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Whole Bible in 2 Years – Intro
Our church is reading through the Bible together over the next 2 years. I’m going to journal my thoughts (for your reading enjoyment). If you’d like a schedule to read along you can download it for free here: This is not my first trip through the Bible. Far from it. But it is the first…
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Ezekiel 16
In the last message, Yahweh compared the people of Jerusalem to a useless vine. Now He describes the nation as a woman. He tells the whole tale in an allegorical form, describing the nation as an abandoned newborn lying on the ground and covered in blood. He rescued the unwanted baby and provided for her.…
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Ezekiel 15
In this short chapter, Yahweh calls the people of Jerusalem a useless vine. The only real use a grapevine has to produce grapes. If the people of Jerusalem are a “useless vine” then it means they aren’t producing fruit. If a vine doesn’t make grapes then you can’t do much else with it except make…
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Ezekiel 13-14
False Prophets & Internal Idols In chapter 13, Yahweh denounces two groups of prophets: men and women. They are both telling people what they want to hear but in different ways. The false prophecies of the men are compared to a layer of whitewash on flimsy wall. Many a structural problem has been hidden by…
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Ezekiel 12
Two Signs & A Proverb We must remember that as Ezekiel is receiving these prophecies, Jerusalem hasn’t fallen yet. Jeremiah is still there- probably being threatened or beaten or imprisoned at this point. Zedekiah is king- the one who cut up and burned the scroll with Jeremiah’s prophecies. Two groups of exiles have been removed…
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Ezekiel 10 – 11
The Vision of the Idolatrous Temple, Part 2 Let’s not forget what the temple and the city looked like at end of chapter 9. It’s strewn with dead bodies. And now they’re about to be cremated. 🔥 The scribe angel goes in between the cherubim wheels and gets a handful of burning coals – because…
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Ezekiel 8 – 9
Today we’re going to look at the first half of a lengthy vision. And it’s a doozy. 😐🤚🏼 I got a question… Yeah? 😐 Ezekiel said he was sitting in his house and he had house guests. Yeah… 🤔 And then this divine figure grabs him by the hair and hauls him hundreds of miles…
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Ezekiel 6 – 7
“…and you shall know that I am the Lord.”Ezekiel 6:7 ESV This is a KEY phrase in the book of Ezekiel and appears more than 60 times! If we get nothing else from Ezekiel, we should at least notice that the purpose for all of these prophecies is so that the people of Israel will…
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Ezekiel 4 – 5
THE SIEGE MODEL “Now you, son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you, and inscribe a city on it—Jerusalem. Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, pile up an assault ramp, set up camps, and place battering rams against it all around. Then get yourself an iron plate and set…
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Ezekiel Intro & 1 – 3
Ezekiel is famous for bones 🦴 and flying saucers. 🛸 😲 Flying saucers?!? Just kidding. That’s what the pop YouTube and TikTok “theologians” try to get you to think Ezekiel’s divine vision was. And that’s why we need to know our Bible and be wary of ANY claim that someone has uncovered “hidden” or “lost”…
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Lamentations 4-5
These final 2 laments are thoroughly sad and pitiful. Again, we have a description of cannibalism that happened during the siege and fall of Jerusalem. And it’s not a gang of wild-eyed men killing another man and eating him. “The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the…
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Lamentations 2-3
Chapter 2 is a difficult read. Yahweh is fiercely angry, people die in every other verse, there are tears, starvation, and even cannibalism. One thing I draw from it is that it’s ok to grieve over the just consequences of sin. Judah had been warned this was coming. They’ve had at least of couple of…
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Lamentations 1
Welcome to Lamentations. 😐 Uh… that kinda has a weird ring to it. It’s like saying, “Welcome to my funeral.” Good point. The Lamentations or The Laments are sad songs of grief. 🤔 So… kinda like country music? 🤠 Honestly, I’d say more like the old Negro spirituals. The Laments express sorrow, but also faith…
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