Ezekiel
Ezek )- ” Author Ezekiel “- Point of book- To announce God’s judgment on Israel, and other nations, and coming of salvation for God’s people; highlights- ( Ezek 1 )- four faces, representing God’s nature, also in Revelation 4, Ezek 10; ( Ezek 2 )- Ezekiel’s call; ( Ezek 3 )- Warning to Israel; ( Ezek 4 )- Jerusalem sieged symbolized; ( Ezek 4:4-9 )- lie on side, symbolic siege of Jerusalem; ( Ezek 5 )- Shaving, to shave, and divide hair in 3 parts to show what was going to happen to Jerusalem ( v 5:12 ); ( Ezek 6 )- Prophecy against mountains of Israel; ( Ezek 7 )- End has come; ( Ezek 8 )- Idolatry in temple; ( Ezek 9 )- Man clothed with linen( Israel pay for evil ); ( Ezek 10 )- Man clothed with linen ( Four wheels ); ( Ezek 11 )- New heart, spirit within people; ( Ezek 12 )- No more vain vision; ( Ezek 12:3-7 )- left home to symbolize exile; ( Ezek 13 )- False prophets condemned; ( Ezek 14 )- Elders wrong doing; ( Ezek 15 )- Useless vine; ( Ezek 16 )- Allegory unfaithful Jerusalem; ( Ezek 17 )- Two eagles and a vine ( riddle ); ( Ezek 18 )- Generational curses broken; ( Ezek 18:1-4; 18-20 )- curses broken; ( Ezek 19 )- Lament concerning leaders, symbolic of exile to last long time; ( Ezek 20 )- Rebellious Israel; ( Ezek 21 )- Sword out of sheath; ( Ezek 21:2 )- God’s judgment sword on Israel; ( Ezek 21:19-23 )- marked out two roads, symbolic to Nebuchadnezzar choosing who to destroy, Jerusalem, or Rabbah; ( Ezek 22 )-Jerusalem’s sins; ( Ezek 23 )- Two adulterous sisters, symbolic of Northern, Southern kingdoms as prostitutes; ( Ezek 24 )- Cooking pot; ( Ezek 24:16-17 )- Ezekiel not to mourn over wife’s death, symbolic for his fellow exiles not to mourn over Jerusalem being destroyed; ( Ezek 25 )- Prophecy against Ammon; ( Ezek 26 )- Prophecy against Tyre; ( Ezek 27 )- Lament for Tyre; ( Ezek 28 )- King of Tyre, pride of Lucifer; ( Ezek 29 )- Prophecy against Egypt; Prophecy- ( Ezek 29:14-16 )- Egypt, a lowly base nation; ( Ezek 30 )- Lament for Egypt; ( Ezek 31 )- Cedar in Lebanon; ( Ezek 32 )- Lament for Pharaoh; ( Ezek 33 )- Ezekiel a watchman; ( Ezek 34 )- Shepherd, and sheep; ( Ezek 35 )- Prophecy ” say to it “; ( Ezek 36 )- Prophecy to mountains of Israel; Prophecy- ( Ezek 36:8-11; 33-36 )- Israel wasteland during scattering- fulfilled during last 100ish years; Prophecy- ( 36:34-38 )- Israel would blossom- fulfilled within last 100 year’s; ( Ezek 37 )- ( Ezek 37:1-14 )- Dry bones; Prophecy- ( Ezek 37:21-22 )- Israel gathered back to nation- fulfilled 1948; Prophecy- ( Ezek 38:12-13 )- Israel prosper economically- fulfilled since 2000’s; Prophecy- ( Ezek 38 )– Gog, magog war, Russia ( Magog ), Iran ( Persia ), Sudan ( Cush ), Libya ( Put ), end times; ( Ezek 39 )- Got, magog; Prophecy- ( Ezek 39:4,17 )- Birds of prey eat defended enemies of Israels; ( Ezek 40 )- God’s house ( temple ); ( Ezek 41 )-The temple; ( Ezek 42 )- Rooms for priest; ( Ezek 43 )- Why temples visions ( v10 ); ( Ezek 44 )- Ordinances of house; Prophecy- ( Ezek 44:3 )- Christ will enter into this gate in his return; ( Ezek 45 )- Division of land; ( Ezek 46 )- Shut, open gate, more ordinances ( Ezek 47 )- River from the temple; ( Ezek 48 )- Division of land;