“Then on the eighth day and afterward, the priests will offer your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar, and I will accept you.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.” – Ezekiel 43.27 (CSB)

“…and I will accept you.”

This is not the usual overtone of the book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel’s prophetic book is not full of lavish compliments or deeply poetic stanzas of adoration from God to his people. Instead, it’s a book of warning from God to Israel, once again calling them to repent from their sinful lives to return to him.

But look at how “successful” Ezekiel’s ministry would be:

“But the house of Israel will not want to listen to you because they do not want to listen to me. For the whole house of Israel is hardheaded and hardhearted.” – Ezekiel 3.7 (CSB)

How would you feel if you were told to do something that seemed unattainable and then told right after that that you wouldn’t be able to get it done? That’s what Ezekiel was called to. God’s people would be stubborn and hard-hearted toward the things of God, and still, God sent him to speak to them. Why? Because God is constant and relentless in pursuing his people.

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