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In Ezekiel
14, God comes against the idolatry off the people. If the people are going to turn from God,
then God will allow them to get what they desire. God will allow them to follow their passions
and their desires. Essentially, God is
telling the people who follow idols that they will be allowed to lay in the bed
they make.
Then God
turns to an interesting style of argument.
God brings up Noah, Daniel, and Job.
Here are three faithful people indeed.
Noah survived the flood when everyone else was turning to idolatry. Daniel survived the furnace brought about
when those who were turning from God to appease the Babylonians accused Daniel
of disobeying the king. Job survived
complete and utter destruction when everyone around him tried to convince him
to curse God and die. God lifts up these
people because they were faithful amidst a great multitude of unfaithful
people.
God gives a
pretty blunt message. Even if these
faithful people are in the midst of God’s wrath, these people would only save
themselves. This should make sense. After all, aren’t these people remembered for
surviving destruction in the midst of unfaithful people? If Noah, Daniel, and Job were sole survivors
in their own day, why would they be anything other than sole survivors in the
day of the exile?
God’s point
is brilliant, in my opinion. People are
responsible for their own actions.
People are responsible for their own idolatry. There will be a day of accounting, and our
proximity to faithful people will have no impact upon us. God has shown again and again that He is
certainly capable of saving the faithful while allowing the rebellious to achieve
what their idolatrous hearts deserve.
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