All flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”
God sets His face against Judah like a forest stripped bare of fruit, overgrown with briars and thorns where a vineyard should flourish. The sword, famine, pestilence, and captivity will burn through it like fire consuming timber, and though the message is one of wrath, it must be delivered gently, that hearts might soften as earth drinks the rain.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 20:45-49
All flesh - All the people shall see that this war is a judgment of the Lord. It shall not be quenched - Till the whole land shall be utterly ruined.
The Lord draws His sword from its scabbard and cuts off both righteous and wicked from Jerusalem and Israel. This prophecy runs in three currents: the kingdom of Judah's destruction, the sword's threat against all its inhabitants, and Nebuchadnezzar's execution of that very sentence against Judah and the Ammonites alike.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 20:45-49