1. New Life ABF

2. You Will Know that I AM the LORD
EZEKIEL
You Will Know
that
I AM the LORD

3. Theme That you will Know that I Am the Lord
Found some 62 times in 27 of the 48 chapters
Flushes out 5 major concepts
The Nature of God
Purpose in God’s judgments
Individual responsibility
Israel’s history
Israel’s future

4. Theological Background
Deuteronomy 28

5. Historical Background
Three (four) major kingdoms involved
Assyria
Egypt
Babylon
Israel (Northern 10) & Judah (Southern 2)
Two major shifts in power
Assyria and Egypt to permanently fall to Babylon
Israel to go into the punishment of God
Israel will succumb to foreign rule and dependance
God’s will being accomplished

8. Kings of the Times Hezekiah 726-697 Manassah 697-642 Amon 641-640
Josiah
Jehoahaz 609
Jehoiakim
Jehoiachin 597
Zedekiah
Good
Very Bad
Bad
N/a
Somewhat good

9. Saul
David
Solomon
Israel
Judah

10. To Keep in Mind Pagan King just Pawns
Jeremiah had told them of the coming captivity by God’s Decree
God would purge His people of idolatry
The reign of the Kings ended with the exile

11. The Prophets Role
Isaiah - the prophet calling for Holiness in Judah before all this
Jeremiah - prophet to those remaining home during exile
Daniel - a prophet placed in the Royal Courts in captivity
Ezekiel - a prophet placed in the country-side in captivity

12. General Breakdown
Chapters 1-24 predict the Fall of Jerusalem in 586 (After Zedekiah)
Chapters Speak doom to the Nations against Jerusalem
Chapters Are Encouragement to Israel
Chapters Are the Prophetic Future for Israel

13. Outline I. Ezekiel's Commission (1:1-3:27)
A. The Vision of God's Glory (1:1-28)
B. The Lord's Charge to Ezekiel (2:1-3:27)
II. Judah's Iniquity and the Resulting Judgment (4:1-24:27)
A. The Initial Warnings of the Watchman (4:1-7:27)
B. The Vision of the Exodus of God's Glory (8:1-11:25)
C. The Lord's Reply to the Exiles Invalid Rationalizations of Hope (12:1-19:14)
D. The Defective Leadership of Israel (20:1-23:49)
E. The Execution of Jerusalem's Judgment (24:1-27)

14. III. Judgment on the Foreign Nations (25:1-33:20)
A. Judgment on Judah's Closest Neighbors (25:1-17)
B. Judgment on Tyre (26:1-28:19)
C. Judgment on Sidon (28:20-24)
D. Israel's Restoration From the Nations (28:25-26)
E. Judgment on Egypt (29:1-32:32)
IV. The Future Blessings of a Faithful Covenant God (33:21-48:35)
A. Restoration to the Promised Land (33:21-39:29)
B. God's Glory Returns (40:1-48:35)

15. Ezekiel's calling and commission : 2-3
Some Snapshots
Ezekiel's calling and commission : 2-3

16. Some Snapshots
“Because”

17. Some Snapshots
Key verse: Ezekiel 36:22

18. You Will Know that I AM the LORD
EZEKIEL
You Will Know
that
I AM the LORD

19. Excursus on end of section 2
Chapters 4-24

20. Some “highlights” Chapter 19: a poem of destruction
Chapter 20: the elders are rebuked and the destruction of Jerusalem laid out (See Also 14) [Read 20:1-32]
Chapter 21: A Sword
Read Chapter 22
Chapter 23: Oholah and Oholibah as Allegory
Chapter 24: The Boiling Pot and Ezekiel’s Wide dies [Read 24:15-27]

21. “I, the Lord, have spoken; it is coming and I will act
“I, the Lord, have spoken; it is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry; according to your ways and according to your deeds I will judge you,” declares the Lord God.’ ”
Ezekiel 24:14.

22. Jerusalem is destroyed . . .
. . . just like He said.

23. Some after thoughts (T or F)
Statement
Answer
God is not involved with the wicked actions of wicked nations
God would never force anyone to do anything
God will not intervene in your life against your will
God keeps all His promises
It “breaks God’s heart” to “be forced” to punish us
God is against capital punishment
There is a future for Israel (why?)
False
True

24. You Will Know that I AM the LORD
EZEKIEL
You Will Know
that
I AM the LORD