Ezekiel 20:1

Ezekiel 20:1 says. And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me.  Matthew Henry says that chapter eighteen dealt with the people of Israel's presumptions about God and this chapter deals with their hypocritical inquires to Him.  Neither is a good thing.  This occurred in the seventh year of the captivity of Israel by Babylon and about the second year of Ezekiel’s prophesying to the people.  Certain elders of Israel came to ask Ezekiel about something, which we will learn later on was that since they didn’t have a temple and worshipping God was forbidden if they would be right in worshipping other gods.  Even if all church buildings were to be destroyed and it was declared illegal to worship God, we as followers of Christ would never be justified in worshipping anyone but the one true God.   

Verse two adds, Then came the word of the Lord unto me, saying,  We aren.t even told what these elders had to ask at this point, but God was already giving Ezekiel the message to give to them.  I believe that as long as we are relying on the leadership of the Holy Spirit, He will always give us the message to speak to anyone who inquires of us about God.  

Verse three continues, Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not be enquired of by you.  God told Ezekiel that he was to ask the elders if they came to inquire about Him and then told him to tell the elders that He would not be questioned by them.  They weren’t there to repent and seek God’s will for their lives and the nation but were there to question if what God had told them about His being the only God was true.  If we come to God to get Him to endorse what we want instead of seeking His will in our lives, He is not going to listen to us.