WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome to immerse: the daily bible reading experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.320 day 200 and 71 00:00:04.774 --> 00:00:09.814 Then on September 17th, during the sixth year of King Jo Hoya Kin's Captivity, 00:00:10.414 --> 00:00:15.034 while the leaders of Judah were in my home, the sovereign Lord took hold of me. 00:00:16.174 --> 00:00:20.764 I saw a figure that appeared to be a man from what appeared to be his waist down. 00:00:21.004 --> 00:00:24.364 He looked like a burning flame from the waist up. 00:00:24.364 --> 00:00:25.864 He looked like gleaming amber. 00:00:27.169 --> 00:00:30.439 He reached out what seemed to be a hand and took me by the hare. 00:00:31.339 --> 00:00:35.449 Then the spirit lifted me up into the sky and transported me to Jerusalem. 00:00:35.899 --> 00:00:41.089 In a vision from God I was taken to the North gate of the inner courtyard of 00:00:41.089 --> 00:00:45.409 the temple where there is a large idol that has made the Lord very jealous. 00:00:46.129 --> 00:00:50.749 Suddenly, the glory of the God of Israel was there, just as I 00:00:50.749 --> 00:00:52.249 had seen it before in the valley. 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:57.229 Then the Lord said to me, son of man, look toward the north. 00:00:57.859 --> 00:01:01.819 So I looked and there to the north beside the entrance to the gate, near 00:01:01.819 --> 00:01:07.639 the altar, stood the idol that had made the Lord so jealous, son of man. 00:01:07.669 --> 00:01:10.069 He said, do you see what they're doing? 00:01:10.699 --> 00:01:12.559 Do you see the detestable sins? 00:01:12.559 --> 00:01:16.729 The people of Israel are committing to drive me from my temple, but 00:01:16.729 --> 00:01:20.869 come and you will see even more detestable sins than these. 00:01:22.084 --> 00:01:25.114 Then he brought me to the door of the temple courtyard where 00:01:25.114 --> 00:01:26.644 I could see a hole in the wall. 00:01:27.364 --> 00:01:31.714 He said to me, now, son of man, dig into the wall. 00:01:32.524 --> 00:01:36.904 So I dug into the wall and found a hidden doorway go in. 00:01:37.054 --> 00:01:41.494 He said, and see the wicked and detestable sins they are committing in there. 00:01:42.424 --> 00:01:47.344 So I went in and saw the walls covered with engravings of all kinds of crawling 00:01:47.344 --> 00:01:50.014 animals and detestable creatures. 00:01:50.854 --> 00:01:54.274 I also saw the various idols worshiped by the people of Israel. 00:01:55.294 --> 00:01:59.314 70 leaders of Israel were standing there with Jay as Anaya 00:01:59.644 --> 00:02:01.504 son of Shahan in the center. 00:02:02.434 --> 00:02:05.644 Each of them held an incense burner from which a cloud of 00:02:05.644 --> 00:02:07.444 incense rose above their heads. 00:02:07.704 --> 00:02:13.624 Then the Lord said to me, son of man, have you seen what the leaders of Israel are 00:02:13.624 --> 00:02:15.814 doing with their idols and dark rooms? 00:02:16.534 --> 00:02:19.024 They're saying The Lord doesn't see us. 00:02:19.204 --> 00:02:20.794 He has deserted our land. 00:02:21.664 --> 00:02:25.744 And then the Lord added, come and I will show you even more 00:02:25.744 --> 00:02:27.394 detestable sins than these. 00:02:28.654 --> 00:02:32.044 He brought me to the north gate of the Lord's temple, and some women 00:02:32.044 --> 00:02:36.874 were sitting there weeping for the God Tamaz, have you seen this? 00:02:36.904 --> 00:02:42.214 He asked, but I will show you even more detestable sins than these. 00:02:42.874 --> 00:02:45.814 Then he brought me into the inner courtyard of the Lord's temple. 00:02:46.624 --> 00:02:50.974 At the entrance to the sanctuary between the entry room and the bronze altar, 00:02:51.574 --> 00:02:55.504 there were about 25 men with their backs to the sanctuary of the Lord. 00:02:56.284 --> 00:03:01.384 They were facing east bowing low to the ground, worshiping the sun. 00:03:02.584 --> 00:03:04.354 Have you seen this son of man? 00:03:04.714 --> 00:03:08.194 He asked, is it nothing to the people of Judah that they 00:03:08.194 --> 00:03:10.084 commit these detestable sins? 00:03:10.534 --> 00:03:14.194 Leading the whole nation into violence, thumbing their noses 00:03:14.194 --> 00:03:16.384 at me and provoking my anger. 00:03:17.014 --> 00:03:19.924 Therefore, I will respond in fury. 00:03:20.344 --> 00:03:22.594 I will neither pity nor spare them. 00:03:23.044 --> 00:03:26.374 And though they cry for mercy, I will not listen. 00:03:27.334 --> 00:03:32.194 Then the Lord thundered bring on the men appointed to punish the city. 00:03:32.944 --> 00:03:35.044 Tell them to bring their weapons with them. 00:03:35.974 --> 00:03:39.214 Six men soon appeared from the upper gate that faces North. 00:03:39.739 --> 00:03:44.989 Each carrying a deadly weapon in his hand with them was a man dressed in linen 00:03:45.229 --> 00:03:47.329 who carried a writer's case at his side. 00:03:48.409 --> 00:03:52.399 They all went into the temple courtyard and stood beside the bronze altar. 00:03:53.389 --> 00:03:57.529 Then the glory of the God of Israel rose up from between the cherubim 00:03:57.979 --> 00:04:02.629 where it had rested and moved to the entrance of the temple, and the Lord 00:04:02.629 --> 00:04:06.109 called to the man dressed in linen who was carrying the writer's case. 00:04:06.829 --> 00:04:11.404 He said to him, Walk through the streets of Jerusalem and put a mark 00:04:11.404 --> 00:04:15.574 on the foreheads of all who weep and sigh because of the detestable 00:04:15.574 --> 00:04:17.434 sins being committed in their city. 00:04:18.544 --> 00:04:23.854 Then I heard the Lord say to the other men, follow him through the city and kill 00:04:23.854 --> 00:04:25.954 everyone whose forehead is not marked. 00:04:26.614 --> 00:04:27.164 Show no mercy. 00:04:27.994 --> 00:04:29.164 Have no pity. 00:04:29.644 --> 00:04:30.664 Kill them all. 00:04:30.934 --> 00:04:36.064 Old and young girls and women and little children, but do 00:04:36.064 --> 00:04:37.804 not touch anyone with the mark. 00:04:38.524 --> 00:04:40.234 Begin right here at the temple. 00:04:41.314 --> 00:04:46.174 So they began by killing the 70 leaders defile the temple. 00:04:46.324 --> 00:04:49.864 The Lord commanded, fill its courtyards with corpses. 00:04:50.134 --> 00:04:50.794 Go. 00:04:51.634 --> 00:04:56.464 So they went and began killing throughout the city while they were out killing. 00:04:57.034 --> 00:04:58.174 I was all alone. 00:04:59.074 --> 00:05:01.804 I fell face down on the ground and cried out. 00:05:02.164 --> 00:05:03.754 Oh, sovereign Lord. 00:05:04.429 --> 00:05:06.739 Will your fury against Jerusalem wipe out? 00:05:06.739 --> 00:05:08.149 Everyone left in Israel. 00:05:09.049 --> 00:05:15.259 Then he said to me, the sins of the people of Israel and Judah are very, very great. 00:05:15.859 --> 00:05:18.079 The entire land is full of murder. 00:05:18.649 --> 00:05:20.809 The city is filled with injustice. 00:05:21.649 --> 00:05:24.389 They're saying the Lord doesn't see it. 00:05:24.809 --> 00:05:26.789 The Lord has abandoned the land. 00:05:27.629 --> 00:05:30.559 So I will not spare them or have any pity on them. 00:05:31.534 --> 00:05:34.234 I will fully repay them for all they have done. 00:05:35.224 --> 00:05:39.664 Then the man in linen clothing who carry the writer's case, reported back and 00:05:39.664 --> 00:05:46.234 said, I have done, as you commanded in my vision, I saw what appeared to be a 00:05:46.234 --> 00:05:51.694 throne of blue lapis lly above the crystal surface over the heads of the cherubim. 00:05:52.804 --> 00:05:57.319 Then the Lord spoke to the man in linen clothing and said, Go between 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:01.399 the whirling wheels, beneath the cherubim and take a handful of burning 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:04.069 coals and scatter them over the city. 00:06:05.059 --> 00:06:06.469 He did this as I watched. 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:11.899 The cherub were standing at the south end of the temple when the man went in and the 00:06:11.904 --> 00:06:14.449 cloud of glory filled the inner courtyard. 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:19.129 Then the glory of Lord rose up from above the cherubim and went 00:06:19.129 --> 00:06:20.689 over to the entrance of the temple. 00:06:21.469 --> 00:06:25.789 The temple was filled with this cloud of glory, and the courtyard glowed 00:06:25.789 --> 00:06:27.739 brightly with the glory of the Lord. 00:06:28.669 --> 00:06:33.979 The moving wings of the cherubim sounded like a voice of God Almighty and could 00:06:33.979 --> 00:06:35.929 be heard even in the outer courtyard. 00:06:36.889 --> 00:06:40.709 The Lord said to the man in linen clothing, go between the 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.939 cherubim and take some burning coals from between the wheels. 00:06:44.719 --> 00:06:47.239 So the man went in and stood beside one of the wheels. 00:06:48.109 --> 00:06:50.239 Then one of the cherub reached out his hand. 00:06:50.599 --> 00:06:53.659 And took some live coals from the fire burning among them. 00:06:54.649 --> 00:06:58.219 He put the coals into the hands of the man in linen clothing and 00:06:58.219 --> 00:06:59.959 the man took them and went out. 00:07:01.039 --> 00:07:04.699 All the cherub had what looked like human hands under their wings. 00:07:05.599 --> 00:07:10.009 I looked and each of the four cherubim had a wheel beside him and 00:07:10.009 --> 00:07:11.989 the wheels sparkled like barrel. 00:07:13.039 --> 00:07:16.669 All four wheels looked alike and were made the same. 00:07:17.059 --> 00:07:20.059 Each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it. 00:07:21.094 --> 00:07:25.384 The cherub could move in any of the four directions they faced without turning. 00:07:25.384 --> 00:07:30.394 As they moved, they went straight in the direction they faced never turning aside. 00:07:31.354 --> 00:07:34.264 Both the cherub and the wheels were covered with eyes. 00:07:35.134 --> 00:07:38.914 The cherub had eyes all over their bodies, including their hands, 00:07:38.944 --> 00:07:40.624 their backs, and their wings. 00:07:41.554 --> 00:07:45.274 I heard someone refer to the wheels as the whirling wheels. 00:07:46.174 --> 00:07:48.634 Each of the four cherri them had four faces. 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:50.869 The first was the face of an ox. 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:52.849 The second was a human face. 00:07:53.239 --> 00:07:57.199 The third was the face of a lion, and the fourth was the face of an eagle. 00:07:58.309 --> 00:08:00.259 Then the cherub rose upward. 00:08:01.189 --> 00:08:05.179 These were the same living beings I had seen beside the key Bar River. 00:08:05.449 --> 00:08:09.079 When the cherub moved, the wheels moved with them. 00:08:09.619 --> 00:08:13.189 When they lifted their wings to fly, the wheels stayed beside them. 00:08:13.999 --> 00:08:16.879 When the cherubims stopped, the wheels stopped. 00:08:17.494 --> 00:08:21.394 When they flew upward, the wheels rose up for the spirit of the 00:08:21.394 --> 00:08:23.374 living beings was in the wheels. 00:08:24.814 --> 00:08:28.444 Then the glory of the Lord moved out from the entrance of the temple 00:08:28.774 --> 00:08:30.484 and hovered above the cherubim. 00:08:31.054 --> 00:08:35.224 And as I watched the cherub flew with their wheels to the east gate of the 00:08:35.284 --> 00:08:39.874 Lord's temple and the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them. 00:08:40.744 --> 00:08:44.974 These were the same living beings I had seen beneath the God of Israel. 00:08:45.334 --> 00:08:51.394 When I was by the Key Bar River, I knew they were cherub for each had four faces 00:08:51.394 --> 00:08:57.154 and four wings and what looked like human hands under their wings, and their faces 00:08:57.154 --> 00:09:01.984 were just like the faces of the beings I had seen at the key bar, and they traveled 00:09:01.984 --> 00:09:04.834 straight ahead just as the others had. 00:09:06.004 --> 00:09:10.834 Then the spirit lifted me and brought me to the east gateway of the Lord's Temple, 00:09:11.554 --> 00:09:14.404 where I saw 25 prominent men of the city. 00:09:15.409 --> 00:09:20.959 Among them were Jay as Anaya, son of Azer and Aya Sanda. 00:09:21.289 --> 00:09:23.449 Aya, who were leaders among the people. 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:30.229 The spirit said to me, son of man, these are the men who are planning evil and 00:09:30.229 --> 00:09:32.089 giving wicked counsel in this city. 00:09:32.869 --> 00:09:36.589 They say to the people, is it not a good time to build houses? 00:09:37.099 --> 00:09:38.899 This city is like an iron pot. 00:09:39.259 --> 00:09:41.869 We are safe inside it, like meat in a pot. 00:09:42.784 --> 00:09:47.344 Therefore, a son of man prophesy against them loudly and clearly. 00:09:48.394 --> 00:09:53.824 Then the spirit of the Lord came upon me and he told me to say, this is what 00:09:53.824 --> 00:09:55.894 the Lord says to the people of Israel. 00:09:56.764 --> 00:10:01.294 I know what you are saying for I know every thought that comes into your minds. 00:10:02.074 --> 00:10:06.364 You have murdered many in this city and filled its streets with the dead. 00:10:07.384 --> 00:10:10.024 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:10:10.909 --> 00:10:12.499 This city is an iron pot. 00:10:12.499 --> 00:10:12.979 All right? 00:10:13.579 --> 00:10:16.879 But the pieces of meat are the victims of your injustice. 00:10:17.779 --> 00:10:21.109 As for you, I will soon drag you from this pot. 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:24.049 I will bring on you the sword of war. 00:10:24.049 --> 00:10:27.259 You so greatly fear says the sovereign Lord. 00:10:28.069 --> 00:10:32.539 I will drive you out of Jerusalem and hand you over to foreigners who will 00:10:32.539 --> 00:10:34.429 carry out my judgments against you. 00:10:35.329 --> 00:10:38.509 You will be slaughtered all the way to the borders of Israel. 00:10:39.064 --> 00:10:43.204 I will execute judgment on you and you will know that I am the Lord. 00:10:43.984 --> 00:10:48.754 No, this city will not be an iron pot for you and you will 00:10:48.754 --> 00:10:51.304 not be like meat safe inside it. 00:10:52.114 --> 00:10:55.894 I will judge you even to the borders of Israel and you will know that 00:10:55.894 --> 00:11:02.074 I am the Lord for you have refused to obey my decrees and regulations. 00:11:02.674 --> 00:11:06.784 Instead, you have copied the standards of the nations around you. 00:11:07.654 --> 00:11:12.604 While I was still prophesying Aya son of Benea suddenly died. 00:11:13.474 --> 00:11:18.934 Then I fell face down on the ground and cried out, oh, sovereign Lord, are 00:11:18.934 --> 00:11:21.184 you going to kill everyone in Israel? 00:11:22.384 --> 00:11:26.494 Then this message came to me from the Lord, son of man. 00:11:26.824 --> 00:11:31.354 The people still left in Jerusalem are talking about you and your relatives and 00:11:31.354 --> 00:11:33.484 all the people of Israel who are in exile. 00:11:34.219 --> 00:11:39.109 They're saying those people are far away from the Lord, so now 00:11:39.109 --> 00:11:40.789 he has given their land to us. 00:11:41.689 --> 00:11:46.729 Therefore, tell the exiles this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:11:47.569 --> 00:11:50.269 Although I have scattered you in the countries of the world, 00:11:50.599 --> 00:11:53.689 I will be a sanctuary to you during your time in exile. 00:11:54.619 --> 00:11:58.579 I, the sovereign Lord, will gather you back from the nations where you 00:11:58.579 --> 00:12:02.419 have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel once again. 00:12:03.964 --> 00:12:08.314 When the people return to their homeland, they will remove every trace of their 00:12:08.314 --> 00:12:13.744 vile images and detestable idols, and I will give them singleness of heart 00:12:14.134 --> 00:12:15.904 and put a new spirit within them. 00:12:16.924 --> 00:12:21.274 I will take away their stony stubborn heart and give them a tender, 00:12:21.274 --> 00:12:25.714 responsive heart so they will obey my decrees and regulations. 00:12:26.704 --> 00:12:30.814 Then they will truly be my people and I will be their God. 00:12:31.564 --> 00:12:36.394 As for those who long for vile images and detestable idols, I will 00:12:36.394 --> 00:12:38.494 repay them fully for their sins. 00:12:39.124 --> 00:12:41.794 I, the sovereign Lord, have spoken. 00:12:42.874 --> 00:12:46.174 Then the cherub lifted their wings and rose into the air with their 00:12:46.174 --> 00:12:50.764 wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them. 00:12:51.574 --> 00:12:55.054 Then the glory of the Lord went up from the city and stopped 00:12:55.054 --> 00:12:56.644 above the mountain to the east. 00:12:57.214 --> 00:13:00.814 Afterward, the spirit of God carried me back again to Babylonia. 00:13:01.294 --> 00:13:02.794 To the people in exile there. 00:13:03.934 --> 00:13:09.094 And so ended the vision of my visit to Jerusalem and I told the exiles 00:13:09.094 --> 00:13:10.714 everything the Lord had shown me. 00:13:12.274 --> 00:13:17.674 Again, a message came to me from the Lord, son of man, you live among 00:13:17.674 --> 00:13:20.014 rebels who have eyes but refuse to see. 00:13:20.704 --> 00:13:25.144 They have ears but refuse to hear for they are a rebellious people. 00:13:26.134 --> 00:13:30.094 So now son of man, pretend you are being sent into exile. 00:13:30.694 --> 00:13:35.554 Pack the few items an exile could carry and leave your home to go somewhere else. 00:13:36.364 --> 00:13:40.474 Do this right in front of the people so they can see you for, perhaps 00:13:40.474 --> 00:13:44.074 they will pay attention to this even though they are such rebels. 00:13:45.274 --> 00:13:49.654 Bring your baggage outside during the day so they can watch you then in 00:13:49.654 --> 00:13:51.574 the evening as they they're watching. 00:13:51.574 --> 00:13:55.834 Leave your house as captive stew when they begin a long march to distant lands. 00:13:56.614 --> 00:13:58.984 Dig a hole through the wall while they are watching. 00:13:59.374 --> 00:14:04.114 And go out through it as they watch, lift your pack to your shoulders 00:14:04.114 --> 00:14:05.704 and walk away into the night. 00:14:06.604 --> 00:14:10.534 Cover your face so you cannot see the land you are leaving for. 00:14:10.534 --> 00:14:15.244 I have made you a sign for the people of Israel, so I did. 00:14:15.249 --> 00:14:17.974 As I was told in broad daylight. 00:14:18.004 --> 00:14:22.054 I brought my pack outside, filled with the things I might carry into exile. 00:14:22.954 --> 00:14:25.924 Then in the evening while the people looked on, I dug 00:14:25.924 --> 00:14:27.604 through the wall with my hands. 00:14:27.994 --> 00:14:30.604 And went out into the night with my pack on my shoulder. 00:14:32.134 --> 00:14:36.394 The next morning, this message came to me from the Lord Son of man. 00:14:36.964 --> 00:14:40.984 These rebels, the people of Israel, have asked you what all this means. 00:14:41.584 --> 00:14:44.974 Say to them, this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:14:45.634 --> 00:14:49.414 Bees actions contain a message for kings zakiah in Jerusalem 00:14:49.864 --> 00:14:51.574 and for all the people of Israel. 00:14:52.414 --> 00:14:56.254 Explain that your actions are assigned to show what will soon happen to them. 00:14:56.794 --> 00:14:59.434 For they will be driven into exile as captives. 00:15:00.784 --> 00:15:04.594 Even Zakiah will leave Jerusalem at night through a hole in the wall 00:15:04.924 --> 00:15:06.844 ticking only what he can carry with him. 00:15:07.444 --> 00:15:11.644 He will cover his face and his eyes will not see the land he is leaving. 00:15:12.784 --> 00:15:16.774 Then I will throw my net over him and capture him in my snare. 00:15:17.434 --> 00:15:19.024 I will bring him to Babylon. 00:15:19.474 --> 00:15:24.634 The land of the Babylonians, though he will never see it, and he will die there. 00:15:25.324 --> 00:15:29.074 I will scatter his servants and warriors to the four winds 00:15:29.494 --> 00:15:31.324 and send the sword after them. 00:15:32.044 --> 00:15:36.904 And when I scatter them among the nations, they will know that I am the Lord. 00:15:37.684 --> 00:15:42.394 But I will spare a few of them from death by war, famine, or disease 00:15:43.084 --> 00:15:46.414 so they can confess all their detestable sins to their captors. 00:15:47.314 --> 00:15:49.774 Then they will know that I am the Lord. 00:15:51.364 --> 00:15:53.614 Then this message came to me from the Lord. 00:15:54.514 --> 00:15:59.554 Son of man tremble as you eat your food, shake with fear as you drink 00:15:59.554 --> 00:16:04.384 your water, tell the people this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:16:04.744 --> 00:16:09.544 Concerning those living in Israel and Jerusalem, they will eat their food 00:16:09.544 --> 00:16:13.864 with trembling and sip their water in despair for their land will be 00:16:13.864 --> 00:16:16.024 stripped bare because of their violence. 00:16:16.864 --> 00:16:20.704 The cities will be destroyed and the farmland may desolate. 00:16:21.424 --> 00:16:24.124 Then you will know that I am the Lord. 00:16:25.684 --> 00:16:26.104 Again. 00:16:26.104 --> 00:16:29.524 A message came to me from the Lord, son of man. 00:16:30.004 --> 00:16:33.934 You've heard that proverb, they quote in Israel, time passes 00:16:34.204 --> 00:16:35.974 and prophecies come to nothing. 00:16:36.784 --> 00:16:40.294 Tell the people this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:16:40.954 --> 00:16:44.974 I will put an end to this proverb and you will soon stop quoting it. 00:16:45.754 --> 00:16:48.724 Now, give them this new proverb to replace the old one. 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:53.899 The time has come for every prophecy to be fulfilled. 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:58.249 There will be no more false visions and flattering predictions 00:16:58.249 --> 00:17:01.189 in Israel for I am the Lord. 00:17:02.029 --> 00:17:04.009 If I say it, it will happen. 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:06.289 There will be no more delays. 00:17:06.289 --> 00:17:07.759 You rebels of Israel. 00:17:08.149 --> 00:17:11.329 I will fulfill my threat of destruction in your own lifetime. 00:17:11.809 --> 00:17:14.539 I the sovereign Lord, have spoken. 00:17:16.294 --> 00:17:20.374 Then this message came to me from the Lord Son of man. 00:17:21.064 --> 00:17:24.904 The people of Israel are saying, he's talking about the distant future. 00:17:25.324 --> 00:17:28.744 His visions won't come true for a long, long time. 00:17:29.584 --> 00:17:33.304 Therefore, tell them, this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:17:33.784 --> 00:17:34.624 No more delay. 00:17:34.924 --> 00:17:36.964 I will now do everything I have threatened. 00:17:37.564 --> 00:17:39.724 I the sovereign Lord have spoken. 00:17:41.284 --> 00:17:43.414 Then this message came to me from the Lord. 00:17:44.209 --> 00:17:48.439 Son of man prophesy against the false prophets of Israel who are 00:17:48.439 --> 00:17:50.149 inventing their own prophecies. 00:17:50.749 --> 00:17:53.839 Say to them, listen to the word of the Lord. 00:17:54.379 --> 00:17:56.359 This is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:17:57.199 --> 00:17:57.439 What? 00:17:57.439 --> 00:18:01.459 Sorrow, awaits the false prophets who are following their own imaginations 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:03.529 and have seen nothing at all. 00:18:04.549 --> 00:18:08.509 Oh, people of Israel, these prophets of yours are like 00:18:08.509 --> 00:18:10.549 jackals digging in the ruins. 00:18:11.389 --> 00:18:15.289 They have done nothing to repair the brakes and the walls around the nation. 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:19.759 They have not helped it to stand firm and battle on the day of the Lord. 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:24.829 Instead, they have told lies and made false predictions. 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:29.899 They say this message is from the Lord, even though the Lord never 00:18:29.899 --> 00:18:34.159 sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their prophecies. 00:18:35.269 --> 00:18:38.029 Can your visions be anything but false if you claim. 00:18:38.404 --> 00:18:42.304 This message is from the Lord when I have not even spoken to you. 00:18:43.264 --> 00:18:48.634 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says because what you say is 00:18:48.634 --> 00:18:50.974 false and your visions are a lie. 00:18:51.664 --> 00:18:54.724 I will stand against you, says the sovereign Lord. 00:18:55.474 --> 00:19:00.304 I will raise my fist against all the prophets who see false visions and make 00:19:00.304 --> 00:19:04.984 lying predictions, and they will be banished from the community of Israel. 00:19:05.974 --> 00:19:09.964 I will blot their names from Israel's record books, and they will never 00:19:09.964 --> 00:19:11.914 again set foot in their own land. 00:19:12.574 --> 00:19:15.664 Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord. 00:19:16.834 --> 00:19:22.024 This will happen because these evil prophets deceive my people by saying all 00:19:22.024 --> 00:19:24.934 is peaceful when there is no peace at all. 00:19:25.534 --> 00:19:29.374 It's as if the people have built a flimsy wall and these prophets 00:19:29.379 --> 00:19:32.554 are trying to reinforce it by covering it with whitewash. 00:19:33.679 --> 00:19:37.459 Tell these white washers that their wall will soon fall down. 00:19:38.239 --> 00:19:40.399 A heavy rainstorm will undermine it. 00:19:41.029 --> 00:19:44.449 Great hailstones and mighty winds will knock it down. 00:19:45.049 --> 00:19:50.539 And when the wall falls, the people will cry out What happened to your whitewash? 00:19:51.859 --> 00:19:54.739 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:19:55.729 --> 00:20:00.019 I will sweep away your whitewashed wall with a storm of indignation 00:20:00.679 --> 00:20:02.299 with a great flood of anger. 00:20:02.869 --> 00:20:08.809 And with Hailstones of Fury, I will break down your wall right to its foundation 00:20:09.469 --> 00:20:11.899 and when it falls, it will crush you. 00:20:12.649 --> 00:20:16.669 Then you will know that I am the Lord at last. 00:20:16.669 --> 00:20:19.459 My anger against the wall and those who covered it with 00:20:19.459 --> 00:20:21.859 whitewash will be satisfied. 00:20:22.819 --> 00:20:27.349 Then I will say to you, the wall and those who whitewashed it are both gone. 00:20:28.129 --> 00:20:31.159 They were lying prophets who claimed peace would come to 00:20:31.159 --> 00:20:33.019 Jerusalem when there was no peace. 00:20:33.889 --> 00:20:40.519 I the sovereign Lord have spoken now, son of man, speak out against the women 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:42.859 who prophesy from their own imaginations. 00:20:43.999 --> 00:20:46.189 This is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:20:47.209 --> 00:20:48.739 What sorrow awaits you? 00:20:48.739 --> 00:20:53.719 Women who are ensnaring the souls of my people, young and old alike. 00:20:54.544 --> 00:20:59.674 You tie magic charms on their wrists and furnish them with magic veils. 00:21:00.844 --> 00:21:04.504 Do you think you can trap others without bringing destruction on yourselves? 00:21:05.434 --> 00:21:09.724 You bring shame on me among my people for a few handfuls of barley 00:21:09.784 --> 00:21:14.884 or a piece of bread by lying to my people who love to listen to lies. 00:21:15.214 --> 00:21:20.344 You kill those who should not die, and you promise life to those who should not live. 00:21:21.649 --> 00:21:27.889 This is what the sovereign Lord says I am against all your magic charms, which 00:21:27.889 --> 00:21:30.589 you use to ensnare my people like birds. 00:21:31.309 --> 00:21:34.999 I will tear them from your arms, setting my people free, like 00:21:34.999 --> 00:21:37.039 birds set free from a cage. 00:21:38.149 --> 00:21:42.349 I will tear off the magic veils and save my people from your grasp. 00:21:43.189 --> 00:21:47.719 They will no longer be your victims, then you will know that I am the Lord. 00:21:48.934 --> 00:21:51.994 You have discouraged the righteous with your lies, but 00:21:51.994 --> 00:21:53.644 I didn't want them to be sad. 00:21:54.424 --> 00:21:58.534 And you have encouraged the wicked by promising them life even though 00:21:58.534 --> 00:22:00.334 they continue in their sins. 00:22:01.294 --> 00:22:05.314 Because of all this, you'll no longer talk of seeing visions that you never 00:22:05.319 --> 00:22:09.154 saw, nor will you make predictions for. 00:22:09.154 --> 00:22:11.794 I will rescue my people from your grasp. 00:22:12.364 --> 00:22:15.034 Then you will know that I am the Lord. 00:22:16.609 --> 00:22:20.179 Then some of the leaders of Israel visited me, and while they were 00:22:20.179 --> 00:22:24.829 sitting with me, this message came to me from the Lord, son of man. 00:22:25.309 --> 00:22:27.919 These leaders have set up idols in their hearts. 00:22:28.789 --> 00:22:32.149 They have embraced things that will make them fall into sin. 00:22:32.719 --> 00:22:34.759 Why should I listen to their requests? 00:22:35.449 --> 00:22:38.479 Tell them this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:22:39.619 --> 00:22:43.579 The people of Israel have set up idols in their hearts and fallen into sin. 00:22:44.179 --> 00:22:46.879 And then they go to a prophet asking for a message. 00:22:47.659 --> 00:22:52.729 So I, the Lord will give them the kind of answer their great idolatry deserves. 00:22:53.449 --> 00:22:58.159 I will do this to capture the minds and hearts of all my people who have turned 00:22:58.159 --> 00:23:00.709 for me to worship their detestable idols. 00:23:01.729 --> 00:23:06.529 Therefore, tell the people of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:12.679 Repent and turn away from your idols and stop all your detestable sins. 00:23:13.189 --> 00:23:19.099 I, the Lord will answer all those both Israelites and foreigners who reject 00:23:19.099 --> 00:23:24.319 me and set up idols in their hearts and so fall into sin, and who then 00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:26.599 come to a prophet asking for my advice. 00:23:27.589 --> 00:23:31.220 I will turn against such people and make a terrible example of them, 00:23:31.869 --> 00:23:34.339 eliminating them from among my people. 00:23:35.029 --> 00:23:37.429 Then you will know that I am the Lord. 00:23:38.479 --> 00:23:41.149 And if a prophet is deceived into giving a message. 00:23:41.524 --> 00:23:45.094 It is because I, the Lord have deceived that prophet. 00:23:45.844 --> 00:23:49.714 I will lift my fist against such prophets and cut them off 00:23:49.714 --> 00:23:51.244 from the community of Israel. 00:23:52.204 --> 00:23:55.714 False prophets and those who seek their guidance will all 00:23:55.714 --> 00:23:57.514 be punished for their sins. 00:23:58.384 --> 00:24:02.284 In this way, the people of Israel will learn not to stray from me 00:24:02.644 --> 00:24:04.594 polluting themselves with sin. 00:24:05.404 --> 00:24:09.214 They will be my people and I will be their God. 00:24:09.859 --> 00:24:12.799 I, the sovereign Lord have spoken. 00:24:14.329 --> 00:24:18.259 Then this message came to me from the Lord, son of man. 00:24:18.859 --> 00:24:23.239 Suppose the people of a country were too sin against me, and I lifted my 00:24:23.239 --> 00:24:28.069 fist to crush them, cutting off their food supply and sending a famine 00:24:28.069 --> 00:24:30.379 to destroy both people and animals. 00:24:31.309 --> 00:24:35.719 Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were there, their righteousness 00:24:35.719 --> 00:24:37.789 would save no one but themselves. 00:24:38.194 --> 00:24:43.084 Says the sovereign Lord, or suppose I were to send wild animals to 00:24:43.084 --> 00:24:47.614 invade the country, kill the people, and make the land too desolate 00:24:47.614 --> 00:24:49.174 and dangerous to pass through. 00:24:50.224 --> 00:24:53.074 As surely as I live says the sovereign Lord. 00:24:53.614 --> 00:24:56.824 Even if those three men were there, they wouldn't be able to 00:24:56.854 --> 00:24:58.864 save their own sons or daughters. 00:24:59.704 --> 00:25:03.904 They alone would be saved, but the land would be made desolate. 00:25:04.954 --> 00:25:07.774 Or suppose I were to bring war against the land. 00:25:08.569 --> 00:25:13.969 I sent enemy armies to destroy both people and animals, as surely as 00:25:13.969 --> 00:25:15.769 I live says the sovereign Lord. 00:25:16.489 --> 00:25:19.759 Even if those three men were there, they wouldn't be able to 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:21.589 save their own sons or daughters. 00:25:22.249 --> 00:25:24.079 They alone would be saved. 00:25:25.069 --> 00:25:30.739 Or suppose I were to pour out my fury by sending an epidemic into the land and the 00:25:30.739 --> 00:25:33.019 disease killed people and animals alike. 00:25:33.994 --> 00:25:36.244 Surely as I live says the sovereign Lord. 00:25:36.574 --> 00:25:41.074 Even if Noah, Daniel and Job were there, they wouldn't be able to 00:25:41.074 --> 00:25:42.904 save their own sons or daughters. 00:25:43.414 --> 00:25:46.024 They alone would be saved by their righteousness. 00:25:47.344 --> 00:25:51.874 Now, this is what the sovereign Lord says, how terrible it will 00:25:51.934 --> 00:25:57.754 be when all four of these dreadful punishments fall upon Jerusalem war, 00:25:57.814 --> 00:26:00.754 famine, wild animals, and disease. 00:26:01.114 --> 00:26:03.454 Destroying all her people and animals. 00:26:04.324 --> 00:26:07.444 Yet there will be survivors and they will come here to 00:26:07.444 --> 00:26:09.574 join you as exiles and Babylon. 00:26:10.414 --> 00:26:15.154 You will see with your own eyes how wicked they are, and then you will feel better 00:26:15.154 --> 00:26:16.834 about what I have done to Jerusalem. 00:26:17.644 --> 00:26:21.904 When you meet them and see their behavior, you will understand that these things are 00:26:21.904 --> 00:26:24.274 not being done to Israel without cause. 00:26:25.174 --> 00:26:27.904 I, the sovereign Lord have spoken. 00:26:29.509 --> 00:26:33.619 Then this message came to me from the Lord Son of Man. 00:26:33.979 --> 00:26:36.229 How does a grapevine compare to a tree? 00:26:37.069 --> 00:26:39.589 Is a vines wood as useful as the wood of a tree? 00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:40.819 Ken, its wood. 00:26:40.824 --> 00:26:45.079 Be used for making things like pegs to hang up pots and pans. 00:26:45.979 --> 00:26:51.379 No, it could only be used for fuel and even as fuel had burns too quickly. 00:26:52.069 --> 00:26:55.579 Vines are useless both before and after being put into the fire. 00:26:56.989 --> 00:26:58.939 This is what the sovereign Lord says. 00:26:59.629 --> 00:27:02.449 The people of Jerusalem are like grapevines growing among 00:27:02.449 --> 00:27:03.709 the trees of the forest. 00:27:04.609 --> 00:27:09.289 Since they're useless, I have thrown them on a fire to be burned, and I 00:27:09.289 --> 00:27:13.729 will see to it that if they escape from one fire, they will fall into another. 00:27:14.749 --> 00:27:19.069 When I turn against them, you will know that I am the Lord and I will 00:27:19.069 --> 00:27:23.059 make the land desolate because my people have been unfaithful to me. 00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:26.239 I the sovereign Lord have spoken. 00:27:27.769 --> 00:27:30.619 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:27:30.769 --> 00:27:31.999 Thank you for joining us.