First look at Ezekiel

Listening to the Bible

In my listening through the Bible, I’ve reached Ezekiel. As near as I can tell from just listening, Jeremiah and Ezekiel were contemporaries, with Jeremiah in Jerusalem sending messages to Babylon, and Ezekiel in Babylon sending messages back to Jerusalem.

Both are highly concerned about the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon, and what they should do about it, with both saying that they should repent, and give up the false idols, and return to God.

Both spend a lot of time in street theater (as does Isaiah. Three years naked. I hope he at least had a loincloth, because I can only imagine the sunburn.). Ezekiel’s visions seem to be more surreal, and if his description of angels is even partly literal, rather than just symbolic, then heaven is even stranger than we think.

The Ladies Bible Study that recently started is on Isaiah this time. It’s an 8-chapter course, hitting the highlights.

https://a.co/d/eCHC8N6

Isaiah: Here is your God, by Tim Chester.

This looks like it could be an interesting study. I am a bit concerned, though, seeing little boxes with definitions for words. “Seraphim”, yes that’s not an every day word. But “threshold”? “Woe”? If this is marketed towards adults, they should have learned those words long ago. But it seems a bit too complex to be marketed to teens.