Ezekiel Lesson 6

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Ezekiel The Ugliness of Sin

Lesson # 6 January 10th, 2010 Page 1

Scripture: Chapters 16-18

Key Verse: Ezekiel 18:4, Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the father As

well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die.

Overview: Ezekiel showed the true nature of unrighteousness through pictures

that are graphic and repulsive. When believers see the ugliness of sin, it helps us

to shun sin in our daily conduct. Ezekiel called upon Gods people to accept

responsibility for their conduct and to turn their faces towards God. Both actions

are necessary for fellowship with the Father of Righteousness

Theme: Sin produces unpleasant undesirable fruit

Chapters 4-24 cover the period from Ezekiels call to the beginning of the siege ofJerusalem

Chapters 4-11, the certainty of Gods judgment

Chapters 12-19, the necessity of Gods judgment

Their confidence that the kingdom and the capital would be spared was

baseless

God desires the remnant to be aroused to repent

Outline:

1. The Outcast Vine (Chapter 15)2. The Parable of the Faithless Wife (Chapter 16)3. The Parable of Two Eagles (Chapter 17:1-21)4. The Parable of the Tender Twig (Chapter 17:22-24)5. The Message of Retribution (Chapter 18)


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Detail:

1. The Outcast Vine (Chapter 15) (Reader 15:1-8)a. The parable (15:1-5)

i. Vine wood useless as construction or for furniture (a peg) (vs 3)ii. Vines purpose to produce fruit the very thing Israel did not do!

b. The interpretation (15:6-8)i. Pruned vines only worthy of the fire

ii. So God has delivered Israel to destruction by Nebuchadnezzar (vs6)

iii. Invaders would pillage and burn Jerusalem (cf. 2 Kings 25:1-12)iv. Reason: (vs 8, because they have persisted in unfaithfulness)

2. The Parable of the Faithless Wife (Chapter 16)a. Purpose of this section: Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her

abominations (vs 2)

b. The unwanted child (Reader 16:1-5)i. Nation depraved like a heathen nation

ii. Gods love for Israel like that of one who would have pity on anabandoned child one left to die in the wilderness!

iii. When no one cared God found her and took her!c. Unwanted child claimed in marriage (Reader 16:6-14)

i. Consider that from a patriarchal family of only 75 that descendedinto Egypt (Acts 7:14)

ii. After 430 years a nation of several million emerged! (Exodus12:37-38)

iii. Israel became ike a plant in the field; and you grew, matured,and became very beautiful (vs 7)

iv. In the imagery of this text, God married her: I swore an oath toyou and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine

(vs 8)

v. And what a beautiful and blessed bride Israel was!


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d. The unfaithful wife (Reader: 16:15-30)i. Key verse: How degenerate is your heart! says the Lord GOD,

seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot. (vs

30)

ii. The sickening picture of adultery1. Note the Lords condemnation: Woe, woe to you! (vs 23)2. Graphic: vs 25, offered yourself to everyone who passed

by

a. Other versions even more graphic (NASB)b. Hebrew : spreading your legs

3. Israels unfaithful alliances:a.

Assyria (vs 28)

b. Babylon (Chaldea) (vs 29)iii. Worst than a harlot: (Reader 16:30-34)

1. How?2. Answer: A harlots are solicited for sex Israel (picture of

the married woman) solicited adultery!

e. The wifes punishment ( 16:35-43) Reader 35-38,43i. Israels lovers will abuse her (vs s 36-37)

ii. Her sin the sin of adultery or murder (vs 38)iii. Gods hurt: (vs 43)

1. NKJV: but agitated Me with all these things2. ESV: have enraged me with all these things


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f. The enormity of the wifes sins (16:44-52)i. Proverb (vs 44, Like mother, like daughter!)

ii. Explained:1. Mother a pagan Hittite (16:3)2. Three sisters:

a. Samaria (Northern Kingdom)b. Judah portrayed here!c. Sodom

3. Judah considered herself better but in reality worsea. Knew of her sisters judgment but persisted!b. 51, Samaria did not commit half of your sins; but

you have multiplied your abominations more thanthey, and have justified your sisters by all the

abominations which you have done.

g. The wifes restoration (Reader 16:53-59)i. Ultimately will be restored to the land, I will also bring backthe

captives of your captivity among them (vs 53)

ii. Restoration a common theme of the prophets1. Isaiah 11:11-16, There will be a highway for the remnant

of His people (16)2. Isaiah 27:13, They will come, who are about to perish in

the land of Assyria, And they who are outcasts in the land

of Egypt, And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at

Jerusalem

3. Isaiah 43:1-44:5, I will bring your descendants from theeast, And gather you from the west;

6I will say to the

north, Give them up! And to the south, Do not keep them

back! Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from

the ends of the earth (43:5-6)

4. Jeremiah 12:14-17, Then it shall be, after I have pluckedthem out, that I will return and have compassion on them

and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and

everyone to his land


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5. Jeremiah 46:26, Afterward it shall be inhabited as in thedays of old

6. Hosea 6:11, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, WhenI return the captives of My people

h. The renewal of the covenant (16:60-63)i. I will establish an everlasting covenant with you (v 60)

1. Three fold covenant in this textii. you shall know that I amthe LORD (62)

iii. I provide you an atonement for all you have done (63)iv. Ultimately in the millennial Kingdom: Ezekiel 36:25-27, Then I

will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will

cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

26

I willgive you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take

the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.27

I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My

statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them

3. The Parable of Two Eagles (Chapter 17:1-21) (Read 2-10)a. Parable to Two Eaglesb. Interpreted in vss 11-21

i. Great eagle (vs 3) = Babylon (vs 12)ii. Another great eagle (vs 7) = Egypt (vs 15-ff)

iii. fertile field (vs 5) = favorable conditions in Babyloniv. low stature (vs 6) suggests the humiliation of the nation

c. Egypt:i. Zedekiah rebelled against the Babylonian king

ii. Seeking alliance with Egyptiii. That desperate act would fail (vss 7-10, 15-17)

1. 2 Chronicles 36:13, And he also rebelled against KingNebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath by

God; but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart

against turning to the LORD God of Israel.


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2. Jeremiah 37:5-7, Then Pharaohs army came up fromEgypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging

Jerusalem heard news of them, they departed from

Jerusalem.6

Then the word of the LORD came to the

prophet Jeremiah, saying,7Thus says the LORD, the God of

Israel, Thus you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you

to Me to inquire of Me: Behold, Pharaohs army which has

come up to help you will return to Egypt, to their own

land.

d. Babylonians would invade east wind (vss 10,20,21)i. Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem in 588 BC (2 Kings 25:1)

ii.

Walls breached in 586 BC (2 Kings 25:2-7)iii. Egypts alliance did nothing to protect Israel(vs 17, Nor will

Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company do anything in

the war)

4. The Parable of the Tender Twig (Reader = Chapter 17:22-24)a. Glorious future of Israelb. God would take a sprig and plant it again!c. On a high mountaind. Messianic;

i. Isaiah 11:1, There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse,And a Branch shall grow out of his roots

ii. Jeremiah 23:5-6, Behold, thedays are coming, says the LORD, That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall

reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in

the earth.6

In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell

safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE

LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS (YHWH Tsidkenu)


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5. The Message of Retribution (Chapter 18)a. The complaint of the exiles (18:1-2)

i. False proverb refuted, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, Andthe childrens teeth are set on edge (vs 2)

ii. In essence why are we being judged for the sins of our fathers?b. Principle of Judgment stated (18:3-4)- You die for you own sins, The

soul who sins shall die (vs 3)

c. Principle of Judgment illustrated (18:5-17)i. The righteous man (18:5-9)

1. Description provided .. keeps the law!2. He lives (vs 9, Ifhe has walked in My statutes And kept

My judgments faithfully He is just; He shall surely live!ays the Lord GOD.)

ii. The wicked son (18:10-13)1. Described vss 10-132. He dies (vs 13, He shall not live! If he has done any of

these abominations, He shall surely die; His blood shall be

upon him.)

3. The righteousness of the Father not transmitted to the son!iii. The righteous grandson (18:14-18)

1. 3rd generation2. Observes the wickedness of his father!3. Lives righteously4. He shall surely live! (vs 17)5. The unrighteousness of the father NOT transmitted to his

son!


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d. The principle of judgment summarized (18:19-20), The soul who sinsshall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father

bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be

upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself

e. The principle of judgment elaborated (18:21-32)turn and live!i. Man invited to repent! And some have (as detailed here in vss

26-28)

ii. God is perfectly fair, Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not Myway which is fair (vs 25)

iii. An invitation to repent: (30-32)1. Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that

iniquity will not be your ruin. (30)2. For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies (32)

Conclusion

The Regular Baptist Press material has these postulates about sin: Sin

1. Is self-sufficiency (Ezekiel 16:1-15)But you trusted in your own beauty (vs15)

2. Is Prostitution (Ezekiel 16:17)made for yourself male images and played theharlot with them

3. Is brazen (bold) (Ezekiel 16:30)the deeds of a brazen harlot4. Is Promiscuity (Ezekiel 16:34-35)harlotry with your lovers (note plural)5. Leads to a snare (Ezekiel 17:20)he shall be taken in My snare6. Is Personal (Ezekiel 18:30)every one according to his ways (personal

accountability!)

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