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Ezekiel

The Book of Ezekiel is a powerful and often unsettling prophetic work that confronts sin, explains judgment, and ultimately proclaims restoration. Written by Ezekiel, a priest turned prophet, the book speaks to the people of Israel during their exile in Babylon—a moment of national collapse, spiritual confusion, and shattered identity.

Ezekiel’s ministry begins with an overwhelming vision of God’s glory. Rather than being confined to Jerusalem, God reveals Himself in exile, riding upon a heavenly throne. This opening vision establishes a foundational truth of the book: God is not limited by geography, temple, or nation. Even in displacement and judgment, God remains sovereign and present.

Much of Ezekiel addresses the reason for Israel’s exile. Through vivid imagery, symbolic actions, and stark language, the prophet exposes idolatry, injustice, and covenant unfaithfulness. Ezekiel emphasizes personal responsibility, declaring that each individual is accountable before God. The repeated phrase “they shall know that I am the LORD” underscores that judgment serves a revelatory purpose—not merely punishment, but recognition of God’s holiness and authority.

The book also confronts false hope. Ezekiel warns against leaders and prophets who promise peace when none exists. Jerusalem’s fall is shown to be unavoidable, not because God is absent, but because rebellion has reached its full measure. Even the destruction of the temple is framed as a consequence of God’s glory departing due to persistent defilement.

Yet Ezekiel does not end in despair. A major turning point occurs when God promises restoration after judgment. Some of the Bible’s most hopeful images appear here: the valley of dry bones brought to life, the promise of a new heart and a new spirit, and the vision of a restored people renewed by God’s presence. Restoration is shown to be God’s initiative, not human achievement.

The final chapters present a detailed vision of a renewed temple and a reordered land. While complex and symbolic, the message is clear: God intends to dwell with His people again. The book closes with a name of hope—“The LORD is there.” What was lost through sin is ultimately restored through God’s faithfulness.

The Book of Ezekiel stands as a sobering yet hopeful witness. It reminds readers that God’s holiness demands accountability, but His mercy pursues restoration. Judgment is not the final word—renewal is.

Ezekiel 46:15

Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.

Ezekiel 46:16

Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

Ezekiel 46:17

But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.

Ezekiel 46:18

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

Ezekiel 46:19

After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.

Ezekiel 46:2

And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall […]

Ezekiel 46:20

Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.

Ezekiel 46:21

Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

Ezekiel 46:22

In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.

Ezekiel 46:23

And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.

Ezekiel 46:24

Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

Ezekiel 46:3

Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.

Ezekiel 46:4

And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

Ezekiel 46:5

And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

Ezekiel 46:6

And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.

Ezekiel 46:7

And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

Ezekiel 46:8

And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.

Ezekiel 46:9

But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the […]

Ezekiel 47:1

Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

Ezekiel 47:10

And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Ezekiel 47:11

But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

Ezekiel 47:12

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit […]

Ezekiel 47:13

Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.

Ezekiel 47:14

And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.

Ezekiel 47:15

And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;

Ezekiel 47:16

Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.

Ezekiel 47:17

And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.

Ezekiel 47:18

And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.

Ezekiel 47:19

And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.

Ezekiel 47:2

Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.

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