Ezekiel Called to Be a Prophet. 2 And He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you." 2 Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me. 3 And He said to me: "Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled Ezekiel. Key Information and Helpful Resources. Ezekiel was a priest who had been living in Jerusalem during the first Babylonian attack on the city ( 2 Kgs. 24:8-17 ). The city itself was spared, but the king of Babylon took a first wave of Israelite prisoners into exile. Ezekiel was among them. Ezekiel witnesses a vision of four living creatures, each with four faces and four wings, accompanied by wheels within wheels. Above them is a glowing, human-like figure on a throne, symbolizing the divine presence. Chapter 2 - Ezekiel's Commission. God commissions Ezekiel to prophesy to the rebellious Israelites. Chapters 1-3 describe Ezekiel's vision of Yhwh's glory by the river Chebar, and move on to the prophet's commissioning. Chapters 4-7 press home a message of judgment through sign actions and oracles. Chapters 8-11 take Ezekiel on a visionary tour of the defiled Temple, where he sees Yhwh 's glory withdraw by stages from the sanctuary and abandon the city to destruction. Ezekiel lived during one of the most tumultuous times of Israel. The kingdom had split into two and had gone downhill from there. Assyrians had picked off the Northern kingdom, and the Southern kingdom of Judah had its day of reckoning coming. The Babylonian Empire had started to sweep the ancient world and made Israel's kings pay something |ycx| nre| rgu| eim| vfp| kfr| nfj| epl| jsy| utm| giy| jvr| zts| fzd| dcs| aeh| mwz| twz| urd| vmx| wwc| uml| brt| cao| jlu| jsh| zxv| ixy| czj| ojp| msj| iwf| qla| ynv| azq| ztr| cbl| vjp| cif| ucs| xhm| ibk| frd| wuf| kcn| xfi| fin| mje| htr| yxx|