THE VISIONARY SOULS OF OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS SPEAK TO YOU IN OUR MODERN TIMES. WE MOVE NOW TO THE SYNOPTIC RECORD AND TESTIMONY OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL, TOUCHING ON THE HIGH POINTS OF THE BOOK TO GIVE OVERVIEW AND THE INSPIRATIONAL TO STUDY THE TEXT FOR YOURSELVES. BE SURE TO READ THE SECTIONS FOR CHAPTER 38 AND 39 FOR THE POWERFUL VISIONARY RECORD OF THE UPCOMING (LAST DAYS) GOG OF MAGOG WAR PROPHECY! THERE IS NOT MUCH TIME LEFT BEFORE THIS EVENT BEGINS, THE WHEELS ARE IN MOTION!
THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL
EZEKIEL MEANS, “GOD WILL STRENGTHEN.”
THIS PROPHET WAS A PRIEST OF THE FAMILY OF ZADOK. HE WAS TAKEN CAPTIVE TO BABYLON BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR. HE PROPHESIED FOR 22 YEARS (592 – 570 BC). EZEKIEL HAD MANY VISIONS AND SPOKE MUCH ABOUT THE FUTURE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL AND THE GLORY OF THE END TIME MILLENNIAL REIGN OF THE LORD.
KEEP IN MIND THAT LIKE OTHER BIBLE PROPHETS, EZEKIEL IS OFTEN MAKING DOUBLE AND PERHAPS A TRIPLE REFERENCE TO EVENTS BOTH PAST AND FUTURE WHEN HE SPEAKS OF PROPHECY IN ISRAEL.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 1 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL SEES A VISION OF FOUR LIVING CREATURES, FOUR WHEELS, AND THE GLORY OF GOD ON HIS THRONE.
THESE BEINGS WERE SYMBOLOGY OF DESIGNATED ENSIGNS FROM HEAVEN.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL IS CALLED BY GOD TO TAKE THE PROPHETIC WORD OF THE LORD TO ISRAEL.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS:
GOD MAKES EZEKIEL A WATCHMAN UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. THEIR BLOOD IS REQUIRED AT HIS HAND, UNLESS HE RAISES THE WARNING VOICE.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL CREATES A TYPE OF SHADOWING OF THE SIEGE AND FAMINE THAT SHALL BEFALL JERUSALEM. (PLEASE READ FOR YOURSELF.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS:
THE JUDGEMENT OF JERUSALEM SHALL INCLUDE FAMINE, PESTILENCE, WAR, AND THE SCATTERING OF HER INHABITANTS. (WE ARE AWARE FROM HISTORY THAT THIS HAPPENED TWICE.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS:
THE PROPHET WARNS THAT ISRAEL SHALL BE DESTROYED FOR HER IDOLATRY. (WE KNOW IT HAPPENED.)
ONLY A REMNANT SHALL BE SAVED AND SCATTERED. (WE KNOW THE 10 TRIBES OF ISRAEL WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE EARTH.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS:
DESOLATION, WAR, PESTILENCE, AND DESTRUCTION SHALL SWEEP THE LAND OF ISRAEL. (EZEKIEL MAKES DOUBLE REFERENCE HERE OF TWO HISTORICAL EVENTS, WHICH HAVE HAPPENED.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 8 – 9 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL SEES IN A VISION OF THE WICKEDNESS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE JEWS IN JERUSALEM. HE SEES IDOLATRY PRACTICED IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD ITSELF. (THIS IS MULTIPLE REFERENCE AGAIN.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS:
HE SEES IN A VISION, THE WHEELS AND CHERUBIMS, AND THE THRONE AND GLORY OF GOD.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL SEES IN A VISION THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE CAPTIVITY OF THE JEWS. (PLEASE READ FOR YOURSELF.)
HE PROPHESIES OF THE GATHERING OF ISRAEL IN THE LAST DAYS. (SINCE 1948)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL PROPHESIES THE SCATTERING OF ISRAEL AMONG ALL NATIONS. (HISTORY ABLY DEPICTS THEIR DISPERSION ON TWO OCCASIONS.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 13 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL REPROVES THE FALSE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL (BOTH MALE AND FEMALE) WHO SPEAK LIES AND TO WHOM GOD HAS NOT SPOKEN.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 14 SYNOPSIS:
THE LORD WILL NOT ANSWER THOSE WHO WORSHIP FALSE GODS AND WORK INIQUITY.
EZEKIEL CRIES REPENTANCE.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 15 SYNOPSIS:
JERUSALEM, AS A USELESS VINE, SHALL BE BURNED.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 16 SYNOPSIS:
THE PROPHET WARNS THAT JERUSALEM HAS BECOME AS A HARLOT, REVELING IN HER IDOLS AND WORSHIPPING FALSE GODS. SHE HAS PARTAKEN OF ALL THE SINS OF EGYPT AND THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT, AND IS REJECTED BY GOD.
YET IN THE LAST DAYS, THE LORD WILL AGAIN ESTABLISH THE COVENANT WITH HER.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 18 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL SAYS THAT MEN SHALL BE PUNISHED FOR THEIR OWN SINS.
SINNERS SHALL DIE, AND THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL SAVE THEIR OWN SOULS.
A RIGHTEOUS MAN WHO SINS SHALL BE DAMNED, AND A SINNER WHO REPENTS SHALL BE SAVED.
GOD SPEAKS THROUGH EZEKIEL, “HAVE I ANY PLEASURE AT ALL THAT THE WICKED SHOULD DIE? SAITH THE LORD GOD: AND NOT THAT HE SHOULD RETURN FROM HIS WAYS, AND LIVE?”
“YET YOU SAY, THE WAY OF THE LORD IS NOT EQUAL. HEAR NOW, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL; IS NOT MY WAY EQUAL? ARE NOT YOUR WAYS UNEQUAL?”
“THEREFORE, I WILL JUDGE YOU, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS, SAITH THE LORD GOD. REPENT, AND TURN YOURSELVES FROM ALL YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS; SO INIQUITY SHALL NOT BE YOUR RUIN. CAST AWAY FROM YOU ALL YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS, WHEREBY YOU HAVE TRANSGRESSED; AND MAKE YOU A NEW HEART AND NEW SPIRIT: FOR WHY WILL YOU DIE, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?”
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 19 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL LAMENTS FOR ISRAEL BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN TAKEN CAPTIVE BY OTHER NATIONS AND PLANTED IN A DRY AND THIRSTY GROUND. (HISTORY SHOWS THE PROOF OF THIS HAS OCCURRED ON TWO OCCASION.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 20 SYNOPSIS:
FROM THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPT TO THE DAY OF EZEKIEL, ISRAEL HAS REBELLED AND FAILED TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.
IN THE LAST DAYS, THE LORD SHALL GATHER ISRAEL AND RESTORE HIS GOSPEL COVENANT.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 21 SYNOPSIS:
BOTH THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED IN JERUSALEM SHALL BE SLAIN.
BABYLON WILL PREVAIL AGAINST ISRAEL. (WE KNOW IT HAPPENED.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 22 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL CATALOGS THE SINS OF THE JEWS IN JERUSALEM ~
- MURDER
- IDOLATRY
- DISHONORING FATHERS AND MOTHERS
- OPPRESSION OF STRANGERS
- VEXING THE FATHERLESS
- VEXING WIDOWS
- PROFANING THE SABBATH
- LYING FOR THE SAKE OF MURDEROUS CONSPIRACY
- LEWDNESS AND ADULTERY
- INCEST
- FORNICATING WITH WOMEN (EVEN THE MENSTROUS)
- BRIBERY
- USURY
- EXTORTION
- FORGETTING GOD
- ALLOWANCE OF FALSE PROPHETS
- ALLOWANCE OF DISHONEST CLERGY
- ALLOWANCE OF DISHONEST POLITICIANS
ISRAEL WILL BE SCATTERED AND DESTROYED FOR THEIR INIQUITIES. (IT HAPPENED AND WILL HAPPEN AGAIN.)
(COMMENTARY: UNDERSTAND THAT ANYTIME THE NATION OF ISRAEL IS FOUND IN THIS STATE OF MORALITY GOD WILL PUNISH THEM, OF COURSE AS WELL, IN THE LAST DAYS! THE SAME LITANY OF SINS ACTIVE IN ANY NATION, AT ANY HISTORICAL TIME PERIOD— BRINGS JUDGMENT.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 23 SYNOPSIS:
TWO SISTER CITIES (SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM) COMMITTED WHOREDOMS BY WORSHIPPING IDOLS. BOTH CITIES ARE DESTROYED FOR THEIR LEWDNESS. (YES, IT HAPPENED.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 24 SYNOPSIS:
THE IRREVOCABLE JUDGEMENT OF JERUSALEM IS FORETOLD. (PLEASE READ FOR YOURSELF.)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 26 SYNOPSIS:
BECAUSE SHE REJOICED IN THE SORROWS AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, TYRUS (SYRIA) SHALL BE DESTROYED.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 27 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL LAMENTS THE FALL OF TYRUS (SYRIA) AND THE LOSS OF HER RICHES AND COMMERCE.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 28 SYNOPSIS:
TYRUS (SYRIA) AND ZIDON SHALL FALL AND BE DESTROYED.
THE LORD WILL GATHER ISRAEL TO HER OWN LAND IN THE LAST DAYS. (SINCE 1948)
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 29 SYNOPSIS:
EGYPT SHALL BE OVERTHROWN BY BABYLON. WHEN SHE RISES AGAIN, SHE SHALL BE THE BASEST OF KINGDOMS. (ALL OF THIS HAPPENED, JUST TAKE A LOOK AT EGYPT TODAY).
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 30 SYNOPSIS:
EGYPT SHALL BE MADE DESOLATE BY BABYLON.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 33 SYNOPSIS:
WATCHMEN WHO RAISE THE WARNING VOICE SAVE THEIR OWN SOULS.
REPENTANT SINNERS ARE SAVED.
THE RIGHTEOUS WHO TURN TO SIN ARE DAMNED.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 34 SYNOPSIS:
THE LORD REPROVES THOSE SHEPHERDS WHO DO NOT FEED THE FLOCK.
IN THE LAST DAYS, THE LORD WILL GATHER THE LOST SHEEP OF ISRAEL. THE MESSIAH SHALL BE THEIR SHEPHERD.
THE LORD WILL MAKE HIS GOSPEL COVENANT WITH THEM.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 36 SYNOPSIS:
IN THE LAST DAYS, ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL SHALL BE GATHERED TO THEIR OWN LANDS. (SINCE 1948 THIS HAS OCCURRED.)
THE LORD WILL GIVE THEM A NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT. THEY SHALL HAVE HIS GOSPEL LAW.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 37 SYNOPSIS:
ISRAEL SHALL BE GATHERED AND CLEANSED.
COMMENTARY: (THE CLEANSING BEGINS SOON PEOPLE!)
THE MESSIAH SHALL REIGN OVER THEM.
THEY SHALL RECEIVE THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL COVENANT.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 38 SYNOPSIS:
THE PROPHET TELLS US THAT IN THE LAST DAYS (BEGINNING OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD) THE BATTLE OF GOG AND MAGOG (RUSSIA) AGAINST ISRAEL SHALL USHER IN THE SECOND COMING.
COMMENTARY: WE ARE RACING TOWARD THIS EVENT IN THE NEWS NOW. THE DEEP STATE LIES ABOUT TRUMP/RUSSIA THEMATIC DRAWS THE IRE OF PUTIN, JUST AS MUCH AS THE BROADENING AND TENSE MILITARY OPERATIONS WHICH ARE HAPPENING, AS ALL NATIONS ARE PREPARING ONCE AGAIN FOR GLOBAL WAR.
GOD SPEAKS TO EZEKIEL AND TELLS HIM TO PROPHESY AGAINST MAGOG (RUSSIA). EZEKIEL BEGINS WITH ~
GOD IS AGAINST MAGOG.
GOD WILL PUT HOOKS INTO MAGOG’S JAWS AND LEAD THEM WITH ALL THEIR ARMY AND WEAPONRY ALONG WITH PERSIA (IRAN/IRAQ), ETHIOPIA, LIBYA AND AN ARMY OF GOMER (GENTILES = DIVERSE NATIONS). THEY WILL MOVE ON ISRAEL LIKE A STORM AND COVER THE WHOLE LAND.
AT THE SAME TIME GOG (RUSSIA) WILL SURROUND ISRAEL AND THE FURY OF GOD COMES.
THERE WILL BE AN INCREDIBLE EARTHQUAKE, THE BIGGEST EVER, AND IT WILL SHAKE THE WHOLE EARTH.
ISRAEL WILL STRIKE GOG AT GOD’S WORD AND COMMAND.
THERE WILL BE HAILSTONES, FIRE AND BRIMSTONE RAINED UPON GOG.
“THUS WILL I MAGNIFY MYSELF, AND SACTIFY MYSELF; AND I WILL BE KNOWN IN THE EYES OF MANY NATIONS, AND THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD.”
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 39 SYNOPSIS:
GOD TELLS EZEKIEL TO PROPHESY AGAINST GOG. GOD IS AGAINST GOG.
“I WILL TURN THEE BACK (GOG), AND LEAVE BUT THE SIXTH PART OF THEE.”
IN OTHER WORDS ISRAEL WILL DEFEAT 5/6 OF ALL THE RUSSIANS.
GOG WILL FALL DEAD UPON THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL TO BE EATEN BY RAVENOUS BIRDS.
“SO WILL I MAKE MY HOLY NAME KNOWN IN THE MIDST OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL; AND I WILL NOT LET THEM POLLUTE MY HOLY NAME ANY MORE: AND THE HEATHEN SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.”
THE ISRAELITES WILL THEN BURN ALL THE WEAPONS OF WAR FOR SEVEN YEARS.
ISRAEL WILL SPOIL THEM THAT SPOILED THEM AND ROB THEM THAT ROBBED THEM. (EVIDENTLY RUSSIA AND THE NATIONS WILL BESIEGE ISRAEL FIRST BEFORE ISRAEL RETALIATES WITH MASSIVE FORCE.)
IN THE VALLEY OF HAMAN-GOG, THE ISRAELITES SHALL BE BURYING THE DEAD RUSSIANS AND PEOPLE OF OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN YEARS!
“SO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THEIR GOD FROM THAT DAY FORWARD.”
“NEITHER WILL I HIDE MY FACE ANY MORE FROM THEM . . .”
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 40 SYNOPSIS:
A HEAVENLY VISITOR SHOWS EZEKIEL IN A VISION A CITY WHEREIN IS THE TEMPLE.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 41 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL SEES THE TEMPLE AND THE HOLY OF HOLIES, AND IS SHOWN THEIR FORM AND SIZE.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 43 SYNOPSIS:
THE GLORY OF GOD FILLS THE TEMPLE. HIS THRONE IS THERE AND HE PROMISES TO DWELL IN THE MIDST OF ISRAEL FOREVER.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 47 SYNOPSIS:
EZEKIEL TELLS US THAT IN THE LAST DAYS WATERS WILL ISSUE FROM THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND HEAL THE DEAD SEA.
NEXT . . . THE BOOK OF DANIEL.