DCLM Daily Manna 2025: DCLM Daily Manna 11 July 2025: God’s Feast
Text: Ezekiel 39:17-29 (KJV)
17 “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:
“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 You shall eat fat till you are full,
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
20 You shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders,
With mighty men
And with all the men of war,” says the Lord God.
21 “I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them. 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward. 23 The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. 24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.” ’
25 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name— 26 after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid. 27 When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations, 28 then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any longer. 29 And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.”
KEY VERSE: (Ezekiel 39:17)
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you… that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Some decades ago, missionaries in a desert kingdom used the occasion of a sumptuous feast organised by the monarch to explain to some Arabs why they and their families had left their civilised Western Hemisphere abodes to live and preach Christ in the desert. In addition to teaching salvation, the Christians provided education and built hospitals, roads, and small industries. The king thought the followers of Christ did all that to ‘bribe’ their way into heaven. But the missionaries said heaven was already prepared for them by Christ and that going worldwide to preach Him was to appreciate Him for giving them heaven, not to earn it. They were obeying His command to reveal Him to the whole of humanity. They said they would evangelise anywhere to honour Him.
In the latter days, God would also prepare an excellent feast for His people, Israel. He will put down the armies of those warring in rebellion against the land of His chosen. These rebels are identified as Gog and Magog. They are the princes of the world who have been feasting on the children of Jacob and, by extension, on the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. They had seen Israel as easy prey, unaware that the land was only experiencing the Lord’s wrath for their transgressions. But, according to Ezekiel’s prophecy, Israel’s restoration was on the way when God would invite His people to a party to feast on their enemies.
At the time of God’s utterances, Israel was in captivity in Babylon. But at the feast, the Lord says He would explain His actions and let the children of Israel know, “I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land…Neither will I hide my face any more from them.”
As with the case of Israel, believers can rest assured that there may be turbulence on their path but in the end, the loving providence of God will prevail. God has the best interest of His people at heart and will chastise them where necessary but will restore them when they turn to Him.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: It is comforting to know that everything the Lord allows is for our good.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 22-23
Daily Manna 11 July 2025
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