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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Ezekiel, now this book was written around, well in the time of 570 roughly
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- BC, written by Ezekiel and Ezekiel was taken into captivity, the
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- Babylonian captivity that we saw Jeremiah warn about and give judgment about and what we see in this is a lot of, well some people say confusion, it seems like it's all over the place and the reason that it seems so perplexing is because there's a lot of future prophecy in here, there is a lot of things that is picturesque judgments that God gives for Ezekiel, he has to do many things like eating a scroll and he talks about these four faced angels, so there's a lot of things in here that people seem to have difficulty with interpretation, which is always going to be the case with future prophecy.
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- When we look at those type of literature, there are things that we're not going to see as clearly.
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- Now, Ezekiel is in the captivity during a time when he is writing about the judgment that was prophesied would come, now has come, and this book though, it talks a lot about judgment, really it is offering a future hope, but that hope was not today for Israel, no they were going to go through those 70 year captivity, but a lot of it is a future hope of what we will see and we call that the second coming of Jesus Christ and that is what
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- Ezekiel talks about. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org
