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EZEKIEL: LESSON THREE

SIGNS AND VISIONS

Time: 592 -591 B.C.

 I. SIGNS AND VISIONS OF JERUSALEM’S DESTRUCTION (586 B.C.) (Chapters 4-11)

  A. Signs (592 B.C. cf. 1:2) (Chapters 4-7)

  1. The Tile: besieged Jerusalem (4:1-3)

  2. 430 Days (Years) – Iniquity of both houses of Israel (4:4-8)

  3. Making Bread – Famine and Uncleanness (4:9-17)

  4. The Sword Haircut – Various effects of Judgment (5:1-4)

  5. Explanation of reasons for judgment (5:5-17)

  6. Idolatry denounced and punishment promised (6-7)

 B. Visions (591 B.C.) (Chapters 8-11)

  1. God’s glorious presence appears to carry Ezekiel to Jerusalem in another vision (8:1-4).

  2. Ezekiel sees the open and hypocritical practice of idolatry for himself (8:5-18).

  3. Six executioners and a man with an ink horn – devastation of the wicked in Jerusalem and preservation of the       righteous (9:1-11).

  4. God’s fiery presence destroys Jerusalem (10:1-22).

  5. Ezekiel is called to confront false counsel of Jerusalem’s leaders (11:1-13).

  6. God’s promise and the ascending cherubim – Jehovah withdraws from city (11:14-25)

QUESTIONS:

1. What was Ezekiel to do with the tile?  

2. To whom was this a sign?

3. What did the 430 days symbolize?  

4. What was the purpose of laying “bands” on Ezekiel?

5. What TWO points are conveyed in the sign of making bread?

6. Related the various effects of the siege upon the people with the sign of the “sword haircut”:

7. In 5:5-17, who is emphasized as being against the people?

8. From your background material, why would this emphasis be needed?

9. Why did Ezekiel prophecy to the “mountains of Israel” ?

10. What is the significance of slain bodies around the idols?

11. The coming of God’s wrath would teach what lesson?

12. Explain the meaning of “stretch out my hand”:

13. When would the end occur in chapter 7?  

14. In judgment, God would bring upon the people all of WHOSE ABOMINATIONS?

15. “____________________ cometh, and they shall seek _________________________ and there shall be          _________________________.

16. The vision at the beginning of chapter 8 is occurring for the ___________________ time.

17. Match the following names and phrases with their abominable practice:

      (a). “image of jealousy”                           

(1). 25 men worshipping the sun

(2). Open idolatry – in the entry

      (b). “chambers of imagery”

            (3). Places where people printed images

      (c). “Tammuz”      

(4). A “god” who departs in the drought of summer, and returns again with life-giving rains

(5). Hypocrisy of leaders

     (d). “... backs toward the temple of Jehovah”

18. How does chapter 9 manifest both God’s wrath and mercy?

19. What is God’s glorious presence doing in chapter 10?

20. What was the wicked counsel of the princes?

21. What was Ezekiel’s reply to the wicked counsel?

22. What happened to the prince Pelatiah?

23. What did God promise Ezekiel?