Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel 7 is a graphic presentation of sin and righteousness that reaches down to the present day and applies in some respects to the present, foretelling a coming time of unprecedented trouble for the nations immediately before Christ's glorious return. The prediction was given in 594 B.C. and was fulfilled a few years later in 588 B.C., when captive Israel lamented that the law was no more and her prophets found no vision from the Lord. The land full of bloody crimes and the city full of violence means literal murder, bloodshed, and violent death greatly increased and unchecked.
The verse shows God's judgment for disobedience through bloodshed and violence: when the people seek a vision from the prophet they cannot obtain it because the law has perished from the priest and counsel from the ancients, so those who rejoiced when God was near mourn the loss of signs and guidance. The verse foretells a time of widespread bloody crime in the land and violence in the city, and that time has now come, with rapidly increasing crime showing the land will soon be full of such wickedness. Its fulfillment is seen in all large cities in the rise of an ever-augmenting criminal class from which nothing but crime is expected, where fathers and mothers are criminals and children are conceived, born and reared in crime and iniquity too horrible to contemplate, where wickedness of every kind is the regular order and righteousness the rare exception, and where the districts they inhabit are so dangerous to life and limb that they cannot safely be entered without an armed guard.
It is applied to American cities and especially to New York City, with hundreds of known deaths by violence from 1859 to 1868 and many murders whose perpetrators were never discovered, as guilty murderers escape justice in a reign of violence and an age of murder. The command to make a chain is present truth proclaimed clearly and powerfully, which binds God's people together wherever they are in unity of faith and Spirit so they can stand against the delusions of the last days and pass safely through the time of trouble. In this setting of bloody crimes and violence, the character that should pertain to God's people in the last days is mourning and weeping, not joking and jesting, yet many act very far from this and need to heed the testimony to be enabled to live it. The sinful condition of bloody crimes filling the land and violence filling the city makes women's publishing of the tidings and united prayer necessary.
Ezekiel 7 is a graphic presentation of sin and righteousness that reaches down to the present day and applies in some respects to the present, foretelling a coming time of unprecedented trouble for the nations immediately before Christ's glorious return. The prediction was given in 594 B.C. and was fulfilled a few years later in 588 B.C., when captive Israel lamented that the law was no more and her prophets found no vision from the Lord. The land full of bloody crimes and the city full of violence means literal murder, bloodshed, and violent death greatly increased and unchecked.
The verse shows God's judgment for disobedience through bloodshed and violence: when the people seek a vision from the prophet they cannot obtain it because the law has perished from the priest and counsel from the ancients, so those who rejoiced when God was near mourn the loss of signs and guidance. The verse foretells a time of widespread bloody crime in the land and violence in the city, and that time has now come, with rapidly increasing crime showing the land will soon be full of such wickedness. Its fulfillment is seen in all large cities in the rise of an ever-augmenting criminal class from which nothing but crime is expected, where fathers and mothers are criminals and children are conceived, born and reared in crime and iniquity too horrible to contemplate, where wickedness of every kind is the regular order and righteousness the rare exception, and where the districts they inhabit are so dangerous to life and limb that they cannot safely be entered without an armed guard.
It is applied to American cities and especially to New York City, with hundreds of known deaths by violence from 1859 to 1868 and many murders whose perpetrators were never discovered, as guilty murderers escape justice in a reign of violence and an age of murder. The command to make a chain is present truth proclaimed clearly and powerfully, which binds God's people together wherever they are in unity of faith and Spirit so they can stand against the delusions of the last days and pass safely through the time of trouble. In this setting of bloody crimes and violence, the character that should pertain to God's people in the last days is mourning and weeping, not joking and jesting, yet many act very far from this and need to heed the testimony to be enabled to live it. The sinful condition of bloody crimes filling the land and violence filling the city makes women's publishing of the tidings and united prayer necessary.