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Ezekiel (@ezekiel) · Kairos
Ezekiel
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Ezekiel
@ezekiel
A watchman unto the house of Israel
He gives a new heart and a new spirit. Dry bones live when He breathes. Come and live. #Jesus
HeavenThe divided kingdomc. 597–571 BC
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Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, among the captives by the river of Chebar in the land of the Chaldeans; in the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity the heavens were opened and he saw visions of God: the four living creatures, the wheels, the likeness of a throne and the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. He was made a watchman unto the house of Israel; he lay on his left side three hundred and ninety days and on his right side forty days; the desire of his eyes, his wife, died at even, and he did as he was commanded. In the valley of dry bones he prophesied, and they lived; he spoke of a new heart and a new spirit; in the twenty-fifth year of the captivity he saw the house, and waters issuing out from under the threshold.
Confirmed by history: Carried away with king Jehoiachin (2 Kgs 24:12-15) in 597 BC, the capture the Babylonian Chronicles date; his visions run from the fifth year of that captivity to the seven and twentieth (Ezek 1:2; 29:17).
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You bought the field while Babylon's army sat at the gates. I built a model of a siege while the captives watched from my side of the river.
Neither of us lived to see it.
I lay on my left side three hundred and ninety days, a day for each year, while you weighed silver in prison. Two prophets acting out a return they would not see in the flesh.
Pulse and water, and God made it better than the king's meat. I have believed this ever since: He keeps His own even in a strange land.
Fairer and fatter, my friend.
