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1
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Roughly ___ of the Bk. of Ezekiel is comprised of ______

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Oracles of Divine Judgement

2
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Chapter 1 is different. Why?

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No mention of GOD”s Anger or Judah’s immanent doom.

3
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What is unique and new in Ezekiel’s Vision?

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His Steadfast and Systematic avoidance of any attempt to describe the PERSON of GOD

4
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Ezekiel is a __ of Israel

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Watchman

5
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Two main points of Ezekiel’s message

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Redemption and Responsibly

6
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If Ezekiel had only been commissioned to preach that Judah has simply worn out God’s patience with her sinfulness —

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Ezekiel would have nothing more to say that the prophets of the 8th and 7th Centirues

7
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Ezekiel’s response to the peoples doubts

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  • Both individuals and communities will be judges

- God desires REPENTANCE not annihilation

8
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Ezekiel reverses the Mosaic Understanding of Justice

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Does not believe in an “inherited guilt” (sins of the Father passed on to child) rather the Individuals role in attaining salvation

9
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Zerah Aakodesh

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The Holy Seed

10
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Function of Ezekiel as Watchman

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Responsible for communicating God’s words no matter what to the people

11
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What is the disastrous news in Ez 33:21

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The City has Fallen. Hope of returning or short exile is gone

12
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Even in defeat and exile the survivors believed

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that they would regain the Promised Land

13
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Am Haretz

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People of the Land

14
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The fourth part of Ezekiel is found in chapters

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33-48

15
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Dry bones story is analogous to

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bringing the people back from exile so that they may live

16
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Ezekiel borrows elements from the ____ account in Gen ___ and well as the _____ account in Gen __

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Priest Gen 1

Jahwistic Gen 2

17
Q

The Creation Stories in Gen 1 & 2 presents Ezekiel’s understanding of

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God’s deliverance of Israel from Exile AND RE-CREATION

18
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God’s deliverance of Israel from Exile will be an act of ________________ on God’s part

A

totally underserved and unsolicited generosity and “hewed” (divine love”

19
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Before the New Creation occurs there will be one last ___

A

battle

20
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The final battle is

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Israel defining herself against a mortal enemy – against GOG from the LAND OF MAGAG

21
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God is an archetype of what?

A

the standard opponent of YHWH

22
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With the battle against Gog foretold, and the victory of God guaranteed, Ezekiel shifts to an ________ vision

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Eschatological

23
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In the New Creation, the Restored Temple will be the seat of the new _____ government and at the center will be the ______ line.

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New Theocratic Government with the center being the Zadokite Line

24
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Earlier prophets like Amos, 1st Is. and Jeremiah criticized and rejected the efficacy of the _________

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Levitical Sacrificial System and Priesthood because it had become corrupt

25
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Ezekiel takes a different approach, using the ______ priesthood, to use the cultic mosaic traditions

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Zadokite

26
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Ezekiel foresees the return of God’s _____ to the Temple

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KAVOD = Glory
Shekinah = Divine Indwelling
27
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Once fully restored and recreated, Israel will enter into and dwell in that ___, ___ ___, which was intended by God from the Orginal creation

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Idyllic and Edenic Existence

28
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The Cycle of Salvation ______ –> _____ will be completed

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Creation to Re-Creation