Julie
I feel like Ezekiel is saying the same things over again just in different analogies. They are still talking about the lands that were sinning and comparing them to whoring women. God still explains within those analogies how he is going to punish them. In the end of this reading, Ezekiel's wife dies and he is told how he needs to handle her death.
God will protect us and take down our foes.
Michelle
This does seem to be another analogy for what it to come for the people. Even the death of Ezekiel's wife seems to be used as an analogy for what the people are to do when they are go through all the things God has explained.
He seems to be asking God for his help in this psalm. Asking who will lead him/them. In the end it says "with God we will gain the victory, and he will trample our enemies".
I needed to add something to these chapters. There is a devotional that I missed for chapter 24. It speaks about being a Signpost and how God used Ezekiel as a signpost to others when his wife died. God used his tragedy as a symbol that the people could learn from. He does this to direct others to him, God I mean. "Our lives have the potential to reveal who God is... How we handle a number of plots - loss, success, friendship, marriage, finances - gives others an opportunity to see the difference that being a disciple of Jesus makes."
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