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19 Cards in this Set
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What are the themes of Ezekiel? |
-God's people are utterly sinful and deserve God's judgment. -God's people should be comforted by knowing that would restore them after his judgment. -God's presence is symbolized by the temple. -God's sovereignty is over all nations and all times. |
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What is the pivotal year of Ezekiel's prophecies and why? |
586 B.C. It is the destruction of Jerusalem. |
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When was Ezekiel taken into captivity? |
597 B.C. during the second exile. |
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What kind of restoration did Ezekiel look forward to? |
Spiritual. |
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What four things characterize the book of Ezekiel? |
-Orderliness and arrangement: the prophecies are recorded in chronological order. -Symbolic acts or "signs." -Symbolic stories or allegories. -Visions.` |
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Two key phrases |
-"They (you) shall know that I am Yahweh." -"The glory of Yahweh." |
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What event is related to Ezekiel's first vision? |
The calling of Ezekiel as a prophet. |
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What happens as a part of Ezekiel's first vision of Jerusalem? |
The departure of the glory of God from the temple prior to its destruction. In the midst of this, Ezekiel cries out in despair, and, in response, God gives him a message of the assurance of hope. |
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What other significant event took place on the day that Ezekiel's wife died? |
It was also the day that Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem which marks the beginning of the end for Jerusalem. |
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What event coincides with chapter 33? |
The destruction of Jerusalem. |
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What is the tone in 4-24? |
Condemnation primarily. |
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What is the tone in 33-48? |
Consolation primarily. |
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What in Ezekiel 36 corresponds to Jeremian 31? |
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What vision is associated with chapter 37? |
The Valley of Dry Bones |
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Chapters 40-48 describe what? |
The future Messianic kingdom |
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In Ezekiel's second vision of Jerusalem, what does the glory of God do in relation to the temple? |
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What are the two interpretational approaches to chapters 40-48? |
Symbolic and literal. |
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Symbolic |
-There is no longer any need for animalsacrifices because of the perfect and final sacrifice of Christ. According toRevelation 21:22, there will be no temple in the New Jerusalem. -They believe that these prophecies werefulfilled in the past by the Jews who returned to the land after the exile. -They believe that these prophecies will befulfilled in the future, not in a literal sense by the nation of Israel, but ina spiritual sense by the church which replaced or succeeded Israel as thecovenant people of god. |
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Literal |
-There is great detail here, which seems odd ifit is only symbolic. The animal sacrifices prophesied may be memorial innature, looking back on the perfect and final sacrifice of Christ. There willindeed be not temple in the New Jerusalem in the eternal state as described inRevelation 21, but Ezekiel is describing the Jerusalem of the earthly Messianickingdom for the eternal state. - They believe that Israel and the Church continueto be distinct in God’s program – 2 covenant peoples of God. They believe thatEzekiel 40-48 describes the fulfillment of all of God’s covenant promises toIsrael and the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. |
