Thursday

7-Nov-19

Ezekiel 11-14; Ps 124-125

Ezekiel 11: What happened while Ezekiel was prophesying? What does God promise?

Ezekiel 12: What object lesson die the Lord command Ezekiel to do? What did it represent?

Ezekiel 13: To what does God compare the false prophets?

Ezekiel: 14: Who deceives the false prophets?  Which three great men of God does the Lord mention and what is the context?

Answers:

Ezekiel 11:  While he was prophesying against the elders, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. God promises: “And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.”

Ezekiel 12:  Ezekiel was told to prepare a bag as if he were going to leave the city in exile – then he was to dig a hole through the wall and leave the city at dusk. This represented the way Zedekiah would try to escape from Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 13:  God compares the false prophets to jackals among ruins.

Ezekiel 14: The Lord deceives those false prophet who “separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart. Noah, Daniel and Job are mentioned – the context is that they would not be able to save Jerusalem (but they would be saved!).