Ezekiel 11:8
You fear the sword, and the sword is what I will bring against you, declares the Sovereign LORD.
What you fear is what will come to you. It doesn't make any sense at all. You are fearful of something and yet you would try to scare (instill fear) it off. In the end, what you have feared, will actually happen.
God is Sovereign. He rules the universe and everything in it. We do not have to be in fear when He is in control of everything. First of all, why does that fear come into you? Because, you have sinned against the LORD, that fear came into you? Like Adam and Eve, after they had sinned against the LORD, they tried to "hide" from the LORD when He entered the garden of Eden. Finally, what they had feared, happened to them. They were locked out of God's garden for good. Sin brings along fear with it. Fear that something bad would follow. So, you would try all human ways possible to avoid being hit by what you had feared would happen. But, it will happen just the way you had feared. You cannot go on pleasing the sinful nature of the Devil in you and not fear something bad is going to happen to you or to your family.You must stop pleasing the sinful nature of the Devil within you. You cannot go on cheating, lying, stealing, robbing, deceiving and committing all other sins and still expect good things to come to you. Whom are you trying to fool? You can fool man easily but you cannot fool God who created the universe and everything in it. He knows what you do after you claim that "you have repented". You still go back to your old ways. You still practice the same sins over and over again. You are 'playing games' with God. But, you cannot 'play-games' with God. You will lose. You can play-games with man and get away with it, but not with God. What you fear will still happen to you, because you stubbornly want to continue pleasing the urges and passions of the sinful nature of the Devil within you.
Genesis 4:9-13
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?" The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth." Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can bear.
