Ep. 194. Ezekiel 6,36 | The Mountains of the Lord

EPISODE 194

THE MOUNTAINS OF THE LORD: EZEKIEL 6, 36

I have long believed that the most significant things God has done in human history have been done in the little piece of land we call Israel. It was where our Savior was crucified. It is where the Anti-Christ will set himself up as God. It is where Christ shall return one day, and it is where the New Jerusalem will be.

These two chapters show us an interesting view of God's relationship with the land and the nation he longs to build there. In chapter six, we see the promise of destruction and the mountains strewn with the dead. This chapter was written before the fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar and in conjunction with the departure of God's glory from his holy city. But chapter 36, which occurred after the fall of Jerusalem, holds out, for the people of God, the promise of life on the previously dead mountains. Again, God promises to give his restored people new hearts and spirits so they would no longer rebel against him but serve him in faithfulness. God does all this restorative work for the glory of his name.

I don't know how many years it took me to connect chapter six to chapter 36, but too many for sure. When we saints of the New Covenant read texts like these that speak of the restoration of all things through the good shepherd, the coming King, the anointed one, we should, with rejoicing and longing, lift up the cry, "Come, Lord Jesus, come."

ADDITIONAL READING: Job 42:6; Deuteronomy 9:4-6; Ezekiel 11:19