Ezekiel BS No.

18 15 June 2006 at Vivienne’s flat 301 Anemone at10 am

With acknowledgements to Chris Wright The Message of Ezekiel, IVP, 2001.

Read Ezekiel chapters 25:1 – 32:32

Theme: Then the nations will know that I am the Lord

Introduction, but first a preview of Ezekiel’s new message

1. Restoring Yahweh’s role as the divine shepherd/king of Israel (34:1-31)
2. Restoring Yahweh’s land (35:1-36:15)
3. Restoring Yahweh’s honour (36:16-38)
4. Restoring Yahweh’s people 37:1-14)
5.Restoring Yahweh’s covenant (37:15-28)
6. Restoring Yahweh’s supremacy (38:1-39:29)
7. Restoring God’s presence among his people (40:1-46:24)
8. Restoring Yahweh’s presence in the land (47:1-48:35)

Before the preview comes an undated section which increases the suspense between
the news of the start of the siege of Jerusalem and the news pf its actual fall. Note the
fulcrum text in 28:24-28 and Isaiah 40:5. Consider how Yahweh uses the nations to
punish Israel but also punishes the nations for their own iniquity. Today we will look
at Chapter 25:1-28:19.
Questions
1. Ezekiel 25:1-17. Who were Judah’s 4 nearest neighbours? For what sins were
they judged?

2. Ezekiel 26:1-28:19. What were the noted sins of Tyre and Sidon?

3. Give a heading to 26:1-21. Comment on the content.

4. Give a heading to 27-:1-36. Comment on the content.

5. Give a heading to 28:1-10. Comment on the content.

6. Give a heading to 28:11-19. Comment on the content. See Acts 12:19-23

and Revelation chapters 17 and 18.

7. How do these chapters relate to

A. the world economic powers today?

B. military powers and alliances today?

C. to Christians today?