God always executes His judgment with a purpose. The purpose of God’s judgment is to bring in recovery. Through His judgment, which is based on His righteousness, holiness, and glory, God desires to recover His people according to His righteousness, holiness, and glory. Whereas God’s judgment is by various means (Ezek. 5:4; 14:21), God’s recovery is by life.

The visions regarding the Lord’s recovery by life in chs. 33—39, with the issue of God’s holy building in chs. 40—48, should be applied to Israel in the restoration, the millennium, beginning with the Lord’s second coming (Acts 3:20-21). These visions should also be applied to the believers in Christ in their experience of the divine life in the New Testament age (cf. note Jer. 31:31^1a).

In His recovery by life, the first thing God does is to set the watchman, one who has been commissioned by God to give His people a warning, to sound the trumpet in order that God’s people may turn to Him and repent that they may live (vv. 2-11; cf. Matt. 3:1-2). See note Ezek. 3:17^1b.

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