1. Ezekiel in Outline 1-24: Warnings 1-3: Chariot vision 4-7: Symbolic acts 8-11: Vision of corrupt temple 12-24: Acts and Allegories of Disaster 25-48: Hope/restoration 25-32: Oracles Against the Nations 33-39: Hope after the Fall of Jerusalem 40-48: Vision of a restored Temple

3. Communities of Judah 1.Those in exile with King Jehoiachin on the banks of the River Chebar near Nippur. 2.Those remaining with King Zedekiah in Jerusalem…

4. Dates 1.1; 1.2-3; 3.16; 8.1; 20.1, etc. 593 to around 571 (29.17) 1.1 “the thirtieth year”

5. Numbers 4.3 …from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who qualify to do work relating to the tent of meeting…

6. tsopeh – watchman, sentinel Ezekiel 3.16-21 and 33.1-9

7. Ezekiel 33.1-9 33.2-5: If the sentinel gives warning, then s/he’s absolved of responsibility 33.6: If the sentinel fails to give warning, then s/he’s culpable 33.7: Prophet as sentinel for Israel 33.8-9: S/he must not simply condemn, but call for repentance

8. Visions of Ezekiel 1.1-3.15 – Inaugural vision 8-11 – Visions of judgment 40-48 – Vision of a renewed temple

9. Ezekiel 3.2-3 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat…in my mouth it was as sweet as honey.

10. Ezekiel 43.3 The vision I saw was like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and like the vision that I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

11. Ruach – wind, breath, spirit