EZEKIEL

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CHAPTER 1

  1. In the fifth year of Jehoiachin's captivity. (It was the thirtieth year of Ezekiel).
  2. He saw four living creatures.
  3. Each had a face of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle.
  4. The wheels moved with them.
  5. Wisdom and knowledge in God among the people who believe in Him.
  6. The Spirit of the Lord among the people who believe in God.
  7. The Spirit of God controls them.
  8. A throne with the likeness of a man on it. This seems to represent God's throne.

CHAPTER 2

  1. He should not be afraid but speak the word of the Lord to the people of Israel. He was to warn them and teach them.
  2. The ungodly and rebellious Jews who would resist the prophet's words.

CHAPTER 3

  1. It was the word and wisdom of God given to him to tell the people of Israel. It was words of preparation but words of judgment and sorrow to come.
  2. Those who turn from sin will save their soul, and those who turn from righteousness will lose their soul.
  3. He made him mute so he would not rebuke the people.

CHAPTER 4

  1. The city of Jerusalem under a siege.
  2. 390 days for Israel and 40 days for Judah.
  3. He cooked his food with cow waste in front of the people.

CHAPTER 5

  1. 1/3 represented the people dying by pestilence and famine; 1/3 by sword; and 1/3 scattered and dying by the sword.

CHAPTER 6

  1. The corpses of the people will be laid before their idols and their high places.
  2. Those in captivity will look back and remember the words of God.

CHAPTER 7

  1. The destruction of Israel.

CHAPTER 8

  1. They had an idol at the entrance of God's temple that they worshiped.
  2. Every sort of creeping thing and abominable beast and idols were carved in the wall.
  3. They were weeping before a fertility god.

CHAPTER 9

  1. They were marked for death by God's angels, only a few were saved.

CHAPTER 10

  1. He again saw the vision of the living creatures and the glory of the Lord.
  2. Coals of fire were pulled from the wheels.

CHAPTER 11

  1. They were giving wicked counsel and advice.
  2. They began to do the evil and corrupt things that were being done around them by the other nations.
  3. They would not take the word of God into their hearts. They followed the desires of their own hearts.

CHAPTER 12

  1. He portrayed the ruler of Israel, trying to escape through a hole in the wall of the city and the city being carried captive by Babylon.
  2. His eyes were gouged out when he was captured by Babylon. He was taken to babylon where he lived until he died (see 2 Kings 25:7).

CHAPTER 13

  1. They were speaking false prophecies, telling the people things from their own minds, not from God.
  2. The people who trusted in the prophets did not prepare themselves with a strengthened wall. They assumed peace and not danger. This wall can be taken literally or spiritually. Spiritually the people were not prepared to secure their steadfastness with God.
  3. Havoc and turmoil and destruction would come upon the people and destroy them,what they worshiped, and the city.

CHAPTER 14

  1. There were no prophets in the land who would speak the truth from God.
  2. a. God would induce the prophet to speak only to further convict him. b. God will destroy the prophet and the one who came to him.
  3. Noah, Daniel, and Job. Because of their righteousness they would live.

CHAPTER 15

  1. A vine that was not useful for anything.
  2. They were worth nothing.

CHAPTER 16

  1. A newborn baby who needs to be taken care of and nurtured.
  2. Their beauty (riches) and reputation.
  3. They used them in worshiping their false gods. They passed them through fire.
  4. They sin for pleasure, not like a harlot for the money. They paid to sin.
  5. As a woman who breaks wedlock, they would suffer and even die because of their sin.
  6. Jerusalem followed the ways of the foreign nations around them.
  7. Sodom and Samaria.
  8. The Gentile nations.

CHAPTER 17

  1. Babylon was the eagle who carried Israel away to a foreign land.
  2. Egypt was the country Israel turned to for help against Babylon.
  3. Israel was the branch.
  4. God would return Israel to their land and rebuild them. Spiritually speaking, this refers to Jesus, from the tribe of Judah.
  5. The birds of every sort are all the remaining people of the tribes of Israel. Spritually, this refers to all the Gentile people who would have faith in the Christ.

CHAPTER 18

  1. They would have life.
  2. He would die for his own sins.
  3. His sins would be forgiven, and he would live.
  4. None of his righteousness will be remembered, and he would die.
  5. a. Turn from sin and iniquity. b. A new heart and spirit that seeks God's principles.
  6. No, he has no pleasure in a lost soul.

CHAPTER 19

  1. Like a lion, strong and powerful.
  2. They were captured by Babylon and became weak and helpless.

CHAPTER 20

  1. The elders of Israel were rejected by God.
  2. A habit of iniquity and idol worship had caused them to fall from God.
  3. God wanted to uphold His name so that the Gentiles would not speak against Him, His strength, and not refuse Him later on when they would have an opportunity for salvation.
  4. By obeying God as He led them, Israel would become a holy and blessed people.
  5. The Sabbath served as a sign and a remembrance that Israel knew God and served Him.
  6. a. The word of God and judgment will come to the people. b. The leaders who have lead the people astray.

CHAPTER 21

  1. Babylon is the sword against Judah.
  2. They gave Israel false visions concerning their security while they too were reproachful before God and just as unsecure.
  3. Jesus is the heir to the thrown(vs. 27).

CHAPTER 22

  1. They were like dross from silver that was being purified.
  2. They had violated the Law and profaned the holy things. They did not teach the people the difference between the holy and the unholy or the clean and the unclean.
  3. They gave the false visions and told them lies. They did not teach the people things to strengthen with God.

CHAPTER 23

  1. Samaria (Israel) and Jerusalem (Judah).
  2. They continued in their sins and even committed worse harlotry.

CHAPTER 24

  1. In the ninth year and tenth month of King Zedekiah (2 Kings 25:1).
  2. a. The city of Jerusalem. b. The people in the city who would be purified through the tribulation.
  3. a. He took Ezekiel's wife. b. They were not to mourn or weep but to accept their judgment.

CHAPTER 25

  1. They rejoiced when Israel was taken captive.
  2. They said Judah was like all the other nations around them (their God was not able to save them).

CHAPTER 26

  1. Babylon.
  2. They traded with her and they became like Tyre. If the leader fell, so would the followers.

CHAPTER 27

  1. They followed the ways of Tyre in greed and materialism.

CHAPTER 28

  1. They had no lack of anything and could get anything from any of the nations which traded with them. They felt very secure against any people.
  2. Tyre had everything they needed or wanted. They were blessed with many riches and provisions.

CHAPTER 29

  1. They were proud of their wealth and felt their ability was by their own power. They also were the nation Israel leaned on for help but who lead them further away from God.
  2. All the people and possessions of Egypt.
  3. Egypt would be Babylon's payment.

CHAPTER 30

  1. Egypt.
  2. Babylon.

CHAPTER 31

  1. The nation of Assyria.
  2. The other nations all around Assyria.
  3. Because they were prideful and full of wickedness.
  4. They will be brought down to the pit. They will be destroyed.

CHAPTER 32

  1. Those nations and people who did not know God or follow His ways.
  2. Assyria, Elam, Meshech, Tubal, and Edom will fall to Babylon.

CHAPTER 33

  1. One who knows God's word and is expected to warn those who are in sin.
  2. Both will die for their sins. However, the watchman will be responsible for the blood of the lost.
  3. No, he will die because of his iniquity.
  4. A person may think his former righteousness will cover his present sins, or he justifies his sin based on his own judgement of righteousness.
  5. His words sounded like a lovely song to them but they did not do them.

CHAPTER 34

  1. The priests of Israel - responsible for leading and teaching the people in the ways of God.
  2. They were not strengthening the faith of the weak people or establishing the faith of God in any people.
  3. The fat sheep are those who used their position for their own gain. The lean sheep are those who were righteous in God's service for the people.
  4. a. The servant of David (Jesus) is the shepherd. b. God would be their God.
  5. The leaders and all the people of the land will produce righteousness.

CHAPTER 35

  1. Edom.

CHAPTER 36

  1. The land of Israel is set to receive the people of Israel once again.
  2. To save His great name which had been profaned in the nations.

CHAPTER 37

  1. They were lifeless to God. Because of their sins, they were in captivity with no life as they once had before.
  2. God would join Judah and Israel together as one nation again.
  3. A place of rest, peace, and protection by the Lord for His people.

CHAPTER 38

  1. They appeared splendid and impressionable, and with power.
  2. The land of Gog would come against God's people.
  3. God's people would rise up with truth against the darkness of Gog. Gog and all their followers will not be able to stand.

CHAPTER 39

  1. The followers of God will speak and uphold the truth against all darkness.
  2. The followers of God will have power over sin and darkness.
  3. The Gentile nations will understand.
  4. His Holy Spirit will be poured out.

CHAPTER 40-41

  1. The barrier between us and God (because of sin).
  2. Our complete repentance toward God to receive His grace.
  3. Dwelling with God and becoming spiritually mature.

CHAPTER 44

  1. God had come through that way, and it was holy.
  2. They would not be able to come before God to minister.
  3. They would do the work to be done in the temple.
  4. They would wear linen turbans.

CHAPTER 46

  1. A complete walk with God; no backsliding.

CHAPTER 47

  1. The living water of God (His word) going out to all people.
  2. The different people who will come to the living water of God.