[Ezekiel 5:15]

‘So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken. [Ezekiel 5:15 NKJV]

So it will be a disgrace, a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the [pagan] nations who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in raging reprimands—I, the Lord, have spoken. [Ezekiel 5:15 AMP]

JUDGING HIS PEOPLE IS ALSO WARNING THOSE WHO ARE NOT HIS PEOPLE

When God's Judgment began and executed the furious anger of God in that house of God, Jerusalem, what happened to the people of God then was like four things to the rest of the world around:

- 1 - It was a disgrace or shame on God's people;
- 2 - It was a Taunt for the world against God's people;
- 3 - It was a lesson or warning the world to learn
- 4 - It was a horrorful or astonishing to the world.

The nations and the world would still fear God when God judges His people with such destructive anger. It wouldn't make God lose His regards before the world even though it makes the people of God lose their regards or respect before the world.

Towards Jerusalem (the fallen People of God) the world and nations around would see what happened and taunt/mock them; but towards God the same world and nations around would see what happened and take warning or learn great lessons from it.

This is the warning or lessons all nations must take from God had dealt severely with Israel and Jerusalem in the past:

[Romans 11:11-22] — "I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bore not the root, but the root you. You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high minded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off."

Judgment of God must begin in the house of God and that would allow the rest of the world to take warning, and many outside the church would begin to fear God when they see how God severely punishes, judges and disciplines His own People. It would be like how those heathens in the ship feared God and worshipped Him as soon as they saw the way God dealt with Jonah and the storm of His anger was appeased only when Jonah was cast into the sea overboard to be isolated and dealt with more severely until he experienced hell in the base and in the beast.