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842. Bible Study: Ezekiel 19 (No "fit" leader in Israel - Judah's loss) · Faith by annm2705

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  Ezekiel chapter 19 Dear Lord, please be with us as we read
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  through this chapter. Open our eyes, our ears, our
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  hearts to what you have to say. We ask this in Jesus name.
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  This chapter is called a lament over Israel's Princess.
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  Take up a lament concerning the Princess of Israel and say what
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  a lioness was your mother among the lions.
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  She lay down among them and reared her Cubs.
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  She brought up one of her Cubs and he became a strong lion.
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  He learned to tear the prey and he became a man eater.
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  The nation's heard about him and he was trapped in their pit.
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  They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
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  When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation was
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  gone. She took another of her Cubs and
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  made him a strong lion. He prowled among the lions, for
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  he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey, and
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  he became a man eater. He broke down their strongholds
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  and devastated their towns. The land and all who were in it
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  were terrified by his roaring. Then the nations came against
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  him, those from regions round about.
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  They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit
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  with hooks. They pulled him into a cage and
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  brought him to the king of Babylon.
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  They put him in prison, so his roar was heard no longer on the
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  mountains of Israel. Your mother was like a vine in
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  your vineyard. Planted by the water.
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  It was fruitful and full of branches.
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  Because of abundant water, its branches were strong, fit for a
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  ruler sceptre. It towered high above the thick
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  foliage, conspicuous for its height and for its many
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  branches. But it was uprooted in fury and
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  thrown down to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel,
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  it was stripped of its fruit, its strong branches withered,
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  and fire consumed them. Now it it is planted in the
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  desert in a dry and thirsty land.
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  Fire spread from one of its main branches and consumed its fruit.
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  No strong branch is left on it fit for a ruler's scepter.
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  This is a lament and is to be used as a lament.
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  So the question that we would have, of course this is easy.
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  He'll getting this from God about taking up a lament and
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  being sad about what has come of Israel.
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  You know, God, God made Israel to be pretty significant.
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  I mean, he chose Israel, but then because of Israel's
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  choices, things changed for the outcome of Israel, and I think
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  that's what overall the lament is.
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  This study Bible has some questions and answers, so I will
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  read that. What is a lament?
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  This suggests 2 ideas #1A musical or poetic dirge, a song
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  of sorrow or two, a recognition of judgment, which seems to be
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  primarily implied here. Who do the lioness and Cubs
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  represent? The mother lioness represents
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  either the nation of Judah or its capital Jerusalem.
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  The first cub represents King Jehoiah has whom the Egyptian
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  Pharaoh took captive in six O 9 BC and you can read about him
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  being taken to Egypt in Second Kings chapter 23 verses 31
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  through 35. The second, the second cub
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  represents either King Jehovah Chin or more likely his
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  successor Zedekiah, both of whom were taken into Babylonian
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  exile, Jehovah Chin in 597 BC. And you can confirm that in
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  Second Kings chapter 24 verses 8 through 17 and Zedekiah in 586.
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  And that can be found in Second Kings chapter 25 verses one
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  through 7. How were the captives LED away
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  with hooks? Conquerors would sometimes
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  humiliate defeated kings by putting hooks or rings attached
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  to a leash through the victim's nose, jaw, or lip.
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  Apparently the same technique was used with wild animals.
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  Assyrian inscriptions and artwork as well as Second Kings
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  chapter 19 verse 28 give evidence of this practice in the
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  ancient Near East. And the other question was how
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  was the mother like a fruitful vine?
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  The vine probably stands for Judah or Jerusalem, not a
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  literal Queen Mother. In light of the context, the
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  fruitfulness of the vine probably refers to the glory and
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  strength of David's dynasty, which never lacked A ruler.
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  So the first one we talked about the Pharaoh, one of the kings
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  being led to Egypt and that relates to verse 4.
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  Then it verse 5 says when she saw her hope unfulfilled.
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  It seems like the unfulfilled in in leaders, like there's there's
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  no good leader that's coming about.
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  And then Jehovah Chin of Judah, he was taken to Babylon and he
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  was imprisoned for 37 years where he eventually died in
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  prison. And that's kind of what this
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  alludes to, that they put him in a cage and brought him to the
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  king of Babylon. They put him in prison.
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  So his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
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  And then this description about being this vine planted by
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  water, it's very similar to Ezekiel 17.
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  And it maybe picks up some of that same theme where this
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  relates to rulership and being uprooted.
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  And that's what this says in verse 12.
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  It says, but it was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground.
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  So this was a rebellious nation that was rebelling against their
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  God, our God. And this is it was taken away
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  from them because of idolatry. And then it says now it is
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  planted in the desert in a dry and thirsty land.
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  So I was wondering, was Babylon considered a desert?
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  So I looked that up and it actually was called desert by
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  the sea. So the Exiles going into Babylon
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  now, you know, their, their cities remain, their capitals
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  remain no more. They don't have kings that are
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  ruling over these areas anymore. King Zedekiah was the last one
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  who was taken into exile. Before he was taken into exile,
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  he visually saw his sons be executed and then they gouged
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  out his eyes and then walked him to Babylon, which was, I
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  believe, hundreds of miles away. And, and so that was also
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  prophecy that Ezekiel gave that was fulfilled.
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  So all of these things did happen.
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  Zedekiah was the Last King of the southern tribe of Judah.
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  Remember the first, the northern tribe of Judah, the 10 tribes,
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  they were overcome by Assyria years before.
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  But then the southern tribe of Judah was then later conquered
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  by Babylon and people were taken in exile to Babylon.
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  So at that point, there are no more kings.
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  The Kingdom has failed, and it ended with Zedekiah.
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  And it's kind of interesting that Zedekiah was the Last King
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  and he was blinded and then we know today.
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  This is just kind of ironic that I thought of is how the
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  Israelites are blinded to Jesus right now.
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  Not, not all, but many are and don't recognize him as the
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  Messiah. So that's kind of interesting
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  that when you see some symbology like that and you know that it
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  won't be until they call on the name of Jesus before, I guess
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  when he returns, I think it's when they say blessed is he who
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  comes in the name of the Lord. And I think that's when Jesus
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  will return. So that is the end of chapter
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  19. This was a short 1 today and I
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  think I'll just leave it at that and then we will pick up chapter
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  20 the next time.