In the judgment against Ammon, we find these words:  "Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel..."

How do these words play out in our headline news today?  Suppose it has anything to do with leaders of nations who are not supportive of Israel?

Ezekiel 25:8
"...Look, the house of Judah has become like other nations..."

This is just what the people wanted when they came into the land when they asked for a king - even though God warned them of the consequences of wanting to be like all the other nations.

In the JUDGEMENT AGAINST PHILISTIA (Ezekiel 25) is this phrase, "...with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah..."

And this "ancient hostility"  continues to this day between the nation of Israel and its enemies.

We have noticed some more repetitions in the last few weeks' reading. This phrase keeps appearing:

"Then they will know that I am the Lord". 

This phrase always follows some judgment against a nation or people because they turn away from God.  Why couldn't they see all the miracles that God had done and know that He is the Lord, without the judgment, destruction, and condemnation?

In the judgment against Pharaoh, God says, "I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries."

The Egyptians are sometimes known as gypsies and no longer live exclusively in Egypt.  The people there in Egypt now are Arabs.

In the descriptions of Assyria in Ezekiel 31 are listed many luxurious and opulent items.  God warns that they will be brought down. Any connections to the established church today?  

In the judgments against Judah’s many oppressors, there is a very specific judgment against Egypt. God's people had repeatedly turned to Egypt for help, instead of turning to God.

Ezekiel 29:9-11
Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. "'Because you said, "The Nile is mine; I made it," therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush. No foot of man or animal will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years. 

At a place called Aswan in southern Egypt there are two large dams on the Nile River. During the last days the Aswan dams will be broken down whether by bunker busting bombs that may be released by the Antichrist in his war against Egypt or by earthquake, etc. Whatever the method may be, the Bible indicates that these dams will be destroyed. The people living in the floodplain will be killed by the rushing water and the silt currently being held back by the two dams. The floodplain area will be buried under a sea of mud. Egypt will be left a desolate land that will extend 40 years into the millennium. The desolate Egypt will stand as a monument (just as we have Sodom and Gomorrah today) to show how God will deal with sin. 

We have these two cities to remind us of our sin, but how often do we really contemplate how dead we are in our sins? Or better still how often do we really contemplate how alive we are with Jesus as our Savior?