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  COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 6-10
  by Chuck Smith
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to Ezekiel the sixth chapter.

Ezekiel here addresses himself to the mountains of Israel. The people of
Israel had built places of worship on the tops of the mountains, but not
worship to Jehovah God, but to Baal, to Molech, Mammon. And because the
mountains were the places for these altars and groves and places of
pagan worship, he addresses the prophesy against the mountain telling of
the desolation that is going to come. How that they are going to be
wasted without inhabitant.

Now, as we get to the thirty-fourth chapter, thirty-fifth chapter, he
again addresses himself to the mountains of Israel which have been
desolate for so long. And he tells them that they are going to be
inhabited again. So, it is interesting to make a contrast between this
prophesy against the mountains of Israel where so much false worship had
gone on, and later on, after the period that God has brought His
judgment against the people and they are brought back into the land, how
again he speaks to the mountains and how the blessing of the Lord will
be there as the nation is inhabited again.

So, it is the word of the LORD that came unto me, saying, Son of man,
set your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them,
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; thus
saith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and
to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and will
destroy your high places (Eze 6:1-3).

That is, the places of worship which were called the high places, the
groves and all.

And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and
I will cast down your slain men before your idols. And I will lay the
dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will
scatter your bones round about your altars. In all your dwelling places
the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate;
that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may
be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may
be abolished. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall
know that I am the LORD (Eze 6:4-7).

So, he predicts this slaughter that is going to come and the places
where they have worshipped these false gods to be destroyed, the idols
to be broken, and the pieces of the idols scattered with the bones of
the people who had been turning away from God in this sacrilege and the
worshipping of these idols in these high places.

Now, we get this interesting phrase in verse 7, and it is used some
sixty-two times in Ezekiel, where the Lord declares, "And ye shall know
that I am the Lord." You see, they had been worshipping these false gods
and God is declaring, "I am going to destroy them and they that worship
them, and you will know that I am the Lord."

It is interesting when we get to the thirty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel
and God there tells us of the destruction that He is going to bring
against that massive Russian invasion, with all of the various allies
that they will be bringing. And when God utterly destroys them He said,
"And then the nations of the world will know that I am the Lord." He is
now seeking to teach them this fact. They\

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