1. Ezekiel Ye-eskiel God is my strength God will strengthen me God makes it hard 1www.drnjpaul.com

2. Why should we read this book? Why do we read history and geography? We know what happened or why they happened or the things continue to be there They say history repeats and we have many lessons to learn from the mistake of others Does this book of prophecy have any message for us? What are we supposed to do after reading this? 2www.drnjpaul.com

3. Lessons to learn Punishment comes to all – even God fearing Why were the Jews punished? How long God was patient with them? What is idolatry? Do we find idolatry among believers? Why were they taken back to Babylon and not any where else? In Jesus time why were they scattered all over the world? 3www.drnjpaul.com

4. The place from where Abraham started- to the same place they went back as captives. Returned back because they returned to idolatry 4www.drnjpaul.com

5. Map of Bible land with present day names Ezekiel was taken captive to Babylon Hidekel is the name of River Tigris in Hebrew 5www.drnjpaul.com

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7. Place said to be the tomb of Ezekiel 7www.drnjpaul.com

8. Map with old names of Empires 8www.drnjpaul.com

9. Ezekiel 9www.drnjpaul.com

10. History 734 B.C. ASSYRIA captures Galilee (North) 721 B.C. Samaria and Israel 701 B.C. 2 lakhs captives of Judah also- Hezekiah was king 606 B.C. Juda fell to Babylon- Daniel was taken captive as a boy 597 B.C. More captives- Ezekiel was taken captive to Babylon 586 B.C Jerusalem destroyed- Jeremiah flees to Egypt Ezekiel in Babylon 597 to 570 B.C. CAPTIVITY in Babylon lasted TILL 536 B.C.(70 years) Ezekiel saw visions for this period but they are hard to understand 10www.drnjpaul.com

11. Last home of Ezekiel? 11www.drnjpaul.com

12. More…. Ezekiel would have been Jeremiah’s student and known Daniel in Babylon (14:14) He lived in a village called Tel Habib As captive lived in Chebar river and dug cannel for ships to go from Tigris to Euphrates and to Nippur. It is a place about 50 miles SE of Babylon about 40 miles away from Fara, the home of Noah and 100 miles away from garden of Eden From there he saw visions about far away Jerusalem 12www.drnjpaul.com

13. The awesome visions of Ezekiel begins with a Northern wind ch 1: and bright colors 13www.drnjpaul.com

14. A cloud in the wind 14www.drnjpaul.com

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17. A burning light 17www.drnjpaul.com

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19. Like melting metal 19www.drnjpaul.com

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27. And he saw The Face of man bull eagle and lion 27www.drnjpaul.com

28. The wheel and the living beings 1;10 28www.drnjpaul.com

29. The wheels ch 1: 16 29www.drnjpaul.com

30. One in the likeness of a man ch 1: 26 30www.drnjpaul.com

31. Firmament above ch 1:26 31www.drnjpaul.com

32. Like chrysolite ch. 1:26 32www.drnjpaul.com

33. Like that of a flaming fire ch 1: 27 33www.drnjpaul.com

34. Wheel within a wheel 34www.drnjpaul.com

35. Like that of a rainy day 35www.drnjpaul.com

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37. Lightning 37www.drnjpaul.com

38. Running in their own way 38www.drnjpaul.com

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42. Rainbow on a rainy day 42www.drnjpaul.com

43. Above and below His loins.. 43www.drnjpaul.com

44. …..Dazzling light 44www.drnjpaul.com

45. Ch 2 Scroll 45www.drnjpaul.com

46. He saw Jerusalem city 46www.drnjpaul.com

47. 4 living beings 47www.drnjpaul.com

48. Wheels taken up 48www.drnjpaul.com

49. God spoke Ch2 49www.drnjpaul.com

50. Ch3 Jerusalem a walled city 50www.drnjpaul.com

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