Author: Norm

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 21 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low. A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! The crown will not be restored until he to whom it rightfully belongs shall come; to him I will give it.’ [Ezekiel 21:26-27] The…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 19 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Fire spread from one of its main branches and consumed its fruit. No strong branch is left on it fit for a ruler’s scepter.’ This is a lament and is to be used as a lament. [Ezekiel 19:14] When is the last time that you had a good cry? Was it triggered by…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 18 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them. [Ezekiel 18:20]…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 17 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it; it will produce branches and bear fruit and become a splendid cedar. Birds of every kind will nest in it; they will find shelter in the shade of its branches. [Ezekiel 17:23] God loves to tell stories, we also see this in Jesus….

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 16 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. Samaria did not commit half the sins…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 15 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem. [Ezekiel 15:6] If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 14 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Yet there will be some survivors—sons and daughters who will be brought out of it. They will come to you, and when you see their conduct and their actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought on Jerusalem—every disaster I have brought on it. You will be consoled when…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 13 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. Even though the LORD has not sent them, they say, “The LORD declares,” and expect him to fulfill their words. [Ezekiel 13:6] Ezekiel accuses the religious leaders of being false to God and to the people, making up messages from God that make them…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 12 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: In the morning the word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, did not the Israelites, that rebellious people, ask you, ‘What are you doing?’ “Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This prophecy concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the Israelites who are there.’ Say…

SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 11 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be…