Ezekiel 13:13-14
“‘And that’s exactly what will happen. I, GOD, the Master, say so: ‘I’ll let the hurricane of my wrath loose, a torrent of my hailstone-anger. I’ll make that wall you’ve slapped with whitewash collapse. I’ll level it to the ground so that only the foundation stones will be left. And in the ruin you’ll all die. You’ll realize then that I am GOD.’”
“‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will sweep away your whitewashed wall with a storm of indignation, with a great flood of anger, and with hailstones of fury. I will break down your wall right to its foundation, and when it falls, it will crush you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
The earlier verses of Chapter 13 Ezekiel continues prophesy against false prophets. Here God says what he will do about it. Just now people in the American Southwest have endured massive rainfall, the result of a hurricane slamming into upper Baha. They have a lot of hard work ahead to clean-up but will restore most things to normal. How would be a hurricane of God’s wrath affect all the accoutrements of a complex civilization like ours? One thing is certain, we wouldn’t be able to return to normal.
Lord, such a scenario is terrifying. I don’t know if it is in my future, but I’d like to live as if it was. I need urgency to spread the truth, love in hard places, build bridges of relationship. Forgive my universalist tendency. Show me what to do next so I can move on down the road.