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Prophetic Actions: Speak louder than words?

Prophetic Actions: Speak louder than words?. Ezekiel 1-10. Uppercrust exilee Merkavah Mysticism: wheels, Gospellers faces?, burnished bronze, crystal, lightning Eat honey scroll Flint face: speak or die Actions: Seven days stunned Bound and speechless: 390/40, Ezekiel bread Play war

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Prophetic Actions: Speak louder than words?

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  1. Prophetic Actions: Speak louder than words?

  2. Ezekiel 1-10 • Uppercrustexilee • Merkavah Mysticism: wheels, Gospellers faces?, burnished bronze, crystal, lightning • Eat honey scroll • Flint face: speak or die • Actions: • Seven days stunned • Bound and speechless: 390/40, Ezekiel bread • Play war • Sword haircut: fire, scatter, hack • Clap and stamp • Dig through wall • Tremble while eating/drinking • Arrows of famine/divine revenge • Defile altars • Bald faces, sackcloth • Abomination: Tammuz, idols, Kidron Valley • Mark of protection (vs. beast), Cain • Cherubim/SeraphimExilesabandoned? Control future! • Woe to false prophets • Idols set up in hearts • No hope- useless vines • Eagle & 2 vines => cedar for all • God faithful for God’s sake • “Just parables?” • Reversals: meat in a pot • Grapes & teeth on edge • Heart of stone • Delay of vision • Paying prostitute

  3. Ezekiel 11-48 • Polished sword pierces thigh: vengeance or refinement? • Forked road with signs • Graphic abomination and conquering: two tents • No mourning • Punishing the rods: Moab and Ammon • Destroying idols: Tyre, Sidon, Egypt, Ethiopia • Danel • “the Nile is mine” • Assyria, Elam as analogues: fallen cedar, place in Pit • Prophet/priest as religious entertainment? • Shepherds eating the sheep and their forage… • Mt. Seir (Edom & Esau)- punishment for rejoicing • Sanctify my Name- prophesy to the Land • Kidron: dry bones & breath • Joining sticks • Gog Magog • Prophesy to birds: dinner time • New Temple, Recreate worship • Dimensions; palace missing • Zadok > Abiathar, Levites butchers • Nazirite priests • Princes alongside people • Water of life and expansion of land

  4. For next week… • Conceive, in 500 or fewer words, of a prophetic deed that could be done in a church service and describe how it might embody a call to repentance. • Read Daniel and Isaiah 40-65, paying careful attention to passages describing God’s servant and idols, and excerpt from A Grief Observed.

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