Ezekiel2,3 - Ezekiel's Vision

 

Ezekiel 2,3 – Ezekiel’s Vision

 

Ezekiel lived 100 miles from Jerusalem and carried out his ministry from there. He claimed that the Spirit carried him from Babylon to Jerusalem. After his vision came the voice, which was as it should be. God’s Word endures after the memory of visions fades. (2 Pet. 1:16-21).

 

He saw God’s glory and fell on his face in humble worship. Only a vision of the glorious throne of God can sustain you when the way grows difficult.

 

He stood on his feet, was filled with the Spirit, and listened to the Word of God. He fed on the Word, which gave him what he needed to speak God’s Word. In this, he was like Jeremiah, (Jer. 15:16), John (Rev.10:9), and Jesus (Matt. 4:4). Several times God tells him to “set his face” against something. Ezekiel depended on the hand of God to strengthen him. He sat with the people and identified with their pain, and he waited patiently for God’s word to come to him.

 

When God spoke, He made Ezekiel a watchman and told him to stay home and be quiet until he received the message to speak. His solitude and silence were signs to the people that God was angry with them for rejecting His Word.

 

Ezekiel knew that he had been called at a difficult time to do difficult work with a difficult people, and yet he obeyed the Lord. Little did he know the price he would have to pay to be a watchman, but he was faithful.

 

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