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* RuleOfThree: In Chapter 14, God uses the names of three righteous people -- [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah]], [[Literature/BookOfDaniel Daniel]], and [[Literature/BookOfJob Job]] -- to say that if even these three were to stand to intercede for Israel when God brings various judgments upon His people, they would only save themselves due to their own righteousness.
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** In Chapter 14, God uses the names of three righteous people -- [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah]], [[Literature/BookOfDaniel Daniel]], and [[Literature/BookOfJob Job]] -- to say that if even these three were to stand to intercede for Israel when God brings various judgments upon His people, they would only save themselves due to their ownrighteousness.righteousness.
** In Chapter 21, God tells Ezekiel in regard to His judgment on Jerusalem: "Now you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands together. Let the sword strike two times or even three." (verse 14)
** In Chapter 14, God uses the names of three righteous people -- [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah]], [[Literature/BookOfDaniel Daniel]], and [[Literature/BookOfJob Job]] -- to say that if even these three were to stand to intercede for Israel when God brings various judgments upon His people, they would only save themselves due to their own
** In Chapter 21, God tells Ezekiel in regard to His judgment on Jerusalem: "Now you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands together. Let the sword strike two times or even three." (verse 14)
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* RuleOfThree: In Chapter 14, God uses the names of three righteous people -- [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah]], [[Literature/BookOfDaniel Daniel]], and [[Literature/BookOfJob Job]] -- to say that if even these three were to stand to intercede for Israel when God brings various judgments upon them, they would only save themselves due to their own righteousness.
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* RuleOfThree: In Chapter 14, God uses the names of three righteous people -- [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah]], [[Literature/BookOfDaniel Daniel]], and [[Literature/BookOfJob Job]] -- to say that if even these three were to stand to intercede for Israel when God brings various judgments upon them, His people, they would only save themselves due to their own righteousness.
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* RuleOfThree: In Chapter 14, God uses the names of three righteous people -- [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Noah]], [[Literature/BookOfDaniel Daniel]], and [[Literature/BookOfJob Job]] -- to say that if even these three were to stand to intercede for Israel when God brings various judgments upon them, they would only save themselves due to their own righteousness.
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* NoseShove: In Chapter 8 in the Evangelical Heritage Version, when Ezekiel sees a group of Jews standing outside the Temple looking toward the east and worshiping the sun, God says, "Have you seen this, son of man? Is it too trivial for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are committing here? Do they also have to fill the land with violence, so that they provoke me more and more? They are even sticking the branch up my nose!" (verse 17)
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* WantedASonInstead: Implied in the parable God spoke through the prophet Ezekiel in Ezekiel chapter 16, since Middle Eastern cultures of that time desired boys over girls, partly inspired by the "seed of the woman" prophecy from the Literature/BookOfGenesis that would "crush the head" of the "seed of the serpent", with the "seed of the woman" being a male figure, who turned out to be Jesus Christ. The infant girl of that parable, who represents God's people, is cast off as an unwanted child, and God, as the parent/future husband, spoke to the child, causing her to grow until she was old enough to be united with Him in a marriage covenant.
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* EasyEvangelism: Purposely averted. In Chapter 3, God tells Ezekiel that he is being sent to be a messenger to his own people, "the house of Israel", instead of "to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand." God's reason for this? "Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you. But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted." (verses 6 and 7)
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* PowerGlows: The man Ezekiel meets in Chapter 8 is described in verse 2 as this: "From his waist downward was something like fire, and from his waist upward something like a brightness, like an amber glow." (NET Bible)
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* BringMyBrownPants: God speaks to Ezekiel about Jerusalem:
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** And later on:
-->''If they ask you why you're groaning, say to them, "Because of the news." When it comes, every heart will despair, every hand will hang lifeless, every spirit will be listless, and urine will run down every leg. It's coming! It will happen! This is what the LORD God says.'' (Ezekiel 21:7, Common English Bible)
-->''If they ask you why you're groaning, say to them, "Because of the news." When it comes, every heart will despair, every hand will hang lifeless, every spirit will be listless, and urine will run down every leg. It's coming! It will happen! This is what the LORD God says.'' (Ezekiel 21:7, Common English Bible)
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." (Ezekiel 23:20, NIV)
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** "You prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your neighbors with the large sexual organs, and as you added to your seductions, you provoked me to anger." (Ezekiel 16:26, Common English Bible)
** "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." (Ezekiel 23:20, NIV)
** "You prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your neighbors with the large sexual organs, and as you added to your seductions, you provoked me to anger." (Ezekiel 16:26, Common English Bible)
** "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." (Ezekiel 23:20, NIV)
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* MaliciousSlander: God through Ezekiel says to the sorceresses in Israel:
-->''You hurt the righteous with slander--I didn't wound them!--and you strengthened the hands of the wicked so that they survived without changing their evil ways!'' (Ezekiel 13:22, Common English Bible)
-->''You hurt the righteous with slander--I didn't wound them!--and you strengthened the hands of the wicked so that they survived without changing their evil ways!'' (Ezekiel 13:22, Common English Bible)
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* MoneyIsNotPower: "They will hurl their silver into the street, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and their gold won't deliver them on the day of the LORD's anger." (Ezekiel 7:19, Common English Bible)
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* BringMyBrownPants: God speaks to Ezekiel about Jerusalem:
-->''And those who flee? They will turn up on the hills like valley doves, all of them moaning, those guilty ones. Every hand will hang limp; urine will run down every leg.'' (Ezekiel 7:16-17, Common English Bible)
-->''And those who flee? They will turn up on the hills like valley doves, all of them moaning, those guilty ones. Every hand will hang limp; urine will run down every leg.'' (Ezekiel 7:16-17, Common English Bible)
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!!Structure of the books:
* Ezekiel's first vision of God (Ezekiel chapter 1)
* God speaks judgment against Israel (Ezekiel chapters 2 to 24)
* God speaks judgment against the foreign pagan nations (Ezekiel chapters 25 to 32)
* God speaks about disciplining and restoring Israel (Ezekiel chapters 33 to 37)
* The invasion from the north in the latter days (Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39)
* The new temple and the division of the land of Israel (Ezekiel chapters 40 to 48)
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* Ezekiel's first vision of God (Ezekiel chapter 1)
* God speaks judgment against Israel (Ezekiel chapters 2 to 24)
* God speaks judgment against the foreign pagan nations (Ezekiel chapters 25 to 32)
* God speaks about disciplining and restoring Israel (Ezekiel chapters 33 to 37)
* The invasion from the north in the latter days (Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39)
* The new temple and the division of the land of Israel (Ezekiel chapters 40 to 48)
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* PhonyPsychic: God in Chapter 13 tells Ezekiel that He's going to bring judgment on the so-called prophets who prophesy lies in His name, declaring "thus says the Lord" whereas He has not spoken to them, that their prophecies of peace where there is no peace is like somebody building a wall with untempered mortar and that the wall will fall, and so will those who put their trust in those so-called prophets.
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* MagicIsEvil: God speaks against the sorceresses in Israel in Chapter 13 who are using magic pillows to "hunt after souls like birds, to make them fly" so they can kill the souls that should not die and save alive the souls that should not live.
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* ItsAllJunk: From Ezekiel 7:19, regarding the survivors of the Babylonian siege against Jerusalem: "They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall become abhorrent; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord."
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* ParentalAbandonment: Jerusalem, as depicted in God's parable about them in chapter 16 as an unwanted baby daughter who was left out into the streets without anyone to care for her, until God spoke to the baby and [[WifeHusbandry caused her to grow into a young woman that He married]].'
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* ParentalAbandonment: Jerusalem, as depicted in God's parable about them in chapter 16 as an unwanted baby daughter who was left out into the streets without anyone to care for her, until God spoke to the baby and [[WifeHusbandry caused her to grow into a young woman that He married]].'
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* JewishComplaining: God tells Ezekiel to bake bread for himself by using human excrement for fuel. When Ezekiel complains to God by saying he has never eaten anything defiled since childhood, God changes His mind and tells Ezekiel to use cow manure instead.
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* JewishComplaining: God tells Ezekiel to bake bread for himself by using human excrement for fuel. When Ezekiel complains to God by saying he has never eaten anything defiled since childhood, God changes His mind and tells Ezekiel to use cow manure instead. (The latter, when dried, was a normal staple fuel at the time, as it still is in some parts of the world.)
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** While the other books of the Bible say Sodom was destroyed due to its people "going after other flesh" (in other words, [[DepravedHomosexual perverted sexuality]] according to God), this book says what started her downfall was "pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness" and that she "did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy". And from there, Sodom became haughty and went FromBadToWorse, thus bringing God's judgment upon them.
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** While the other books of the Bible say Sodom was destroyed due to its people "going after other flesh" (in other words, [[DepravedHomosexual perverted sexuality]] according to God), this book says what started her downfall was "pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness" and that she "did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy". And from there, Sodom became haughty and went FromBadToWorse, thus bringing God's judgment upon them. Ezekiel does mention various unspecified "abominations" as sins that the people there also committed, as well, which may or may not be a reference to the more familiar story (since homosexuality is one example of things that fall under what the Bible calls "abominations" in other places).
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Ezekiel's graphic metaphorical descriptions of Judah as God's adulterous wife (who gets gruesomely punished by God for her sluttishness) are often considered politically incorrect today, especially by feminists (who often think the imagery is misogynistic, and/or encourages abusive relationships in real life). However, they would already have been ''extremely'' politically incorrect in his own time, if not for the exact same reasons. Ezekiel's contemporary Jeremiah was accused for blasphemy using far less offensive language in his own prophecies.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Ezekiel's graphic metaphorical descriptions of Judah as God's adulterous wife (who gets gruesomely punished by God for her sluttishness) are often considered politically incorrect today, especially by feminists (who often think the imagery is misogynistic, and/or encourages abusive relationships in real life). However, they would already have been ''extremely'' politically incorrect in his own time, if not for the exact same reasons. Ezekiel's contemporary Jeremiah was accused for of blasphemy for using far less offensive language in his own prophecies.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Jerusalem, as depicted in God's parable about them in chapter 16 as an unwanted baby daughter who was left out into the streets without anyone to care for her, until God spoke to the baby and [[WifeHusbandry caused her to grow into a young woman that He married]].
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* ParentalAbandonment: Jerusalem, as depicted in God's parable about them in chapter 16 as an unwanted baby daughter who was left out into the streets without anyone to care for her, until God spoke to the baby and [[WifeHusbandry caused her to grow into a young woman that He married]].'
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Ezekiel's graphic metaphorical descriptions of Judah as God's adulterous wife (who gets gruesomely punished by God for her sluttishness) are often considered politically incorrect today, especially by feminists (who often think the imagery is misogynistic, and/or encourages abusive relationships in real life). However, they would already have been ''extremely'' politically incorrect in his own time, if not for the exact same reasons. Ezekiel's contemporary Jeremiah was accused for blasphemy using far less offensive language in his own prophecies.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Ezekiel's graphic metaphorical descriptions of Judah as God's adulterous wife (who gets gruesomely punished by God for her sluttishness) are often considered politically incorrect today, especially by feminists (who often think the imagery is misogynistic, and/or encourages abusive relationships in real life). However, they would already have been ''extremely'' politically incorrect in his own time, if not for the exact same reasons. Ezekiel's contemporary Jeremiah was accused for blasphemy using far less offensive language in his own prophecies.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: For as evil as the Philistines are presented in Scripture, God says that even they are shocked of the adulterous ways of the land of Israel, as presented in the parable God speaks about them as a whorish wife in Chapter 16.
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* TarnishingTheirOwnBeauty: God tells His people in Chapter 16 that their adulterous ways with the nations surrounding them has made their beauty as God's wife to be abhorred.
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* FaceHeelTurn and HeelFaceTurn: God says a few times in this book that if a righteous person trusts in his own righteousness and commits evil, he will die and none of his righteous acts will be remembered, and also if a wicked person is warned that he will die from his sins and thus turns away from his sins and lives righteously before God, then he will live and none of his wicked acts will be remembered.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ezekiel watched as God's glory in physical form departed from the Temple when He saw how corrupt even His priests were.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ezekiel watched as God's glory in physical form departed from the Temple when He saw how corrupt even His priests were.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Ezekiel watched as God's glory in physical form departed from the Temple when He saw how corrupt even His priests were.
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* CorruptChurch: The Judaic religious system at the time of Ezekiel's ministry was so corrupt, with the priests worshiping idols even in God's holy Temple, that the glory of God decided to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere vacate the premises]] with Ezekiel watching.
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* AccompliceByInaction: God warns Ezekiel a few times that if he as a watchman does not warn the people of Israel to repent so that they will not die because of their sins, and they end up perishing, God will hold him responsible for not warning them.
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* DoomedHometown: God pronounces doom to the people of Jerusalem throughout the early chapters of this book, telling them that He's going to send the sword, famine, and plague against them. In the later chapters, though, God tells the people that were sent into exile that He will bring them back, cleanse them of their sins, and give them a new heart and a new spirit so that they would obey Him and things will be well with them again.
