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Ezekiel 11:7

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KJV ORIGINAL

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

So here's what the Lord God is saying: Those people you've killed and left in the city? They're like meat in a pot, and this city is the cooking pot. But I'm going to pull you out of it.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

God sees the violence you've caused and he's about to remove you from the situation entirely.

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Before your cooking pots can even feel the heat from the burning thorns underneath them, God will sweep away the wicked like a whirlwind—whether they're young and strong or old, He will remove them in His anger.

And no one stops to think about it in their heart, and they don't have the knowledge or understanding to say, 'I burned part of this wood in the fire; yes, I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and ate it. So should I make the leftover wood into something disgusting to worship? Should I bow down to a piece of tree trunk?'

Even before they burned the fat on the altar (as they were supposed to), the priest's servant would come and say to the person making the sacrifice, 'Give me meat to roast for the priest. He doesn't want boiled meat from you—he wants it raw so he can cook it his way.'

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