Until He Comes

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 261, Until He Comes.

Ezekiel 21, verse 27:

"A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him."

This verse falls like a hammer. Three times in a row: ruin, ruin, ruin. God is speaking about Judah's throne, about a crown that had grown corrupt, about a government that had wandered far from justice. And He says: this is going to collapse. It will not stand.

But notice — God does not end on collapse. He marks a limit: "until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs." Chaos is not the final word. There is a deadline. There is a King still to come, the one to whom the right to judge and to reign truly belongs.

That phrase, "the one to whom judgment belongs," doesn't come from nowhere. It echoes a much older promise, back in Genesis 49, when Jacob blesses Judah and speaks of a scepter that would not depart until he comes to whom the obedience of the peoples belongs. Ezekiel is picking up that ancient promise and saying: it still stands. Even as the throne is falling, the messianic promise is still alive.

And that changes how I read the news, how I read history, how I sometimes read my own life. There are structures that look solid, people in power who seem unshakable, injustice that looks like it will last forever — and God says: it won't. Because the right to truly reign never belongs to whoever seizes it by force. It belongs to the one God chooses and the one God gives it to.

"I will give it to him" — he is not taking it. God is handing it over. Real authority always comes down from above; it is never stolen from below. And that is why every usurpation, sooner or later, comes apart.

Now let me ask you something, gently: is there some injustice in your life today — a situation, a person, a system — that seems to be winning, that seems like it will stay that way forever? I want to remind you: God sees it. And God has already marked a limit. It is not your job to enact justice with your own hands, trying to tear down alone what only God has the authority to judge.

Our hope, in the end, is not in political reform or an immediate victory. It is in a King who already came once as a lamb, and who will come again as King of kings — the one to whom, in fact and by right, all judgment belongs.

So today, I want to invite you: take that injustice weighing on you and release it, in prayer, into the hands of the one who has the right to judge. That's not resignation. It's trust.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.