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Ezekiel

A collection of 5 issues

Don’t break sheep’s legs please

I was recently reminded of a story that gets shared by preachers of a particular sort. It goes something like this: Sheep are known to be stupid and wander off. A shepherd's job is to go and find the sheep and bring it back to fold. Over and

Ezekiel, Husbands, and Christ

New Testament authors routinely took Hebrew Bible metaphors and redeemed them by re-reading and reinterpreting them through the lens of Christ. In my church's Ezekiel Bible Study this week, we wrestled with Ezekiel 16. It's an extended metaphor of Israel as an abandoned child that God

Ezekiel 4—7: Idolatry Matters Because It Hurts People

Ezekiel 4—7 begins the in-earnest doom-and-gloom chapters of Ezekiel's oracles against Israel and Judah. Our morning Bible study read through these verses, and I'll tell you, they are rough going. There are certainly conversations to be had about the violence, famine, cannibalism, and warfare all

Revelation from God may make you angry...and that’s a good thing.

Thoughts on Ezekiel 2 and 3 In Ezekiel 2—3, while Ezekiel is entranced in a vision of God’s glory, he is commissioned to go to his people and speak the words of God. He is to literally ingest God’s words (he eats a scroll!), have them become

God's glory is best seen among the oppressed

Thoughts on Ezekiel 1 The prophet and would-be-priest Ezekiel is sitting with his fellow exiles in Babylon. He's thirty years old, the age when priests take up their duties. He was 14 years old when King Josiah was killed in battle, and the temple revival ended. Now he