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Where Is Your Loyalty

EZEKIEL: THE WATCHMAN · FAITH

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When a land acts faithlessly against me, God says, I will break its supply of bread and send famine upon it.

The vocabulary is covenant vocabulary. Famine, devastation, plague, pestilence, being driven from the land - that list comes straight out of Leviticus 26.

And underneath it is a binary. In Heiser's terms, people are either estranged from God or else Yahweh is the focus of their believing loyalty. There is no third category where you are technically included and actually elsewhere.

Scripture links:

- Ezekiel 14:13 - when a land acts faithlessly against me.

Loyalty is not a feeling you have about God. It is who you turn to when it matters.

What the Scripture Says

  • Ezekiel 14:13ESV

    “Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,

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