Ezekiel and the Revelation of the 13 Scrolls – Scroll 1 Part 5

Ezekiel 14:1-5    1 And some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me. 2  And the Word of יהוה  came to me, saying, 3  Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face. Should I at all be inquired of by them?4  Therefore speak to them, and say to them, So says the Master יהוה : Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I יהוה  will answer him in it by the host of his idols. 5  so that I may capture the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are estranged from Me by their idols, all of them. Just like Israel, even good people can be influenced by their neighbors and surroundings. Here, even the converts were among the idolaters; like dogs returning to their vomit. Ezekiel 14:6-8    6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Master יהוה : Repent and turn from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.7  For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger who lives in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to ask of him concerning Me; I יהוה will answer him Myself .8  And I will set My face against that man, and set him desolate for a sign and for proverbs. And I will cut him off from the midst of My people; and you shall know that I am יהוה. The third letter of the phrase, ‘and set him’   is a Shin, it has the same root as ‘desolation’ so making him desolate is the sign and parable. Ezekiel 14:9  And the prophet, if he is enticed, and he speaks a word, I יהוה have enticed that prophet. And I will stretch out My hand on him and will destroy him in the midst of My people Israel. The enticement clause consists of exposing the evil and hypocrisy that people try to keep secret and entice people to continue to operate as they will-freely;  so as to bring their personal schemes into the open – secretly sinning and operating with a corrupted agenda. Ezekiel 14:10  And they shall bear their iniquity. As the iniquity of the inquirer, so the iniquity of the prophet shall be. Ezekiel 14:11  So that the house of Israel may never again go astray from Me, nor be defiled again with all their transgressions, but they are to Me My people, and I will be to them for Elohim, says the Master יהוה . Ezek 14:12 יהוה’s four evil judgments and the righteous trio; Noah, Daniel and Job: Ezekiel 14:12-20    12 The Word of יהוה came again to me, saying, 13  Son of man, when a land sins against Me by traitorous betraying, then I will stretch out My hand on it, and will break the staff of its bread, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and beast from it.14  And though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver only their own souls by their righteousness, says the Master יהוה .15  If I cause destroying beasts to come through the land, and they spoil it so that it is deserted, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,16  though these three men were in its midst, as I live, says the Master יהוה , they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only shall be delivered, but the land shall be deserted.17  Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it; 18  though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Master יהוה , they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.19  Or if I send a plague into that land, and pour out My fury on it in blood, to cut off man and beast from it; 20  though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, says the Master יהוה , they shall deliver neither son nor daughter. They shall only deliver their own souls by their righteousness. When a people or nation act in absolute treachery, when they deny יהוה,