WARNING PREACHY…
Suppose,
heaven forbid, that your house caught fire during the night and your children
or spouse knew about it and snuck out quietly without yelling to alert everyone
else in the house?
Or
suppose that your neighbor’s house was on fire and your other neighbor had the
ability, but didn’t, to yell and save them from the danger of the impending flames?
Would
you agree that your loved one or neighbor deserved punishment for not sounding
the alarm if you or your neighbor died but could have been saved?
These
scenarios might seem a little ridiculous but they are valid questions I
think. They are ridiculous because I can’t
imagine anyone getting out of, or seeing, a house fire without yelling for people
to get clear. However, there are
arsonists who get some weird jollies when there is fire and people are in
danger.
The
prophet Ezekiel was charged by God to point out the sins of the people that
would bring God’s wrath upon them. If he
didn’t speak up, their blood was on his hands; he was guilty of letting them
die without sounding the alarm.
Ezekiel 33:7-9
7 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for
the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. 8 When
I say to the wicked, ‘You wicked person, you will surely die,’ and you do not
speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for
their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. 9 But if you do warn the
wicked person to turn from their ways and they do not do so, they will die for
their sin, though you yourself will be saved.”
Today,
we have preachers and prophets who sound the alarm among us, about our own sins
and wrong doing which is bringing the wrath of God upon us. We don’t like it much. Some preachers are just over-zealous and not
very nice, and sometimes we just don’t like being told that we are in the
spiritual wrong.
No
matter though, if there is a Final Judgment and a Heaven and Hell to be
concerned with, shouldn’t preacher and prophet alike sound the alarms so that we have
a chance of being saved?
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