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The extreme wrath of the Lord to be released on Israel. Their future is portrayed by Ezekiel by taking a sharp sword and cutting off all of the hair of his head and his face. The sword represented the enemy which would array itself against Jerusalem. The hair, the population of the city upon whom the threefold judgment was to come. A third would be consumed by hunger and thirst. The sword will be the cause of the demise of a third in the city as it falls and a third will be slain as they flee from the city. Eze. 5:1-4, 12
All these problems they had brought on themselves by rejecting the Lord. They displayed total disregard for His Word and obviously had chosen to ignore or had completely forgotten the curses which would come upon them is they disobeyed the Lord. Deut. 28:15-45 The indictment, and judgment of the Word would automatically come upon them because of their gross disobedience to the Lord. They desecrated the Holiness of the Lord by their deliberate acts of disobedience. Their actions were diametrically opposite of that which the Lord had required of them. They had polluted the sanctuary of the Lord. For the Lord to send such a punishment upon them indicated that their wickedness had reached its ultimate. During the siege they committed the most heinous acts of cannibalism. Therefore the fury of the Lord would come upon them. Eze. 5:5-17
There is a point of no return. As in that day so it will be in the end of the age. If they were wicked, what is coming will make them look like a Sunday School picnic. The Apostle Paul paints for us a word picture of the last days which has not yet reached its full capacity. Most of the whole first chapter of Romans is given over to the conditions of the world preceding the coming of the Lord Jesus. What we are experiencing today in the changing character of the world is but the beginning of a wave of unrighteousness which will climax in the revelation of the antichrist. Then things will really break loose like the destruction of a dam results in a flood, so the world will be totally overwhelmed by the spirit and power of the man of sin, the son of perdition.
Total, absolute wickedness will prevail. There will be no restrictions on anything which today would be termed uncouth or improper. The mystery of iniquity is continuing to work and will be more and more the accepted thing as time goes by. What is unlawful today will tomorrow be made lawful and completely acceptable by society for all will be involved. Wickedness will reach its climax just prior to the return of the Lord Jesus. As in the days of Ezekiel, utter destruction came upon them, so it will be in the end of the age. 2 Thes. 2:7-12.