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    Ezekiel
    Ezekiel
    Ezekiel
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    Ezekiel

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    Over 3 million LifeChange studies sold

    Uncertain about the Future?
    Ezekiel faced immense uncertainty about the future—not so different from what we’re experiencing in our own time. The Old Testament book named after him portrays how Ezekiel sought to trust God and consistently obey Him despite difficult circumstances. Ezekiel expressed to God his honest reactions, emotions, and questions. He trusted in the Lord, and the Lord gave him strength, courage, and faithfulness. Witness Ezekiel’s rugged relationship with God, and let his example lead you into a deeper, more heartfelt relationship of your own.

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    LifeChange Bible studies will help you grow in Christlikeness through a life-changing encounter with God’s Word. Filled with a wealth of ideas for going deeper so you can return to this study again and again.

    Features
    • Cover the entire book of Ezekiel in 12 lessons
    • Equip yourself to lead a Bible study
    • Imagine the Bible’s historical world
    • Study word origins and definitions
    • Explore thoughtful questions on key themes
    • Go deeper with optional projects
    • Add your notes with extra space and wide margins
    • Find the flexibility to fit the time you have
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateNov 1, 2014
    ISBN9781612917863
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      Ezekiel - The Navigators

      INTRODUCTION

      THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL

      God Responds to His People’s Greatest Need

      The book of Ezekiel is a book of extremes — scathing and stop-at-nothing in its portrayal of sin, yet vastly, soaringly gracious and positive in its offer of hope to all God’s people. In it, God speaks to people whose lives were torn apart by their own and others’ sins. Ezekiel pulls no punches in detailing what they were doing wrong, but he also portrays a God who is much, much bigger than His people’s sins. This God promises to restore the nation not because the people will repent, but solely because He will offer them grace. He invites them to respond to that grace with repentance.

      Background

      Ezekiel lived during a time of international upheaval.[1] When Ezekiel was born, the Assyrian Empire controlled much of the Middle East. Then Assyria crumbled under the pressure of a rising power, Babylon. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon was a seemingly unstoppable general. His territory soon included Ezekiel’s country: Judah, part of the Promised Land and home to the Judeans or Jews.

      In 597 BC, the king of Judah rebelled against Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar squashed the revolt and took ten thousand Jews as exiles to Babylon. Among these exiles was Ezekiel, then in his twenties.

      When the book of Ezekiel opens four years later (593 BC), Ezekiel is with the Jewish captives in Babylon. Most of their countrymen are still in Judah, now a vassal state under Babylon’s control. The Jews both in exile and back home in Jerusalem hope that the Exile will soon end, that the captives will be able to go home, and that Jerusalem will be spared from any further warfare. False prophets both in exile and back home are encouraging these hopes. Ezekiel reveals that they are tragically mistaken but also points to a greater hope.

      The timeline below highlights some of the major dates preceding and during the time of Ezekiel (some dates are approximate).

      Structure and arrangement

      We can outline the book of Ezekiel like this:

      (I) Chapters 1–24. Ezekiel is called to be a prophet. He offers words and signs of judgment from God against His people.

      (II) Chapters 25–32. God speaks of judgment against Israel’s neighbors.

      (III) Chapters 33–48. Ezekiel learns of the final fall of Jerusalem, the fulfillment of the judgment he predicted. He now sees past that judgment and offers teaching and encouragement for God’s people regarding their future. The final chapters of this encouragement (chapters 40–48) are an extended vision from God of a new temple, a new city, and a new land of Israel.

      Like other Old Testament prophetic books, such as Isaiah, the book moves generally from judgment against the prophet’s own nation, to judgment against other nations, to future blessings for those who believe in God. Within each section of the book, the visions and oracles are not collected in a linear or chronological order. Each section is more like an album of separate photos than like a continuous video.

      Ezekiel the man

      When the book opens, Ezekiel is thirty years old, married, a homeowner, and brought up to be a priest. He is just starting his priestly ministry, although because he is more than a thousand miles from the temple in Jerusalem, he can’t do the main job of a priest: offer sacrifices. At this turning point in his life, God calls him to be a prophet.

      He is roughly the same age as Daniel. Years ago, back in Jerusalem, he probably heard the prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah is still speaking to the Jews in Judah when Ezekiel takes up the same calling to the Jews in exile.

      Being God’s prophet proves to be a grueling job. God asks Ezekiel not just to speak for Him, but to act out God’s terrible messages in ways that are sometimes degrading and sometimes heartbreaking. The Jews don’t want to hear what Ezekiel has to say, and he bears in silence the knowledge that his beloved Jerusalem is going to be turned to rubble. God even asks him not to openly grieve the death of his wife so that he can share God’s sorrow in the death of the nation that was God’s bride.

      Ezekiel is consistently obedient to God through all of this, while also transparently revealing his reactions, emotions, and questions. His dependent trust in the Lord gives him strength, fearlessness, and faithfulness.

      [1] NIV Study Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1985), introduction to Ezekiel: Background.

      LESSON ONE

      EZEKIEL 1–3

      Encountering God and His Call

      1. One of the best guidelines for getting the most from Ezekiel is found in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, words which Paul wrote with the Old Testament first in view. He said that all Scripture is of great benefit to (a) teach us, (b) rebuke us, (c) correct us, and (d) train us in righteousness. Paul added that these Scriptures completely equip the person of God for every good work. As you think seriously about those guidelines, in which of these areas do you especially want to experience the usefulness of Ezekiel? Express your desire in a written prayer to God.

      2. In Jeremiah 23:29, God says that His Word is like fire and like a hammer. He can use the Scriptures to burn away unclean thoughts and desires in our hearts. He can also use Scripture, with hammer-like hardness, to crush and crumble our spiritual hardness. From your study of Ezekiel, how do you most want to see the fire-and-hammer power of God’s Word at work in your own life? Again, express this longing in a written prayer to

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