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Devotional: March 31st

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Ezekiel 32:17-32

This chapter and those following may appear difficult to understand. But the prophecies they contain become clear when viewed in the framework of the end, at the time when all the human and national powers who have fought against Israel will be brought low, in order to give place to the reign of Christ.

In this lament (v. 16), the fate of the nations is presented to us in symbolic form. They meet together in Sheol, amongst those "slain by the sword" (v. 21; the expression occurs three times in Ezekiel 32:1-32). The first is Asshur, the Assyrian of the last days, mighty tree whose fall has been related in Ezekiel 31:1-18. Elam (Persia) is named next with Meshech and Tubal (Russia). There also are Edom, the princes of the North, the Zidonian as well as "Pharaoh and all his army". Peoples great and small, after having held prominence on the world stage for varying lengths of time, find themselves in this sinister meeting place. What has become of their magnificence? What purpose has been served by their prowess? The terror they shed abroad no longer takes hold of anyone and has become their shame (v. 30). All that is important in "the land of the living" is worthless on the threshold of eternity. One question only will be put to each one: is his name in the book of life? (Revelation 20:15).

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