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- KJV Bible Believers Church in Touchet, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike
Paulson - 2007
Expounding
the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26
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with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II
Timothy 2:15
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Adult / Kids Sunday School Series
What is In the Old Testament "FOR" us?
What's
In It "FOR" Us?
Part
XLI
Ezekiel
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October 21, 2007
Now all these things happened unto them
for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition,
upon whom the ends of the world are come.
I Corinthians 10:11
For
whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,
that
we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Romans
15:4
"Ensamples" from whom to learn, not
"examples"
for us to follow!
Ezekiel
Forth of the Greater Prophets
The Fall of Jerusalem
Judgments on Surrounding Nations
The Restoration of Israel
"Through Tribulation into rest"
"A prophet of the iron harp"
Ezekiel 3:18,19 - When
I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning,
nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life;
the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require
at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness,
nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered
thy soul.
(Note: Be sure to remember that the above verse is NOT
written TO us today. It was to the Jews in the OT.
(Note: Some of the notes below are taken from Haley's
Bible Handbook, but these are corrected to KJB, of course!)
Ezekiel was a prophet of the Babylonian captivity.
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He was taken to Babylon in 597 b.c., 11 years before Jerusalem was destroyed
and the southern kingdom, Judah, ceased to exist.
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The northern kingdom, Israel, had been taken into exile by the Assyrians
120 years earlier.
Ezekiel knew the big guns!
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Ezekiel and Daniel
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Daniel had been in Babylon for nine years and had already attained to great
fame when Ezekiel arrived (14:14, 20).
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Daniel lived and worked in the palace - Ezekiel lived in the country.
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Ezekiel and Jeremiah
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Jeremiah was the older of the two.
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Ezekiel preached the same things among the exiles that Jeremiah was preaching
in Jerusalem: the certainty of Judah’s punishment for her sins - and rejecting
God's words.
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Ezekiel also dealt with 'real visions' as well as those with 'false visions'
and false messages, etc.
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Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation
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Some of Ezekiel’s visions reappear in John's Book of Revelation:
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The cherubim
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Gog and Magog
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Ezekiel 38 - Revelation 20
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Eating the book
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Ezekiel 3 - Revelation 10
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The New Jerusalem
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Ezekiel 40–48 - Revelation 21
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The river of the water of life
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Ezekiel 47 - Revelation 22
“They Shall Know That I Am the Lord
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This expression is a dominant note of the book.
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It occurs 62 times, in 27 of the 48 chapters
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Ezekiel 6:7, 10, 13, 14; 7:4, 9, 27; 11:10,
12; 12:15, 16, 20; 13:9, 14, 21; 14:8; 15:7; 16:62; 17:21, 24; 20:12, 20,
28, 38, 42, 44; 21:5; 22:16, 22; 23:49; 24:24, 27; 25:5, 7, 11, 17; 26:6;
28:22, 23, 24, 26; 29:6, 9, 16, 21; 30:8, 19, 25, 26; 32:15; 33:29; 34:27,
30; 35:4, 9, 12, 15; 36:11, 23, 36, 38; 37:6, 13, 14, 28; 38:16, 23; 39:6,
7, 22, 23, 28.
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What do we have today to know that He is the Lord - the real Christ - our
Saviour - the Risen Christ?
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King James Bible, rightly dividing and Paul!
The Chronology of Ezekiel’s Book
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The pivot around which the book revolves is the destruction of Jerusalem,
which occurred in 586 b.c.
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Ezekiel’s prophecies began six years before that and continued for 16 years
thereafter, covering a period of 22 years
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Divide the book into three sections:
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chaps. 1–24
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Until the fall of Jerusalem, Ezekiel was constantly predicting the certainty
of its fall
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chaps. 25–32
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After that, his prophecies deal with the overthrow of surrounding nations
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chaps. 33–48
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and the reestablishment and glorious future of Israel
"Son of Man" is how Ezekiel is addressed 90 times
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In Daniel 7:13 this title is used of
the Messiah. It was the title by which Jesus commonly spoke of Himself
(see under John 1:14).
Visions and symbolic actions are characteristic of Ezekiel’s book
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Some of his symbolic actions were accompanied by painful personal sufferings.
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He had to remain silent for a long period (Ezekiel
3:26; 24:27; 33:22).
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He had to lie on his side in one position for over a year (4:5–6).
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He had to eat food cooked with cow dung (4:15).
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And his wife, whom he dearly loved (“the desire
of thine eyes”) was suddenly taken from him, and he was
not allowed to mourn (24:15–27) to
serve as a sign that Jerusalem would be destroyed without wailing or lamentation.
Ezekiel has many visions!
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he himself was taken up & taken away by the Spirit of God a few times...
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Ezekiel 8:3 -
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head;
and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought
me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that
looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy,
which provoketh to jealousy.
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Ezekiel 11:24 - Afterwards
the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God
into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had
seen went up from me.
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False visions - flattery
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Ezekiel 12:24 -
For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within
the house of Israel.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Likeness of the glory of the LORD!
Ezekiel 1
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1:28a - As the
appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the
appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance
of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. ...
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Don't read anyone's summary, paraphrase, corrections, or books/novels about
these visions and 'trips.'
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Just read it directly from the KJB!
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1:28b ...
And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that
spake.