The Four Signs of Ezekiel

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The Four Signs of Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 4-5
• For whatever was written in former days was
  written for our instruction, that through
  endurance and through the encouragement of the
  Scriptures we might have hope. (Romans 154 ESV)

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• Inscribed a tile, visual aids, iron plate/wall

• laid on side for 430 days

• limited food and water

• shave head and measure out hair

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What does this teach us?

1. Gods people are not exempt from His judgment

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• For it is impossible, in the case of those who
  have once been enlightened, who have tasted the
  heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy
  Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word
  of God and the powers of the age to come, and
  then have fallen away, to restore them again to
  repentance, since they are crucifying once again
  the Son of God to their own harm and holding him
  up to contempt. (Hebrews 64-6 ESV)

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest
still stands, let us fear lest any of you should
seem to have failed to reach it. (Hebrews 41)
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• For if, after they have escaped the defilements
  of the world through the knowledge of our Lord
  and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
  in them and overcome, the last state has become
  worse for them than the first. For it would have
  been better for them never to have known the way
  of righteousness than after knowing it to turn
  back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
  What the true proverb says has happened to them
  The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow,
  after washing herself, returns to wallow in the
  mire. (2 Peter
  220-22 ESV)

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• For we know him who said, Vengeance is mine I
  will repay. And again, The Lord will judge his
  people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the
  hands of the living God. (Hebrews 1030-31)

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What does this teach us?

1. Gods people are not exempt from His judgment
2. God warns and offers time for repentance

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• knowing this first of all, that scoffers will
  come in the last days with scoffing, following
  their own sinful desires. They will say, Where
  is the promise of his coming? For ever since the
  fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as
  they were from the beginning of creation. For
  they deliberately overlook this fact, that the
  heavens existed long ago, and the earth was
  formed out of water and through water by the word
  of God, and that by means of these the world that
  then existed was deluged with water and perished.
  (2 Peter 33-6 ESV)

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• Then the LORD said, My Spirit shall not abide in
  man forever, for he is flesh his days shall be
  120 years. (Genesis 63 ESV)
• Do not trust in these deceptive words This is
  the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD,
  the temple of the LORD. For if you truly amend
  your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute
  justice one with another, if you do not oppress
  the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or
  shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do
  not go after other gods to your own harm, then I
  will let you dwell in this place, in the land
  that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
  (Jeremiah 74-7 ESV) 40 years of warning

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• The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as
  some count slowness, but is patient toward you,
  not wishing that any should perish, but that all
  should reach repentance. (2
  Peter 39 ESV)
• Patient now and today

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What does this teach us?

1. Gods people are not exempt from His judgment
2. God warns and offers time for repentance
3. God lives is active in the kingdoms of men

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• Ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you
  will find knock, and it will be opened to you.
  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who
  seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be
  opened. (Matthew 77-8 ESV)
• Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to
  serve for the sake of those who are to inherit
  salvation? (Hebrews 114 ESV)

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• which he will display at the proper timehe who
  is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of
  kings and Lord of lords, (1 Timothy 615 ESV)
• They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will
  conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of
  kings, and those with him are called and chosen
  and faithful.
  (Revelation 1714 ESV)
• On his robe and on his thigh he has a name
  written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
  (Revelation 1916 ESV)

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• Ask of me, and I will make the nations your
  heritage, and the ends of the earth your
  possession. You shall break them with a rod of
  iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's
  vessel. (Psalm 28-9)

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What does this teach us?

1. Gods people are not exempt from His judgment
2. God warns and offers time for repentance
3. God lives is active in the kingdoms of men
4. God speaks and is specific

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• Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God
  spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in
  these last days he has spoken to us by his Son,
  whom he appointed the heir of all things, through
  whom also he created the world. (Hebrews 11-2
  ESV)
• For the word of God is living and active, sharper
  than any two-edged sword, piercing to the
  division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of
  marrow, and discerning the thoughts and
  intentions of the heart. (Hebrews 412 ESV)

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• All Scripture is breathed out by God and
  profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
  correction, and for training in righteousness,
  that the man of God may be complete, equipped for
  every good work. (2
  Timothy 316-17 ESV)
• The one who rejects me and does not receive my
  words has a judge the word that I have spoken
  will judge him on the last day. (John 1248 ESV)