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Ezekiel
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Visions of Glory
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Administrivia - Resources
Regular Baptist Press
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Ezekiel Visions of Glory (ABF Quarterly)
The Prophecy of Ezekiel
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Charles Lee FeinbergAdditional resources available at www.4bya.info -
search box “Ezekiel”
I hope to post an outline weekly at the above website by Saturday before the lesson
Instructor will use NKJV in class. Personal study in other translations (ESV, NASB, KJV) would bebeneficial
Study Bible introductory articles are profitable!
Lesson plan with suggested reading schedule
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Ezekiel - Visions of Glory
Lesson Date Lesson Title Reading Schedule1 12/6/2009 Introduction and Overview N/A2 12/13/2009 All the Equipment You'll Need Chapters 1-33 12/20/2009 Living Epistles Chapters 4-74 12/27/2009 Truth and Consequences Chapters 8-115 1/3/2010 Enough is Enough Chapters 12-146 1/10/2010 Six Sour Grapes Chapters 16-197 1/17/2010 The Loser's Share Chapters 20-248 1/24/2010 Who's behind the Sins of the Nations? Chapters 25-289 1/31/2010 A Lesson Learned Twice Chapters 29-3210 2/7/2010 Turn Towards Life! Chapter 3311 2/14/2010 Reassurance and Restoration Chapters 34-3712 2/21/2010 The Biggest Mistake God Could Make Chapters 38-3913 2/28/2010 Home Again! Chapters 40-48
Outline:
(Additional outlines are available at www.4bya.info )I.
Inaugural Vision (1:1
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3:27)II.
Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah (4:1
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24:27)III.
Prophesies against the nations (25:1
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32:32)IV.
Prophesies of Israel’s blessings
(33:1
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39:29)V.
The Millennial Temple and Sacrifices (40:1
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48:35)
Ezekiel
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Visions of Glory
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Historical Background:
1)
931 BC: Following
Solomon’s death, nation of Israel divided into 2 nations:
2)
701 BC: Sennacherib (2 Kings 18 & 19; 2 Chron )32:3)
612 BC: Babylonians destroyed Nineveh and the Assyrian empirea)
2 Chron 35b)
2 Kings 234)
605 BC: Nebuchadnezzer: (2 Kings 24)5)
586 BC: 3
rd
Invasion (2 Kings 25)6)
Jews in Babylon for 70 years (Jeremiah 29 and Ezra 2)7)
539 BC: Medo Persians conquered Babylon8)
King Cyrus (Ezra 1:1-4):
The Prophet
1)
Ezekiel's name (Hb.
Yekhezqe’l
) means “God strengthens” or “May God strengthen”
2)
Ezekiel lived out his prophetic career among the community of exiled Judeans in Babylon.3)
Taken captive with King Jehoiachin (1:2 & 33:21)4)
Personal life:a)
Married and had his own home (8:1 & 24:18)b)
Elders of Israel visited to consult with himc)
His wife died during his ministry … forbidden by God to mourn (24:16
-18)d)
Began his ministry at 30 years of age (1:1) and prophesied for approx 20 yearsi)
The ages of thirty and fifty mark the span of the active service of the priests (Numbers 4)ii)
Contemporary of Jeremiahe)
Events of Ezekiel’s life intended to be a sign to Israel (24:24, “Thus Ezekiel is a sign to you;
according to all that he has done you shall do; and when this comes, you shall know that I
am
the Lord GOD.”)
i)
Shut in home, bound himself, and was smitten dumb (3:24-26)ii)
Charged to lie on right side and then the left for 430 days (4:4-8)iii)
Ate bread prepared in an unclean manner (4:12)iv)
Had to shave his head and beard (5:1)v)
Not permitted to mourn loss of his wife (24:15-24)vi)
Lost his speech (24:27)vii)
Like the Apostle John (island of Patmos), lived in a place of isolation and oppression!f)
Life and Times (Captivity and Confusion)i)
His contemporaries: One of the three captivity prophets (Daniel and Jeremiah)ii)
God raised up exilic prophets to bring God's message to his people. The time of Judah's exilewas therefore a period of intense prophetic activity.
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