by Justin Marple | Oct 10, 2012 | Ezekiel Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Ezekiel 24 is one hinge of the book together with Ezekiel 33. The former chapter ends with the sign of Ezekiel’s muteness that God says will last until the day when the fugitive from Jerusalem will come with the news that the city has fallen. The...
by Justin Marple | Oct 3, 2012 | Ezekiel Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
We have seen that the structure of Ezekiel is incredibly complicated and that one of the favorite features that he likes to use and further complicate is that of the chiasm. The whole of Ezekiel 20-23 is a chiasm and smaller portions of it can also be outlined...
by Justin Marple | Sep 20, 2012 | Ezekiel Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Ezekiel 18-20 again displays great variety in presentation. Chapter 18 walks us through a hypothetical three generations to refute a popular proverb. In these generations the first one did what was right, the second did what was evil, and the third did...
by Justin Marple | Sep 13, 2012 | Ezekiel Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Ezekiel 15-17 shows us the versatility of Ezekiel in using different genres and tactics to get across the message primarily of bad news, but sometimes acknowledging the good news to follow in a coda or epilogue. Ezekiel 15 gives us a parable of a useless vine...
by Justin Marple | Sep 5, 2012 | Ezekiel Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Ezekiel 12-23 is the second section of the book according to the chiasm we are testing. It consists of judgment oracles and the parallel second to last section of the book is about restoration. We will be looking at the first three chapters of this section (chapters...
by Justin Marple | Aug 28, 2012 | Ezekiel Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Ezekiel 8-11 certainly is a continuation of the visions of God from chapter 1 in particular (but also a continuation of chapters 2-3) and as you might expect from earlier posts it is also related then to the end of the book. Note some key phrases and where they can...
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