BAD COMPANY

SINNER’S COMFORT Ezekiel shares God’s warnings to the Pharaoh of Egypt again, but offers some strange comfort to him.  As a ruler who caused great grief to many people he will not be alone in hell.  Ezekiel 32 1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first

DEAD WOOD

TOUGH AUDIENCE In the days of Ezekiel Egypt had been the great power of his world, like the United States of his time. They had huge public works in the pyramids and the temples of their many gods.  Their armies dominated their world even up to the time of Rome.  The Pharaoh had power enough

FRIENDS

NO ALLIANCE BUT GOD God continues his announcement of destruction to Egypt through Ezekiel.  Egypt offered an alliance to Israel, but they were not strong enough to back that hope.  God intended to punish Israel and the Egyptians were only interfering in his plans.  They paid dearly for their half hearted offering of hope. Ezekiel

WEAK HOPE

NO ALLIANCE BUT GOD Egypt has a problem.  Not because they were enemies of Israel, but rather because they were half-hearted allies.  More than one prophet warns Israel to trust the Lord, not alliances.  When they tried to find refuge in an alliance with Egypt God saw a need to correct his people and those

THORNS

TALE OF TWO CITIES Tyre and Sidon are two cities of Lebanon that loved trading with Israel and the world, but they also loved celebrating Israel’s troubles.  Like friends who gossip they appeared good on the outside while spreading poison in private.  God has an opinion about the private things that he knows all about.