Again the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel as the opening of a further message answering Israel's claim that the vision concerned a distant future time. That message rebukes delay and declares that the prophecy will not be postponed, but that the word God has spoken will be fulfilled. This assurance about delay comforted believers after the expected time of Christ's coming had passed. The chapter containing the verse is to be studied with critical, thoughtful attention on the knees before God amid the perils of the last days, together with Ezekiel 9 and 10. The verse brings a solemn warning that those who by a perverse spirit have laid stumbling blocks in the way of many connected with them must take up those stumbling blocks, or God will turn His face utterly from them and their associates.
Again the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel as the opening of a further message answering Israel's claim that the vision concerned a distant future time. That message rebukes delay and declares that the prophecy will not be postponed, but that the word God has spoken will be fulfilled. This assurance about delay comforted believers after the expected time of Christ's coming had passed. The chapter containing the verse is to be studied with critical, thoughtful attention on the knees before God amid the perils of the last days, together with Ezekiel 9 and 10. The verse brings a solemn warning that those who by a perverse spirit have laid stumbling blocks in the way of many connected with them must take up those stumbling blocks, or God will turn His face utterly from them and their associates.