Ezekiel 14:5

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Summary

Ezekiel 14:5

That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

I may

Estranged

Bible References

I may

“But if the prophet is deceived and speaks a message, it was I, Yahweh, who deceived that prophet. I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

Their hearts are devious;

now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord will break down their altars
and demolish their sacred pillars.

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.

The coming of the lawless one is based on Satan’s working, with all kinds of false miracles, signs, and wonders,

Estranged

Then Jeshurun

became fat and rebelled—

you became fat, bloated, and gorged.
He abandoned the God who made him
and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Oh sinful nation,
people weighed down with iniquity,
brood of evildoers,
depraved children!
They have abandoned the Lord;
they have despised the Holy One of Israel;
they have turned their backs on Him.

In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows he will also reap,

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.

Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.