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die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shalt not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

Ezekiel continues to ponder the glorious vision and its revelation. Still bewildered, his thoughts drifts back and forth; he was quite aware of the current predicament facing his brethren as well as himself, but etched in his mind, was a brilliant flame called “hope.” The time had now come for this priest to lay aside his priestly garment, because the LORD GOD had personally mantled him with the new office of a watchman (prophet). Ezekiel ingested and digested the Word of God, and the Spirit of the Living God would never leave him; Ezekiel is now officially inaugurated as God’s voice to His exiled people. Those who once occupied the city of Jerusalem were now caught between a rock and a hard place because of their rebellious ways and those who were godly were also faced with the same dilemma. This may seem unfair but in reality it is not. How would the wicked turn from doing evil if they had no one in their midst to guide them? What might seem as being painful to the godly will one day bring glory and rich rewards. The godly who suffer with the wicked are God’s instrument of mercy to those who continue to do evil.

As commanded by the LORD, Ezekiel had to warn both the wicked as well as the righteous. Those who professed righteousness but traded their righteousness to practice wickedness; in that day when gross sin blemished their acts of righteousness and the rebuke of the prophet of the Lord goes unheeded; past acts of righteousness will not