Ezequiel 36

Ezequiel 36

Chart from recommended resource Jensen's Survey of the OT - used by permission Click Chart from Charles Swindoll CHRONOLOGY OF EZEKIEL'S PROPHECIES PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT The LORD is not there PROPHECY OF RESTORATION The LORD is There FATE OF JUDAH Before the Siege FOES OF JUDAH During the Siege FUTURE OF JUDAH After the Siege 593-588 BC 587-586 586-571 7 YEARS OF PROPHESYING HORROR & NO HOPE 15 YEARS OF PROPHESYING HOPE Ezekiel 1:1-3:27 Ezekiel Sees the Glory & Receives the Call Ezekiel 4:1-24:27 Judgments Against Judah Ezekiel 25:1-32:32 Judgments Against the Gloating Nations Ezekiel 33:1-39:29 Restoration of Israel to the LORD Ezekiel 40:1-48:35 Visions of the Temple Jehovah Shammah Ezekiel 36:1 "And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.: the mountains: Eze 6:2,3 33:28 34:14 37:22 hear: Eze 36:4,8 20:47 37:4 Jer 22:29 DEAR READER, AS BACKGROUND PLEASE NOTE THAT THE HERMENEUTICAL PRINCIPLE UTILIZED TO INTERPRET THE PROPHECIES OF EZEKIEL IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS... If the plain sense of the Scripture makes good sense in context, then I will not seek some other sense lest the final interpretation turn out to be nonsense and totally unrelated to God's intended meaning (all Scripture has only one interpretation, but many applications). It follows that every word in Ezekiel 36-39 will be taken in its primary, ordinary, usual, literal sense, unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and self-evident and fundamental truths, indicate otherwise. There will be no attempt to spiritualize or allegorize the passages. God addresses these prophetic promises to Israel or Judah and there is no justification to spiritualize the promises as given to the church, an entity which is not even mentioned in the Old Testament! When one replaces Israel with the NT Church in the interpretation of OT prophetic writings, the prophecies become very difficult to interpret and indeed cannot be interpreted accurately! I should add that while I have been accused of being a "dispensationalist", I would respond by saying that I am not a "dispensationalist" but a "literalist!" Tony