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The prophet Ezekiel saw a vision where God separates those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things done by the people who despise God’s law and worship idols while claiming to believe in God. He saw God putting a mark on the foreheads of these people and destroying those who do not have it. | The prophet Ezekiel saw a vision where God separates those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things done by the people who despise God’s law and worship idols while claiming to believe in God. He saw God putting a mark on the foreheads of these people and destroying those who do not have it. | ||
The prophet Ezekiel lived during the end of the southern Kingdom of Judah. The book of Ezekiel was a revelation he received and recorded from God just before Judah was completely destroyed by Neo-Babylonian Empire (Babylon) (c. 586 B.C.). The prophet Zephaniah, who worked in the days of King Josiah just before Ezekiel, also prophesied the impending destruction of Judah. At first, his prophecies seem to only be about the things that would take place in the Old Testament days, however, they are about what will happen in the time when the last disaster is imminent. The book of Zephaniah prophesies a far worse situation than what occurred at the time of the destruction of Judah—the great disaster that will destroy even the birds of the air and the fish of the sea.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Zephaniah+1%3A3&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Zephaniah 1:3 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> It is the same with the book of Ezekiel. Therefore, the sign to escape from disasters in Ezekiel 9 is the same prophecy as the seal of God recorded in Revelation 7. | |||
Those who receive the mark to escape disasters are those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things done by people who forsake God’s law and practice idolatry. Zephaniah said it is only those who keep the decrees of God who will be saved and not suffer the last disaster. | |||
Those who receive the mark to escape disasters are those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things done by people who forsake God’s law and practice idolatry. Zephaniah said | |||
{{quote5 |내용= Gather together, gather together, O shameful nation, before the appointed time arrives and that day sweeps on like chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD’s wrath comes upon you. Seek the LORD, '''all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands'''. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps '''you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger'''. |출처= [https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Zephaniah+2%3A1-3&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 Zephaniah 2:1–3]}} | {{quote5 |내용= Gather together, gather together, O shameful nation, before the appointed time arrives and that day sweeps on like chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD’s wrath comes upon you. Seek the LORD, '''all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands'''. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps '''you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger'''. |출처= [https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Zephaniah+2%3A1-3&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 Zephaniah 2:1–3]}} | ||