowed in you before their eyes’

READ: PSALMS 46:1010 ‘Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!’ NKJV





READ: ISAIAH 5:1616 ‘The LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment,And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness’





WHO PROFANED THE NAME OF THE LORD?

READ: ISAIAH 37:2323 ‘Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.’ NKJV




READ: EZEKIEL 20:1414 I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 20:4141 I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles. NKJV




WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO SIDON?

READ: EZEKIEL 28:2222 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Sidon; I will be glorified in your midst; And they shall know that I am the LORD, When I execute judgments in her and am hallowed in her. `NKJV


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.

25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.



THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.


READ: ISAIAH 43:5-6

5 ‘Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west;

6 I will say to the north, 'Give them up!‘ And to the south, 'Do not keep them back!‘ Bring My sons from afar,

And My daughters from the ends of the earth’ NKJV



WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?

WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SPRINKLING?

READ: LEVITICUS 16:14-1514 He shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times15 Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat



WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?‘I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean’

WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?READ: PSALMS 51:2

2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. NKJV

READ: PSALMS 51:77 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. NKJV



WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?‘I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols’

READ: ZECHARIAH 13:22 ‘It shall be in that day,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.’





WHAT CAN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST DO?READ: HEBREWS 9:13-14

13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? NKJV




WHAT DID ANANIAS SAY TO SAUL?READ: ACTS 22:16

16 ‘Why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'

WHAT DOES BAPTISM DO FOR YOU?READ: HEBREWS 10:22

22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.




WHAT DID THE BLOOD OF CHRIST DO?

READ: EPHESIANS 5:25-2725 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. NKJV



WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you

WHY A NEW HEART?

WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?

READ: PSALMS 51:1010 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. NKJV




WHY A NEW HEART?

WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY ABOUT THE JEWS?

READ: JEREMIAH 5:33 LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, But they have not grieved; You have consumed them, But they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than rock;They have refused to return. NKJV




WHY A NEW HEART?

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH?

READ: JEREMIAH 24:77 ‘I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.’




WHY A NEW HEART?


READ: EZEKIEL 18:3131 ‘Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?




WHY A NEW HEART?

WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE CHURCH AT CORINTH?

READ: 2 CORINTHIANS 3:2-32 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. NKJV


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

29 I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. 28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. 29 I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?‘I will put My Spirit within you’

‘you shall be My people and I will be your God’‘I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses’

‘I will call for the grain and multiply it’‘and bring no famine upon you’



WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?‘I will put My Spirit within you’

READ: ISAIAH 44:33 ‘I will pour water on him who is thirsty, And floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, And My blessing on your offspring;’ NKJV




READ: JEREMIAH 32:39-4039 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. 40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me. NKJV




READ: EZEKIEL 11:19-2019 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, 20 that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God. NKJV




READ: JOEL 2:2929 And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. NKJV

SEE: ACTS 2:18


27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.


WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO CORNELIUS?READ: JOHN 3:5

5 Jesus answered, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’ NKJV

WHAT DID PAUL SAY?READ: 1 THESSALONIANS 4:8

8 He who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?‘you shall be My people and I will be your God’

READ: JEREMIAH 30:2222 'You shall be My people and I will be your God'

READ: JEREMIAH 31:3333 ‘This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,’ says the LORD: ‘I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. NKJV




READ: EZEKIEL 14:1111 ‘The house of Israel may no longer stray from Me, nor be profaned anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be My people and I may be their God,’ says the Lord GOD. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 34:2424 ‘I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.’




READ: 2 CORINTHIANS 6:16-1816 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.; 17 Therefore ‘Come out from among them And be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Do not touch what is unclean,And I will receive you.’ 18 'I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters,’ Says the LORD Almighty. NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?‘I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses’

HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE?READ: MATTHEW 1:21

21 ‘She will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.’

READ: ROMANS 11:26-276 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:‘The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; 27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.’ NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?‘I will call for the grain and multiply it’

‘and bring no famine upon you’

READ: HOSEA 2:21-2221 ‘It shall come to pass in that day that I will answer,’ says the LORD; ‘I will answer the heavens, And they shall answer the earth. 22 The earth shall answer With grain, With new wine,and with oil; They shall answer Jezreel.’ NKJV



WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?‘I will call for the grain and multiply it’

‘and bring no famine upon you’

READ: ZECHARIAH 8:1212 'For the seed shall be prosperous, The vine shall give its fruit, The ground shall give her increase, And the heavens shall give their dew: I will cause the remnant of this people To possess all these.’ NKJV


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 30 And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of famine among the nations.

31 Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.

32 Not for your sake do I do this," says the Lord GOD, ‘let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel!’


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 30 And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of famine among the nations. 31 Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations. 32 Not for your sake do I do this,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel!’

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL? WHEN?


30 And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of famine among the nations.


IS THIS PROMISE CONDITIONAL?

READ: LEVITICUS 26:3-53 'If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, 4 then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.


30 And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of famine among the nations.



READ: EZEKIEL 34:13-1413 I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. NKJV



WHAT WILL THE LORD ISRAEL REMEMBER? WHEN?

READ: EZEKIEL 6:99 Those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations. NKJV



WHAT WILL THE LORD ISRAEL REMEMBER? WHEN?

READ: EZEKIEL 16:61-6361 ‘You will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; for I will give them to you for daughters, but not because of My covenant with you. 62 I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the LORD, 63 that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,’ says the Lord GOD. NKJV



WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?WHEN?

IS THIS PROMISE CONDITIONAL?READ: JEREMIAH 33:8-9

8 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me. 9 Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.' NKJV



WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?WHEN?


READ: ZECHARIAH 12:1010 ‘I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.’ NKJV


32 Not for your sake do I do this,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel!’

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?‘Not for your sake do I do this’

READ: DEUTERONOMY 9:5-65 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. NKJV


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 33 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.

34 The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by.

35 So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.'

36 Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.’


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 33 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt. 34 The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by. 35 So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.' 36 Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.’


33 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt. 34 The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?HOW WILL THE LORD CLEANSE ISRAEL?

WHAT DID THE LEVITICAL PRIEST DO?

READ: LEVITICUS 16:3030 On that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. NKJV


33 Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt. 34 The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?

HOW WILL THE LORD CLEANSE ISRAEL?IN CHRIST JESUS?

READ: ISAIAH 49:8-98 Thus says the LORD: ‘In an acceptable time I have heard You, And in the day of salvation I have helped You;I will preserve You and give You As a covenant to the people, To restore the earth, To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;’ NKJV


35 So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.' 36 Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.’



WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE SAY?'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden’

READ: GENESIS 2:82 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. NKJV





READ: ISAIAH 51:33 The LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden,And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody. NKJV





READ: EZEKIEL 28:1313 You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created. NKJV





READ: EZEKIEL 31:8-98 ‘The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it;The fir trees were not like its boughs, And the chestnut trees were not like its branches; No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty. 9 I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches, So that all the trees of Eden envied it, That were in the garden of God.' NKJV





READ: AMOS 9:14-1514 ‘I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. 15 I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them,’Says the LORD your God. NKJV



WHAT WILL THE GENTILE NATIONS KNOW?I, the LORD,

have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.’

READ: NUMBERS 23:1919 ‘God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?’



WHAT WILL THE GENTILE NATIONS KNOW?I, the LORD,

have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.’

READ: JEREMIAH 42:1010 'If you will still remain in this land, then I will build you and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not pluck you up. For I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought upon you.’ NKJV


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 37 Thus says the Lord GOD:’I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock.

38 Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.’ NKJV


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 37 Thus says the Lord GOD: ’I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock. 38 Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.’ NKJV

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?’I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me’

‘I will increase their men like a flock’‘ the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men’

‘they shall know that I am the LORD’


37 Thus says the Lord GOD: ’I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock.


READ: EZEKIEL 14:2-3 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of at all by them? NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 20:33 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I will not be inquired of by you.’ NKJV



READ: DANIEL 9:3-73 I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. 4 I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, ‘O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. 6 Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.



READ: DANIEL 9:20-2320 While I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God, 21 Yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering. 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, ‘O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to understand. 23 At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision:’ NKJV



READ: PSALMS 102:17-2217 He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, And shall not despise their prayer. 18 This will be written for the generation to come,That a people yet to be created may praise the LORD. 19 For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary; From heaven the LORD viewed the earth, 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to death, 21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, And His praise in Jerusalem, 22 When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. NKJV


37 Thus says the Lord GOD: ’I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock.


READ: JEREMIAH 29:12-1312 You will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. NKJV



READ: ZECHARIAH 10:66 ‘I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back, Because I have mercy on them. They shall be as though I had not cast them aside; For I am the LORD their God,And I will hear them.’ NKJV

READ: ZECHARIAH 13:99 ‘I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them.I will say, 'This is My people’; And each one will say, 'The LORD is my God’ NKJV


WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?‘I will increase their men like a flock’.

READ: EZEKIEL 34:23-3123 I will establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them — My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd. 24 And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken. 25 ‘I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 30 They shall know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and they, the house of Israel, are My people,’ says the Lord GOD. 31 ‘You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord GOD. NKJV


THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL 37 Thus says the Lord GOD: ’I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock. 38 Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.’ NKJV



WHAT WILL ISRAEL BE LIKE?‘Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices’

WHAT DID SOLOMON DO?

READ: 1 KINGS 8:6363 Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 bulls and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. NKJV



WHAT WILL ISRAEL BE LIKE?‘Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices’

WHAT DID JOSIAH DO?

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 35:77 Josiah gave the lay people lambs and young goats from the flock, all for Passover offerings for all who were present, to the number of 30,000, as well as 3,000 cattle; these were from the king's possessions. NKJV

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