Ezekiel Short Course

I WILL GIVE YOU A NEW HEART AND PUT A NEW SPIRIT IN YOU.

E 26:36

Part One

DIVE - the weird and the wonderful - adventuring through the book of ezekiel |katie haldane

I won’t lie to you guys, as I begin my journey into Ezekiel I am both nervous and excited. This book has a whole lot of weird going on. That is why in our TYB Bible we call Ezekiel–the Weird Prophet! We have beasts with four faces, covered in eyes, with wheels as their companions that flash back and forth like lightning, prophetic symbolism that includes cooking with human poop (so glad he protested that one!).

deep dive - THE SON OF MAN? | NATHAN ROSS

As we read the Book of Ezekiel, it is very easy to be overwhelmed by the intense prophetic imagery and metaphors available. And this is O.K. Just as commentator Daniel Block says, ‘for many Christians Ezekiel is too strange and his book too complex and bizarre to deserve serious attention’. The first step is to acknowledge that yes, sometimes these prophetic books, both Old and New Testament, can be quite confronting and seemingly impossible to understand. The next step is one of discovery.

Part Two

DIVE - THE GLORY, THE MAN AND THE SPIRIT - THE TRINITY MOMENTS IN EZEKIEL | katie haldane

As I read the story of Ezekiel, I am overwhelmed at how ‘trinitarian' it is. Now I don't usually like to overlap New Testament theology into the Old Testament as we study it, because I want us to read it as it was originally intended: a text for the Old Testament audience but with a prophetic finger pointing forward to Jesus the Messiah.

DEEP DIVE - THE APOCALYPTIST IS NOT JUST A PROPHET | KATIE HALDANE

The first thing we need to understand in this journey into the weird and wonderful world of apocalyptic literature is that it was very common in the ancient Near East as well as the Greco-Roman world of the New Testament. Actually from 300BC onwards apocalyptic literature replaced prophetic texts.