The Prepared Messenger

Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign; according to all that he hath done, shall ye do; and when this cometh ye shall know that I am the Lord God—Ezekiel 24:24.

Ezekiel is here denoted a sign or type of the servant of God—one whose delight is to make known the riches of God’s love. You will never obtain a crown as a messenger of the Lord of hosts, until you become a holy servant of God like the prophet Ezekiel.

The people are described in this book as having received the favor of God, being chosen as the medium of His blessing. God allowed the ten tribes to sever themselves from the two, because of the iniquity of Rehoboam, and could not use them as His witnesses and servants.

There could not be found in all Israel a man wholly given up to God; a man who was sanctified entirely to God’s service. To this day the ten tribes are scattered and unknown because they despised the voice of God. But they have not been punished as severely as the other two tribes, because they did not crucify God’s Son.