Ezekiel 31:2

“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: “Whom are you like in your greatness?

Read this chapter of prophecy and learn about fate.

God speaks to Pharaoh about Assyria and lays out a full chapter about another nation. Then as the chapter ends declares “This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”

Why is Egypt fated to be like Assyria?

Ezekiel 31:10

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,

Pride! What were they so proud about?

Ezekiel 31:11

I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.

Wickedness, its evil ways.

Pharaoh did not heed God’s warning.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

The title for this chapter of Isaiah’s prophecy is “The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed“.

Daniel 12:7

And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.

Our fate is sealed in failing to heed the warnings of prophecy. Tomorrow we will speak of “Godlessness in the Last Days”.

Matthew 5:23-24 English Standard Version

23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

This passage has been on my mind for days now. My older brother passed away without his issues with me being resolved. What he held against me my whole life was the fact that I was ever born. That was something that was not my fault but it has been held against me for 76 years.

Reconciliation has to be found on reasonable terms. The problem with reconciliation in my situation is that the wronged party was the wrong party. It does not work that way. It was impossible to restore a relationship we never had, never, not one day.

This is not the biblical meaning of reconciliation. In order to have a relationship with God the guilty party cannot make amends to a God they have never had a relationship with to begin with. Adam broke faith with God and sin entered into the world and we all come into this world as broken people. There is nothing we can do to reconcile what Adam did in original sin.

Reconcile in spiritual terms is a book accounting practice. It means to move one party out of the red, debt owed, into the black, debt paid.

Colossians 2:14

by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

I could not reconcile my birth to my brother and none of us can reconcile our birth to God. Justice demands that a debt has to be paid and since we are a bankrupt people empty of any righteousness, God the Father had to send God the Son to reconcile our debt as an acceptable sacrifice for all mankinds debt. His atonement blood was the only blood sacrifice that held the power to satisfy such a great debt.

Sadly there are many out there that refuse to acknowledge their sin debt to God. In so doing they also reject the free will offering for the cancellation of that debt in the atoning work of the Cross of Christ.

Once we are in the grave it is too late. We still have time to reach them.