DCLM Daily Manna 2025: DCLM Daily Manna 12 January 2025: The Just Wrath of God
Text: Ezekiel 24:1-14 (KJV)
1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
KEY VERSE: Ezekiel 24:13
“In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shall not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.”
An African proverb says, “A hunting dog destined for perdition does not heed the hunter’s whistle.” The principle contained in this proverb, negative as it sounds, has continued to play out in our everyday experience.
The children of Israel seem to fulfil this maxim over and over. In today’s text, Prophet Ezekiel, using a sign of flesh boiling in a pot, demonstrated to the Jews the miseries that they would be subjected to when Nebuchadnezzar, at an appointed time, would lay siege to Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the city God had chosen to put His name. Tragically, the city had become a decadent cesspool of corruption. The inhabitants of the city had set themselves at odds against God. The city remained headstrong despite God’s repeated warnings. Divine parables and direct warnings no longer reached their hearts. God’s longsuffering and protracted mercy were taken for granted. The predicted wrath of God was inevitable. The Babylonians would raze down Jerusalem!
When sin reaches a head, and divine warnings would not rouse the hardened heart to repentance, divine wrath becomes the remedy for transgression. Jerusalem was doomed for destruction. So is everyone who takes God’s longsuffering for granted and continues in a life of rebellion.
God’s forbearance has an expiry time. The sinner must heed the warnings in God’s word. And the ‘sinning saint’ must wake up to the nudging of the Holy Spirit. Whoever refuses to capitulate to God’s warning eventually becomes the butt of God’s laughter and mockery when he is visited with divine calamities. God is just. He will unleash His just wrath upon the unrepentant rebels.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Eternal regrets await those who sinfully hurry to God’s fury.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Genesis 35-37
Daily Manna 12 January 2025
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