The wall around a city was designed to defend the city from invasion. A gap in the wall meant the defensive system created by the wall was weak and would be useless against an attack by the enemy. The gap created by a collapse of a portion of the wall or by the removal of a section of the wall to make reconstruction or expansion possible would leave the city vulnerable when the defensive purposes of the wall were needed.

Ezekiel 22:30-31 says the Lord saw the nation of Judah as a city with a large portion of their wall collapsed. These fallen stones created a gap in the wall which would allow an invading enemy to enter and destroy. The Lord looked for someone to lead the people in the reconstruction process of their nation’s spiritual defense system. Was there anyone who could defend the gap created in the nation’s moral security system?

The Lord was looking for spiritual and moral leadership to assist the people in rebuilding their nation’s spiritual wall of defense in 591 BC just as Nehemiah would lead the people to rebuild Jerusalem’s physical city wall in 445 BC.

There was no leadership in Judah in 591 BC (see date of August 14, 591 in Ezekiel 20:1) that could lead the people in the reconstruction of spiritual truth and righteous morality. This nation would be swept away by judgment from the God that they did not understand. Their spiritual protection had crumbled because of the unrighteous lives they lived before the righteous God they did not know.

God would destroy a people because the priests failed to rebuild the walls and the prophets failed to stand in the gaps left by the broken down stones.

“It is time the church armed their men and gave them a strategy, instead of giving them points of application
and distracting them
with activities.”
- Galyn Wiemers

Circumcision was practiced on the eighth day after birth. (Genesis 17:12; Leviticus 12:3; Luke 1:59) We now know through science that prothrombin, the chemical that clots blood peaks in a newborn baby on the eighth day. (more details here)