Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
A refugee brought the news a year and five months after Jerusalem burned, though the prophet had surely heard it sooner through steady commerce between Babylon and the ruins. Yet this eyewitness account was different: a man who escaped the flames himself could speak with particularity and real feeling of what he had seen, fulfilling the sign God gave that one would come to make him hear it with his own ears.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 33:21-29
They eat by the blood, imitating heathen idolatry: sitting in circles round about their sacrifices to demons, imagining the devils feed on blood while they feed on flesh, binding themselves to the unclean spirits through this fellowship of the table. This is the wickedness they have embraced, contrary to the law of the Lord.
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The remnant left in the ruins argue from Abraham's solitary faith to their own numbers as reason to claim the land. But those who eat upon the blood, worship idols, shed blood, trust the sword, and defile one another's wives have no claim whatever. The Lord swears by His own life: those in ruins fall by sword, those in fields feed beasts, those in caves die of plague. The land becomes waste because of their abominations, and they shall know He is Lord.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 33:23-29