Ezekiel 10
Sunday in The Gospel Project®
for Kids, your preschooler will learn that Ezekiel brought God’s
message to the exiles in Babylon. God’s messages to Ezekiel came in the
form of visions, full of symbols and signs. The prophecies shared by
Ezekiel include details of God’s judgment on Jerusalem: the people would
lack bread and water (Ezekiel 4:17), die by plague and famine (Ezekiel
5:12), and be ruined and disgraced (Ezekiel 5:14).
In Ezekiel 10, God
told a man in linen to scatter coals over Jerusalem—a symbol of both
punishment and purification. God had used fire to cleanse the lips of
Isaiah (Isaiah 6:6) and to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24).
In those days, when something was too dirty to be cleaned with water, it
was burned up.
God’s judgment also
came to Jerusalem through His departure from the temple. We must not
think God was confined to the temple; He is omnipresent. (1 Kings 8:27;
Jeremiah 23:24) But the temple was the place God’s people went to
worship Him. (See 1 Kings 8:33-34.) When the people refused to be
righteous before God, God’s glory left the temple.
God left the temple
because He was unhappy with His people's sin. Sin separates us from God.
But we do not have to stay separated from God. Jesus came to earth to
fix our relationship with God by taking the punishment of our sin for
us. Because of Christ, we can enjoy God's presence.
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