Deliver of Ézéchiel

The delivers of Ézéchiel is a book of the Tanakh and Old Testament writes by Ézéchiel with Babylon finished towards -591, with the Ier front century J. - C.. It treats fall of Jerusalem, messages of comdamnation towards various nations and prophecies.

Context

Jérémie was in Jerusalem, Daniel at the court of Babylon and Ézékiel was the prophet sent to exiled Jewish in Babylonia. The book of Ézékiel was included in the gun at the days of Ezra Osée and it appears in the catalogs of the beginning of the Christian era, in particular in the gun of Origène. Its authenticity is also attested by the astonishing similarity between its symbolisms and those of the Livre of Jérémie and the Revelation (or Apocalypse).

Summary

Chapters 1 to 3 speak about a vision about God and call of Ézéchiel with work; chapters 4 to 24 speak about the judgments resting on Jerusalem and the reason for which they were given; chapters 25 to 32 proclaim the judgments on the nations, and chapters 33 to 48 contain the visions of Israel of the last days.

God establishes Ézéchiel prophet and sends it towards Israel and the rebellious nations of the neighborhoods. That they pay attention or that they abstain from some, there is not the important one. The important thing, it is that they will know that a prophet of the Lord YHWH was in the middle of them to inform them.

Vision of Jerusalem

Ézéchiel is transported to Jerusalem, where he sees the hateful things which are made in the temple of God. In the court, there is a feeling reluctant Symbole which excites the jealousy of YHWH. Boring the wall, Ézéchiel discovers sixty ten men of ripe age into full Idolâtrie in front of feeling reluctant animals and of the Idole S carved on the wall. They are justified while saying: “YHWH does not see us. YHWH left the country. ” (Ézéchiel 8:12). With the door of the Northern , women are crying the pagan God Tammouz. There are also twenty five men who adore the Sun. They offend God shamelessly. Ézéchiel then sees six men with a weapon to crash to pieces and a seventh man vêtu of flax is with them, with an inkpot of secretary. God orders with this man to pass in the middle of the city and to make a mark on the face of the men who sigh and who groan. Then he tells the six men to enter and to kill without distinction old man, young man, virgin, small child and women, whoever the mark does not have. It is what they do, the man vêtu flax pays: “I made as you ordered it to me. ” (Ézéchiel 9:11).

Prophecy against the nations

God predicts that the nations of surrounding will be delighted by the fall of Jerusalem and will benefit from the occasion to throw the opprobrium on Him. Also they will not be free from punishment; the Amen ites, the Moabites, the Édom ites, the Philistine, the town of Tyr and the Egypt will fall too.

Gog de Magog

A new invader presents himself. Coveting the peace and the prosperity of the people that God restored, Gog de Magog enters an insane rage and attacks. In this day, YHWH will rise. It will make so that the sword of each one is directed against his/her brother, and it will send on them the plague, blood, and a torrential stone rain of hail, fire and sulfur. They will fall, but they will know which is YHWH. The inhabitants of Israel will then make fires with the broken weapons of war, and the birds and other animals vultures will eat the flesh and will drink the blood of those which will have been cut down. Then Israel will live in safety without anybody to make it tremble.

This tribe, although having existed, did not attack the Jews. They are the Romans who did it.

The Valley of the Bones

The prophet then witnesses a vision of the resurrection of the bodies which will take place in Messianic times: in a desert valley, the skeletons of the ressuscities leave ground and cover flesh, from the interior (veins, arteries, muscles) until outside. In painting, this vision was restored in the left lower angle of the fresco of the last Jugement of Michel-Angel.

Vision of the Temple

Ézéchiel sees a temple and constructions of a city. An angel then reveals to him all the characteristics of the temple and its courses, giving the measurement of the walls, the doors, the buildings of guard, the dining rooms and the temple itself. Then it directs Ézékiel towards the door is. “And, see: the glory of God of Israel came from the direction of the east, and its voice was like the voice of immense water; and the ground shone because of its glory. ” (Ézéchiel 43:2). The angel brings back Ézéchiel towards the entry of the House, where the prophet sees water which leaves lower part the threshold of the House, towards the east, and this water goes down to the south from the furnace bridge. At the beginning water streams, but the increasing flow, it is formed a torrent which flows in the Dead Sea, where the fish take again life; thus a fishing industry develops. On each bank of the torrent grow trees for the food and the cure of the men. The vision reveals then the heritage of the 12 tribes, without forgetting the foreign resident and the chief, then it describes the Holy City , towards the south, with its 12 doors named according to the tribes. The city will carry most glorious of the names: “YHWH itself is there. ” (Ézéchiel 48:35).

It is interesting to note that the book of the Apocalypse describes the same temple in the chapter 21 verse 10, with a detail meadows: in this last, the temple represents YHWH itself and it is located in the Holy City and not outside.

See too

Mythology mésopotamienne
Gog de Magog, the tribe
four Alive

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