Scriptural Confirmations (Whitehead) n. 52

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52. Twenty Four. (The Lord is described as to the Word, appearing above the expanse of the cherubim (Ezek. 1:26-28); and is called Lord Jehovih (2:4; 3:11, 27; 4:14; 5:5, 7, 8, 11; 6:3, 11; 7:2, 5; 8:1 seq.; also the God of Israel (8:4).) (That they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother be desolated; and fade away on account of their iniquity (Ezek. 4:17). In all your habitations the cities shall be devastated, also the high places (Ezek. 6:6). The end is come, the end upon the four corners of the land; I will send My anger upon thee, and I will judge thee according to thy ways. The end is come, the end is come, the mourning is come upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth, the time is come, the day of tumult is near (Ezek. 7:2-12). (They shall eat their bread with solicitude, and drink their waters with astonishment, that her land may be devastated from the fullness thereof; the cities that are inhabited shall be devastated, and the land shall be a desolation (Ezek. 12:19, 20).) The vision which the prophet seeth after many days, and prophesying it in times that are far off (Ezek. 12:27). That [he is against] the pillows under the hands, through lies, etc. (Ezek. 13:20-23). Let the land of Egypt be a solitude and a waste; it shall be made an utter waste and desolation; a solitude in the midst of desolate lands, and its cities shall be a solitude in the midst of cities that have been devastated (Ezek. 29:9, 10, 12, concerning Egypt). (They shall be devastated in the midst of the lands that are devastated, and her cities in the midst of the cities that are desolate; I will lay waste the land and the fullness thereof (Ezek. 30:7, 12).) (When I shall extinguish thee I will cover the heavens, and will make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a cloud; I will make black all the luminaries of light in the heavens above thee, and will set darkness upon the land (Ezek. 32:7, 8).) (The violent of the nations shall devastate the pride of Egypt, so that all the multitude thereof may be destroyed. I will make the land of Egypt a waste, so that it is a land desolated of that whereof it was full (Ezek. 32:12, 15).)


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