Ezekiel
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 what happened or why they happened or the
things continue to be there
• They say history repeats and we have many lessons to
learn from the mistake of others
• Does this book of prophecy have any message for us?
• What are we supposed to do after reading this?
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Lessons to learn
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Punishment comes to all – even God fearing
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 else?
In 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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Place said to be the tomb of Ezekiel
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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. Samaria and Israel
• 701 B.C. 2 lakhs captives of Judah also- Hezekiah was king
• 606 B.C. Juda fell to Babylon- Daniel was taken captive as
a boy
• 597 B.C. More captives- Ezekiel was taken captive to
Babylon
• 586 B.C Jerusalem destroyed- Jeremiah flees to Egypt
• Ezekiel in Babylon 597 to 570 B.C.
• CAPTIVITY in Babylon lasted TILL 536 B.C.(70 years)
• Ezekiel saw visions for this period but they are hard to
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understand
Last home of Ezekiel?
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More….
• Ezekiel would have been Jeremiah’s student and
known Daniel in Babylon (14:14)
• He lived in a village called Tel Habib
• As captive lived in Chebar river and dug cannel for
ships to go from Tigris to Euphrates and to Nippur.
• It is a place about 50 miles SE of Babylon about 40
miles away from Fara, the home of Noah and 100
miles away from garden of Eden
• From there he saw visions about far away Jerusalem
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The awesome visions of Ezekiel begins with a
Northern wind ch 1: and bright colors
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A burning light
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Like melting metal
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And he saw The Face of man bull eagle and lion
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The wheel and the living beings 1;10
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The wheels ch 1: 16
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One in the likeness of a man ch 1: 26
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Firmament above ch 1:26
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Like chrysolite ch. 1:26
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Like that of a flaming fire ch 1: 27
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Wheel within a wheel
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Like that of a rainy day
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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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He saw Jerusalem city
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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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Ch3 Jerusalem a walled city
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