Ezekiel 7:1

Ezekiel 7:1 says, Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,  God continued to speak to Ezekiel, just as He will continue to speak to those who are His people today.   

Verse two adds, Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.  Ezekiel was to tell the people of Israel that the end had come to their land because of their disobedience,  The promised land was never theirs because of their power or from the fact that they deserved it, but was theirs by the grace of God,  When they rejected God in favor of other gods, He allowed them to be taken out of the promised land.  If we worship other gods while professing to be a Christian and do not put our faith in God as the only true God, we will never enter the promised land of Heaven.   

Verse three continues, Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.  Since the people of Israel had rejected God, He was going to send total destruction on them.  If we do not accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, we will one day go away to everlasting punishment in the desolation of hell.  Just as the people of Israel were being sent away into captivity because of their disobedience, those who reject Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord will one day be sent away to everlasting punishment because of their choice to reject Him.   

Verse four states, And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.  God told Ezekiel that He was no longer watching over Israel to bring about good for them.  Instead, He was going to recompense, or pay them we might say, for their evil or sinful ways. We all deserve to be punished for our sins, but God has made a way for us not to be, just as He did with the people of Israel when He entered into a covenant relationship with them.  They failed to live up to their part in the covenant, so God was going to pay them with the punishment that they deserved.  If we don’t enter into a covenant relationship with God by accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, then one day we will have to pay for our sins, which means everlasting punishment.  Though we are forever saved when we do accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, I believe we one day will have face God and be held accountable for the times we failed to be faithful to Him.  

Verse five adds, Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.  God told Ezekiel to look, and he would see that only evil was coming to the people of Israel.  I believe that this was a warning that those who don’t accept God’s gift of salvation were going to face the one final evil, and that is everlasting separation from God.   

Verse six continues, An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.  God said that the end had come for the people of Israel for their being disobedient to their covenant relationship with Him and worshipping other false gods.  One day, the time is going to come for all those who do not put their faith in Jesus Christ to be sent away to everlasting punishment.  Still, just as it was in that day, the choice of where we spend the rest of eternity is up to us just as it was up to the people of Israel to either live by faith in God or reject Him and see their nation fall.