What is the meaning of Ezekiel 7:25? Anguish is coming! “Anguish is coming!” (Ezekiel 7:25). • Ezekiel sounds the alarm that judgment is imminent—no delay, no reprieve. Similar trumpet-blast warnings appear in Joel 2:1 and Zephaniah 1:14, underscoring that God never judges without first issuing clear notice. • The anguish is not abstract; it is the tangible, crushing distress that accompanies the fall of Jerusalem (fulfilled in 586 BC). Jesus echoes this pattern when He speaks of “great tribulation” in Matthew 24:21, showing that divine warnings stretch from Ezekiel’s day to the end of the age. • God’s holiness demands justice (Habakkuk 1:13). His patience had run its course after generations of idolatry and violence (Ezekiel 7:23). Anguish, then, is both the natural consequence of rebellion and the righteous verdict of a holy Judge. They will seek peace “They will seek peace…” • When calamity hits, the same people who ignored God’s prophets scramble for solutions—political alliances, quick treaties, soothing words. Jeremiah 6:14 shows false prophets crying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace. • The search for peace here is desperate bargaining rather than true repentance. Isaiah 30:15 reminds us that real peace is found “in returning and rest.” • Even in crisis, God’s offer of peace remains open to the humble (Isaiah 26:3; John 14:27). The tragedy is that Judah looks everywhere except to the Lord. But find none “…but there will be none.” • The peace they crave is unavailable because they have rejected its only Source. Isaiah 57:20-21 pictures the wicked as a restless, churning sea: “There is no peace… for the wicked.” • God removes false securities—walls, treasures, alliances—so that the futility of self-made peace is exposed (Ezekiel 7:14-19; Ezekiel 13:10-16). • 1 Thessalonians 5:3 warns that end-time judgment will also arrive when people are saying, “Peace and safety,” proving that Ezekiel’s message is both historic and prophetic. summary • Ezekiel 7:25 delivers a three-fold reality: anguish announced, peace sought, peace denied. • Judgment is certain because God is holy; false remedies cannot substitute for repentance. • True peace remains available only through returning to the Lord—a call as urgent today as it was in Ezekiel’s day. |
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