THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Ezekiel Chapter 1 to 20)

[Cosia]

Ezekiel 20:32 (NLT)
You say, 'We want to be like the nations all around us, who serve idols of wood and stone.'
But what you have in mind will never happen.

 

[Cosia]

Ezekiel 20:33 (NLT)
As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I will rule over you with an iron fist in great anger and with awesome power.

 

[Cosia]

Ezekiel 20:34 (NLT)
And in anger I will reach out with my strong hand and powerful arm and I will bring you back from the lands whereyou are scattered.

 

[Cosia]

Ezekiel 20:35 (NLT)
I will bring you into the wilderness of these nations, and there I will judge you face to face.

 

[Cosia]

Ezekiei 20:36 (NLT)
I will judge you there just as I did your ancestors in the wilderness after bringing them out of the land of Egypt, says the Sovereign LORD.

 

[Cosia]

Ezekiel 20:37 (NLT)
I will examine you carefully and hold you to the terms of the covenant.

 

[Cosia]

Ezekiel 20:38 (NLT)
I will purge you of all those who rebel and revolt against me. I will bring them out of the countries where they are in exile, but they will never enter the land of Israel. Then you will Know that I am the LORD.

 

[Cosia]

Ezekiel 20:39 (NLT)
As for you, O people of Israel, the Sovereign LORD says: Go right ahead and worship your idols, but sooner or later you will obey me and will stop bringing shame on my holy name by worshipping idols.

 

[Cosia]

Ezekiel 20:40 (NLT)
For on my holy mountain, the great mountain of Israel, says the Sovereign LORD, the people of Israel will some day worship me and I will accept them. There I will require you bring me all your offerings, choice gifts and sacrifices.

 

[Cosia]

Ezekiel 20:41 (NLT)
When I bring you home from exile, it will be like a pleasing sacrifice to me. And I will display my holiness through you as all the nations watch.

 

[Pastor Gary]

Ezekiel 20:42 (NLT) - 42 Then when I have brought you home to the land I promised with a solemn oath to give to your ancestors, you will know that I am the Lord.

 

[Pastor Gary]

Ezekiel 20:43 (NLT) - 43 You will look back on all the ways you defiled yourselves and will hate yourselves because of the evil you have done.

 

[Pastor Gary]

Ezekiel 20:44 (NLT) - 44 You will know that I am the Lord, O people of Israel, when I have honored my name by treating you mercifully in spite of your wickedness. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

 

[Pastor Gary]

Ezekiel 20:45 (NLT) - 45 Then this message came to me from the Lord:

 

[Pastor Gary]

Ezekiel 20:46 (NLT) - 46 “Son of man, turn and face the south and speak out against it; prophesy against the brushlands of the Negev.

 

[Pastor Gary]

Ezekiel 20:47 (NLT) - 47 Tell the southern wilderness, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Hear the word of the Lord! I will set you on fire, and every tree, both green and dry, will be burned. The terrible flames will not be quenched and will scorch everything from south to north.

 

[Pastor Gary]

Ezekiel 20:48 (NLT) - 48 And everyone in the world will see that I, the Lord, have set this fire. It will not be put out.’”

 

[Pastor Gary]

Ezekiel 20:49 (NLT) - 49 Then I said, “O Sovereign Lord, they are saying of me, ‘He only talks in riddles!’”