Exiles Returning to Take the Land
Greetings in the Lord! Today's word comes from Ezekiel chapters 11-12, of which I will share selected verses~ "Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the Lord that faces east. There at the entrance to the gate were twenty-five men,...leaders of the people (the remnant left in Jerusalem). The Lord said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city. They say, 'Will it not soon be time to build houses? This city is a cooking pot and we are the meat.' Therefore prophesy against them;..."You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead....The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it....And you will know that I am the Lord, for you have not followed my decrees or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you." Therefore say: 'This is what the Sovereign L