What causes a Hebrew man to look around his community and wonder why? Why all the hurt, pain, and tragedy? Why all the injustice and centuries of oppression? And most of all, what is the solution?
These are the questions asked by the prophets and saints of God regarding their nation Israel. It is asked out of love for their people and a desire to see their peace and happiness. To see their unity in the God.
Ezekiel 9:4 tackles these questions and dilemmas regarding the state of the Israelite nation yesterday and today by God's prophets and teachers. In this verse, as we read, we come to understand that the Most High has sent His angel among the Hebrew Israelites for a specific purpose. To walk among them and examine them in all their cities and lands in order to seek out a body of men that are of a certain disposition. Men that are sensitive to the plight of His people( Matt. 9:36). Those who realize that something isn't right, that there must be a better way than what they see( Neh. 1:4-6).
Just as in the past, men like this today are troubled by the crime, adultery, drunkenness, poor education, lying, vulgarity, meanness, hatred, murder, apostasy, idolatry, and the love of wickedness they find rampant among the Hebrew people that are lost to their true identity. Also, in our times, these modern day prophets see what the enemies of Israelite people are doing to them in this lost state. They taking advantage of their defenseless state by brutalizing and killing them at will. They manipulate their laws to imprison them in masses. They even promotes the vices seen in the Hebrew communities by adding drugs, alcohol, processed and cheap foods to destroy their health, provide poor housing and poorly founded schools to further their plight. The governments of the enemy allows those sworn to uphold the laws for civil order to break them when dealing with the Hebrew communities. All this is a deep concern for men who love their people and desire justice.
It is great tragedy to those men whom God is seeking today.
It was this type of concern and mindset in the past that moved men like Nat Turner, Fredrick Douglas, David Walker, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Rafael Carrera, Henrique Dias, General Alexandre Dumas, Antonio Maceo, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B Du Bois, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X to stand up and cry out for justice and a better way for their people. And it is this type of heart and spirit that God is seeking in the men who will warn His people to forsake their sins and return to Him. Men that will stand up in defiance against the tyranny and oppression of the poor.
God will send His angel among these men to set the Mark of His divine wisdom and knowledge in their foreheads so that they may understand the whys of the tragedies among their people. He will reveal the mystery of their peoples plight and show them how to to secure their freedom. God, by the work in the spirit realm, will shows them what they must do to help Israel overcome sin. He will show them the paths of repentance and true godliness( Ez. 18:31,32).
By God's wisdom in them they will come to the understanding of the work and love of Christ for the redemption of Israel. Who only was ordained by God to remove the sins of Israel( Acts 5:30,31,32). It is through God that they will come to the solution of Israel's dilemma and her freedom ( Rom. 6: 22,23). The prophecy states that these men, with the mark of God in their foreheads, will firmly trust in God and in His Messiah. They will follow Christ wherever He leads them among all Israel( Rev. 14:1,4). They live for the people, they defend the people, and they care for the people by dedicating their lives to showing them how to return to God again through Christ( 1 Thess. 2:8, 19,20).
Shalma,
Zarach
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