Chapter 24 The Book of Ezekiel

The Book of Ezekiel Ezekiel's prophecy Ezekiel used to be a priest in Jerusalem. When the Chaldeans attacked the land of Judah for the third time, he was taken captive to the valley of the Chebar River. There, the hand of the Lord fell on him. Spirit, and began to prophesy for the captive Jews.Ezekiel received God's revelation on the fifth day of the fourth month of the fifth year of his captivity. He saw a violent wind blowing from the north, and a great cloud filled with fire was blowing, and there was light around it. In it was a fire like pure gold, and out of it appeared four strange living creatures. There are four faces and four wings. The front is the face of a man, the right is the face of a lion, the left is the face of an ox, and the back is the face of an eagle.The living creatures ran in the light of fire and lightning; beside each living creature was another wheel, and each of the four wheels looked like a wheel within a wheel. Around the rim were countless eyes, and the spirits of the living creatures were in the wheel.

On their heads is the image of the throne of the Almighty God, as brilliant as a sapphire. On the throne is the shape of a man, and from the waist down is the shape of fire, surrounded by a radiance, the radiance has the colors of the rainbow, this is the glory of the Lord image. God said to Ezekiel, "Son of man, stand up! I want to speak to you." And the Spirit entered him.God sent him to the rebellious nation of Israel, telling them that the Israelites and their ancestors had disobeyed the Lord until the time of Ezekiel, and God condemned them to be shameless and strong in heart.

God also told Ezekiel that as a prophet he was among the thorns and mori, among the scorpions, but he wanted Ezekiel not to be afraid of them.He gave Ezekiel a scroll to eat, in order to convey its wailing, sighing, and mourning to the Israelites. God said to Ezekiel, "Son of man, take a brick and place it in front of you, and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. Besiege the city, build towers and fortifications, set up camp and attack it, and set up camps around it to attack and attack the city. And an iron cauldron shall be placed between you and the city, and you shall attack the city face to face and besiege it, so that it may be a sign to the house of Israel.

"You shall take wheat, barley, beans, etc., and put them in one vessel, and use them for your own bread...and you shall roast human dung before the eyes of all. The children of Israel shall eat it uncleanly when I drive them out among the nations. food." Ezekiel said to God that he had never been defiled since childhood, and begged God not to tell him so.God only allowed him to use cow dung instead of human dung for scones.God said that he would break the rods of the Israelites in Jerusalem, cut off their food, and make them eat bread in two portions and drink water in panic. They will be destroyed because of their sins.

Next, as in the format of all the Prophets.God asked Ezekiel to warn the Israelites that because they forsook Yahweh, worshiped idols and evil gods, practiced justice, and practiced fornication, they would surely suffer punishment by the sword, plague, famine, and national destruction, although the remnants of the people could receive grace Avoid disasters. On the fifth day of the sixth month of the second year, Ezekiel was at home, in front of the elders of Judah, and the Spirit of God descended upon him again, as if a fiery image stretched out a hand, and grabbed him by the waist. hair, and lift him to the middle of heaven and earth.In this vision, he came to Jerusalem.

He witnessed wicked idols and filthy pictures on the walls of the temple.Ezekiel witnessed sun worship in the inner courtyard of the Temple of the Lord.In view of the secret betrayal of the Lord by the Jewish elders and the people.Ezekiel was told in a vision that God would order those who oversee the city of Jerusalem to punish Jerusalem with weapons of death. Then there is Ezekiel's vision of seeing God, and the rebuke of the Israelites' immorality and idolatry through the mouth of God, and the prophecy of the retribution that will be incurred because of the false prophet's lies and covenant-broken adultery.Jesus means that Jerusalem will surely fall, and the people of Judah will be like sheep without a home.

After counting the demise of Egypt and the defeat of Judah's neighbors such as the Philistines, God appointed Ezekiel as a watchman to warn the Israelites at all times; God himself said, "I will personally seek out my sheep and find them . . . These sheep were scattered in the day of cloud and darkness, from there I will rescue them and bring them back, I will bring them out of all peoples, gather them from all nations, and lead them back to their own land.” God promised to punish all enemies Harm to Israel, because the Israelites will surely receive God's blessing again. On the fifth day of the tenth month of the twelfth year after Israel was taken captive, someone fled from Jerusalem to the valley of the Chebar River, telling them that Jerusalem had finally been captured and that Judah had perished.But just after this, Ezekiel was inspired to see the dry bones on the plain revived, and the nation of Israel was revived despite despair; God told Ezekiel with a vision of two wooden sticks becoming one in his hand, Judah and Israel finally united into one country.

In the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel's captivity by the Babylonians, that is, on the fifteenth day of the first month in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem was broken, the spirit of God brought Ezekiel to the highest mountain in the old land of Israel.He saw a vision of someone measuring the foundations of the city, planning the city walls, and even the inner court of the Temple of the Lord in order to rebuild the holy city. Greatness is about to become an Israeli reality again. The prophecy in Ezekiel is the outpouring of Judah's repentance, self-blame and expectation in exile.