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Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 8 — Ezekiel 12 and 13. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 8 — Ezekiel 12 and 13. Show all posts

09 June, 2017

Search The Scriptures —Study 8 — Ezekiel 12 and 13

Study 8 From the Book of Ezekiel is: Ezekiel 12 and 13

1.     12:1-20 declares by two vivid symbolic actions on the part of the prophet the doom that was in store both for the people of Jerusalem (verses 3, 4, 18, 19) and for the king (verses 5, 6, 10-16). Having grasped the significance of the prophecy, turn to 2 Ki. 25:1-7 to see how exactly it was fulfilled.
2.     Note the two scoffing remarks in 12:22 and 27.  What do these signify? How are they paralleled in modern attitudes to the second coming of Christ? Cf. 2 Pet. 3:8-10.
3.     Chapter 13. Condemnation of false prophets. By what two vivid images are they described (see 4 and 10, 11), and what is the effect of their prophesying (verse 6, 10a, 22)? What phrase differentiating them from true prophets occurs twice in the chapter?
Note. 13:18-21. The magic armbands and veils were devices used by soothsayers and clairvoyants to deceive gullible victims. A useful section on the interpretation of this passage is to be found in NBD (article ‘Magic and Sorcery’, p.767).  The handfuls of barley and pieces of bread were probably used in forms of divination, forecasting life or death to inquirers.