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Two eagles and a vine The word of the LORD came to Ezekiel and gave him an allegory to deliver to Israel. A mighty eagle takes a shoot from the top of a cedar tree and carries it away to a far land and plants it. The prophesy condemns the member of the royal family…

God, through Ezekiel continues the comparison of Jerusalem to an unfaithful woman who despises her husband and chases after strangers. As the chapter concludes, the comparison is to neighboring areas like Samaria to the north and Sodom to the south. God equates them to sisters but calls Jerusalem more depraved. But the promise of a…

Ezekiel continues his prophesy against Jerusalem, now comparing her to a prostitute who will not even take payment from her customers, but instead chases after them and pays them. Her end will be humiliation at the hands of her patrons.

Jerusalem as an adulterous wife Ezekiel chides the people of Jerusalem by comparing them to a mixed race child no one wanted and how God took the child and provided all the needs of the child. Then the child took everything God gave and used it’s beauty to further its lifestyle through prostitution, even as…

Jerusalem as a useless vine Here God compares The wood of a vine to the wood from a tree and compares the people of Jerusalem to the vine that is useless for constructing anything and it’s only use is when it is ultimately burned as fuel. All of this because they have been unfaithful.

Idolaters Condemned Some Elders of Israel come to Ezekiel and sit before him. God shows Ezekiel they have other idols in their hearts and pronounces judgements on them for their idolatry. Jerusalem’s Judgement Inescapable God shows Ezekiel that even righteous men like Daniel, Noah, and Job will be unable to do anything to save their…

False prophets condemned. Ezekiel is told to prophesy against the false prophets of Israel. The examples include patching the wall in a shoddy manner and covering it with whitewash and punishing people who should not be punished and letting free those who should be punished.

The exile symbolized God instructs Ezekiel to pack his things during the day while he can be seen and to go outside the wall at night to be a sign of what God will do to Israel. He promises that there will be no delay. The generation now living will experience this.

Ezekiel sees the cherubim in the temple and realizes these are the same living creatures he saw earlier by the Kebar River. Gods glory departs the temple. He again sees the wheel within the wheel and it is called the whirling wheels.

God’s sure judgement on Israel Ezekiel is shown some of the current inhabitants of Jerusalem and they think they are in a good position since the exiles have been taken and they are in charge. But they are evil and don’t know that judgement is just around the corner for them. The promise of Israel’s…