Ezekiel Part 1

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Ezekiel Part 1

• Ye-eskiel
• God is my strength
• God will strengthen me
• God makes it hard

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Why should we read this book?

• Why do we read history and geography?
• We know they happened or they are there
• Does it have any message for us?
• What are wesupposed to do after reading this?

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introduction

• Ezekiel is very hard book to understand apart
  from the fact it is a book of prophesy.
• The accounts are not chronologically arranged
• His visions are switching between Jerusalem and
  Babylon
• His period of ministry runs parallel with
  Jeremiah although he came late atleast by 20
  years
• Siege and captivity was in three stages or 20
  years and Ezekiel went captive among second lot

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During and in captivity

• Ezekiel was and married when invasion of Juda was
  in progress.
• But most of the time he was fasting and was a
  demonstration to the people
• When the city was in siege he had to leave the
  home like a thief.
• And just before the city fell his wife died and
  he was dumb and told not to cry.
• He was taken captive to a place called tel habib
  in Babylon where he worked with slaves to dig a
  canal connecting two rivers Tigris and Ephrates

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Lessons to learn

• Punishment comes to all even to God fearing
  people
• Why were the Jews punished?
• How long God was patient with them?
• What is idolatry?
• Do we find idolatry among believers?
• Why were they taken back to Babylon and not any
  where elsein Jesus time why were they scattered
  all over the world?

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The place from where Abraham started- to the same
place they went back as captives

• Returned back because they returned to idolatry

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Map of Bible land with present day names

• Ezekiel was taken captive to Babylon Hidekel is
  the name of River Tigris in Hebrew

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Map with old names of Empires
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Ezekiel
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History

• 734 B.C. ASSYRIA captures Galilee (North)721
  B.C. Samria and Israel
• 701 B.C. 2 lakhs captives of Judah- Hezekiah
• 606 B.C. Juda fell to Babylon- Daniel
• 597 B.C. More captives- Ezekiel
• 586 B.C Jerusalem destryed- Jeremiah
• Ezekiel in Babylon 597 to 570 B.C.
• CAPTIVITY TILL 536 B.C.

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More.

• Ezekiel would have been Jeremiahs student and
  known Daniel in Babylon (1414)
• He lived in a village called Tel Habib
• Chebar is a river cannel made for ships to go
  from Tigris to Euphrates to Nippur.
• About 50 miles SE of Babylon about 40 miles away
  from Fara home of Noah and 100 miles away from
  garden of Eden

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Northern wind ch 1 Ezekiel saw in his vision
a wind from North
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A cloud in the wind and h saw a spectrum of
colours
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A burning light from the North like that of
arorabolias
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Like melting metal
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The Face of man bull eagle and lion
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The wheel and the living beings
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The wheels
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One in the likness of a mn
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Firmamament above
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Like chrysolite
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Lightning
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Running in their own way
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Rainbow on a rainy day
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Above and below His loins..
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..Dazzling light
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Ch 2 Scroll
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4 living beings
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Wheels taken up
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God spoke Ch2
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The visions were about Jerusalem city which will
go into captivity and destruction
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Ch3 The people failed to accept or believe
because it was a walled city and the worship of
Jehovah was still continuing while the neighbours
were worshipping idols and were wicked.
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