Visions of God
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I. The Lord Calls Ezekiel (1:1-3)
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* Ezekiel 1:1-3 "In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
2 On the fifth of the month--it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin--
3 the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. There the hand of the LORD was upon him."
* Ezekiel 1 thru 3:15 was first delivered to God's people in 592 DB before the fall of Jerusalem by Ezekiel. Jehoiachin and Ezekiel were taken into captivity to Babylon in 597 BC after Jerusalem's second seige by Babylon. 592 is 11 years before Judah's final fall.
The Lord called Ezekiel in 592 BC when he was 13 by opening the heavens. The Lord was on the most amazing chariot that no one could dream of. The chariot had a movable throne. The Lord was over the throne.
Ezekiel described the Lord. The Lord, "was a figure like that of a man... from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him."
Other prophets, the apostles, and others describe the Lord this way. When Jesus transformed on the mount before Peter, James, and John he regained this appearance. When Jesus prayed during the last supper he asked to be transformed back to this glory.
I long to see the Lord in his glory again. Being in his presence and experiencing him as Ezekiel did is life.
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II. Living Creatures (1:4-21)
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