REBELS

LIVING WITH CRITICS Ezekiel has just had a dramatic vision of God and the fantastic creatures in heaven.  Now God will speak to him with a special assignment.  The assignment shouldn’t be so hard, but the audience is.  This is the preparation to face a hostile world as God speaks to him.  This is such

AWAKENING

A NEW PROPHET Jeremiah was a prophet who stayed in Jerusalem, and Ezekiel is a younger prophet rising in captivity in Babylon.  Ezekiel acknowledged the message and authority of Daniel the elder prophet.  He gets a different kind of message and his revelation is a powerful one.  The people sharing Babylonian captivity with him are

LITTLE HOPE

TOTAL DARKNESS Jeremiah’s ends his lamentations with no hope to offer.  Prosperity has fled from Judah and everyone suffers, even if they have survived.  The good times are over, and hope is far away. Lamentations 5 1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.  2 Our inheritance is turned

COMPASSION

MERCY REQUIRES COMPASSION In Jeremiah’s lamentations Israel is being destroyed by the wrath of God.  They deserve the violence, but it is truly a horrible destruction that comes to them.  This will happen when sin overrides our obedience to God, but it is still painful to watch the guilty suffer.  Worse, the innocent are also