Douglas Jacoby Podcast

OT Characters: Ezekiel

Episode Summary

Douglas continues his series on Old Testament Characters now looking at the story of Ezekiel . Douglas shares what we can learn from Ezekiel’s life as well as what we can learn about God from his story. He also shares ideas for how to share this story with your kids.

Episode Notes

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Hebrew words:

• Yehezqe’l (Ezekiel) -- "God will strengthen"
• Only 2x in the O.T. (in the book of Ezekiel)

Further study:

• Passages referred to in this podcast: Ezekiel 2, 3, 4, 24, 33 (18)
• Further material:
  • Ezekiel 34: Messianic prophecy
  • Ezekiel 26: Tyre
  • Ezekiel 16: Allegory
  • Ezekiel 47: John 7
  • Ezekiel 36: Free Will
  • Ezekiel 38: Gog & Magog
  • For more on one of the literary types used in Ezekiel, apocalyptic, see my article on Armageddon.

Some things we learn about God:

• The Lord works through us powerfully when we imbibe, ingest, and incorporate the word of God into our own lives.
• He goes to great lengths to get our attention – sometimes in dramatic, colorful, even drastic ways.

For kids: Please see the useful lesson at Bible Study Planet.

Passages

Ezekiel 2 – Overwhelmed by the prophetic burden.

Ezekiel 3 – Has to keep on preaching, no matter what.

Ezekiel 4 – dramatization of siege of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 16 -- Allegory of unfaithful Israel (see also chapter 23).

Ezekiel 24 – Subordinated emotions to the will of God.

Ezekiel 33 – Not to be drawn into his own personality cult.

Next lesson: Daniel