Ezekiel 22:30 _ “I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one. -------------------------- ......... no doubt, there were good people in the land, as Jeremiah, Baruch, and others, but not among these: that should make up the wall; that was broken down by the transgressions of the people; one that would restrain them from sinning, and reform them, and set them a good example; one, as the Targum has it, ``whose works were good; a good man, that would endeavour by his influence to stop the breaking in of sin, and the consequences of it: and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; stand in the gap that sin had made, at which the Lord was entering as a man of war to destroy the transgressors; one that should present himself to the Lord on the behalf of the people; seek mercy for them, pray for them, as Moses did for the people of Israel, that he would not destroy them; see ( Psalms 106:23 ) : but I found none; no reformer of them, no repairer of the breach, nor restorer of paths, to dwell in; no intercessor for them, as Abraham for Sodom, Moses for Israel; or any, like Aaron, that stood between the living and the dead to stay the plague. (John Gill)
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:17:41 +0000
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