Drunk On Naiveté

Ezekiel 15-17

Harlots and idols, bloody baby castaways and well-adorned whores…all these make up today’s tough read.  There is reason for us to skim by these books and pages of judgment naively believing that the children of Israel are the subjects and recipients of all these consequences.  Reasons until we read passages like this:

‘Thus says the Lord God, “I shall also take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and set it out; I shall pluck from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I shall plant it on a high and lofty mountain. On the high mountain of Israel I shall plant it, that it may bring forth boughs and bear fruit, and become a stately cedar.  And birds of every kind will nest under it; they will nest in the shade of its branches.’”  17:22-23

Then in Romans 11, we see that all believers are grafted into God’s ‘chosen people tree’.  So naturally, we can suppose that God’s judgment on His people will include us. 

That should sober us up!!! 

Pacino di Bonaguida’s, showing Christ as
"The Tree of Life"