Presents
Pamphlet 1202 Ezek kc 8-1

Nowhere was Ezekiel told
he just needed to go to church one day a week or preach that to the people.

Let's recap the first three chapters of Ezekiel.

The LORD God Almighty came down from heaven
in a highly polished spectrum metal vehicle,
expressly to Ezekiel,
to make him strong and to deliver His messages to him,
so that we in the last days would also be made strong
through knowing what is happening now,
what is about to happen, and what we are to do!

The first thing God told Ezekiel was
that He was going to send him to the children of Israel,
but only after he was qualified and had eaten the "scroll
written within and without".

This analogy is simply a PICTURE to illustrate how we are to study
and absorb into our very being
the ENTIRE Word of God and to prepare ourselves to be used by Him.

You know, study to show yourself approved (for use) (2 Tim. 2:15).

Nowhere was Ezekiel told
he just needed to go to church one day a week or preach that to the people.

Then, after Ezekiel had eaten the scroll,
he was promoted and made a WATCHMAN unto the House of Israel,
an extremely important position of responsibility,
and he was instructed to hear the words of God from His mouth (His Word),
and to give warning to the people from Him (His Word) in the manner of,
"Thus saith the Lord", and its various forms such as,
"It is written".

Now Ezekiel is being instructed to physically
act out and demonstrate by doing things and using things
that we can "SEE",
so that we have a clear PICTURE in our minds
of what He wants us to understand.

They are like little plays on a stage giving us a VISION in our minds,
thereby helping us to understand and remember.

And it works very well!

The Lord began Ezekiel's demonstrations
for us by telling him to go position himself on the "plain"
between two mountains and He would talk to him there.

Ezekiel was to know from this geographical placement
that he would be in the "split" between the mountains,
which are symbolic of nations,
meaning Israel and Babylon,
or on a higher level, the two powers,
Christ and Satan.

So it shall be for the watchmen in this final generation.

Ezekiel was then told to build a model of the city of Jerusalem under siege,
by taking a Babylon brick and etching a picture of the city of Jerusalem
on it and laying it before him and setting the enemy camps and battering rams, etc. around it.

He was then to take an iron griddle used for baking "bread"
and set it as a wall between him and the city.

He was to face the iron wall and then show the city under siege
while he is fully protected behind it.

In like manner we will be protected by that iron shield
when the city once again comes under siege by the king of Babylon
(Satan, the antichrist) in these last days.

The LORD God is our wall of protection,
symbolized by the impenetrable iron.

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.

is

Published by:

Rhine Publishing Co.
E-mail address - americanwisdomseries@verizon.net

If you would like to have your essay published
as part of the American Wisdom Series
submit your manuscript to Rhine Publishing Co
at the address above for consideration, or e-mail us
at the address shown on our home page.

Click Here to Return to "The American Wisdom Series" home page.