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  Ezekiel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ezekiel the Prophet of the Hebrew Scriptures is depicted on a 1510 Sistine Chapel fresco by Michelangelo.
Ezekiel also exhibits one of the most down to earth and bawdy attitudes of all the biblical authors, comparing the idolatry of Israel to the behaviour of a prostitute in a notorious passage (chapter 23).
Ezekiel describes the prostitute's lovers as having genitals which resemble those of donkeys and whose ejaculate was like the issue of horses.
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 Book of Ezekiel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ezekiel's writing is one of the most sophisticated of all of the Old Testament Prophets.
Ezekiel's writing is made up of three distinct levels: an oracle, a continuation and a closing oracle.
Ezekiel was originally written in the 25 year period between 593 to 571 B.C. The book seems to be written in two different time periods during Ezekiel's 25 years of prophecy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Book_of_Ezekiel   (1848 words)

  
 Ezekiel: Wheel, Bones, and Restoration
Ezekiel was a captive in the land of Babylon.
Ezekiel was older than Daniel and prophesied during the first twenty or twenty-five years of that seventy-year period when Israel was held captive by Babylon.
As Ezekiel watches in visions, he sees the glory of God departing from the temple in Jerusalem, leaving the inner court and moving to the outer court, and then rising and moving out to the Mount of Olives, and rising up from there.
www.pbc.org /dp/stedman/adventure/0226.html   (3518 words)

  
 Ezekiel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ezekiel, then 25 years old and in training to be a priest (1:3), was taken into exile along with 10,000 of the most prominent leaders, soldiers, and craftsmen of Judah (2 Kings 24:14).
Ezekiel is transported to Jerusalem and set beside the temple seeing the sins of the leaders and the people.
After telling Ezekiel that he is the watchman of his people in 33:1-9, he gives a ray of hope in telling the people that if the wicked will turn from their evil ways (repent) they shall live.
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 USCCB - NAB - Ezekiel - Introduction
Particularly because of this interest, Ezekiel's influence on postexilic religion was enormous, and not without reason has he been called "the father of Judaism." This has resulted in his prophecies reaching us with the evident marks of editing and addition by the post-exilic circles that shared his intense interest.
Ezekiel became a prophet in Babylon-the first prophet to receive the call to prophesy outside the Holy Land.
From now on his prophecy is characterized by the promise of salvation in a new covenant, and he is anxious to lay down the conditions necessary to obtain it.
www.usccb.org /nab/bible/ezekiel/intro.htm   (547 words)

  
 The Grace Institute: The Prophets: Ezekiel Part 1
Ezekiel is a priest, the son of Buzi, and he was in the land of the Chaldeans.
Ezekiel was deported to Babylon, along with King Jehoiachin, during the second siege of Jerusalem.
Since Ezekiel was writing to exiles in Mesopotamia, his audience would have been quite familiar with this style of writing and it would not have seemed odd or unusual to them [2].
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 Biblical people: Ezekiel
Ezekiel lived about 2600 years ago, during the time that the Babylonian Empire had subdued the nation of Judah and had destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple.
Ezekiel's prophecies about the destruction of Jerusalem caused friction among the Jews who were with him in Babylon.
Ezekiel was very much a shepherd and a watchman for the nation of Israel.
www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /p14.htm   (281 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ezekiel
Ezekiel was called to foretell God's faithfulness in the midst of trials, as well as in the fulfilment of His promises.
Ezekiel prophesies by symbolic actions the exile of the people, the flight of Sedecias, and the devastation of the land (xii, 1-20).
Some few consider chapters xl-xlviii to be apocryphal, because the plan there described in the building of the temple was not followed, but they overlook the fact that Ezekiel here gives a symbolic representation of the temple, that was to find spiritual realization in God's new kingdom.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05737b.htm   (1285 words)

  
 Ezekiel
Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Ezekiel 26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
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 EZEKIEL
Like Jeremiah, Ezekiel believed that the old doctrine of children being punished for their father's sins was wrong (the old doctrine, stated in King James' Version, Ezekiel 18:2 -- "...The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.").
In a vision, Ezekiel was carried to a valley of old, dry bones, and Ezekiel spoke the Words of the Lord, whereby the bones came together, became covered with skin, and became alive again.
Ezekiel compared the Southern Kingdom (including Jerusalem and the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin) and the Northern Kingdom (including the other ten tribes, and called "Israel") to prostitutes because of their idol worship that led to their destruction (Ezekiel 23).
www.biblenotes.net /ezekiel.html   (461 words)

  
 ezekiel1
Ezekiel was a priest that was carried away captive eleven years before the destruction of Jerusalem, and the Temple.
Ezekiel was a married priest, and his wife died in the year when the siege of Jerusalem began.
Ezekiel is a link in the prophetic chain, and had doubtless received and has seen the letter sent by Jeremiah, and recorded in Jeremiah 29:1-32.
www.theseason.org /ezekiel/ezekiel1.htm   (3813 words)

  
 Ezekiel
Ezekiel has roughly the same powers of Spider-Man, but is a man of advanced age compared to Peter.
While Peter was pondering that question, Ezekiel tended to his multi-million dollar business atop a penthouse in Manhattan where we were introduced to some mysterious partners of his.
Ezekiel tried to hide Spider-Man from Morlun, as Morlun was trying to "feed" off of what Morlun thought was a pure totemistic energies in Spider-Man. Spider-Man refused Ezekiel's offer of shielding him from Morlun, but he was soon confronted by Morlun.
www.samruby.com /Heroes/Ezekiel/ezekiel.htm   (285 words)

  
 Ezekiel, Bible Commentary, A Message for God's People, Then and Now
Ezekiel is like Moses, receiving instructions about a coming temple and recording laws for the people.
In fact Ezekiel and his people were taken to Babylon for breaking the covenant de2836.
Not all is clear, but we need to note one important contrast: Ezekiel was shown the abominations going on in the temple of his day ez08.
www.bibleexplained.com /prophets/ezek/Eze.htm   (756 words)

  
 Alien flying saucer Bible Ezekiel UFO Roswell
I think that judging by the limited primitive language that Ezekiel had, he gave a fairly good description as best as he could as to what any person of his day would describe a flying saucer to be.
He spoke of ships (boats) in Ezekiel 27:5, and would have used a word denoting that this was a vehicle of some kind if that’s what it was.
These living creatures are later identified as the cherubs, or cherubim (Ezekiel 9:3; 10:15), who were mentioned first of all as the mighty angelic beings placed by God at the gate of the garden of Eden to guard it after the expulsion of Adam and Eve.
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 Ezekiel: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The book of ezekiel is a book of the jewish hebrew bible as well as the christian old testament, attributed to the prophet ezekiel (...
God allowed Ezekiel to behold the throne in order to demonstrate to him that Israel had no reason to be proud of the Temple; for God, EHandler: no quick summary.
Ezekiel's greatest miracle consisted in his resuscitation of the dead, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ez/ezekiel.htm   (4680 words)

  
 Purpose for the Book of Ezekiel - The throne scene
At the beginning of the book, Ezekiel is shown the purpose of what he will explain to us.
3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
By the time we come to chapters 8 and 9, it will be clear that Ezekiel is describing the same preadvent judgment.
www.bibleexplained.com /prophets/ezek/ez01.htm   (1658 words)

  
 EZEKIEL, channeling, sirius, soul, Goddess, spirit, metaphysics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
EZEKIEL worked with us for about 8 years, on personal process, with groups and individuals and on sacred journeys...all with the focus of creating new maps in consciousness, new maps beyond the old templates of behavior created in the paradigm of competition and comparison, survival of the fittest.
In the last few years this consciousness has informed us that in fact they are the Soul of the Universe and that EZEKIEL was one of their fully integrated aspects.
The EZEKIEL aspect of SOTU is not the prophet of the Bible or the ascended master.
www.ejamagic.com /ezekiel.html   (533 words)

  
 Ezekiel
We should consider that Ezekiel first saw this vehicle at a distance of about 1,000 meters; at the moment the nuclear engine fired, probably with some white clouds of condensation (because of the engine's "chilldown" phase) shooting past the craft's main body.
Ezekiel ends his technical description with comments on the command capsule and on the commander himself.
Determining the form, dimensions and functional capabilities of what Ezekiel saw makes understanadable a number of passages in his text that are otherwise meaningless; it also aids considerably in separating the prophetic or visionary parts of Ezekiel's book from those concerning encounters with spaceships.
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 "They shall know that I AM the Lord". Read why Ezekiel tells this proclamation 65 times about the Lord in his book.
Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, wrote this Book in approximately 592-570 B.C. He is a prophet of God and came from a priestly family.
The key to Ezekiel is "They shall know that I AM the Lord", which is stated 65 times throughout his book.
His wife died as a sign to Judah as Nebuchadnezzar began his final siege on Jerusalem in Ezekiel 24:16-24.
ezekiel.jesusanswers.com   (334 words)

  
 The Ezekiel Project - Home Page
The Ezekiel Project, Inc. is an assembly organization with a desire and passion to reach those who would otherwise never grace the doors of our chapels.
The Ezekiel Project's goal is to put the "go" back into the Gospel by training and discipling individuals in the ways and means of reaching these precious souls where they are.
The ministry of The Ezekiel Project is clear: to train "gap men" to stand in the gap between heaven and hell by proclaiming to the perishing the Lord Jesus Christ as the only way to heaven.
www.tepse.org   (365 words)

  
 Ezekiel
Greg Herrick Davidic hope is investigated in certain texts from Ezekiel, Zechariah, Haggai and Chronicles.
So, Ezekiel could change his prediction, and even admit that he got it wrong, because, finally, the historical prediction was not his message.
Ezekiel at the Dawn of the 21st Century
www.otgateway.com /ezekiel.htm   (251 words)

  
 Timeline of Ezekiel
Ezekiel would see visions of another temple and another Jerusalem‑ a city that would be known by the glorious name “Jehovah‑shammah”, the LORD is there!
Remember Ezekiel is prophesying from exile to Jews in exile before the final destruction of Jerusalem in the first 24 chapters that emphasize judgment.
Ezekiel has many references to time and you will want to mark these in a distinctive way (e.g., a “clock face” in the margin).
www.preceptaustin.org /jehovah_shammah.htm#timelineofeZEKIEL   (1223 words)

  
 Bible Basics - Ezekiel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ezekiel speaks in the first person in this book and he identifies himself a a member of one of Judah's priestly families who was called by God to be a prophet.
During the same time that Jeremiah was a prophet to the people in Judea, Ezekiel was a prophet to the already exiled Israelites in Babylon.
Ezekiel's message was the same as Jeremiahs; he foretold the ruin of the homeland, the destruction of Solomon's temple, judgement, and eventual renewal as God would bring a remnant back to the promised land.
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 Ezekiel's Temple
Ezekiel's temple is also very different in many details from any previous temples that have existed in Israel (or elsewhere).
Ezekiel also describes the reapportionment of the land in specific lots during the millennial kingdom.
Ezekiel was married, in fact his wife died as a sign from God on the day the siege of Jerusalem began, (24:18).
www.templemount.org /ezektmp.html   (5420 words)

  
 Ezekiel, Book of (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
It may be noted that Daniel, fourteen years after his deportation from Jerusalem, is mentioned by Ezekiel (14:14) along with Noah and Job as distinguished for his righteousness, and some five years later he is spoken of as pre-eminent for his wisdom (28:3).
A cloudy mystery overhangs them which it is almost impossible to penetrate.
Ezekiel is singular in the frequency with which he refers to the Pentateuch (e.g., Ezek.
www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/ezekielbookof.html   (293 words)

  
 Ezekiel
Ezekiel, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871.
Ezekiel: Talking Lewd Women, from And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible by Ronald L. Ecker.
Echoes of a Prophet: The Use of Ezekiel in the Gospel of John and in Literature of the Second Temple Period
www.textweek.com /prophets/ezekiel.htm   (599 words)

  
 Daily Bible Study - By The Book - Ezekiel
At the time of Ezekiel, the Babylonians (see Ancient Empires - Babylon) were in the process of conquering the remaining southern kingdom of Judah.
Ezekiel's ministry was to warn those who remained.
Note: God was clearly speaking of a future reign of David, because at the time of Ezekiel, David had already been dead about 400 years.
www.keyway.ca /htm2002/ezekiel.htm   (1030 words)

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