October 19, 2020: Day 58 – Ezekiel 6

It may seem a bit strange that God is going to lay to waste the mountains of Israel, the hills, the ravines and the valleys.  Why?  What did they do?  How are they to blame for anything.  So keep in mind that we know that in those places is where all of the rituals to the false gods would have taken place, even human and child sacrifices were seen as taking place on the mountains, the hills, the ravines, and the valleys.  If you read vs.5 you will see God tells Ezekiel: I will lay the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.  

He ends this chapter by stating that: “Then they shall know that I am the Lord.”  What will it take to turn the people away from their evil deeds to a recognition that God is Lord and ruler of all of our lives?  Sometimes it takes the destruction of that which we believe is innocent and has had no hand in the atrocities that we see around us.  The mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys were created by God and yet they will also be destroyed by God so that: They shall know that I am the Lord.  What will it take to get our attention?