PASSIONATE PURSUIT...THE GLORY WAS REVEALED FOR THE WORK

​EZEKIEL 3:22-27
AND THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS THERE UPON ME, AND HE SAID INTO ME, ARISE, GO FORTH, INTO THE PLAIN, AND I WILL THERE TALK WITH THEE.
THEN I AROSE, AND WENT FORTH INTO THE PLAIN: AND BEHOLD, THE GLORY OF THE LORD STOOD THERE, AS THE GLORY WHICH I SAW BY THE RIVER OF CHEBAR: AND I FELL ON MY FACE.
THEN THE SPIRIT ENTERED INTO ME, AND SET ME UPON MY FEET, AND SPAKE WITH ME, AND SAID UNTO ME, GO, SHUT THYSELF WITHIN THINE HOUSE.
BUT THOU, O SON OF MAN, BEHOLD THEY SHALL PUT BANDS UPON THEE, AND SHALL BIND THEE WITH THEM, AND THOU SHALT NOT GO OUT AMONG THEM.
AND I WILL MAKE THY TONGUE CLEAVE TO THE ROOF OF THY MOUTH THAT THOU SHALT BE DUMB, AND SHALT NOT BE TO THEM A REPROVER: FOR THEY ARE A REBELLIOUS HOUSE.
BUT WHEN I SPEAK WITH THEE, I WILL OPEN THY MOUTH, AND THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; HE THAT HEARETH, LET HIM HEAR; AND HE THAT FORBEARETH, LET HIM FORBEAR: FOR THEY ARE A REBELLIOUS HOUSE.
            The Lord God by His Holy Spirit caused the prophet Ezekiel to see his glory revealed. He saw the revelation of his spirit as he moved upon the living creatures to show that all are subject to the spirit of God. The Lord commanded his prophet to speak to a people that were rebellious and stiffnecked. He told him to warn them to repent that the blood would not be upon their hands. The spirit of God moved upon Ezekiel and told him to get somewhere where he could receive the word. Sometimes we are not in a spiritual atmosphere that is set for the moving of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Lord said to go somewhere else; get to the plain where I can talk with thee. He arose in obedience and traveled to the plain and the glory of God was there in advance waiting for his arrival. He yielded to the Holy Spirit. The spirit of the Lord came upon him and set him upon his feet so that he could hear what the spirit had to say. The spirit instructed him to shut himself in his house, but the people that were in captivity would also attempt to put him under arrest in the spirit. They will attempt to have you bound like they are bound, but I’m moving you by my spirit. You will not go out among them. Sanctify thyself. Is there a word for a stiffnecked and rebellious generation?
Isaiah 5:13-14
Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: their honorable man are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Therefore, hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled:
But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
There have been appointed times where the Lord has been silent toward his chosen. The Lord was silent toward Abraham after taken Lot when the Lord had directly commanded that He get from thy country and thy kindred to a place where I will show thee (Gen 12). He was silent toward David after having taken Bethsheba, the wife of Uriah for himself. David cried unto God, be not silent toward me, chasten me not in thy hot displeasure. Therefore, we see a need to obey instructions completely to stay in the unity of the Holy Spirit. The Lord has shown us in the scripture that where the spirit went, the creature went and the chariots. All things move by the spirit. He showed Ezekiel the spiritual things to show him the power of God and get him acquainted to hearing the voice of the Lord.
3:10
Moreover He said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
And go, get thee unto them of captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them and tell them, thus saith the Lord God, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear.
The Lord his coming and his reward is with him. To the obedient is the reward of righteousness and to the children of disobedience there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. This is a time to seek the face of God, seek after his holy spirit and repent. Abide in his vine. Keep yourselves in the love of Christ. Do not think everything is okay. To whom much is given, much is required. We must do the work. We must pray. We must praise. We go higher and deeper depths in word and chasten ourselves before the Lord while he there with his hand stretched toward us. Pray that we are kept from the wrath to come.