Have you ever studied the
why's, when's, and wherefore's
of what will happen to us.

Ezekiel, a servant of God strengthened through
the ingestion and digestion of His Word,
was expressly sent unto his own people,
those of the House of Israel,
to speak unto them directly from the Word of God,
in the manner of "Thus saith the Lord GOD".

However, at the conclusion of chapter 29
we saw that there would also come a time when God was going to "open the mouth" of Ezekiel
in the midst of Egypt and the gentile nations,
and bring forth the word of His power so that all the nations
"Shall know that He is the LORD".

It is written in Mark 13:11 that in the last days
when this "opening of the mouth" occurs,
when God's elect are delivered up,
that they are not to premeditate what they are going to say.

Nevertheless,
it is not really a mystery concerning what the Holy Spirit
will be speaking through them.

For it is written in Acts chapter 2
that on Pentecost Day when the "mouths" of God's servants were "opened",
which was a type, a sampling of that which would happen in the last days,
that it was the "magnificent things",
i.e. the "wonderful works of God", that they were speaking about.

And so shall it be when God's elect are delivered up in these last days.

To that end,
in the last few chapters we have been reading
about some of those wondrous works,
even the "last day" judgments upon Egypt and the rest of the gentile nations.

It is because Pharaoh, and the leaders of those gentile nations,
have played the part of the "box-cedar" (i.e. Satan)
who was that exalted tree in the garden of Eden (Ezek. 31),
and elevated themselves to self-greatness,
and it is because of the idolatry of their multitudes,
that God is going to send the king of Babylon
and take captive and completely make desolate (spiritually),
those leaders and their multitudes.

So in this 32nd chapter,
God instructs Ezekiel to tell the sad story for the benefit of Pharaoh
(symbolic of the gentile leaders)
of Egypt (symbolic of all the gentile nations)
and make known the why's, when's, and wherefore's
of what will happen to them.

Again, all this happens to the nations
so that they will come to know that the Lord is GOD
and that He does care about them,
and He does love them,
and perhaps they will "See" and turn to Him
and get their acts together before the final judgment at the end of the Millennium.

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.

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