Ezekiel 's Prophecies : Restoration Of Israel

In the Old Testament, the Israelites were seen as people who failed to listen to God’s commandments. Despite knowing beforehand that they would be punished for their disobedience, they still continued to commit sin. God tried to deter their misbehavior by promising them many blessings, but it worked to no avail. Due to the insubordination of the Israelites, He made sure that the promises He made to them would be withheld and that they would face consequences.

The Book of Ezekiel is and the man himself is in the midst of historical event associated with the demise of Judah and the destruction of Jerusalem (587 B.C.E) Ezekiel, along with other Judahites were taken into exile in Babylon in 597. In effect there were two Judahs one in the land of Judah and one in exile. One king, Jehoiachin was in exile and Zedekiah in Jerusalem. Under Babylonian bonds and rejecting prophetic advice, they refused to pay their tribute. Within a few years, the temple, city walls, and homes of Jerusalem were burned and leveled. More citizens were carried away to Babylon, and those who remained soon fled to Egypt for security. Ezekiel was told to warn God’s people that there were consequences to their lack of fidelity. God cautioned them that refusal to live by the covenant would bring its own discipline. The people did not listen to the Prophet Ezekiel: he was disliked for his words, and alienated for his message. He told the people that God would allow them to live as orphans if they chose to be orphans—to live outside of God’s covenant. After the fall of Jerusalem, the Babylonian general Nebuzaraddan was sent to complete its destruction. Solomon 's Temple was destroyed. Most of the elite were taken into captivity in Babylon. Jerusalem was razed to the ground.

After the fall of mankind into disobedience and sin, God made the decision to deal with mankind and the problem of rebellion by establishing contracts or agreements between Himself and the people in order to communicate with and redeem his greatest creation, humanity. As we read through and study the Bible we can see that God is faithful in keeping His promises that he gave to the nation of Israel in the Old Testament having made contracts with Abraham and David and it would appear that Abrahamic and the Davidic Covenants are the mainstays leading up to the new covenant with Jesus Christ being the new

“Quick, go down, for your people that I brought up from Egypt has acted ruinously… My wrath may flare against them, and I will put an end to them and I will make you a great nation.” (Exodus 32:6) God is quick to say that he will destroy all of them, and build his chosen people back up anew, like he has done before. It’s interesting that God uses the phrase ‘your people’, seemingly distancing himself from his own creation, before he destroys it. Moses is quick to come to the aid of the Israelites and explain why they should be spared. Moses explains that to smite down his people, so soon after liberating them from Egypt would just confirm the thoughts of the Egyptians; that the Israelites are not in fact chosen by God, and that their god is a false one. This liberation of his people is what signified to humanity all over that their god is the most powerful. God used an enslaved people to take on the Egyptians, who were an incredibly powerful people; showing how awe inspiring their god is. Moses then goes on to bring up the promise made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, “You swore by Yourself… ‘I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I said, I will give to your seed, and they will hold it in estate forever.’” (Exodus 32:13). To destroy their progeny would be to renege on the promise made to them. Moses seems to cater to some

Point 1 - Israel’s reestablishment - is a historic reality. In Ezekiel 37 God gives a most vivid however inauspicious prophetic vision of how He will reverse the pain and destruction caused by Nebuchadnezzar by incrementally bringing the very dead and scattered Jewish people back to life, make them an exceedingly great army, and place them back in the land he promised to Abram some four centuries ago. The author Jimmy DeYoung in his book Sound the Trumpets chronicles some of the details fulfilling God’s prophecies given to Ezekiel.

REPORTER: The reporter/ Social Worker (Crystal) called with concerns for the victim, Ezekiel. Ezekiel has suffered from a stroke, encephalopathy, and his new baseline is that he’s alert but oriented to self only. The reporter said Ezekiel knows who he is, but he gets confused. Ezekiel can perform his daily ADL’s. Mr. Tuders came into the hospital for alter mental status, and he was found to have encephalopathy as well as having a stroke. The victim has a history of alcohol abuse. On 02/03/2016, the reporter had a meeting with the family (Shane and Ali), and they said that it wouldn’t be safe for the victim to come back to the home. The reporter said Shane (victim’s son) and Ali (victim’s daughter in-law) were afraid that they wouldn’t be able

God then goes on to judge the kings of Egypt and Tyre for viewing themselves as Gods. He holds these kinds accountable for their pride and announces that he will use Babylon to bring them down too. Soon after Ezekiel is visited by a refugee who tells him that the Babylonians have come and Jerusalem has fallen. Ezekiel’s warnings have become a reality. The rest of the book is designed to explore Ezekiel’s vison of hope for Israel, the nations, and then all of creation.

When the Hebrew peoples lost everything and entered into captivity to Babylon, they were a lost and floundering nation. “After the days of Solomon, the history of Israel was a story of increasing apostasy and judgement” (Clowney, 2013, p. 185). Despite their breaking of the covenants, and sinning against God in the worst ways, God did not abandoned them. He was very unhappy, and sent many prophets to speak His words to try to bring them back into relationship with Him, then God sent judgements down upon them. However, through these judgements, He kept to His promise to Abraham to ultimately bless the nations of Israel. (Clowney, 2013, p. 193) When they were allowed by Cyrus to return to Jerusalem (Arnold & Beyer, 2008, p. 58), with permission

The theological message of Judges revolves around a faithful God and a rebellious people. God, in His faithfulness as Divine Judge, will judge His covenant people Israel after they disregard their covenant obligations and then offer them deliverance once they demonstrate repentance. In spite of her privileged position as God’s chosen people, Israel decided to

Ludicrous. Torturous. Appalling. The unthinkable prophetic acts that God commanded for Ezekiel to perform throughout his ministry were meant to be sensational scenes that demonstrated what was to come for the Israelites. Ezekiel, illustrating the siege of Jerusalem was one of the first prophetic acts God required Ezekiel to complete. God commanded Ezekiel to create a miniature version of an invading army camped around Jerusalem and then place an iron plate between himself and Jerusalem. Ezekiel, while lying on the left side of his body for three hundred ninety days, represented the number of years that Israel was punished, and then lying on his right side for forty days, represented the number of years that Judah was punished. Ezekiel had to portion out water and grain cake, which he was supposed to cook on human manure to demonstrate the unclean bread that Israel would soon eat, but Ezekiel refused as cooking on human manure disobeyed God’s dietary laws. Therefore, God compromised with Ezekiel and allowed him to prepare the food on animal manure instead. Ezekiel, portraying the siege of Jerusalem was just the beginning of what God required Ezekiel to do in order to illustrate the suffering that the Israelites were about to experience due to their unfaithfulness. Not only did God use Ezekiel to perform extraordinary prophetic acts in order to get His message across to the Israelites, but God also allowed for Ezekiel to have visions that reached beyond history and

Having two very different perspectives, Jeremiah sees what is happening from the inside whereas Ezekiel is on the outside with the royal family and people from the 1st exile. With the rising power Babylon is having, Jeremiah thinks that Judah must have done something terribly wrong for YHWH to allow such evil to happen to them. He envisioned the Babylon was a punishing

This book, Beyond the River Chebar, is a collection of articles that talks about the kingship and eschatology in Ezekiel. Block wants to show the proper interpretation of the book of Ezekiel by providing different views on the interpretation of certain passages and different theological views. Moreover, Block provides history and other aspects for the better understanding of the book of Ezekiel.

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The aspect of what I learned from God in the last sentence of the book in Ezekiel 48:35 is as it states “The Lord is there” God removed sin and restored the city, and His presence remained amongst the people. This scripture demonstrates a glorious future vision of God’s new city, new temple, and new people, it illustrates His kingdom, holiness and sovereignty.

To speak of the Hebrew Scripture is to speak of story, a story stretching from the very beginning of time to only a few centuries before the beginning of the Common Era. It is to speak of richness of content, of purpose and of reality and to engross oneself in an overarching narrative that, depending on your personal convictions, continues to the present day. Within this richness is found a wide variety of different events and experience, told through a series of genre ranging from foundational myth to apocalypse, law giving to poetry, genealogy to wisdom and many more. Within this diversity however, three broad sections can be discerned that speak to a shared purpose and content, these are the sections of Law, Prophecy and Writings. It