EZEKIEL PART 2
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- COLLECTION OF POEMS ESSAYSIN THIS SECTION EZEKIEL ACTS AS A LAWYER, HE BEGINS ARGUING THAT ISRAEL'S JUDGMENT IS DESERVED, GOD'S GOODNESS DEMANDS HE BRING JUSTICE, AND THAT ISRAEL HAS REACHED THE POINT OF NO RETURN
- EZEKIEL FOCUSES ON THE NATIONS IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING ISRAEL AND EGYPT AND TYRE BECAUSE ISRAEL HAS ADOPTED THEIR GODS AND IDOLS. GOD ACCUSES THE KINGS OF VIEWING THEMSELVES AS GODS, HOLDS THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR PRIDE, AND SAYS HE WILL USE BABYLON TO BRING THEM DOWN
- EZEKIEL IS MET BY A REFUGEE FROM JERUSALEM, AND HE REPORTS THAT BABYLON HAS ATTACKED THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, THE CITY HAS FALLEN, AND THE TEMPLE IS DESTROYED
- 12-24: GOD'S JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL
- 25-32: JUDGEMENT OF THE NATIONS
- 33: JERUSALEM HAS FALLEN
- 34-37
- THE ONLY HOPE IS FOR GOD TO REMAKE HUMANS TO LOVE GOD OTHERS.
- 37: VALLEY OF THE DRY BONES
- EZEKIEL SEES A VALLEY FILLED WITH DRY HUMAN BONES AND GOD TELLS HIM THAT IT IS A METAPHOR FOR ISRAELS SPIRITUAL STATETHEIR REBELLION AGAINST GOD RESULTED IN EXILE DEATH AND ALSO A METAPHORICAL DEATH OF THEIR COVENANT RELATIONSHIPGOD TELLS EZEKIEL HIS SPIRIT IS COMING TO BRING HIS PEOPLE BACK TO LIFEA WIND COMES AND CAUSES THE BONES TO STAND AND FILLS THEM WITH LIFE AND BREATH AND SKIN GROWS OVER THE BONES THIS VISION IS RECALLING THE CREATION OF HUMANS IN GENESIS 2, WHERE GOD MADE US OUT OF DIRT AND DIVINE BREATH
- HOPE FOR ISRAEL
- 38-39
- PROMISES GODS FINAL DEFEAT OF EVIL AMONG THE NATIONS: PERSONIFIED BY GOG, THE NAME USED AS AN IMAGE OF ANY AND ALL VIOLENT KINGDOMSTHIS IS WHY EZEKIEL DESCRIBES GOG WITH IMAGES THAT HE USED EARLIER TO DESCRIBE THE KING OF TYRE AND EGYPT.GOG IS THE ARCHETYPE OF HUMAN REBELLION AGAINST GOD.
- 38-39 40-48:HOPE FOR NATIONS AND ALL CREATION
- 40-48
- VISION OF A NEW TEMPLEEZEKIEL FIRST HAS A VISION OF NEW TEMPLE AND A NEW CITYHE IS GIVEN A TOUR AND THEN GOD'S THRONE CHARIOT THAT WAS MENTIONED IN HIS PREVIOUS VISIONS COMES BACK AND ENTERS THE NEW TEMPLETHERE ARE TWO MEANINGS OF THIS VISION THAT ARE BELIEVED:1. LITERAL BLUEPRINTS OF NEW TEMPLE IN THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM2. SYMBOLIC DEPICTION OF GOD'S PRESENCE WITH HIS PEOPLE
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