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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Ezekiel 30:1-19
The LORD had not forgotten that Egypt never ceased to be a snare for His people. He was about to demonstrate it! Further, He would give this land to Nebuchadnezzar as a reward for his work against Tyre (Ezekiel 29:19-20). The blows by which Egypt was to be smitten remind us of the plagues which, at the time of the Exodus, had laid waste this land, its river, its canals, its idols and its inhabitants. The most terrible of these had been the death of the first-born, when the LORD had executed judgment "against all the gods of Egypt" (v. 13; Exodus 12:12). And, as formerly, these great judgments had as their object to make the Egyptians know who the LORD was (cf. v. 19; Exodus 7:5). Indeed, the execution of all these punishments against the nations would have one result, repeated like a refrain at the end of each prophecy, "And they shall know that I am the LORD" (Ezekiel 23:49; Ezekiel 24:27; Ezekiel 25:5; Ezekiel 25:7; Ezekiel 25:11; Ezekiel 25:17; Ezekiel 26:6; Ezekiel 28:24; Ezekiel 28:26; Ezekiel 29:21; Ezekiel 30:19; Ezekiel 30:26).
It is not possible to escape from the knowledge of the Holy God and of His demands against sin. But today He reveals Himself still as the Saviour God in Jesus Christ. Do you know Him as such? All those who do not want to know Him now in grace will have to do with Him later on in judgment (Amos 4:12).
