Ezekiel

Could you ever imagine driving along in your car and God Himself would come alongside of you in a vintage Corvette with four creatures on each side? With God in all of His splendor, commissioning you to be a watchman for a great and powerful country? A country who is in trouble. I know myself I would stare in awe not believing my eyes.... Or how about getting a vision of God coming off of His Holy Throne because he's so mad at the abominations of that country! Lest we forget the great spectacle in the desert where all of the dry bone skeletons started coming back to life. Flesh and all. 

     Quite a legacy we hold in our religion. More spectacular than the Eiffel Tower herself. The reading of the Bible is genuinely wonderful. Letting us transcend into a life long past but greatly needed for its touching and teaching us of the power of God. 

     Ezekiel teaches us trust, fear, abandonment to God's will, and teaches us how to surrender to that greater power which of course is God Almighty. 

     Ezekiel did not have an easy life. Born into a priestly family of Jerusalem around c. 623 BC during the reign of the reforming King Josiah. But the rapid decline of Assyria led Josiah to assert his independence and institute of religious reform stressing loyalty to Yahweh. The God of Israel. Josiah was killed in 609 and Judah became king of the new power that held a rebellion against Babylon. Ezekiel was among the large group of Judeans taken into captivity in Babylon. He spent the rest of his years in Mesopotamia. Theology shows he was about 25 years old when he went into exile, 30 years old when he received his prophetic call and 52 years old when he had his last vision. His whole quest was to prove the presence of Yahweh 

     There is purification, sacrifice on an altar and what will happen if you worship idols. 

     I could write all day on Ezekiel but time is of the essence. Check it out if you can, it's worth every word that is written in this great book we call the Bible This great prophet Ezekiel .In other words pick that Bible up and start reading.... you won't be sorry.