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Ezekiel

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Old Testament · Major Prophets · 39 studies · 23 earlier recordings · Total audio: 6 hrs 41 min

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  1. 1 Ezekiel 1 - The vision of divine glory Ezekiel 1 opens the heavens in exile, revealing the Lord enthroned above the living creatures and preparing the Church to see divine glory fulfilled in Christ. 19 min read Earlier recording
  2. 2-3 Ezekiel 2:1-3:15 - The prophet eats the scroll The prophet is sent only after he has been raised, fed, and strengthened by God. The Lord does not promise easy hearers, public honor, or visible success. He gives Ezekiel... 16 min read
  3. 3 Ezekiel 3:16-27 - The watchman and the bound tongue After seven days among the exiles, Ezekiel receives a watchman's charge. He must warn for life, but he may not seize God's authority for his own agitation. The Lord who makes him... 9 min read
  4. 4 Ezekiel 4 - The brick, the bonds, and the bread of siege The Lord commands Ezekiel to make Jerusalem's danger visible: a city drawn on a brick, a siege built around it, a prophet bound beside it, bread weighed and water measured. The... 12 min read
  5. 5 Ezekiel 5 - The divided hair and the city among the nations The next sign is not drawn on a brick. It passes over Ezekiel's own head and beard. He is commanded to shave with a sword, weigh the hair, and divide it among fire, blade, wind,... 11 min read
  6. 6 Ezekiel 6 - The mountains of Israel and the remembering remnant Ezekiel turns from the besieged city to the mountains, hills, valleys, forests, and settlements of Israel. Idolatry is not abstract. The high places are the map of betrayal:... 11 min read
  7. 7 Ezekiel 7 - The end has come, and silver cannot ransom The end arrives in repeated blows of language: the time has come; the day is near; the end is here. Buying and selling, silver and gold, political strength and religious office... 12 min read
  8. 8-9 Ezekiel 8-9 - Hidden abominations and the mark of those who grieve Ezekiel is brought into the temple and shown what its worshipers think is hidden. The glory is still there, but incense, grief, and bodily reverence have been offered to other... 15 min read
  9. 10-11 Ezekiel 10-11 - The glory departs and a new heart is promised The marked remnant has been distinguished, and now the glory rises from the house. The cherubim and wheels of the first vision carry it to the gate and beyond the city. Yet, while... 16 min read
  10. 12-13 Ezekiel 12-13 - Exile signs and false peace A packed bag and a plastered wall give opposite answers to the same crisis. 18 min read Earlier recording
  11. 14-15 Ezekiel 14-15 - Idols in the heart and the fruitless vine The elders sit before Ezekiel as if they are ready to hear, but the Lord addresses what they have carried into the meeting. 16 min read Earlier recording
  12. 16 Ezekiel 16 - The unfaithful bride Ezekiel 16 names Jerusalem as the rescued bride who betrayed covenant love, exposing idolatry, exploitation, violence, judgment, shame, and the mercy of God who remembers His... 26 min read Earlier recording
  13. 17 Ezekiel 17 - Eagles, covenant, and the tender cedar Ezekiel 17 exposes Zedekiah's oath-breaking and failed trust in Egypt, then turns hope toward the Lord who plants the tender cedar Himself and gives shelter to the nations. 18 min read Earlier recording
  14. 18 Ezekiel 18 - The soul that sins shall die Ezekiel 18 rejects fatalism and inherited blame by calling the whole house of Israel to personal repentance within the covenant mercy of the God who desires life. 16 min read Earlier recording
  15. 19 Ezekiel 19 - Lament for princes and the burned vine A funeral song over failed princes who became violent lions and a vine whose royal rod was burned from within. The short poetic lament stands on its own to teach grief before God... 8 min read Earlier recording
  16. 20 Ezekiel 20 - Covenant rebellion and the Lord's holy name The elders come to inquire of the Lord, but the Lord answers with the long history of covenant rebellion from Egypt through the wilderness and the land. The Lord refuses inquiry... 21 min read Earlier recording
  17. 21 Ezekiel 21 - The sword of the Lord The prophet groans before the sword; false rule is overturned until the promised King comes, and Christ returns Peter’s weapon to its sheath. 13 min read
  18. 22 Ezekiel 22 - The bloody city and the empty breach Jerusalem’s bloodguilt joins failed worship to public harm; Christ answers the absence of righteous intercession with His freely chosen watch and prayer. 13 min read
  19. 23 Ezekiel 23 - Oholah and Oholibah Ezekiel 23 portrays Samaria and Jerusalem as sisters whose political and cultic adulteries expose covenant betrayal, so that God's people may reject false alliances, repent of... 18 min read Earlier recording
  20. 24 Ezekiel 24 - The boiling pot and Ezekiel’s bereavement Ezekiel 24 marks the beginning of Jerusalem's siege through the boiling pot sign and Ezekiel's bereavement, showing that defilement has reached crisis and that judgment enters the... 13 min read Earlier recording
  21. 25 Ezekiel 25 - Neighbors judged for gloating and revenge Four neighboring peoples expose four forms of cruelty: gloating, contempt, remembered revenge, and hatred from the heart. God’s judgment does not authorize ours. 10 min read Earlier recording
  22. 26 Ezekiel 26 - Tyre says Aha and becomes a bare rock Tyre’s opportunistic Aha is answered by the Lord’s judgment; the coasts of pride also hear a mother’s appeal to Christ for mercy. 9 min read
  23. 27 Ezekiel 27 - The lament for the merchant ship The magnificent ship’s cargo includes human lives. Tyre’s lament teaches gratitude, accountability, and grief before the God no abundance can replace. 11 min read
  24. 28 Ezekiel 28 - Tyrian pride and the promise of safe dwelling Tyre’s self-deifying king and the fallen angel in St Cyril’s reading expose pride’s corruption of received glory; Christ’s humility opens the way to safe dwelling. 13 min read Earlier recording
  25. 29-30 Ezekiel 29-30 - The broken reed and the day of the Lord Pharaoh claims the Nile as his own creation and offers Israel a reed staff that breaks. The Lord judges imperial pride, assigns Egypt as wages to Babylon after the costly service... 19 min read Earlier recording
  26. 31-32 Ezekiel 31-32 - The felled tree and descent to the pit Assyria’s cypress falls and Pharaoh joins the company of defeated powers. The Church laments rather than gloats, and confesses Christ’s victorious descent through the Cross. 17 min read Earlier recording
  27. 33 Ezekiel 33 - Watchman and news of the fall After Jerusalem falls, Ezekiel's renewed watchman word becomes a summons to life, repentance, and obedience rather than another occasion for passive religious listening. 19 min read Earlier recording
  28. 34 Ezekiel 34 - False shepherds and the true Shepherd God condemns shepherds who feed themselves while the flock suffers, then promises that He Himself will seek, feed, heal, judge, and raise up the one Davidic Shepherd fulfilled in... 22 min read Earlier recording
  29. 35-36 Ezekiel 35:1-36:15 - Mount Seir and the mountains of Israel The Lord judges Edom's predatory enmity and promises fruit, inhabited cities, and an end to reproach for the mountains of Israel. 11 min read
  30. 36 Ezekiel 36:16-38 - Clean water, a new heart, and the Spirit For His holy name the Lord gathers and washes His people, gives a living heart and His Spirit, and renews a worshiping flock. 14 min read
  31. 37 Ezekiel 37 - Dry bones and one stick The Lord speaks life into the valley of death, opens the graves of His despairing people, gives His Spirit, and gathers them into one people under one Shepherd and King. 21 min read Earlier recording
  32. 38-39 Ezekiel 38-39 - Gog and Magog After restoration, Gog and Magog show that the people of God still face hostile powers, yet their final security rests in the Lord's holy name and not in military calculation. 20 min read Earlier recording
  33. 40 Ezekiel 40 - The gates and courts measured The Lord gives the exiles an ordered approach through gates and courts, teaching attention, reverence, and embodied service before the glory returns. 19 min read
  34. 41-42 Ezekiel 41-42 - The house, the chambers and the wall of holiness Cherubs, palms, the table, sacred chambers, and the surveyed wall teach reverence for the Lord who gives access without being contained by His house. 16 min read
  35. 43 Ezekiel 43 - Glory returns and the altar consecrated The glory of the Lord returns by the eastern way and fills the measured house; the altar is purged and consecrated so that the Lord will accept the offerings of His people. 12 min read Earlier recording
  36. 44 Ezekiel 44 - Shut gate and priestly holiness The east gate is shut for the Lord's unique entrance; accountable ministry and priestly discipline guard a house made holy by His presence. 14 min read Earlier recording
  37. 45-46 Ezekiel 45-46 - Holy portion and worship order Ezekiel 45-46 teaches that restored worship is holy, just, measured, restrained in leadership, and ordered in offering, because the worship of God cannot be separated from justice... 24 min read Earlier recording
  38. 47 Ezekiel 47 - River of life and resident alien inheritance Water flows from the sanctuary, deepens beyond human control, heals dead places, and brings life; the land is restored by divine oath with inheritance given even to strangers who... 16 min read Earlier recording
  39. 48 Ezekiel 48 - Land fairness and the city ending The land is divided with the holy portion central; every tribe receives a named portion; the city has twelve gates named for the tribes and is measured on every side; the book... 16 min read Earlier recording