Ezekiel’s ministry was to remind the exiles that their sins had brought God’s judgment and to assure them of God’s future blessing and His faithfulness to keep His covenant.
Outline by Cristian Păduraru
1-24 Prophecy against Israel
25-32 Against other nations
33-48 Hope for the future
Ezekiel prophesied to the exiles in Babylon at the same time that of Jeremiah was prophesying to the Jews who remained in Jerusalem. This was during the early years of the prophetic ministry of Daniel. He was from a priestly family (Eze 1:3), Ezekiel’s name means: God strengthens. He spent his early years in Jerusalem until he was deported with others to Babylon in about 597 BC In Babylon, Ezekiel settled in his own house, in a village near Nippur on the river Chebar (Eze 3:15, 24). Ezekiel prophesied for at least 22 years (Eze 1:2, Eze 29:17-21). His wife died in 587 (Eze 24:16-18).
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36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
The one who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself. (Eze 18:20)
I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me. (3:17)
That God is patient with us, but once we turn to following false gods or sinning on a continual basis, He will eventually loose patience and will discipline His children. That is what happened to the Jewish people, when they were taken into captivity by the Babylonian Empire. They were eventually, when they had learned their lesson, allowed to return to the land of Judah and reestablish the Temple and Jerusalem. Ezekiel was a prophet who was to sound the warning that the children of Judah were to repent lest they be allowed to fall into captivity. When his prophecy occurred, that they should repent and God would free them from captivity and allow them to return. A story of God’s love for His children and also of God’s justice and mercy for those who repent..