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The Prophecy Against Gog If you are a fan of the Anne of Green Gables books by Lucy Maud Montgomery, you may recall that in the book Anne of the Island, Anne and her university friend Philippa Gordon discover a quaint house which they later are able to rent from the elderly ladies who live…

The Valley of Dry Bones In the previous chapter – the prophecy to the mountains of Israel – the LORD repeats the promise of the New Covenant that He gave earlier through Jeremiah. It’s not a verbatim quotation, but both describe the same thing: a whole new approach to God’s law. “For this is the…

Prophecy of Two Mountains 🌋⛰️ Chapter 35 is another prophecy about the destruction of Edom; Mount Seir. 🌋 We already know how the Edomites were celebrating when the Babylonians conquered Judah. And we know how they captured the refugees – killing some, keeping or selling others as slaves, and handing some over the Babylonians for…

Shepherds & Sheep 🐑 🐑🐏🐑🐑🐏🐑🐑 The shepherds of Israel were only in it for what they could get. I bet many of us reading this chapter thought of the stereotypical tv evangelist with the tailored suit and Colgate smile. They don’t all look that way. Not anymore. But the motives are the same- make a…

Jerusalem Falls & Ezekiel Speaks “on that day a fugitive will come to you to report to you the news. On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am…

Prophecy and Lament for Pharaoh & Egypt Chapter 29 was a message that came in year 10, month 10. Chapter 30 was a couple months later. And again, a couple months after that, Ezekiel is given another message about Pharaoh and Egypt. “In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of…

The Prophecy Against Pharaoh & Egypt Modern scholarship dates the founding of the First Dynasty in Egypt to around 3100BC. Taking a strict biblical chronology, this was 26 years before Adam died. Methuselah was still a young man at age 217 and Noah would not be born for another century and a half. This is…

The neighbors of Israel get their comeuppance. Chapter 26 begins a whole section that involves the city of Tyre so I’m going to wait to include my thoughts on it in the next post with chapters 27-28 which are all about Tyre. In chapter 25, a quartet of Israel’s neighbors are condemned: Ammon, Moab, Edom,…

A Tale of Two Sisters Let me just get something out of the way right now. This chapter is allegorical. God is not a polygamist. We do not derive doctrine and practice from allegories. God is framing the history of Israel and Judah in terms of a story that the people could readily relate to…