(REFLECTIONS ON EZEKIEL 48:30-35) What’s in a name? A name represents familiarity, memories, a way we identify with people, places, and things. The name of the city we grew up in reminds us of the good and unfortunately at times the bad as well. Our name, especially our surname, represents not only who we are, but […]
(REFLECTIONS ON EZEKIEL 47:13-23, EZEKIEL 48:1-29) 13 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “These are the boundaries of the land that you will divide among the twelve tribes of Israel as their inheritance, with two portions for Joseph. 14 You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with uplifted hand to give it to your ancestors, this land […]
(REFLECTIONS ON EZEKIEL 47:1-12) 1 The man brought me back to the entrance to the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar. 2 He then brought me […]
(REFLECTIONS ON EZEKIEL 46:1-24) As we read Old Testament Scripture, we must remember that it represents both a physical reality and hope for Israel, a remembrance of their past and vision for the future, but is also symbolic of the hope we have as the church that goes beyond physical structures, land, and life, and crosses […]
(REFLECTIONS ON EZEKIEL 45:1-25) Israel’s princes were to lead the people and be examples of how to serve the Lord. However, as we read about the princes of Israel in our reading of the Kings, Chronicles, and the prophets, we often come across words like conspiracy, evil, rebellion, associated with them (ref. Hosea). There was so […]
(REFLECTIONS ON EZEKIEL 44:1-31) 15 “‘But the Levitical priests, who are descendants of Zadok and who guarded my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, are to come near to minister before me; they are to stand before me to offer sacrifices of fat and blood, declares the Sovereign Lord. 16 They alone are to enter my sanctuary; they alone are […]
(REFLECTIONS ON EZEKIEL 43:1-27) 1 Then the man brought me to the gate facing east, 2 and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with his glory. 3 The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he […]
(REFLECTIONS ON EZEKIEL 42:1-20) On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall separating East Germany from West Germany was dismantled marking the beginning of German reunification and the eventual end of the Cold War. Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe. Let the […]
(REFLECTIONS ON EZEKIEL 41:1-26) 3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance; each was two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were seven cubits wide. 4 And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its […]
(REFLECTIONS ON EZEKIEL 40:1-49) 1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city—on that very day the hand of the Lord was on me and he took me there. 2 In visions of God he took me to the land of […]