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Through Christ, Who taught us the way to Love: David Buffaloe, Didaskalos Ministries

1. Title of the Book:
1. It was named after the Prophet Yehesco, or Ezekiel, which translated meant "God is Strong".
2. The name Ezekiel emphasizes the message or theme of the Book. That is, God strengthens the faithful remnant by means of His restoring hand".
3. The name Ezekiel also emphasizes the secondary message or theme of the Book. That is, "God is Sovereign in Power and Judgment".
2. Author of the Book:
1. The Book was accepted by the earliest Jewish believers as the work of the Prophet Ezekiel (see the non-canon book Ecclesiasticus 49.8)
2. The Shammai Rabbis rejected the Book in the first century AD because:
1. Of the sensual story in Ezekiel 16. It seemed too "X Rated" for Scripture.
2. Of Ezekiel 1, because they felt there were no specific revelations between God and man in this section.
3. Because of Ezekiel Chapters 40-48 which taught about a New Temple, a New Covenant, and a New Sacrifice.
1. These concepts all foretold of the coming Church Age, which Israel utterly rejected.
3. In the Church Council of Damnia Ezekiel was recognized as being a part of the Old Testament canon, and fully inspired.
4. The Book was again questioned by Liberal Theologians in 1924. They declared that Ezekiel was a poet, and everything in the Book that was not poetical was not from his hand. This is balderdash. What God inspires, He alone inspires. And though God used human agents in the inspiration there is no reason to believe that the will of these agents overshadowed that of God.
5. The Book is again questioned by Liberal Theologians today.
1. These "theologians" say that though the Book was supposed to have been written from Babylon, it seems to have actually been written from Palestine because of the details reiterated. Again, this is foolish. Information flowed freely from Babylon to Palestine and back again. Besides, God was the Author. Don't you think He knew what was going on in both places simultaneously? See Jeremiah 29 and Ezekiel 33.
3. Historical outline of the Book:
1. Jeremiah was called by God in 627 BC.
2. The Book of the Law, which had previously been lost, was found. This was called the "Penteteuch".
3. In 609 BC King Josiah was killed in the battle of Meggido.
1. His son Jehoakim was placed on the throne by Egypt, though he only reigned a few days.
2. Zedekiah or Jehoachin was placed on the throne of Israel as a vassal or puppet king, and reigned until 605 BC.
4. In 605 BC Daniel was captured by Babylon. Jerusalem fell under their fierce onslaught. This was the "first wave" attack on Israel.
1. Zedekiah or Jehoachin was allowed to stay on the throne by Babylon, again, as a vassal king.
5. In 601 BC Zedekiah rebelled against Babylon and tried to raise an army to defeat them. This led to the "second wave" attack against Israel.
1. Ezekiel was captured in this attack. He was commissioned by God as a Prophet in 592 BC.
6. The "Great Siege" or third wave attack against Jerusalem began in 598 BC.
1. The city fell in 586 BC, and the Israelites were carried off in slavery to Babylon.
2. Ezekiel ministered to these captives in Babylon for 22 years. His last dated prophecy was in the 27th year of his own captivity (see Ezekiel 29.17).
4. Religious conditions in Israel
1. Before his calling Ezekiel was warned that the people were apostate by God (Ezekiel 2.3-5).
2. Jeremiah, a contemporary of Ezekiel's, preached for 45 years and received no conversions from among the Israelites.
1. The people loved to hear the false prophets, but not God's Prophets (Jeremiah 29.4, 8-9)
3. Most Jews condemned God for allowing their captivity rather than recognize it was Divine Punishment and repent (Ezekiel 18.25).
4. The Israelites were blatant in their idolatry, and even carried idols to the Temple (Ezekiel 8). They prayed to the queen of heaven (Jeremiah 7.18), Molloch the bull god (Jeremiah 19.5-15), and Baal the sacraficer of children (Jeremiah 2.8).
5. Contemporaries of Ezekiel
1. Jeremiah preached from 627 - 586 BC to the Jews prior to captivity.
2. Daniel preached to the Gentiles in Babylon from 605 - 533 BC.
3. Ezekiel preached to the Jews in Babylonian captivity from 592 - 570 BC.
6. Character of the Prophet
1. Ezekiel was a Priest from the line of Aaron (Ezekiel 1.3).
1. As a Priest he used many illustrations of the Temple to teach the people.
2. Ezekiel was a "dumb Prophet".
1. God sealed his lips so that he couldn't speak unless God directed him to do so (Ezekiel 3.26-27). Every word out of his mouth was, in fact, Divinely Inspired.
2. God did this so that Ezekiel wouldn't waste time defending himself before an apostate people. He could only teach God's Word and call Israel to repentance.
3. Since the people didn't want to hear God, God often had Ezekiel perform illustrations to interest the curiosity of the Jews. A particularly harsh symbol used was when God took Ezekiel's wife's life, this symbolizing Jerusalem's fall before Babylon.
7. Outline of the Book
1. Ezekiel 1-24, the Denunciation of Israel
1. The call of Ezekiel: 1-3
2. Jerusalem's destruction foretold: 4-7
3. Glory of God departs Jerusalem: 8-11
4. Individual responsibility in the fall: 12-19
5. Moral necessity for the coming Judgment: 20-24
2. Ezekiel 25-32, Judgments pronounced on the Nations
3. Ezekiel 33-48, the Restoration of Israel
1. Israel regathered: 34
2. Prospering in the Land: 35
3. Restoration of Israel: 36
4. Vision of Dry Bones: 37
5. Gog and Magog: 38-39
6. Millinial Israel: 40-48

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Ez:1:5:

• ANGELS STUDY MANKIND (1 PETER 1.12)
• ELECT ANGELS STUDY THE SALVATION OF MAN WITH JOY (LUKE 15.10)
• ANGELS OBSERVE THE CHURCH AND IT'S EARTHLY LEADERS (1 COR 4.9; EPH 3.10)
• AS WE APPLY GOD'S WORD IN OUR LIVES WE BECOME OBJECT LESSONS FOR THE ANGELS (1 COR 11.9-10)
• COMMANDS GIVEN BY CHURCH LEADERS ARE WITNESSES BY ANGELS, WHO WILL RECOUNT THIS ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT (1 TIM 5.21)
• FALLEN ANGELS ARE THOSE WHO FOLLOWED SATAN IN REVOLTING AGAINST GOD
• FALLEN ANGELS TORMENT MANKIND WITH ILLNESSES:
• APOSTLE PAUL : 2 COR 12.7
• SKIN CANCER IN JOB: JOB 2.6-8
• BLINDNESS OR DUMBNESS: MAT 12.22; 9.32-33
• CRIPPLING DISEASES : LUKE 13.11-12; MARK 9.17-18
• OPPRESSION: ACTS 10.38; MARK 5.1-13
• DEMON POSSESSION: MARK 1.32-34
• ARCHANGELS, ANGELS WHO RULE OVER ALL THE OTHER ANGELS UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF GOD. LUCIFER WAS THE ONLY FALLEN ARCHANGEL. THE TWO PROMINENT ARCHANGELS AMONG THE ELECT ANGELS ARE MICHAEL AND GABRIEL.
• MICHAEL (MEANING, "HE WHO IS LIKE GOD"), THE WARRIOR ANGEL WHO WILL OVERTHROW SATAN JUST BEFORE THE TIME OF THE TRIBULATION: DAN 10.13; 12.1; 10.21; JUDE 9; REV 12.7
• GABRIEL (MEANING, "THE MIGHTY ONE OF GOD") IS GOD'S MESSENGER ANGEL. HE ANNOUNCED THE COMING BIRTH OF CHRIST TO MARY AND JOSEPH, PROTECTED THE BABY CHRIST BY WARNING JOSEPH TO GO INTO EGYPT, ROLLED THE STONE FROM THE TOMB AT CHRIST'S RESSURECTION, AND WAS VERY ACTIVE AMONG THE APOSTLES IN THE EARLY CHURCH: DAN 8.16; 9.21; LU 1.19,26; MAT 1.20; 2.13,19; LU 2.9; 22.43; MAT 28.2; AC 5.19; 8.26; 10.3; 12.7; 12.23; 27.23; 1 THES 4.16
• CHERUBIM:
• THESE ANGELS HAD FOUR SIDES TO THEIR FACE. THE FRONT LOOKED LIKE A MAN, THE RIGHT LIKE A LION, THE LEFT LIKE AN OX, AND THE REAR WAS LIKE AN EAGLE.
• THEY HAD FOUR WINGS, TWO OUTSTRETCHED WHILE TWO COVERED THEIR BODY. A HUMAN HAND PROTRUDED OUT FROM EACH WING TIP. WHEN THEY FLEW, THEIR WINGS MADE SOUNDS LIKE THE CRASHING OF WAVES ON THE SEASHORE.
• THE CHERUBIM HAD CLOVEN CALVES FEET SHINY LIKE BRASS.
• THE CHERUBIM MOVED IN GROUPS OF FOUR, THE WINGS OF EACH ONE TOUCHING THE NEXT SO THAT THEY MADE A SQUARE FLYING FORMATION. THEY MOVED AS A GROUP WITHOUT MOVING THEIR BODIES.
• THEIR DUTY WAS TO GUARD THE THRONE OF GOD. THEY WERE ALSO POSTED AROUND EDEN TO KEEP MAN OUT ONCE HE WAS EXPELLED. THE CHERUBIM ALSO GUARDED THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
• SATAN WAS A CHIEF CHERUB BEFORE HE FELL FROM GRACE. (GEN 3.24; EXO 25.18-20; EZEK 1.4-28; 10.1-22; ISA 14.12; EZEK 28.14)
• SERAPHIM: THESE ANGELS HAD SIX WINGS, TWO PAIRS COVERING BOTH FACE AND FEET, ONE PAIR TO FLY WITH. THESE ANGELS ARE IN CHARGE OF HEAVENLY WORSHIP (ISA 6.1-7). THE NAME "SERAPHIM" MEANS "THE BURNING ONES".
• FOUR ELDER ANGELS: THOUGH RELATED TO THE CHERUBIM, THEY ARE A SEPARATE ANGELIC CATEGORY. THESE ANGELS POSSIBLY HOLD THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT SATAN HAD BEFORE HIS FALL.
• EACH ANGEL FLIES WITH SIX OUTSTRETCHED WINGS. EACH ANGEL'S BODY IS COVERED WITH EYES.
• EACH ANGEL HAS A DIFFERENT FACE, ONE LIKE A LION, ANOTHER AN EAGLE, ANOTHER AN OX, ANOTHER A MAN. THESE ANGELS GUARD THE THRONE OF GOD.
• ONE OF EACH ANGEL WILL ANNOUNCE ONE OF THE FIRST FOUR TRIBULATIONAL JUDGMENTS. (REV 4.6-9; 5.8; 6.1; 6.3,5,7)
• RULING ANGELS ARE ANGELS IN SATAN'S HIERARCHY, AND ARE LISTED AS PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, THRONES, AUTHORITIES, DOMINIONS, AND MIGHT. (EPH 1.21; 3.10; COL 1.16; 2.10; 1 PE 3.22)
• GUARDIAN ANGELS WATCH OVER BELIEVERS: MAT 18.10; HE 1.14
• WATER ANGELS CONTROL THE FLOW OF THE TIDES AND THE SEAS: REV 16.5
• ABYSS ANGELS GUARD THE FALLEN ANGELS TRAPPED IN TARTARUS (THE PIT: REV 9.1; GEN 6.2)
• FIRE ANGELS CONTROL FIRE (REV 14.18)
• JUDGMENT ANGELS WILL DISPENSE JUDGMENTS DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE TRIBULATION (REV 8.1; 15.1)
• WATCHER ANGELS WATCH AND RECORD THE EVENTS ON EARTH AMONGST MANKIND (DAN 4.13)
• TWENTY FOUR ELDER ANGELS LEAD HEAVENLY WORSHIP, CASTING THEIR CROWNS AT THE FEET OF GOD IN HIS THRONE. ALL HAVE WHITE CLOTHING AND GOLDEN CROWNS. (REV 4.4)

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