Isaiah means "Salvation of Jehovah".  The name Joshua means "Jehovah is Salvation".  Joshua is Hebrew and is translated as Jesus in Greek.  God says a lot about His Name as we we see below.  I just thought the meaning of the name Isaiah and Joshua was a cool name comparison.

Isaiah has been described as the prophet of the Son.
Jeremiah has been described as the prophet of the Father.
Ezekiel has been described as the prophet of the Spirit.

Isaiah has also been described as the fifth gospel because of all the references to the Messiah.  Our bible has 66 books with 39 Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books.  Isaiah is divided into 66 chapters with 39 dealing with the law of God and 27 dealing with the grace of God.  The New Testament has at least 66 direct quotations from Isaiah and some say as many as 85 quotations.  Twenty of our twenty-seven New Testament books have direct quotations from Isaiah. 

Open your bibles to . . .

Isaiah 66:7-9
7 "Before she travailed, she brought forth; Before her pain came, she gave birth to a boy.
8 "Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?  Can a land be born in one day?  Can a nation be brought forth all at once?  As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.
9 "Shall I bring to the point of birth and not give delivery?" says the Lord.  "Or shall I who gives delivery shut the womb?" says your God.

Ezekiel 37:19-22
19 say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand."' 
20 The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. 
21 Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; 
22 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. 

Jeremiah 50:4-5
4 "In those days and at that time," declares the Lord, "the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the Lord their God they will seek. 
5 They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction; they will come that they may join themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten. 

In November 1917, the Balfour Declaration gave the Jewish people back their national homeland after it was taken away almost 2,000 years earlier.  Never in the history of mankind has such an event happened.  Think about that. 

In 1922, the League of Nations gave Great Britian the mandate over Palestine.
On May 14, 1948, Great Britian withdrew her mandate and immediately Israel was declared a soverign state. 
God is in control.

Open your bibles to . . .

Isaiah 9:1-7
1 But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. 
2 The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them.
3 You shall multiply the nation, You shall increase their gladness; They will be glad in Your presence As with the gladness of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For You shall break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders, The rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian. 
5 For every boot of the booted warrior in the battle tumult, And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
7 There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore.  The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.
 

Galilee of the Gentiles

Matthew 4:12-17
12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been taken into custody, He withdrew into Galilee; 
13 and leaving Nazareth, He came and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali. 
14 This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: 
15 "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles-
16 "The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light, And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, Upon them a Light dawned."
17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
 

Battle of Midian

Judges 7:2
The Lord said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for Me to give Midian into their hands, for Israel would become boastful, saying, 'My own power has delivered me.' 

Judges 7:12
Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 

Judges 7:22-23
22 When they blew 300 trumpets, the Lord set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath. 
23 The men of Israel were summoned from Naphtali and Asher and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian. 

Jeremiah is described as the prophet with the broken heart.   Jeremiah stood in the ruins of a destroyed Jerusalem and destroyed temple and just cried.  Jesus wept over the same city six hundred years later.  Have you ever considered that Jesus had a broken heart during His ministry?  In Matthew 16 we are told that the people thought Jesus might be Jeremiah raised from the dead. 

Jeremiah ministered about a hundred years after Isaiah.  Jeremiah prophesied the seventy years of captivity in Babylon and then watched as it started.  Jeremiah was hated by his people and considered a traitor because he told Israel to surrender to Babylon.  One word characterizes Jeremiah's message to God's people and that is backsliding, which occurs thirteen times.  Backsliding is only used four other times in the Old Testament.  Jeremiah mentions Babylon 164 times which is more than all other scripture combined.

A parallel can be drawn between Jeremiah and Paul the apostle because they both have ministries aimed toward Gentiles.  In Jeremiah 1:5 God says He appointed him as a prophet to the nations.  Both were opposed by God's people and they lived their lives in danger from the message they were instructed to provide.

Open your bibles to . . .

Matthew 16:13-14
Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"  And they said, "Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets." 

Jeremiah 29:10-20
10 "For thus says the Lord, 'When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. 
11 For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. 
12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 
13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 
14 I will be found by you,' declares the Lord, 'and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,' declares the Lord, 'and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.' 
15 "Because you have said, 'The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon'- 
16 for thus says the Lord concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile- 
17 thus says the Lord of hosts, 'Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.
18 I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a horror and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them, 
19 because they have not listened to My words,' declares the Lord, 'which I sent to them again and again by My servants the prophets; but you did not listen,' declares the Lord. 
20 You, therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all you exiles, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. 

Isaiah was a prophet.  Jeremiah and Ezekiel were both prophets and priests.  The difference between the men was that Jeremiah was older and started his ministry thirty years earlier than Ezekiel.  Jeremiah served in the temple in Jerusalem and then saw both the city and the temple destroyed. 

Because Ezekiel was in captivity in Babylon he never got to serve in the office as priest.  Ezekiel is described as a prophet of action similar to how the Holy Spirit moves in every direction like the wind.  Although they lived at the same time, Jeremiah was not allowed to marry or have kids.  On the other hand Ezekiel had a wife and two kids, but had to watch his wife die and then was not allowed to mourn her death as a sign to the nation. 

As mentioned earlier, Ezekiel has been described as the prophet of the Spirit as compared to Isaiah being described as the prophet of the Son as compared to Jeremiah described as the prophet of the Father.  When I teach on the Holy Spirit, I go to Ezekiel over and over.  When I teach on the evil, I go to Ezekiel.  The phrase 'son of man' is used 80 times to describe Ezekiel.  "Son of Man' is used 82 times to describe Jesus in the New Testament. 

Open your bibles to . . .

Ezekiel 18:29-32
29 But the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not right.'  Are My ways not right, O house of Israel?  Is it not your ways that are not right? 
30 "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct," declares the Lord God. "Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you. 
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit!  For why will you die, O house of Israel? 
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord God. "Therefore, repent and live."

God does not take pleasure in judgment, but judgment is part of the process of righteousness.  Earlier in Ezekiel 18 verse 4 God says that all souls are mine.  If God wants to execute judgment, this world is God's creation to do with as He sees fit.  If a person does not recognize God's ownership of this world or God's hand in the creation of this world, then this concept will be a stumbling block. 

I describe this concept to my 5th grade Sunday School class like this; I ask if they are allowed to cut off the sleeves to their shirts?  Would they get into trouble if they took scissors right now and cut off their sleeves?  They all look at each other, but know that they would get into trouble.  I explain to them that I bought and paid for my shirt with my own money, so if I wanted I could cut off the sleeves.  They did not pay for their shirts and therefore they would get into trouble because their parents bought and paid for their shirts.  The parent can cut the sleeves off the kid's shirt if they want to because they paid for the shirt.  They might allow the child to do it because they gave the shirt to the child, but the children do not have the authority unless it is given by the parent.  They might have the capacity, but not the authority. 

Prepare yourself because this is a common stumbling block for unbelievers.  They say, 'Why does God allow bad things to happen?'.  As Christians, we must be ready to give a response so that this person might see the truth about God.  God gave mankind over because of man's disobedience.  Jesus came to save man, but man must repent.  This world is God's and He can cut the sleeves off if He wants.  When the bible talks about the authority of Satan over this world, God allowed that authority to be transferred from man to Satan because God has a plan.  The only reason people are not OK with this arrangement is because they do not understand that God is doing something so great that the angels marvel.  That is how the bible describes God's work of salvation by Jesus as the Christ. 

God allowed mankind to fall.  God also allows man to be saved by accepting Jesus as your Savior.  This is freewill.  Why?  Man prior to the fall was made a little lower than the angels.  Man adopted by God as children by the blood offered by Jesus as the Christ becomes higher than the angels.  That is why the angels marvel at what God is doing in mankind.  God is in control.

Open your bibles to . . .

John 3:17-21
17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21 But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God."

Last week we looked at when fire came down from heaven for Elijah as a testimony against the Baal prophets and the nation.  Two weeks ago, we looked at how fire came down from heaven for David for his faith, and for Solomon and the entire nation of Israel as a testimony that God approved of the temple.  We also looked at how God spoke to the seventy elders with Moses, Aaron, and they all had lunch with God. 

God the Father spoke to Jesus the Son at His baptism as the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in the form of a dove as a sign for John.  God the Father spoke to Jesus at the transfiguration for the benefit of Peter, James and John.  Below God the Father speaks to Jesus in front of a crowd of people.  Jesus announces that now judgment is upon this world.  Think about that. 

Open your bibles to . . .

John 12:27-36
27 "Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
28 Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." 
29 So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, "An angel has spoken to Him." 
30 Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.
31 Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."
33 But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die. 
34 The crowd then answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?" 
35 So Jesus said to them, "For a little while longer the Light is among you.  Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
36 While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light."  These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them. 

God has given mankind grace since the fall of man.  Verse 31 above says that now judgment is upon this world. 

If you reject Jesus, you reject the way, the truth and the life to God.  These Jewish people, who grew up with the temple method of worship, missed the symbolism of the articles used for worship.  They missed it.  Everything associated with the tabernacle and temple method of worship pointed to Jesus.  The tabernacle had one way in and you had to go pass through the tribe of Judah.  The sacrifice of the lamb was performed every morning, every evening, every Sabbath, every new moon and every year.  To go inside the Holy Place required a blood sacrifice and a washing to enter into the place of light, food and prayer.  Everything written in the Law and the Prophets and the Psalms pointed to Jesus.  Our job as Christians is to help mankind to see the 'who, what, when, where and why' about Jesus.  That is discipleship training.

Open your bibles to . . .

John 12:46-47
46 I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.
47 If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Genesis tells us about how God judged Sodom and Gomorrah.  The Angel of the Lord talked with Abraham as two regular angels went into Sodom and talked with Lot. Moses wrote Genesis, but he was not alive when these events happened.  That is why I love Genesis so much.  God either showed Moses what to write or told him what to write because Moses was not alive during these events.  In Genesis 19:16 is says the compassion of the Lord was upon Lot and the angels took him to safety.

When a man accepts Jesus as the Christ, the compassion of the Lord rests upon that man.  The first step is to recognize that God is in control.  Then man must repent and come to God in the manner God prescribes which is believing in Jesus as the Christ.

Open your bibles to . . .

Ezekiel 4:1-6
1 "Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem. 
2 Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around. 
3 Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel. 
4 "As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it. 
5 For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 
6 When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year. 
 

Genesis 15:13-16
13 God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. 
14 But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions. 
15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 
16 Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete."
 

Exodus 12:40-41
40 Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 
41 And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. 

Does God have a set timeline for the end of this world?  Yes, but the real question is 'are you ready'?
 

Additional key verses from Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel

Isaiah 7:10-16
10 Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 
11 "Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven." 
12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I test the Lord!" 
13 Then he said, "Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well? 
14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. 
15 He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good. 
16 For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken. 
 

Isaiah 11:1-12
1 Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
3 And He will delight in the fear of the Lord, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;
4 But with righteousness He will judge the poor, And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth; And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
5 Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins, And faithfulness the belt about His waist.
6 And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion 
and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead them.
7 Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their young will lie down together, And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.
9 They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord As the waters cover the sea.
10 Then in that day The nations will resort to the root of Jesse, Who will stand as a signal for the peoples; And His resting place will be glorious.
11 Then it will happen on that day that the Lord Will again recover the second time with His hand The remnant of His people, who will remain, From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, And from the islands of the sea.
12 And He will lift up a standard for the nations And assemble the banished ones of Israel, And will gather the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.
 

Isaiah 35
1 The wilderness and the desert will be glad, And the Arabah will rejoice and blossom; Like the crocus
2 It will blossom profusely And rejoice with rejoicing and shout of joy.  The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, The majesty of Carmel and Sharon.  They will see the glory of the Lord, The majesty of our God.
3 Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.
4 Say to those with anxious heart, "Take courage, fear not.  Behold, your God will come with vengeance; The recompense of God will come, But He will save you."
5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
6 Then the lame will leap like a deer, And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy.  For waters will break forth in the wilderness And streams in the Arabah.
7 The scorched land will become a pool And the thirsty ground springs of water; In the haunt of jackals, its resting place, Grass becomes reeds and rushes. 
8 A highway will be there, a roadway, And it will be called the Highway of Holiness.  The unclean will not travel on it, But it will be for him who walks that way, And fools will not wander on it.
9 No lion will be there, Nor will any vicious beast go up on it; These will not be found there.  But the redeemed will walk there, 
10 And the ransomed of the Lord will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads.  They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.
 

Jeremiah 16:1-4
1 The word of the Lord also came to me saying, 
2 "You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place." 
3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who beget them in this land: 
4 "They will die of deadly diseases, they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth." 
 

Jeremiah 17:9-11
9 "The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? 
10 "I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds. 
11 "As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the midst of his days it will forsake him, And in the end he will be a fool."
 

Jeremiah 20:14-18
14 Cursed be the day when I was born; Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!
15 Cursed be the man who brought the news To my father, saying, "A baby boy has been born to you!"  And made him very happy.
16 But let that man be like the cities Which the Lord overthrew without relenting, And let him hear an outcry in the morning And a shout of alarm at noon;
17 Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.
18 Why did I ever come forth from the womb To look on trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame?
 

Jeremiah 24:4-7
4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 
5 "Thus says the Lord God of Israel, 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
6 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.
7 I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart. 
 

Jeremiah 25:3-11
3 "From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened. 
4 And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear, 
5 saying, 'Turn now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the land which the Lord has given to you and your forefathers forever and ever; 
6 and do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.' 
7 Yet you have not listened to Me," declares the Lord, "in order that you might provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm. 
8 "Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, 'Because you have not obeyed My words, 
9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' declares the Lord, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 
10 Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 
11 This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 
 

Jeremiah 31:31-34
31 "Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 
32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the Lord. 
33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the Lord, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 
34 They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the Lord, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." 
 
 

Ezekiel 3:16-20
16 At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 
17 "Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me. 
18 When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 
19 Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.
20 Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. 
 
 

Ezekiel 24:15-27
15 And the word of the Lord came to me saying, 
16 "Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow; but you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come. 
17 Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead.  Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet, and do not cover your mustache and do not eat the bread of men." 
18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died.  And in the morning I did as I was commanded. 
19 The people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?" 
20 Then I said to them, "The word of the Lord came to me saying, 
21 'Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord God, 'Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword. 
22 You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men. 
23 Your turbans will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet. You will not mourn and you will not weep, but you will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan to one another. 
24 Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done you will do; when it comes, then you will know that I am the Lord God.'" 
25 'As for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their pride, the desire of their eyes and their heart's delight, their sons and their daughters, 
26 that on that day he who escapes will come to you with information for your ears? 
27 On that day your mouth will be opened to him who escaped, and you will speak and be mute no longer. Thus you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the Lord.'" 
 
 

Ezekiel 36:16-38
16 Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, 
17 "Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. 
18 Therefore I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols. 
19 Also I scattered them among the nations and they were dispersed throughout the lands.  According to their ways and their deeds I judged them. 
20 When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, 'These are the people of the Lord; yet they have come out of His land.' 
21 But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went. 
22 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord God, "It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. 
23 I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst.  Then the nations will know that I am the Lord," declares the Lord God, "when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight. 
24 For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. 
25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 
26 Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 
27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. 
28 You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God. 
29 Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you. 
30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations. 
31 Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations. 
32 I am not doing this for your sake," declares the Lord God, "let it be known to you.  Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel!" 
33 'Thus says the Lord God, "On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt. 
34 The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by. 
35 They will say, 'This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.' 
36 Then the nations that are left round about you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate; I, the Lord, have spoken and will do it." 
37 'Thus says the Lord God, "This also I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their men like a flock. 
38 Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the Lord."'"