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Ezekiel: Quick Summary
Jul. 4th, 2011 10:02 pmIsaiah had a lot of symbolism in his prophecies, but it was not surreal.
Jeremiah was more like a journalist prophet that recorded visions of how things would be with some use of metaphor (he apparently felt nothing was more painful than a woman in labor/giving birth considering how frequently he used that comparison).
But Ezekiel, man, he seems to have sampled some funky mushrooms on his departure from Jerusalem with the Dali-esque images he documents in his book. A great deal of the book is spent delivering bad news: bad news to the Jews that God was disciplining them and bad news to the neighbors that God was going to smack them down in the future. The last part is kinda uplifting in that it discusses the temple being rebuilt. Alas, Ezekiel is very analytical in his discussion of the temple...more of an architect passing along schematics than a seer that is jubilant from the good news God is sharing with him.
Jeremiah was more like a journalist prophet that recorded visions of how things would be with some use of metaphor (he apparently felt nothing was more painful than a woman in labor/giving birth considering how frequently he used that comparison).
But Ezekiel, man, he seems to have sampled some funky mushrooms on his departure from Jerusalem with the Dali-esque images he documents in his book. A great deal of the book is spent delivering bad news: bad news to the Jews that God was disciplining them and bad news to the neighbors that God was going to smack them down in the future. The last part is kinda uplifting in that it discusses the temple being rebuilt. Alas, Ezekiel is very analytical in his discussion of the temple...more of an architect passing along schematics than a seer that is jubilant from the good news God is sharing with him.
