WEBVTT 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:08.900 in a year. Today's reading is from the book of 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:14.240 Ezekiel chapters 6 and 7. Chapter 6 Now the word 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.059 of the Lord came to me saying, Son of man, set 00:00:17.059 --> 00:00:19.440 your face toward the mountains of Israel and 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:22.239 prophesy against them and say, O mountains of 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:25.120 Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. Thus says 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:27.379 the Lord God to the mountains, to the hills. 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:30.539 to the ravines and to the valleys, indeed I, 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:33.640 even I, will bring a sword against you, and I 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:36.619 will destroy your high places. Then your altars 00:00:36.619 --> 00:00:39.159 shall be desolate, your incense altars shall 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:41.500 be broken, and I will cast down your slain men 00:00:41.500 --> 00:00:44.100 before your idols, and I will lay the corpses 00:00:44.100 --> 00:00:47.039 of the children of Israel before their idols, 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:49.840 and I will scatter your bones all around your 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.659 altars. In all your dwelling places the cities 00:00:52.659 --> 00:00:55.500 shall be laid waste, and the high places shall 00:00:55.500 --> 00:00:58.000 be desolate, so that your altars may be laid 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.880 waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:03.859 and made to cease, your incense altars may be 00:01:03.859 --> 00:01:07.140 cut down, and your works may be abolished. The 00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:09.480 slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:13.620 know that I am the Lord. Yet I will leave a remnant, 00:01:13.620 --> 00:01:16.359 so that you may have some who escape the sword 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:18.859 among the nations when you are scattered through 00:01:18.859 --> 00:01:21.599 the countries. Then those of you who escape will 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:23.959 remember me among the nations where they are 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.680 carried captive, because I was crushed by their 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:29.299 adulterous heart which has departed from me, 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:32.000 and by their eyes which play the harlot after 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.519 their idols. They will loathe themselves for 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:37.579 the evils which they committed in all their abominations, 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:40.379 and they shall know that I am the Lord. I have 00:01:40.379 --> 00:01:43.280 not said in vain that I would bring this calamity 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:46.319 upon them. Thus says the Lord God, Pound your 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:49.840 fists and stamp your feet and say, Alas for all 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:52.079 the evil abominations of the house of Israel. 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:54.859 for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, 00:01:54.900 --> 00:01:57.840 and by pestilence. He who is far off shall die 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.420 by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall 00:02:00.420 --> 00:02:03.659 by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged 00:02:03.659 --> 00:02:07.579 shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend my 00:02:07.579 --> 00:02:10.310 fury upon them. Then you shall know that I am 00:02:10.310 --> 00:02:13.430 the Lord when their slain are among their idols 00:02:13.430 --> 00:02:16.129 all around their altars, on every high hill, 00:02:16.289 --> 00:02:19.409 on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, 00:02:19.569 --> 00:02:22.729 and under every thick oak, wherever they offered 00:02:22.729 --> 00:02:26.110 sweet incense to all their idols. So I will stretch 00:02:26.110 --> 00:02:28.789 out my hand against them and make the land desolate, 00:02:28.969 --> 00:02:31.650 yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward 00:02:31.650 --> 00:02:35.349 Dibla, in all their dwelling places. Then they 00:02:35.349 --> 00:02:41.150 shall know that I am the Lord. Chapter 7 Moreover 00:02:41.150 --> 00:02:43.750 the word of the Lord came to me, saying, And 00:02:43.750 --> 00:02:46.490 you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the 00:02:46.490 --> 00:02:49.870 land of Israel, An end. The end has come upon 00:02:49.870 --> 00:02:52.509 the four corners of the land. Now the end has 00:02:52.509 --> 00:02:54.990 come upon you, and I will send my anger against 00:02:54.990 --> 00:02:57.430 you. I will judge you according to your ways, 00:02:57.590 --> 00:03:00.449 and I will repay you for all your abominations. 00:03:00.689 --> 00:03:03.449 My eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity. 00:03:03.789 --> 00:03:06.650 But I will repay your ways, and your abominations 00:03:06.650 --> 00:03:09.389 will be in your midst. Then you shall know that 00:03:09.389 --> 00:03:13.189 I am the Lord. Thus says the Lord God, A disaster, 00:03:13.449 --> 00:03:16.990 a singular disaster. Behold, it has come. An 00:03:16.990 --> 00:03:20.490 end has come, the end has come. It has dawned 00:03:20.490 --> 00:03:23.949 for you, behold, it has come. Doom has come to 00:03:23.949 --> 00:03:26.770 you, you who dwell in the land. The time has 00:03:26.770 --> 00:03:30.389 come, a day of trouble is near, and not of rejoicing 00:03:30.389 --> 00:03:33.189 in the mountains. Now upon you I will soon pour 00:03:33.189 --> 00:03:36.590 out my fury, and spend my anger upon you. I will 00:03:36.590 --> 00:03:39.069 judge you according to your ways, and I will 00:03:39.069 --> 00:03:42.729 repay you for all your abominations. My eye will 00:03:42.729 --> 00:03:45.810 not spare, nor will I have pity. I will repay 00:03:45.810 --> 00:03:48.469 you according to your ways, and your abominations 00:03:48.469 --> 00:03:51.030 will be in your midst. Then you shall know that 00:03:51.030 --> 00:03:54.530 I am the Lord who strikes. Behold the day, behold 00:03:54.530 --> 00:03:58.349 it has come. Doom has gone out, the rod has blossomed. 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.460 Pride has budded. Violence has risen up into 00:04:01.460 --> 00:04:04.039 a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain. 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.460 None of their multitude. None of them. Nor shall 00:04:07.460 --> 00:04:10.219 there be wailing for them. The time has come. 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:13.560 The day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice, 00:04:13.819 --> 00:04:16.620 nor the seller mourn. For wrath is on their whole 00:04:16.620 --> 00:04:19.459 multitude. For the seller shall not return to 00:04:19.459 --> 00:04:22.800 what has been sold. Though he may still be alive, 00:04:23.060 --> 00:04:25.199 for the vision concerns the whole multitude, 00:04:25.459 --> 00:04:27.939 and it shall not turn back. No one will strengthen 00:04:27.939 --> 00:04:31.100 himself who lives in iniquity. They have blown 00:04:31.100 --> 00:04:33.800 the trumpet and made everyone ready, but no one 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:36.519 goes to battle. For my wrath is on all their 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:39.740 multitude. The sword is outside, and the pestilence 00:04:39.740 --> 00:04:42.959 and famine within. Whoever is in the field will 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.220 die by the sword, and whoever is in the city, 00:04:45.339 --> 00:04:48.759 famine and pestilence will devour him. Those 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:51.000 who survive will escape and be on the mountains 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.759 like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.079 each for his iniquity. Every hand will be feeble, 00:04:57.180 --> 00:05:00.259 and every knee will be as weak as water. They 00:05:00.259 --> 00:05:03.040 will also be girded with sackcloth. Horror will 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:06.240 cover them. Shame will be on every face, baldness 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:08.980 on all their heads. They will throw their silver 00:05:08.980 --> 00:05:11.639 into the streets, and their gold will be like 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.300 refuse. Their silver and their gold will not 00:05:14.300 --> 00:05:16.899 be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath 00:05:16.899 --> 00:05:20.120 of the Lord. They will not satisfy their souls 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.199 nor fill their stomachs, because it became their 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:26.430 stumbling block of iniquity. As for the beauty 00:05:26.430 --> 00:05:29.389 of his ornaments, he said it in majesty, but 00:05:29.389 --> 00:05:32.149 they made from it the images of their abominations, 00:05:32.269 --> 00:05:35.290 their detestable things. Therefore I have made 00:05:35.290 --> 00:05:38.269 it like refuse to them. I will give it as plunder 00:05:38.269 --> 00:05:40.610 into the hands of strangers, and to the wicked 00:05:40.610 --> 00:05:43.310 of the earth as spoil, and they shall defile 00:05:43.310 --> 00:05:45.910 it. I will turn my face from them, and they will 00:05:45.910 --> 00:05:48.889 defile my secret place, for robbers shall enter 00:05:48.889 --> 00:05:52.769 it and defile it. Make a chain. where the land 00:05:52.769 --> 00:05:55.129 is filled with crimes of blood, and the city 00:05:55.129 --> 00:05:57.769 is full of violence. Therefore I will bring the 00:05:57.769 --> 00:05:59.850 worst of the Gentiles, and they will possess 00:05:59.850 --> 00:06:02.750 their houses. I will cause the pomp of the strong 00:06:02.750 --> 00:06:05.850 to cease, and their holy places shall be defiled. 00:06:06.449 --> 00:06:08.990 Destruction comes. They will seek peace, but 00:06:08.990 --> 00:06:11.750 there shall be none. Disaster will come upon 00:06:11.750 --> 00:06:15.069 disaster, and rumor will be upon rumor. Then 00:06:15.069 --> 00:06:17.670 they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the 00:06:17.670 --> 00:06:20.170 law will perish from the priest, and counsel 00:06:20.170 --> 00:06:23.319 from the elders. The king will mourn, the prince 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:25.800 will be clothed with desolation, and the hands 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.160 of the common people will tremble. I will do 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.319 to them according to their way, and according 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.399 to what they deserve I will judge them. Then 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:41.519 they shall know that I am the Lord. I hope you 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:43.879 enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:45.740 I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow to 00:06:45.740 --> 00:06:47.980 continue on our journey. God bless you and have 00:06:47.980 --> 00:06:48.540 a great day.