Ezekiel 9:3 - Forerunner Commentary

Ezekiel 9:3

The Wicked Are Slain

1 Then He called out in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, “Let those who have charge over the city draw near, each with a¹ deadly weapon in his hand.”

2 And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his¹ battle-ax in his hand. ^aOne man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn² at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

3 Now ^athe glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the¹ temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side;

4 and the Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put ^aa mark on the foreheads of the men ^bwho sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

5 To the others He said in my¹ hearing, “Go after him through the city and ^akill; ^bdo not let your eye spare, nor have any pity.

6 ^aUtterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but ^bdo not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and ^cbegin at My sanctuary.” ^dSo they began with the elders who were before the² temple.

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I do not know, maybe the other ones were not holy angels or angels of God. I mean, they may have been evil angels that are doing the slaughtering. I do not know. It just seems that way. I thought it was kind of odd that just one of them they mentioned with linen clothing.

If you go back to chapter 8, you will see that He was showing Ezekiel, He took him in a vision, and He took him to Jerusalem, and He was showing him all the sins and the wickedness that was going on in the city. So that is what He was talking about here, and the ones that were marked were the ones that were mourning all the sinful acts, all the evil that was going on in the city.

Now this mourning is not just for the suffering or pain or sadness of life before the sinfulness that actually causes it. So the blessing is not upon all who mourn, but those who mourn actually regarding sin.

Excerpted from Children of the Light

Ezekiel 9:3-4

What Hamas perpetrated was abominable, and we should be grieved over it. I don't believe we have yet reached the place where God tells Jeremiah not to pray for the people. We should have empathy for those whose lives were shattered that day. Yet God's focus here is not on the abominable effects of sin but on the abominations that cause the separation from Him.

Excerpted from Hamas' October 7 Attack

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