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“Doth He Not Speak parables?” Which is an applicative message meant to consider the statement of Ezekiel the prophet with a holistic and contextual consideration guided by the other directive of scripture regarding the use of parables and historical stories that God brings up before His people. 

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Doth he not speak parables?

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Delivered on grego. 9-7-2023

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Compiled by JS LOWTHER
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Eze 20:1  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.
Eze 20:2  Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
Eze 20:3  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.
Eze 20:4  Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
Eze 20:5  And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
Eze 20:6  In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
Eze 20:7  Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Eze 20:8  But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Eze 20:9  But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Eze 20:10  Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
Eze 20:11  And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
Eze 20:12  Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
Eze 20:13  But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Eze 20:14  But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
Eze 20:15  Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
Eze 20:16  Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Eze 20:17  Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Eze 20:18  But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
Eze 20:19  I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
Eze 20:20  And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
Eze 20:21  Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Eze 20:22  Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Eze 20:23  I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
Eze 20:24  Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
Eze 20:25  Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
Eze 20:26  And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
Eze 20:27  Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
Eze 20:28  For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Eze 20:29  Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Eze 20:30  Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
Eze 20:31  For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
Eze 20:32  And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
Eze 20:33  As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
Eze 20:34  And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
Eze 20:35  And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
Eze 20:36  Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 20:37  And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
Eze 20:38  And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Eze 20:39  As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
Eze 20:40  For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Eze 20:41  I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
Eze 20:42  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
Eze 20:43  And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
Eze 20:44  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 20:45  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 20:46  Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
Eze 20:47  And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Eze 20:48  And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
Eze_20:49  Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

In the last statements of this  reading we find these words:
“Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? “

Though the things stated in this chapter are far from a parable.

Rather the whole of the chapter is not parabolic but a staunch reminder and warning to the rebels of Israel to recall God’s dealings with them in the past, as a nation, descended of father who God worked with for “His own name sake”.
Last year, that was the exact name and emphasis I put upon this chapter.

Today I do not want to rehearse that sentiment. Though the fact that God working according to his own name sake is a sacred and holy truth of Scripture, and one that pervades this message which I am sharing, this is not the only focus from this text I want to share with you.

But rather in this year’s remembrance of this date which came to the prophet last week, and in all truth I should have brought this message last sabbath, what I’d like to focus on with you is the interpretation or the acknowledging, the realization of the Word of God as a parabel, but as a truth.

The Lord Jesus said to his disciples when they came to him in:

Mat 13:10  And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 
Mat 13:11  He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 
Mat 13:12  For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 
Mat 13:13  Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 
Mat 13:14  And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 
Mat 13:15  For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 
Mat 13:16  But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 
Mat 13:17  For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. 

And so we have a principle concerning parabels given by God, that while they are parabolic they have meaning, and they speak to the conscience of men whome God has opened the eyes and ears of.
Jesus said
it is given unto you disciples, remember a disciple is one devoted to the discipline of the Law and Word of God, it is given unto that Christian devoted to Christ’s discipline, to YHWH’s Disciplines to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to those who are not so, to them it is not given.

Mat 13:12  For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 
Jesus Said,
Mat 13:13  Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 
Mat 13:14  And in them (non-disciples, those who have none) is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 
Mat 13:15  For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 

And so the truth is that one who sees the Lord’s parabal sees with the eyes of the spirit and hears with the ears of the heart, and th result is that understanding leads to conversion and conversion leads to healing.

This is not a principle new to Isiah, or new with Jesus, no it is actually a principle of law that even deals with the nature of how we precieve reality it self:

Deu 29:2  And Moses called all the sons of Israel and said to them, Ye have seen all things that the Lord did in the land of Egypt before you to Pharao and his servants, and all his land; 
Deu 29:3  the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. 
Deu 29:4  Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day. 
Deu 29:5  And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet. 

And so it is of the good pleasure of God to open ones eyes to see on a particular day what the meaning of His temptations or trials are in the past, his sign which he shows and great wonders that have been worked in ones life and in the gentic or ethnic life of ones race or nation.

The principle we are taught by this dual use of concepts, by God speaking to Moses, by the prophets and the application of it to parables by Jesus is this, there are realistic stories both in life and in concept that has imagery which teach a lesson and the truth is, that like the Psalm 119:18 says, it is of God’s bounty that we are made to live, keep his word in life, by an opening of the spiritual eyes through a special mechanism of God’s Grace and that is God’s Law.

Look at

Psa 119:17  GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. 
Psa 119:18  Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. 
Psa 119:19  I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. 
Psa_119:20  My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. 

Ah, we can not see what we do not knowbecause we are strangers.
Have you ever noticed that when you are not failiar with an area you notice less but as you have walked or drove down a road so many times you notice that building or that tree, that rock, that sign or that wonderful thing?

So it is according to this Psalm, and so it is in hearing the parabals of Scripture as well as seeing the meaning of life and the history of life. When you acknowledge you are a stranger in God’s world, you also recognize that you are in need becomeing failiar with seeing the sites and this sight is first given by God’s bonty, God giving life spiritual and actual to His servants which are found in seeing life according to God’s eyes.

Yea, our very soul breaks, our heart is breaking in longing, longing to have God’s judgments at all times

The Whycliff from the Latin says says:
Psa 119:20 My soul coveted to desire thy Justice; in all time.

It is His world after all God made it, God carves the path of it, and He is the one who sees life for what it is and the world for what it is and by His Word, His Law and His commandments he gives us eyes to see life and the world for what it is and what he is saying.
This Knowledge is attained by use of God’s judgments.

And by becoming more familiar aquainted with this line of sight, our heart understands and is converted and we are healed.

What happens to one who does not take life serious?
Who sees the the anologies of Scripture that speak in signs to be be consitered wonderfully and will not percieve them? Will not take them to heart?
They are likewise of no understanding, and are not converted and are therfore not in Good health before God= They are not saved.

Such is one who can not only look back at the history of Israel, the History of our People and nation, of America, and Europe of Christendom parabolicly and apply it to their heart.

Look back at 119 and see what the Lord does with the bounty he deas to his disciple servants as they look upon who who can not see and hear this law and word:

Psa 119:21  Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. 
Psa 119:22  Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. 
Psa 119:23  Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. 
Psa 119:24  Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors. 

See but in all tis the proud only see a parabal
when they hear words that say things like:

Eze 20:46  Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 
Eze 20:47  And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. 
Eze 20:48  And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched. 
Eze 20:49  Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? 

But in reality in hearing this parabolic language according to the word of God we should rather say this
Eze 20:43  remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. ..
know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. 

And it is for this reason that the fear of God should fall upon a people to know:

the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. 
Eze 20:48  And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched. 

What more is there to know?
Which North and south is not relavant? but what is relavant is that as strangers to God’s directions, we ought to learn His ways as to see the flame and the fire coming that will not spare for the evil of a countries doing but will burn out according to His Holy Justice the wicked and corrupt doings of Israel, to purge the rebels from those who have His Covenant.

But the rebels who say they are Israel, the visible Church who say they are the invisible see a parable, a mystic, dark saying with a mythical application, one of no consequense to history, life ad health,
they see not nor hear not.

Eze 20:33  As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: 
Eze 20:34  And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 
Eze 20:35  And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 
Eze 20:36  Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD. 
Eze 20:37  And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 
Eze 20:38  And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.