Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
Ezekiel 35:13 stands among prophecies about the kingdoms on all sides of Israel, given through twenty-two years of pleading with Israel to turn to God. It is part of a prophecy against Seir, that is Edom. It means that proud words spoken against God are heard by Him. It illustrates how God has brought down the pride of the surrounding nations and will bring down the pride of those that remain, to show Israel how God deals with pride and to call them back to Him.
The chapter belongs to the last nineteen chapters of Ezekiel that are appealed to in support of a future return of the Jews and of related claims about the reign of Christ and the inheritance of the saints. Its meaning must agree with the whole of Scripture. This includes the truth that the saints are taken to heaven at the second coming of Christ when the earth is desolated. That desolation leaves no place for a special work among the Jews in the Christian dispensation.
Ezekiel 35:13 stands among prophecies about the kingdoms on all sides of Israel, given through twenty-two years of pleading with Israel to turn to God. It is part of a prophecy against Seir, that is Edom. It means that proud words spoken against God are heard by Him. It illustrates how God has brought down the pride of the surrounding nations and will bring down the pride of those that remain, to show Israel how God deals with pride and to call them back to Him.
The chapter belongs to the last nineteen chapters of Ezekiel that are appealed to in support of a future return of the Jews and of related claims about the reign of Christ and the inheritance of the saints. Its meaning must agree with the whole of Scripture. This includes the truth that the saints are taken to heaven at the second coming of Christ when the earth is desolated. That desolation leaves no place for a special work among the Jews in the Christian dispensation.