When Ezekiel is called God says something interesting to him "You are not being sent to many peoples of obscure speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you". God isn't sending him to Nineveh (they repented when Jonah spoke from the Lord). Nope, he's sending Ezekiel to his own people. God tells him straight up that Israel will not listen to his prophecies because they are not even willing to listen to God Himself! Ezekiel is pretty much overwhelmed, he just chills by the river with his exiled people for seven days. Then God says;
Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.
God has mad us all watchmen- if we hear God, if He speaks to us, which surely he does if we are truly his sheep. We must warn those who are rushing to their doom. If we see someone living up a life of sin and plunging deeper and deeper into immorality, we'd better warn them what the end result of their lifestyle is. We must speak out, even if they don't listen, for if we act, and speak the warning of God, we have cleared our own name, even if they do not choose to turn from sin.
We are watchmen, and we must not wait another day! We cannot merely watch the blind stumble over what they can't see. We are called to go to them, and in love allow God to lift the scales from their eyes. Let us not wait for the dawn of another day, let us aid our Savior and Lord today.
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