<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX   Teacher’s Guide THE JUDGMENT OF GOG   “Ezekiel was explicit as to the place of the encounter taking place near the city of Jerusalem on the mountains of Israel.  This was the testimony of Joel (chapter 3) and Zechariah (chapter 14) also.”   I.                    GOD’S JUDGMENT, 39:1-10 A.    God’s displeasure with Gog is revealed. B.     Only one [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide THE PROPHECY AGAINST GOG “You can see how Gog and Magog may be identified with Russia by this three-fold reason: (1) the linguistic phenomena; (2) the geographic phenomena; and (3) the philosophical or ideological phenomenon.”   J. Vernon McGee, Through the Bible, vol. 3, p. 514. I.                    THE DATE OF THIS BATTLE [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide  THE RESURRECTION OF THE NATION  ”My friend, when we take prophecy literally, it will make sense.  We are talking here about the nation Israel, and we are not talking about a spiritual or physical resurrection of individuals.” J. Vernon McGee, Through the Bible, vol. 3, p. 508. I.                    THE VALLEY OF [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide  THE CONVERSION OF ISRAEL “This portion was doubtless in mind when the Lord spoke to Nicodemus (John 3) concerning the new birth.” Feinberg, The Prophecy of Ezekiel, p.2 05. I.                    ISRAEL’S LAND TAKEN BY THE ENEMY, 36:1-7 A.    This chapter demonstrates the importance of taking prophecy literally . B.     The Lord’s enemies [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide  THE CONDEMNATION OF EDOM  ”The sin of Mount Seir had been perpetual and persistent enmity to the children of Israel .”   G Campbell Morgan, An Exposition of the Whole Bible, p. 359. I.                    JUDGMENT ON MOUNT SEIR, 35:1-4 A.    The previous prophecy against Edom is elaborated on here (25:12-14). Isaiah, Jeremiah [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND THE WICKED SHEPHERDS, Jeremiah 23:1-8 “The shepherds of Israel were the leaders thereof, whether spiritual, political or royal.” Sorenson, Understanding the Bible, vol. 6, p. 693. I.                    THE WICKED SHEPHERD’S  OF ISRAEL, 34:1-10 A.    Kings, prophets and priests are all designated as shepherds (pastors in Jeremiah)—II Samuel [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide THE PROPHET AS A WATCHMAN “Chapter 33 is similar to chapters 3 and 18, the repetition is doubtless for emphasis.” Charles Feinberg, The Prophecy of Ezekiel , p. 188. I.                    THE DUTY OF A WATCHMAN, 33:1-6 A.    Ezekiel has been speaking to foreign nations but it is his duty to be [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide THE GATHERING OF THE GUILTY NATIONS IN HELL “This prophecy was uttered almost immediately after the fall of Jerusalem, just when certain of the people of God were turning their faces toward Egypt in the hope of help.”  G. Campbell Morgan , An Exposition of the Whole Bible , p. 358. I.                    [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide THE PHARAOH’S FALL “Here the overthrow of Egypt is illustrated by the fall of Assyria.  The glory of Assyria is described in verses 1-9.  Then its fall is described as the same for Egypt in verses 10-18.”  David Sorenson , Understanding the Bible , vol. 6, p. 669. I.                    EARTHLY GLORY, 31: [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide EGYPT’S DOOM IS NEAR “It opens with an introductory word announcing the nearness of the day of the Lord , and foretelling the anguish which would fall on all the people in the hour of Egypt’s overthrow.”   G. Campbell Morgan, An Exposition of the Whole Bible, p. 357. I.                    THE DAY OF [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide JUDGMENT UPON EGYPT “Egypt had been the great power of the ancient world.  They came out of the dawn of history as a great nation.  Their monuments and tombs reveal the fact that they had a civilization  that was second to none.  It is believed today by many historians [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide THE PRINCE AND THE KING OF TYRE “We had done with Tyrus in the foregoing chapter, but now the prince of Tyrus is to be singled out from the rest.  Here is something to be said to him by himself, a message to him from God,  which the prophet [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide THE LAMENTATION OVER TYRE “As I walked through the ruins of Tyre, I heard no music nor laughter. I could not see the buildings or the gold and silver.  All I saw were broken pieces of pottery and the wreck and ruin  of what had once been a great [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide JUDGMENT UPON TYRE “The final destruction of Tyre would be complete, for God predicted the city will never be rebuilt . Today this once great commercial center lies in ruins.  Though the surrounding area has been rebuilt, the original site is a mute testimony to God’s awesome judgment.” The Bible Knowledge Commentary, [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide  PROPHECIES AGAINST THE NATIONS “The prophecies concerning the nations fall into three groups.  The first pronounced the doom of four, the second the doom of two, and the third the doom of one.”  G. Campbell Morgan , An Exposition of the Whole Bible , p. 354. I.                    JUDGMENT ON AMMON, 25:1-7 A.    [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >>  Teacher’s Guide THE FALL OF JERUSALEM “There was a self-confident proverb among the people expressed in the sentence:  ‘the city is the cauldron and we be the flesh!’  They meant that Jerusalem would prove an iron caldron-like defense  from the fire of the Babylonian hosts round about them in the siege, but [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide TWO WICKED SISTERS “There is not in the realm of all the great literatures of the world, so incisive and so scathing, yet so majestic and worthy in objective, an arrangement of the moral defection  of a people from their loving and holy God.”  Feinberg, The Prophecy of Ezekiel, p. [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide JERUSALEM: THE CITY OF BLOOD “Patriot as he was, Ezekiel was not like some sincere patriots, blind to the country’s faults.”  Pulpit Commentary, vol. 12, p. 7. I.                    JUDGING THE BLOODY CITY, 22:1-5 A.    The law of innocent blood demands that Jerusalem be judged, v. 1-4. B.     Jerusalem will be mocked [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide THE SWORD OF THE LORD “National judgment involves the innocent in the temporal ruin of the guilty.  The equity of God is vindicated by the ruin being only temporal.”  Albert Barnes, Notes, p. 351. I.      THE PARABLE OF THE SIGHING PROPHET, 21:1-7 A.    Ezekiel is commanded to prophesy against the holy [...]

<< PREVIOUS CHAPTER     |     INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Teacher’s Guide THE VINDICATION OF THE CHASTISEMENT OF ISRAEL “This chapter contains a divine retrospect and an arraignment of the people for their national sins.  The following division will greatly assist in an analytical study of this chapter.   Verses 1-9 describe the nation’s sins in Egypt.  Verses 10-17 give the [...]