28<\/strong>. word which I have spoken<\/em> ] which I shall speak<\/strong>, lit. what word I shall speak. Cf. for construction, Jer 14:1<\/span>; Jer 46:1<\/span>; Amo 5:1<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verse 28<\/span>. There shall none of my words be prolonged any more<\/B><\/I>] He had waited to be gracious; they abused his mercy; and at last the protracted wrath rushed upon them with irresistible force.<\/P><\/p>\n Since it is an erroneous opinion they are brought into, it is not from contempt of my truth, but from weakness, warn them mildly, tell them the days are very near indeed, and there will be no adjournment. Now it will be done as soon as spoken almost, and God will make a short work with them in righteousness, and a very few days will bring his judgments to light. <\/P> <\/p>\n Therefore say unto them, thus saith the Lord God<\/strong>,…. Carry this message to them from me, whether they will hear it or not; so shall it be:<\/p>\n there shall none of my words be prolonged any more<\/strong>; the fulfilment of prophecies delivered in the name of the Lord by the prophets shall be no longer deferred, but shall quickly be:<\/p>\n but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord God<\/strong>: one jot and tittle of it shall not pass away till all be fulfilled; sooner may heaven and earth pass away than that shall; it is for ever settled in heaven, and shall be fulfilled on earth; he that has said it is of one mind, and none can turn him; and is able to do whatsoever he pleases.<\/p>\n “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, None of my words will be deferred any more, but the word which I will speak will be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”<\/p>\n For them the hour was present. There would be no more deferment. Judgment would come. The day of Yahweh was here. All the dire things He had spoken of would happen. It ‘will be performed’, for Yahweh Himself would see to its performing. And these were the words, not of a minor god, but of ‘the Lord Yahweh’.<\/p>\n The church today faces a similar position with regard to the second coming. It can easily be seen as something that will not happen yet. But one day there will be a generation when all these things will happen, and in the light of the troubles facing the world it may well be our generation. We must watch, lest coming suddenly He find us sleeping.<\/p>\n REFLECTIONS<\/p>\n<\/p>\n READER! if we spiritualize this chapter, in the several sermons contained in it, may not you and I read the Lord’s word as addressed to ourselves? Child of man, saith Jehovah, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house; yea, we may answer, true, Lord, for we carry about with us, in ourselves, a rebellious heart. Everything, indeed, both within and without; the remains of indwelling corruption, the whole world that lieth in wickedness, and the great enemy of souls, make open rebellion but too often in the soul. And ought we not, under such circumstances, to do as the Prophet was commanded, prepare for removing; and from one place to another, from strength to strength, in the sight of all the people, testify to every beholder, that here we have no continuing city, but are seeking for one to come. Surely the people of God should be for signs and wonders, as Joshua and his fellows were, men wondered at! yea! the bread of life and the water of life, even while the children of God receive it, and live upon it, in the review of our unworthiness, and distinguishing grace, which makes all the difference between the precious and the vile, may well be eaten with holy fear and with Godly astonishment. Believers, while they rejoice, rejoice with trembling. Precious Lord Jesus! how increasingly precious dost thou appear, when the undeservings of thy redeemed are kept in remembrance. Well may every child of God cry out with the Prophet, on beholding visions of his glory, woe is me for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts. What a relief to a soul under these awakening views of sin and uncleanliness is it to behold, and with an eye of faith, the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world.<\/p>\n Eze 12:28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.<\/p>\n Ver. 28. There shall none of my words be prolonged.<\/strong> ] Abused mercy turneth into fury.<\/p>\n There shall: Eze 12:23-25, Jer 4:7, Jer 44:28, Mat 24:48-51, Mar 13:32-37, Luk 21:34-36, 1Th 5:2, 1Th 5:3, Rev 3:3 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Jer 1:12 – I will Jer 17:15 – General Jer 48:16 – near Eze 7:7 – the time Eze 12:25 – I will Hos 5:7 – a month Luk 12:45 – and if Rev 11:6 – have power over<\/p>\n THE PROVERB AND THE SAYING<\/p>\n The word which I have spoken shall be done.<\/p>\n Eze 12:28<\/p>\n There is in many respects a striking resemblance between the condition of Israel when about to enter into captivity under Nebuchadnezzar, and that which will characterise Christendom at the close of the present dispensation. It was a captivity from which they have been suffering ever since, and from which they will never recover till the return of the Lord Jesus Christ from heaven.<\/p>\n I. The prophecies of the forthcoming judgments uttered by Ezekiel were received by Israel with unbelief and scorn.The nations unbelief had actually passed into a proverb, The days are prolonged and every vision faileth. As a matter of fact they were expressed thus, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off. It was just saying, Everything is going on just as it always did, and all the things so often foretold have failed to come to pass. These judgments, if they ever do come, are far off; they will never come in our time if they ever come at all. It is this all-pervading unbelief that was necessary to complete the dispensation. This was the ripened point to which the nation must arrive ere these predictions could receive their fulfilment. It was the last drop in the brimming cup of unbelief. But now the moment had come. The vials of wrath so long withheld were to be poured out: I will make this proverb to cease. Say unto them (in answer to their unbelieving saying), The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision: I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord God.<\/p>\n II. And in their days it was fulfilled.With what exactness, and with what an awful outpour of wrath, let the reader peruse the prophecy of Ezekiel and he will see. Let the reader of these lines, whoever he may be, that secretly harbours in his soul the same unbelief of Gods warnings pronounced on Christendom, read its terrible fulfilment in the dispersion and degradation of the Jewish nation up to the present hour. Let him see that the same word of God shall come to pass on Christendom, notwithstanding the gracious longsuffering now going on, and that it is written on the present state of the Jewish nation as with a sunbeam.<\/p>\n III. And for what is the world at this moment waiting in order that Gods prophecies of judgment may be poured out?Just this one and the same conspicuous mark of unbelief and scorn of coming judgment that characterised Israel. Till this unbelief becomes a proverb in mens mouths, prophecy will not have reached that point when it can be fulfilled. There shall come in the last days scoffers saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. And is not this the very unbelief of the present day? We point them to the rapidly thickening signs of the fulfilment of prophecythe lawlessness pervading every department of society, the earthquakes in divers places, and other signs that the end is nearand what is the reply? Oh, these things always were, and will be to the end. We have had so many predictions of the end, but they have all failed, and things keep going on as they always didthe days are prolonged and every vision faileth. Where, in all these things, is the prospect of His coming? All these things continue as they were! Perhaps there is a day of judgment coming some time, but who knows when it will be, or whether it will ever come at all? He prophesieth of many days to come, and the times that are far off.<\/p>\n Thus we see in our own day how the prophecy is fulfilling, and how near at hand is the moment when the Lord shall again say, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.<\/p>\n Rev. F. Whitfield.<\/p>\n Illustration<\/p>\n In the horror of great darkness,<\/p>\n In the starless midnight gloom,<\/p>\n Mid the shrieking of the tempest,<\/p>\n Mid the hissing of the foam,<\/p>\n When the sons of men are quailing,<\/p>\n When the strongest faith is failing,<\/p>\n Sailor! cast an anchor,<\/p>\n Wishing for the day!<\/p>\n When the chilly sea-fog curtain<\/p>\n Gathers close with stealthy tread,<\/p>\n While weird voices strangely whisper,<\/p>\n Breakers, breakers close ahead;<\/p>\n In the agony of keeping<\/p>\n That stern watch that knows no sleeping,<\/p>\n Sailor! cast an anchor,<\/p>\n Wishing for the day!<\/p>\n Eze 12:28, Ezekiel was assured that the fulfillment was not far off, and the reader may see the account of Its fulfillment in 2Ki 25:1-2.<\/p>\n Nevertheless the Lord promised not to delay His promises of coming judgment any longer. He would perform all that He had promised (cf. 2Pe 3:2-13).<\/p>\n Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD. 28. word which I have spoken ] which I shall speak, lit. what word I shall speak. 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Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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