Tevet 5 – Then they will know that a prophet has been among them…

January 4, 2025

10 – Tevet, 5785_10_Tevet, Abraham, Ezekiel, Israel, Jerusalem

Tevet 5, 5785; from sunset January 4, 2025, to sunset January 5, 2025

(The fifth day of the tenth month)

This is an image of one of the 66 stone tiles known as the “Ezekiel Plates” discovered in the 1800s at the traditional tomb site of the prophet Ezekiel. The tiles contain the entire book of Ezekiel and were placed inside the tomb with the letter-side facing toward the wall. There is an old Talmudic tradition that the original book of Ezekiel was buried with the prophet in his tomb and was left there to be revealed in the last days.

Today in the Bible, Ezekiel received a word from the LORD. God had prepared Ezekiel ahead of time and had given him the words to say when a certain man came and told him that Jerusalem had been captured. But his lips were locked until the time came for his mouth to be opened.

And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has been captured!”

Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had opened my mouth; so when he came to me in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: “Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, `Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.’

“Therefore say to them, `Thus says the Lord GOD: “You eat meat with blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile one another’s wives. Should you then possess the land?”‘

“Say thus to them, `Thus says the Lord GOD: “As I live, surely those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and caves shall die of the pestilence. For I will make the land most desolate, her arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through. Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.”‘

“As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, `Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.’

“So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them. And when this comes to pass– surely it will come– then they will know that a prophet has been among them.” – Ezekiel 33:21-33 (NKJ)

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