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EZEKIEL: LESSON FOUR

SIGNS - PARABLES - DISCOURSES

Time: 591 B.C.

I. SIGNS, PARABLES, AND DISCOURSES OF JERUSALEM’S DESTRUCTION (586 B.C.)  (Chapters 12-16).

A. Sign of carrying stuff through hole in the wall with face covered – Exile of King Zedekiah (12:1-16; cf. 2 Kings 25:4-7)

B. Sign of eating and drinking with trembling – fear due to land laid waste      (12:17-20)

C. Ezekiel confronts proverb: “Days are prolonged and every vision faileth.”

 1. False teaching of denying vision of destruction (12:21-25)

 2. False teaching of saying vision for a distant future (12:26-28).

D. Discourse on false prophets (men and women) seeing things from their own heart – not from God

    (Chapter 13)

E. Discourse on idolatrous people and false prophets suffering for their evil – God will punish and save a remnant (Chapter 14).

F. Parable of vine tree – worthlessness of present Jerusalem (Chapter 15)

G. Discourse on God’s care for his people – His wife; Israel’s evil response – adultery (Chapter 16)

QUESTIONS:

1. What three facts in the sign of Ezekiel (12:1-16) were literally manifested in the exile of Zedekiah?  

2. Why would the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Israel eat and drink with trembling?  

3. Because God had not yet executed Ezekiel’s prophecy, what were two responses among the people?  

4. False prophets follow their _______________________ spirit and have ____________________nothing.

 

5. Is it right to call prophets false or call men today false teachers when a particular context does not say the words “false prophet” or “false teachers”?

6. Explain how the false prophets were like plasters daubing a wall with untampered mortar?

7. Explain how the women diviners “hunt souls.”  

8. In chapter 14, why were the elders coming to Ezekiel?  

9. What did God reveal to Ezekiel concerning the elders?  

10. In chapter 14, what is the purpose of mentioning three men and four punishments?

11. In the vine tree parable, give three segments of the story that applies to the “worthlessness” of Jerusalem?  

12. In chapter 16, what way were the Canaanites Israel’s mother and father?  

13. How did God show His care for Israel?

14. What two facts of marriage are emphasized in God’s relationship with Israel?  

15. What was the first step in the downfall of Israel as a faithful wife?

16. How was Israel worse than a prostitute?

17. Who were Israel’s lovers?  

 

18. How would God use them?

19. Who were the two sisters of Jerusalem?  

20. How did Israel “justify” her two sisters?

21. What covenant does God promise to make?