The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 144
144. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 21
1-3 [See above, end of chapter 20.] (3, 5)
4-5 They will all perish by means of falsities of evil.
8-11 Destruction by means of interior falsities of evil. (3, 8)
12-13 Grief of the church because they cannot be converted. (3)
14-17 All things that remain will also perish, owing to falsities still more interior. (3)
18-22 Destruction will come by reasonings from falsities, and yet they will have worship, but from these falsities. (3)
23-24 Their worship will be vain. (3)
25-27 That church will come to its end when the Lord comes. (1, 3)
28-29 It will be the same with those who have falsified the sense of the letter of the Word. (3)
Ezekiel 21:1-3
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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
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And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
