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Ezekiel in Brief: Ezekiel is taken into captivity to Babylon. God calls Ezekiel to encourage the people and inform them he was the Lord God in Israel and Babylon. God will judge the nearby nations. Ezekiel speaks to the people in parables and visions, bizarre behavior. Have faith in God and restoration of the nation is assured.
Ezekiel is a priest who is called by God to deliver His messages. • In chapters 1-3, God commissions his servant Ezekiel. He receives visions, and his message is to confront God’s sinful nation, “I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to a rebellious people who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me ...
The ministry of Ezekiel took place in one of the great critical periods of history. His book presents a clear picture of a definite historical situation because the events of his day made a profound impression upon Ezekiel. He makes allusions to contemporary events which are known to us from extra-Biblical sources.
Mar 9, 2022 · Ezekiel was both a priest and a prophet who lived in the 6th century BCE. The prophets of Israel were oracles (a term for a person as well as a place) for ways in which humans communicated with their gods. The oracle was possessed by the deity and served as a vehicle for the words. Sometimes the deity appeared in a vision.
Ezekiel 1 – Ezekiel’s Vision of God and His Throne A. Introduction to the vision. 1. (1) Ezekiel among the captives. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
Ezekiel, a priest-turned- prophet during the time of the Babylonian takeover and captivity of the land of Judah, wrote this 48-chapter book during the sixth century BC. He was a contemporary of other major prophets, such as Daniel and Jeremiah, and minor prophets, such as Habakkuk and Obadiah. Like Daniel, he was also taken into captivity in ...
The book of Ezekiel contains the prophecies, visions, and symbolic actions of Ezekiel, an exilic prophet who lived among the exiles in Babylon. This prophetic book is filled with deeply symbolic visions and extreme actions from a man of zealous faith and profound spiritual vision. The book struggles to respond to the terrible catastrophe of the ...
