SATURDAY Reflections
Vines are of little use
to make furniture or any real wood product. If the vine produces no fruit, then
there really isn't any use for them but to be thrown into the fire. Jesus refers to this imagery in John 15. Here, God is
telling the people of Jerusalem they are just as unfruitful and therefore
worthless. As a person carelessly throws vines into the fire, so Jerusalem will
feel like it is thrown into judgment.
Whose fault is this? The people who chose to disobey God.
Eze 15:1-8
(1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
(2) Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
(3) Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
(4) Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
(5) Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
(6) Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
(7) And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
(8) And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
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