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Ezekiel

Vision and commission (Ez. 1:1-3:23; cp. (1:1-28)
1. Title, author, subject, and historical background (2 Ki. 23:34-25:30; 2 Chr. 36) (1:1-3)
2. First vision of God's glory (Ez. 1:4-28; cp. 3:12, 23; 8:2; 9:3; 10:4; 11:22; 43:2; 44:4) (1:4)
  1. Fivefold vision of the cloud (Ex. 40:34) (1:4)
3. Forty-twofold description of the cherubim (Ez. 10:8-22) (1:5-21)
4. The firmament (1:22)
5. Fourfold description of the cherubim (Ez. 10:8-22) (1:23-25)
6. Fivefold description of God (Isa. 6; Dan. 7:9-13; 10:5-10; Rev. 4:3) (1:26-28)
Ezekiel's commission (2:1-3:27)
1. Ezekiel prostrate: raised by the Spirit (2:1)
2. Filled with the Spirit (2:2)
3. First commission: fivefold character of the people (2:3-5)
4. Ezekiel encouraged (2:6-7)
5. The book: reception of his prophecies (Jer. 15:16; Rev. 10:8) (2:8-3:3)
6. Second commission: fivefold character of the people (3:4-7)
7. Ezekiel encouraged (3:8-9)
8. Third commission: the people (3:10-11)
9. Second vision of glory (Ez. 1:4): obedience; transportation (3:12-14)
10. Arrival: seven days' astonishment (cp. Job 2:11-13) (3:15-16)
11. Fourth commission: made a watchman to Israel (Ez. 18:1; 33:1; Isa. 21:6-7) (3:17-21)
12. Third vision of glory (Ez. 1:4): obedience; journey (3:22-23)
13. Signs-prophecies of Babylonian captivity (Ez. 3:24-7:27) (3:24)
  1. Ezekiel again filled with the Spirit (cp. Ez. 2:2) (3:24)
14. Sign of dumbness: do not reprove until God speaksSign of the tile: siege of Jerusalem portrayed (3:25-27)
Sign of the tile: siege of Jerusalem portrayed (4:1-17)
1. Sign of the iron pan: siege of Jerusalem intensified regardless of difficulties (4:3)
2. Sign of lying 390 days on left side to bear the punishment of Israel (4:4-5)
3. Sign of lying on right side 40 days to bear the punishment of Judah (4:6)
4. Sign: arm bare and bound signifying that Jerusalem will be helpless to avert her doom (4:7-8)
5. Sign: eating unclean food indicating Israel will eat defiled bread in captivity (4:9-13)
6. Sign: eating unclean food by measure indicating famine for Jerusalem (4:14-17)
Sign: barber's razor (5:1-17)
1. Destruction of Judah (5:1-4)
2. Reason for judgment: sins (5:5-7)
3. Extreme punishments just (5:8-11)
4. Three methods of destruction: fire, sword, and captivity (5:12)
5. Complete destruction determined (5:13-17)
Sign (6:1-14)
1. Prophecy to the mountains of Israel: tenfold judgment (cp. Isa. 1:28) (6:1-7)
2. A remnant to be saved (Isa. 1:9, refs.) (6:8-10)
3. Sign: smiting hands and stamping feet to call attention to Judah of certain judgment (6:11-14)
Prophecy to the land of Israel (7:1-27)
1. Fivefold judgment twice repeated (cp. Gen. 41:32) (7:1-9)
2. Three methods of judgment: sword, pestilence, and famine (7:10-15)
3. A remnant to be saved (Isa. 1:9, refs.) (7:16-22)
4. Sign of a chain signifying captivity: fifteenfold judgment (7:23-27)
Visions-prophecy of restoration (Ez. 8:1-11:25) (8:1-18)
1. Fourth vision of glory (Ez. 1:4). Transported in vision to Jerusalem to see the sins of Judah (8:1-4)
2. Profanations of the temple (Ez. 8:5-17) (8:5)
  1. Image of jealousy (8:5)
3. Announcement: greater sins (8:6-7)
4. Chamber of imagery (8:8-11)
5. Announcement: greater sins (8:12-13)
6. Women weeping for Tammuz (8:14)
7. Announcement: greater sins (8:15)
8. Sun worshipers (8:16)
9. The greatest sin of all: the branch (Heb., Asherah, idol before which sex orgies were held) (8:17)
10. Judgments for these sins (Ez. 8:18-9:11) (8:18)
  1. Announced (8:18)
Judgment commanded: righteous marked for deliverance (cp. Rev. 7:1-8; 9:4; 14:1) (9:1-11)
1. Judgment executed: Babylon to have angelic help in overthrowing Judah (Dan. 10:13-11:1, notes) (9:7-11)
Fifth vision of glory: Altar fire on Jerusalem (10:1-22)
1. Thirtyfold description of the cherubim (Ez. 1:5-22, 23-25) (10:8-22)
Prophecy against the princes (11:1-25)
1. Twenty-five wicked counselors: false security (11:1-3)
2. Fivefold judgment announced (11:4-13)
3. True security in despersion (11:14-16)
4. A remnant restored (Isa. 1:9) (11:17-21)
5. Departure of the glory from Jerusalem until the Millennium (Ez.43:2-5; Isa.4:5; cp.1 Ki. 8:5-11) (11:22-25)
Signs-prophecies of Babylonian captivity (Ez. 12:1-17:24) (12:1-28)
1. Sign (12:1-7)
  1. Moving (12:1-7)
2. Signification: captivity (12:8-15)
3. A remnant saved (cp. Isa. 1:9, refs.) (12:16)
4. Sign (12:17-18)
  1. Eating and drinking (12:17-18)
5. Signification: desolation (12:19-20)
6. The proverb: speedy fulfillment of judgment (12:21-25)
7. The saying: immediate fulfillment of prophecy (12:26-28)
Prophecy against the prophets and prophetesses (Jer. 23; Ez. 22 and 34) (13:1-14:23)
1. Ten sins of prophets (13:1-7)
2. Their sixfold judgment (13:8-9)
3. Their symbolic wall: weak and ready to fall (13:10-16)
4. Ten sins of prophetesses (13:17-19)
5. Their fivefold judgment (13:20-23)
6. Prophecy to the elders (Ez. 20) (14:1-3)
  1. Their inquiry of God (14:1-3)
7. God's answer (Ez. 14:4-11) (14:4-7)
  1. A. Their idolatry exposed (14:4-7)
8. B. Judgment on the idolaters (14:8)
9. C. Judgment on the prophets (14:9-11)
10. Four judgments (Ez. 14:12-20) (14:12-14)
  1. Famine: cause; no mercy (14:12-14)
11. Beasts: no mercy (14:15-16)
12. Sword: no mercy (14:17-18)
13. Pestilence: no mercy (14:19-20)
14. If no mercy in one plague, how much less in all four? (14:21)
15. A remnant saved (cp. Isa. 1:9, refs.) (14:22-23)
Sign (15:1-8)
1. The vine tree consumed (Isa. 5:1-7) (15:1-5)
2. Signification: judgment (15:6-8)
Sign of the child (16:1-63)
1. Birth (16:1-6)
2. Development into womanhood (16:7)
3. Courtship and marriage (16:8)
4. Wealth, beauty and fame (16:9-14)
5. Twenty-five sins of Judah (16:15-34)
6. Twenty-fourfold judgment (16:35-43)
7. The proverb: sinfulness of Judah (16:44-46)
8. Tenfold sinfulness of Judah (cp. Isa. 5:7, refs.) (16:47-52)
9. Regathering of Israel (Isa. 11:11, refs.) (16:53-55)
10. Sins of Judah (16:56-59)
11. Restoration of Israel: the New Covenant made (Isa. 59:20, refs.) (16:60-63)
Parable of two great eagles (17:1-24)
1. First eagle: Nebuchadnezzar (17:1-6)
2. Second eagle: Pharoah (17:7-8)
3. Shall it prosper? Zedekiah's rebellion (cp. 2 Ki. 24:17-20; 25:1-10) (17:9-10)
4. Signification (17:11-14)
  1. A. Jehoiachin's captivity (2 Ki. 24:6-19) (17:11-14)
5. B. Zedekiah's rebellion: puts his trust in Egypt (2 Ki. 25) (17:15-21)
6. C. Restoration of the Davidic kingdom under Messiah (Isa. 9:6, refs.) (17:22-24)
Sermons-prophecy of restoration (Ez. 18:1-20:44) (18:1-32)
1. Sermon on individual responsibility (Ez. 18:1-32; 3:17; 33:1) (18:1-2)
  1. Text: proverb in Israel (18:1-2)
2. All men are equal (18:3-4)
3. Righteous father: sixteenfold righteousness of a just man; he shall live (18:5-9)
4. A wicked son of a righteous father: his twelve sins; he shall die (18:10-13)
5. A righteous son of a wicked father: his twelvefold righteousness; he shall live (18:14-17)
6. His wicked father: he shall die for his own sins (18:18)
7. Individual responsibility in repentance and backsliding (18:19-24)
8. All men are equal (18:25-28)
9. Judgment announced (18:29)
10. Conclusion: invitation (18:30-32)
Lamentation for the princes of Israel (2 Ki. 23:31-25:7) (19:1-14)
1. The mother (2 Ki. 23:21-33; 24:17) (19:1-2)
2. Jehoahaz (2 Ki. 23:31-33) (19:3-4)
3. Jehoakim (2 Chr. 36:5-7) (19:5-9)
4. Mother and "rods" taken into captivity (2 Chr. 36:1-7) (19:10-12)
5. Zedekiah (Ez. 17:15; 2 Ki. 25) (19:13-14)
Prophecy to the elders (ch. 14) (20:1-49)
1. Their inquiry (Ez. 14:1-3) (20:1)
2. God's answer: failures of Israel (20:2-8)
  1. A. God's blessings: rebellion in Egypt (20:2-8)
3. B. God's blessing: rebellion in the wilderness (20:9-13)
4. C. God's blessings: rebellion of the new generation (20:14-26)
5. D. God's blessings: rebellion of their fathers in Canaan (cp. Isa. 1:2, refs.) (20:27-29)
6. E. Their own rebellion (20:30-32)
7. F. Future regathering and judgment (Mt. 24:15-31; Isa. 11:11, refs.) (20:33-38)
8. G. Incrimination (20:39)
9. H. Future restoration (20:40-44)
10. Signs-prophecies of Babylonian captivity (Ez. 20:45-24:27) (20:45-49)
  1. Sign of fire in the forest of the south field: judgment (20:45-49)
Sign of the drawn sword: complete destruction (21:1-32)
1. Sign of convulsive sighing: sufferings (21:6-7)
2. Sign of the sharp sword: clean destruction (21:8-11)
3. Sign of howling and smiting: rulers destroyed (21:12-13)
4. Sign of smiting hands: great gulf (21:14-17)
5. Babylon God's sword of judgment upon Judah (21:18-23)
  1. The sword at the crossroads (21:18-23)
6. Judgment on Judah: no king until Messiah (Acts 15:14-17; Hos. 3:4-5; Isa. 9:6, refs.) (21:24-27)
7. Judgment on Ammon next (21:28-32)
Prophecy against Israel (22:1-31)
1. Her twenty sins (22:1-12)
2. Fivefold judgment (22:13-16)
3. Sign of dross: punishment for sin (22:17-22)
4. Prophecy against Israel (22:23-29)
  1. Twenty sins of four classes (22:23-29)
5. No intercessor: judgment (Deuteronomy 32:10-44) (22:30-31)
  1. Parable of Aholah (Samaria) and Aholibah (Jerusalem, Ez. 23:1-49; cp. Ez. 16:1-63) (22:30-31)
Harlotry of both in Egypt (23:1-49)
1. Harlotry of Samaria with Assyria: captivity (2 Ki. 15, 17) (23:5-10)
2. Harlotry of Judah with Assyria (2 Ki. 16:7-18) (23:11-12)
3. Harlotry of Judah with Assyria and Babylon (2 Ki. 16, 20) (23:13-21)
4. Thirty-twofold judgment (23:22-35)
5. Eight sins of Aholah (Samaria) and Aholibah (Jerusalem) (23:36-44)
6. Tenfold judgment on both (23:45-49)
Prophecy against Judah (24:1-27)
1. Parable of the boiling pot (24:1-5)
2. Signification: judgment (24:6-14)
3. Sign (24:15-19)
  1. No mourning (24:15-19)
4. Signification: judgment (Amos 1-2; Jer. 49:1, refs.) (24:20-27)
  1. Prophecies against seven Gentile powers (Ez. 25:1-32:32; Isa. 13:23; Jer. 45:51; (24:20-27)
Against Ammon (25:1-17)
1. Against Moab (Isa. 15:1, refs.) (25:8-11)
2. Against Edom (Jer. 49:7, refs.) (25:12-14)
3. Against Philistia (Isa. 14:28, refs.) (25:15-17)
Against Tyre (Ez. 26:1-28:19; Isa. 23:1-18; Jer. 47:1-7; Amos 1:9-10) (26:1-21)
1. Destruction of Tyre (26:1-2)
  1. A. The cause of judgment (26:1-2)
2. B. Destruction by Nebuchadnezzar (26:3-11)
3. C. Destruction by Alexander (26:12-14)
4. D. Nations lament Tyre's fall (26:15-21)
Lamentation for Tyre (27:1-36)
1. A. The pride and location of Tyre (27:1-4)
2. B. The navy of Tyre (27:5-9)
3. C. The army of Tyre (27:10-11)
4. D. The merchants of Tyre (27:12-25)
5. E. The ruin of Tyre (27:26-27)
6. F. Lamentation for Tyre (27:28-36)
Judgment on the earthly prince of Tyre: Ithobalas II (28:1-26)
1. A. His pride (28:1-6)
2. B. His judgment by Babylon (28:7-10)
3. Lamentation for the angelic king of Tyre: Satan (28:11-19)
4. Against Zidon (Jer. 47:1-7) (28:20-24)
  1. Judgment and cause (28:20-24)
5. Restoration of Israel (28:25-26)
Against Egypt (Ez. 29:1-32:32; Isa. 19:1-20:6; 30:1-7; 31:1-3; Jer. 46) (29:1-21)
1. Immediate judgment (29:1-5)
2. Cause of judgment (29:6-9)
3. Desolation for forty years (29:10-12)
4. Restoration after forty years: never to be a world power again or the confidence of Israel (29:13-16)
5. Egypt to be given to Nebuchadnezzar for his wages (29:17-21)
In the day of the Lord (Isa. 2:10, refs.; Ez. 19:16) (30:1-26)
1. Immediate judgment by Babylon (30:10-19)
2. God against Egypt in her war with Babylon (30:20-26)
Prophecy against Pharaoh (31:1-32:32)
1. A. Question-likeness (31:1-2)
2. B. Assyrian exaltation (31:3-9)
3. C. Assyrian humiliation-ruin (31:10-14)
4. D. Mourning for the Assyrian (31:15-17)
5. E. Question-judgment like the Assyrian humiliation and ruin (31:18)
6. Lamentation for Pharaoh (32:1-2)
  1. A. Likeness to a beast (32:1-2)
7. B. The net-judgment by Babylon (32:3-16)
8. Lamentation for Egypt (32:17-21)
  1. A. Egypt to descend into hell (32:17-21)
9. B. Assyrians are in hell (32:22-23)
10. C. Elamites are in hell (32:24-25)
11. D. Meshech and Tubal are in hell (32:26-28)
12. E. Edomites are in hell (32:29)
13. F. Zidonians are in hell (32:30)
14. G. Pharaoh and Egypt shall also go to hell with the rest (32:31-32)
Sermons-prophecies of the restoration (Ez. 33:1-37:28) (33:1-33)
1. Sermon on the watchman (Ez. 33:1-20) (33:1-2)
  1. The watchman chosen (Ez. 3:17) (33:1-2)
2. His responsibility (33:3-6)
3. Ezekiel God's watchman (33:7)
4. His responsibility (33:8-9)
5. Application to Israel (33:10-16)
6. The way of the Lord (33:17-20)
7. Capture of Jerusalem (2 Ki. 25) (33:21-22)
8. Prophecy to the remnant (33:23-26)
  1. Their six sins (33:23-26)
9. Their sixfold judgment (33:27-29)
10. Ezekiel made sport of by backslidden Judah (33:30-33)
Prophecy against the pastors (Jer. 23; Ez. 13 and 22) (34:1-31)
1. Their sixteen sins (34:1-6)
2. Their sixfold judgment (34:7-10)
3. Twentyfold restoration of the flock (34:11-16)
4. False pastors separated from the flock (34:17-22)
5. Twentyfold restoration: Davidic kingdom set up (Isa. 9:6, refs.) (34:23-31)
Prophecy against Edom (Jer. 49:7) (35:1-15)
1. Her fivefold judgment (35:1-4)
2. Cause of judgment (35:5)
3. Her tenfold judgment (cp. Isa. 1:28, refs.) (35:6-9)
4. Cause of judgment (35:10)
5. Her fivefold judgment (35:11-15)
Prophecy to the mountains of Israel (36:1-38)
1. Taunt of the enemy (36:1-3)
2. God's answer: twentyfold restoration of the land (36:4-12)
3. Taunt of the enemy (36:13)
4. God's answer: fivefold restoration of the land (36:14-15)
5. Prophecy to Israel (36:16-21)
  1. Her past sins and judgments (36:16-21)
6. Fourfold regathering (Isa. 11:11, refs.) (36:22-24)
7. Fourteenfold conversion (36:25-28)
8. Sixfold restoration of the land of Israel (36:29-30)
9. Remorse of Israel (36:31-32)
10. Sixfold restoration of the land of Israel (36:33-36)
11. Increase of Israel (36:37-38)
The valley of dry bones (37:1-28)
1. The vision (37:1-2)
2. The question: answer (37:3)
3. Command: eightfold prophecy (37:4-6)
4. Obedience: sixfold result (37:7-8)
5. Command: fourfold prophecy (37:9)
6. Obedience: fourfold result (37:10)
7. Signification: whole house of Israel to be regathered (Isa. 11:11, refs.) (37:11-14)
8. Sign (37:15-18)
  1. Two sticks made one (37:15-18)
9. Signification (37:19-25)
  1. A. Twenty-fourfold restoration of Israel, Judah under Messiah and David (Isa. 9:6, refs.) (37:19-25)
10. B. New Covenant made: tenfold promise (Isa. 59:20, refs.) (37:26-28)
Prophecy against Gentile powers at Armageddon (Ez. 38:1-39:29) (38:1-39:29)
1. Gog to be repulsed (38:1-7)
2. Gog to invade restored Palestine in the last days (38:8-9)
3. Gog's purpose (Rev. 17:14; 19:19) (38:10-13)
4. God's purpose in the invasion (38:14-16)
5. Fulfillment of many prophecies (Isa. 10:20-27; 11:4; 14:4-27; 34:1-17; 63:1-6; Jer. 30:1-11; Joel 3; Mic. 5:3-15) (38:17)
6. Twenty-twofold destruction of Gog at Armageddon (Ez. 39:17-21; Zech. 14; 2 Th. 2:8-12; Rev. 19) (38:18-39:7)
7. Spoil: seven years' fuel (39:8-10)
8. Seven months to bury the dead after Armageddon (39:11-16)
9. Supper of the great God (Mt. 24:28; Lk. 17:37; Rev. 14:14-20; 19:15-21; Isa. 63:1-6; Joel 3) (39:17-20)
10. The purpose of God (39:21-24)
11. Israel to be regathered and converted (Isa. 11:11, refs.) (39:25-29)
The millennial sanctuary and oblation (Ez. 40:1-48:35; cp. Isa. 2:1, refs.) (40:1-49)
1. Transported in vision to Palestine to see restoration (40:1)
2. Vision of future Jerusalem (40:2)
3. Vision of the man with the measuring reed 10.5 ft. long (40:3-4)
4. The outer wall of the house: 10.5 ft. tall, 10.5 ft. broad (40:5)
5. East outer gate (40:6-16)
6. Outer court (40:17-19)
7. North outer gate (40:20-22)
8. North and east inner gates (40:23)
9. South outer gate (40:24-26)
10. South inner gate (40:27)
11. South inner gate court (40:28-31)
12. East inner gate and court (40:32-34)
13. North inner gate and court (40:35-43)
14. Chambers of the singers (40:44)
15. Chambers of house priests (40:45)
16. Chambers of altar priests (40:46)
17. Altar court: 175 ft. square (40:47)
18. Porch of the house (40:48-49)
The temple rooms and corridors: 175 ft. square (41:1-26)
1. The temple entrances (41:16-26)
North outer court (42:1-20)
1. Outer court: east entrance (42:9-12)
2. Chambers of the priests (42:13-14)
3. Outer court: over 1 mile square (42:15-20)
East outer gate: entrance of the Messiah into the house: sixth vision of glory (43:1-27)
1. The place of the throne of the eternal kingdom (43:6-7)
2. Exhortation to Israel (43:8-12)
3. The altar: 29 ft. 2 in. square (43:13-17)
4. Ordinances of the altar (43:18-22)
  1. Sin-offering (Lev. 4:1-31) (43:18-22)
5. Burnt offerings (Lev. 1:1-17) (43:23-24)
6. Cleansing the altar and consecrating the priests (Ex. 28-29; Lev. 8; cp. Num. 7) (43:25-26)
7. Continual offerings (Ex. 29:36-46) (43:27)
Closed outer east gate (44:1-31)
1. Ezekiel enters the north gate: seventh vision of glory (44:4)
2. Ordinances of the house (44:5)
  1. "Mark well" (44:5)
3. Last rebuke to Israel (44:6-8)
4. Levites: descendants of the rebels-prohibitions; reasons (44:9-14)
5. Priests: descendants of the faithful (44:15-16)
  1. A. Ministry (Ex. 28-29) (44:15-16)
6. B. Their garments (Ex. 28-29) (44:17-19)
7. C. Prohibitions and duties (Lev. 10:8-15; 21:1-15; Dt. 17:8-11) (44:20-27)
8. D. Their inheritance (Ex. 29:26; Lev. 27:9-34; Num. 3:5; 18:1-8) (44:28-31)
The holy oblation: 25,000 x 25,000 reeds or 60 mi. square (45:1-25)
1. 25,000 x 10,000-24 x 60 mi. for the priests and sanctuary (45:1-4)
2. 25,000 x 10,000-24 x 60 mi. for the Levites (45:5)
3. 25,000 x 5,000-12 x 60 mi. for the city and suburbs (45:6)
4. East and west corners of 5,000 x 5,000 each will be for the prince (Ez. 48:15-22) (45:7)
5. Rest of the land will be divided to the twelve tribes (Ez. 47:13-48:35) (45:8)
6. Mosaic laws to be observed (45:9)
  1. Rulers to be just (45:9)
7. Just weights (Dt. 25:13-16) (45:10-12)
8. Offerings (Lev. 1:1-7:38) (45:13-15)
9. Summary of millennial and eternal worship (Isa. 66:22-24) (45:16-17)
10. The offerings and the time of offering them (Lev. 1:1-7:38; 16:1-17:16; Ex. 29:39-46) (45:18-25)
Worship of prince and people: sabbaths and new moons (46:1-24)
1. Entrances for the prince and people in the feasts (46:8-10)
2. Laws of various offerings (46:11-15)
3. Concerning inheritances (46:16-18)
4. Place for preparation of the offerings of the priests (46:19-20)
5. Four corner chambers in the outer wall of the sanctuary for boiling the sacrifices of the people (46:21-24)
River of the sanctuary (Zech. 14:8-9; cp. Rev. 22:1-2) (47:1-23)
1. Borders of the land (Gen. 15:18-21) (47:13-23)
Division of the land (48:1-35)
1. Seven portions for seven tribes north of the holy oblation (48:1-7)
2. The portion for priests and the sanctuary (Ez. 45:1-4) (48:8-12)
3. Portion for Levites (Ez. 45:5) (48:13-14)
4. Portion for the city (Ez. 45:6) (48:15-19)
5. All the oblation (48:20)
6. Portion for the prince (Ez. 45:7) (48:21-22)
7. Five portions for five tribes south of the holy oblation (48:23-29)
8. The miniature foursquare earthly Jerusalem patterned after the heavenly Jerusalem (cp. Rev. 21) (48:30-35)

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