Friday, June 14, 2024

Ezekiel 9: the mark on the forehead - a sign of salvation

 In Ezekiel 9 we read that some people will be marked on the forehead as a sign that they must escape the slaughter:

1 Then I heard him call out loudly, “Executioners, come! And bring your deadly weapons with you.”
2 Six men came down the road from the upper gate that faces north, each carrying his lethal weapon. With them was a man dressed in linen with a writing case slung from his shoulder. They entered and stood by the bronze altar.
3-4 The Glory of the God of Israel ascended from his usual place above the cherubim-angels, moved to the threshold of the Temple, and called to the man with the writing case who was dressed in linen: “Go through the streets of Jerusalem and put a mark on the forehead of everyone who is in anguish over the outrageous obscenities being done in the city.”
5-6 I listened as he went on to address the executioners: “Follow him through the city and kill. Feel sorry for no one. Show no compassion. Kill old men and women, young men and women, mothers and children. But don’t lay a hand on anyone with the mark. Start at my Temple.”

Everyone who is in anguish over the outrageous obscenities being done in the city received a mark. Those people were aligned with the Lord. Am I in anguish over the outrageous obscenities being done in Sao Paulo city?
The temple should be a holy place, but as it was not, a great slaughter would happen there.

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