Prophetic Actions: Speak louder than words?

Ezekiel 1-10 Uppercrust exilee Merkavah Mysticism: wheels, Gospellers faces?, burnished bronze, crystal, lightning Eat honey scroll Flint face: speak or die Actions: – Seven days stunned – Bound and speechless: 390/40, Ezekiel bread – Play war – Sword haircut: fire, scatter, hack – Clap and stamp – Dig through wall – Tremble while eating/drinking Arrows of famine/divine revenge Defile altars Bald faces, sackcloth Abomination: Tammuz, idols, Kidron Valley Mark of protection (vs. beast), Cain Cherubim/SeraphimExiles abandoned? Control future! Woe to false prophets Idols set up in hearts No hope- useless vines Eagle & 2 vines => cedar for all God faithful for God’s sake “Just parables?” Reversals: meat in a pot – Grapes & teeth on edge – Heart of stone – Delay of vision – Paying prostitute

Ezekiel Polished sword pierces thigh: vengeance or refinement? Forked road with signs Graphic abomination and conquering: two tents No mourning Punishing the rods: Moab and Ammon Destroying idols: Tyre, Sidon, Egypt, Ethiopia – Danel – “the Nile is mine” – Assyria, Elam as analogues: fallen cedar, place in Pit Prophet/priest as religious entertainment? Shepherds eating the sheep and their forage… Mt. Seir (Edom & Esau)- punishment for rejoicing Sanctify my Name- prophesy to the Land Kidron: dry bones & breath Joining sticks Gog Magog Prophesy to birds: dinner time New Temple, Recreate worship – Dimensions; palace missing – Zadok > Abiathar, Levites butchers – Nazirite priests – Princes alongside people – Water of life and expansion of land

For next week… Conceive, in 500 or fewer words, of a prophetic deed that could be done in a church service and describe how it might embody a call to repentance. Read Daniel and Isaiah 40-65, paying careful attention to passages describing God’s servant and idols, and excerpt from A Grief Observed.