Ezekiel 3:9-16 –Only in God can security be found

In the first eight verses of Ezekiel 39 said that God would urge Gog and his massive army to come against Israel. They would come only to be defeated and destroyed on the mountains of Israel by God Himself. Their dead bodies would be left as food for “every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field.”

Verses 9-10 say that in the defeat, they would leave a sizeable amount of their weapons behind. The many weapons would require seven years to be cleared as wood for fire. They would have no need to go and gather wood from the fields or trees for fuel. That need would be provided by the weapons left behind. Besides, they would also seize everything of those who came to plunder them and not the other way around.

It would require seven months for the corpses to be collected and buried. So verses 11-16 said that Israel would be their burial ground. The place where they would be buried in horde would be called the Valley of Hamon-gog. With the task done the land would be searched thoroughly to ensure that not even a single bone would be left. This suggests a thorough cleansing of the land where every trace of evil force would be eliminated.

These verses tell us that battle does not always belong to the strong. But sure victory is the Lord’s. It is in Him that our security must rest. Let us not be terrified by the increasing turmoil we see in the world. Instead, let the turmoil be a signal for us to draw even closer to God. Only in Him are we totally secured.