Navigating the Bible: Ezekiel

About this sermon

“So now, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will end the captivity of my people; I will have mercy on all Israel, for I jealously guard my hold reputation! They will accept responsibility for their past shame and unfaithfulness after they come home to live in peace in their own land, with no one to bother them. When I bring them home from the lands of their enemies, I will display my holiness among them for all the nations to see. Then my people will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away to exile and brought them home again.” - Ezekiel 39:25-28 My guest today has previously started his teaching on Ezekiel this way: “Why in the world would anybody want to read Ezekiel let alone study this unbelievable and incomprehensible book?” When I heard this - I immediately knew he was the guy I wanted to help us navigate this book. Ezekiel is a diamond in the rough in the canon of the prophets. It’s message is similar to the prophets we’ve read already, Isaiah and Jeremiah, but with an element we hadn’t quite seen before. Right away in chapter 1 Ezekiel says, “From the center of the cloud came four living beings that looked human, except that each had four faces and four wings.” Again - this is chapter 1. We’re clearly off to something a little different with Ezekiel. And there’s nobody better to help us navigate this different book than Dr. Daniel Block. Dan is the Gunther H. Knoedler Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Wheaton College and wrote a commentary on Ezekiel in 1998 that is still considered the gold standard commentary on Ezekiel. And you know what, Dan is still working on Ezekiel to this day.  Doable Discipleship is a Saddleback Church podcast produced and hosted by Jason Wieland. It premiered in 2017 and now offers more than 400 episodes. Episodes release every Tuesday on your favorite podcast app and on the Saddleback Church YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/saddleback). Resources Related to This Episode: https://www.amazon.com/Ezekiel-Chapters-International-Commentary-Testament/dp/0802825354 Subscribe to the Doable Discipleship podcast at Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doable-discipleship/id1240966935) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/1Zc9nuwQZOLadbFCZCmZ1V) Related Doable Discipleship Episodes:  Navigating the Bible: Lamentations - https://youtu.be/6rrizlXeYXE Navigating the Bible: Jeremiah - https://youtu.be/lXPjWl8PdRk Navigating the Bible: Isaiah - https://youtu.be/NZJLaPkgEgs Navigating the Bible: Song of Songs - https://youtu.be/Sg0CYlNBVMg Navigating the Bible: Ecclesiastes - https://youtu.be/-Wr7LCh8F9E Navigating the Bible: Proverbs - https://youtu.be/DytRT5AsZg8 Navigating the Bible: Psalms - https://youtu.be/oZeesooAYUI Navigating the Bible: Job - https://youtu.be/14jaf2T1eCQ Navigating the Bible: Esther - https://youtu.be/7RZ7ATWQZuc Navigating the Bible: Nehemiah - https://youtu.be/Gok4WDgwn5I Navigating the Bible: Ezra - https://youtu.be/aBC0nEjYeyo Navigating the Bible: 2 Chronicles - https://youtu.be/OG3rHTgMgEI Navigating the Bible: 1 Chronicles - https://youtu.be/lQ_Qc4zbfgA Navigating the Bible: 2 Kings - https://youtu.be/04q9gDhBKTk Navigating the Bible: 1 Kings - https://youtu.be/aS-KoeQXl2k Navigating the Bible: 2 Samuel - https://youtu.be/ZbpafGgOW7c Navigating the Bible: 1 Samuel - https://youtu.be/lY8wPElSFMY Navigating the Bible: Rute - https://youtu.be/YaH-t-ZzTaM Navigating the Bible: Judges - https://youtu.be/qNGcOf2o0NU Navigating the Bible: Joshua - https://youtu.be/hF28aThBtFs Navigating the Bible: Deuteronomy - https://youtu.be/HzmNgPOM4zU Navigating the Bible: Numbers - https://youtu.be/H1HO6V9HDxs Navigating the Bible: Leviticus - https://youtu.be/08RhDCXYex4 Navigating the Bible: Exodus - https://youtu.be/NB9UTpS1F3M Navigating the Bible: Genesis - https://youtu.be/ddhjMfOoasA Inspiring Dreams by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ]]>

Source: Rick Warren