In these chapters we see the Lord has had enough and the day of the Lord was coming. We see the desecration of the temple which the religious leaders had allowed. Ezekiel was shown the abominations (not admonitions which I accidently said a few times in this lesson), and they kept getting worse, so the Lord called six executioners to come, but before they could enter the city, a man clothed in linen with a writing case on his loins came through the town, and anyone that grieved over the abominations were marked on their forehead, and the executioners could not touch them. This brought Ezekiel to fall on his face and cry out to the Lord, "Will you bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?" The answer is no. The Lord was a sanctuary to those who were scattered into other nations, and they will come back, and the Lord will give them a heart of flesh instead of a heart of stone. There is a promise of restoration.
