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In today’s daily word we read about God commissioning Ezekiel as a watchman. The definition of a watchman in this context is someone called to lean forward, peer into the distance, to observe, await, behold, espy (catch sight of), look up, wait for and to watch. God sends his watchman to warn His people of their sins, to repent and turn back to Him. God’s watchman has been called to watch, listen for the voice of God and then speak what thus says the Lord.
The Lord has sent forth many of His watchmen to warn His people of their sins. The people will either receive the word and save their lives or reject the word and lose their lives. It is not for the watchman to make someone receive the word of the Lord. It is only your job to deliver the message of the Lord.
The danger for the watchman is if they keep silent. The blood of the people will be on their hands. In this season we are in, God is sending His final warning to many through the voice of His prophetic watchman. Watchmen are you obeying and warning? People are you listening and obeying?
Warn The People To Change Their Lives
Ezekiel 3:16-27
After seven days, the word of the Lord came to me. He said, “Son of man, I am making you a watchman for Israel. I will tell you about bad things that will happen to them, and you must warn Israel. If I say, ‘These evil people will die!’ Then you must warn them. You must tell them to change their lives and stop doing evil. If you don’t warn them, they will die because they sinned. But I will also make you responsible for their death, because you did not go to them and save their lives.
“If you warn them and tell them to change their lives and stop doing evil, but they refuse to listen, they will die because they sinned. But since you warned them, you will have saved your own life.
“If good people stop being good and begin to do evil, and I send something that makes them stumble and sin, they will die because they sinned. But since you did not warn them and remind them of the good things they had done, I will make you responsible for their death.
“But if you warn good people and tell them to stop sinning, and they listen to your warning and stop sinning, they will not die. In that way you will have saved your own life.”
The Lord’s power came to me. He said to me, “Get up and go to the valley. I will speak to you in that place.”
So I got up and went out to the valley. The Glory of the Lord was there—as I had seen it by the Kebar Canal. So I bowed with my face to the ground. But the Spirit came into me and lifted me up on my feet. He said to me, “Go home and lock yourself in your house. Son of man, people will come with ropes and tie you up.
They will not let you go out among the people. I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth—you will not be able to talk. So they will not have anyone to teach them that they are doing wrong, because they are always turning against me. But I will talk to you, and then I will allow you to speak. But you must say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’ If a person wants to listen, fine. If a person refuses to listen, fine. But those people always turn against me.
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