EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

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• EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

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PROPHET - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? ESTHER (485-465BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)? ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)? CYRUS (559-529BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? DARIUS (511-475BC)?
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OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

• BLESSING OF ISRAEL V. 1-15
• RENEWAL OF ISRAEL V. 16-38

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READ EZEKIEL 361-3

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains
  of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear
  the word of the LORD!
• 2 Thus says the Lord GOD Because the enemy has
  said of you, 'Aha! The ancient heights have
  become our possession,
• 3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the
  Lord GOD "Because they made you desolate and
  swallowed you up on every side, so that you
  became the possession of the rest of the nations,
  and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and
  slandered by the people"

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 361-3

• 1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains
  of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear
  the word of the LORD!
• 2 Thus says the Lord GOD Because the enemy has
  said of you 'Aha! The ancient heights have
  become our possession,
• 3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the
  Lord GOD "Because they made you desolate and
  swallowed you up on every side, so that you
  became the possession of the rest of the nations,
  and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and
  slandered by the people"
• WHO IS THE LORD SPEAKING TO? WHY?
• 'O mountains of Israel
• WHO SAID THIS?
• 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our
  possession
• WHO DID THIS TO ISRAEL? WHY?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 361

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains
  of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear
  the word of the LORD!
• WHO IS THE LORD SPEAKING TO? WHY?
• 'O mountains of Israel
• READ EZEKIEL 62-3
• 2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains
  of Israel, and prophesy against them,
• 3 and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word
  of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the
  mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to
  the valleys Indeed I, even I, will bring a
  sword against you, and I will destroy your high
  places. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 361

• 1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains
  of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear
  the word of the LORD!
• WHO IS THE LORD SPEAKING TO? WHY?
• 'O mountains of Israel
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY HE WOULD DO?
• WAS THIS CONCERNING ISRAEL?
• READ EZEKIEL 1722
• 22 Thus says the Lord GOD I will take also one
  of the highest branches of the high cedar and set
  it out. I will crop off from the topmost of its
  young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a
  high and prominent mountain.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 362

• 2 Thus says the Lord GOD Because the enemy has
  said of you 'Aha! The ancient heights have
  become our possession,
• WHO SAID THIS?
• 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our
  possession
• AMMONITES?
• READ EZEKIEL 253
• 3 Say to the Ammonites, 'Hear the word of the
  Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD Because you
  said 'Aha!' against My sanctuary when it was
  profaned, and against the land of Israel when it
  was desolate, and against the house of Judah when
  they went into captivity NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 362

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 2 Thus says the Lord GOD Because the enemy has
  said of you 'Aha! The ancient heights have
  become our possession,
• WHO SAID THIS?
• 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our
  possession
• MOUNT SEIR? EDOM?
• READ EZEKIEL 3510-11
• 10 Because you have said, 'These two nations and
  these two countries shall be mine, and we will
  possess them,' although the LORD was there,
• 11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I
  will do according to your anger and according to
  the envy which you showed in your hatred against
  them and I will make Myself known among them
  when I judge you. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 363

• 3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the
  Lord GOD Because they made you desolate and
  swallowed you up on every side, so that you
  became the possession of the rest of the nations,
  and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and
  slandered by the people
• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO? ISRAEL?
• WHO DID THIS TO ISRAEL? WHY?
• READ PSALMS 4413-14
• 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A
  scorn and a derision to those all around us.
• 14 You make us a byword among the nations, A
  shaking of the head among the peoples. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 363

• 3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the
  Lord GOD Because they made you desolate and
  swallowed you up on every side, so that you
  became the possession of the rest of the nations,
  and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and
  slandered by the people
• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO? ISRAEL?
• DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2836-37
• 36 The LORD will bring you and the king whom you
  set over you to a nation which neither you nor
  your fathers have known, and there you shall
  serve other gods wood and stone.
• 37 And you shall become an astonishment, a
  proverb, and a byword among all nations where the
  LORD will drive you. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 363

• 3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the
  Lord GOD Because they made you desolate and
  swallowed you up on every side, so that you
  became the possession of the rest of the nations,
  and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and
  slandered by the people
• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO? ISRAEL?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• READ ISAIAH 4214-15
• 14 I have held My peace a long time, I have been
  still and restrained Myself. Now I will cry like
  a woman in labor, I will pant and gasp at once.
• 15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And
  dry up all their vegetation I will make the
  rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 363

• 3 therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the
  Lord GOD Because they made you desolate and
  swallowed you up on every side, so that you
  became the possession of the rest of the nations,
  and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and
  slandered by the people
• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO? ISRAEL?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• READ JEREMIAH 249-10
• 9 I will deliver them to trouble into all the
  kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a
  reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in
  all places where I shall drive them.
• 10 I will send the sword, the famine and the
  pestilence among them, till they are consumed
  from the land that I gave to them and their
  fathers. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 363

• 3 therefore prophesy, and say Thus says the
  Lord GOD Because they made you desolate and
  swallowed you up on every side, so that you
  became the possession of the rest of the nations,
  and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and
  slandered by the people
• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO? ISRAEL?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• READ LAMENTATIONS 216
• 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth
  against you They hiss and gnash their teeth.
  They say, We have swallowed her up! Surely this
  is the day we have waited for We have found it,
  we have seen it! NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 363

• 3 therefore prophesy, and say Thus says the
  Lord GOD Because they made you desolate and
  swallowed you up on every side, so that you
  became the possession of the rest of the nations,
  and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and
  slandered by the people
• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO? ISRAEL?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EDOM?
• READ OBADIAH 13
• 13 You should not have entered the gate of My
  people
• In the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should
  not have gazed on their affliction In the day of
  their calamity, Nor laid hands on their substance
  In the day of their calamity.

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READ EZEKIEL 364-5

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the
  word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to
  the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the
  valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that
  have been forsaken, which became plunder and
  mockery to the rest of the nations all around
• 5 therefore thus says the Lord GOD Surely I
  have spoken in My burning jealousy against the
  rest of the nations and against all Edom, who
  gave My land to themselves as a possession, with
  wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to
  plunder its open country.'

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 364-5

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the
  word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to
  the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the
  valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that
  have been forsaken, which became plunder and
  mockery to the rest of the nations all around
• 5 therefore thus says the Lord GOD Surely I
  have spoken in My burning jealousy against the
  rest of the nations and against all Edom, who
  gave My land to themselves as a possession, with
  wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to
  plunder its open country.'
• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 364

• 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the
  word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to
  the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the
  valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that
  have been forsaken, which became plunder and
  mockery to the rest of the nations all around
• WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
• O mountains of Israel
• READ EZEKIEL 63
• 3 Say 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
  the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the
  mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to
  the valleys Indeed I, even I, will bring a
  sword against you, and I will destroy your high
  places. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 364

• 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the
  word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to
  the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the
  valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that
  have been forsaken, which became plunder and
  mockery to the rest of the nations all around
• WHAT HAPPENED TO ISRAEL?
• became plunder and mockery to the rest of the
  nations
• WHAT WERE THE PEOPLE SAYING?
• READ EZEKIEL 3324
• 24 Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in
  the land of Israel are saying 'Abraham was only
  one, and he inherited the land. But we are many
  the land has been given to us as a possession.'
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 365

• 5 therefore thus says the Lord GOD Surely I
  have spoken in My burning jealousy against the
  rest of the nations and against all Edom, who
  gave My land to themselves as a possession, with
  wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to
  plunder its open country.'
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
• I have spoken in My burning jealousy against
  them
• BECAUSE
• they gave My land to themselves as a possession
• WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 365

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
• I have spoken in My burning jealousy against
  them
• BECAUSE
• they gave My land to themselves as a possession
• WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
• READ JEREMIAH 226-27
• 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found out,
  So is the house of Israel ashamed They and their
  kings and their princes, and their priests and
  their prophets, NKJV
• 27 Saying to a tree, 'You are my father, And to
  a stone, 'You gave birth to me. For they have
  turned their back to Me, and not their face. But
  in the time of their trouble They will say
  'Arise and save us. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 365

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
• I have spoken in My burning jealousy against
  them
• BECAUSE
• they gave My land to themselves as a possession
• READ JEREMIAH 2531
• 31 A noise will come to the ends of the earth
  For the LORD has a controversy with the nations
  He will plead His case with all flesh. He will
  give those who are wicked to the sword,' says the
  LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 365

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
• I have spoken in My burning jealousy against
  them
• BECAUSE
• they gave My land to themselves as a possession
• READ JEREMIAH 5011-12
• 11 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced,
• You destroyers of My heritage, Because you have
  grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, And you
  bellow like bulls,
• 12 Your mother shall be deeply ashamed She who
  bore you shall be ashamed. Behold, the least of
  the nations shall be a wilderness, A dry land and
  a desert.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 365

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
• I have spoken in My burning jealousy against
  them
• BECAUSE
• they gave My land to themselves as a possession
• WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
• READ EZEKIEL 2512-14
• 12 Thus says the Lord GOD Because of what Edom
  did against the house of Judah by taking
  vengeance, and has greatly offended by avenging
  itself on them,
• 14 I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand
  of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom
  according to My anger and according to My fury
  and they shall know My vengeance, says the Lord
  GOD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 365

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
• I have spoken in My burning jealousy against
  them
• BECAUSE
• they gave My land to themselves as a possession
• WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
• READ EZEKIEL 3328-29
• 28 I will make the land most desolate, her
  arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains
  of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will
  pass through.
• 29 Then they shall know that I am the LORD,
  when I have made the land most desolate because
  of all their abominations which they have
  committed. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 365

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
• I have spoken in My burning jealousy against
  them
• BECAUSE
• they gave My land to themselves as a possession
• WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
• READ EZEKIEL 3514-15
• 14 Thus says the Lord GOD The whole earth will
  rejoice when I make you desolate.
• 15 As you rejoiced because the inheritance of
  the house of Israel was desolate, So I will do to
  you you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well
  as all of Edom - all of it! Then they shall know
  that I am the LORD.' NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 365

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
• I have spoken in My burning jealousy against
  them
• BECAUSE
• they gave My land to themselves as a possession
• WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
• READ JOEL 32
• 2 I will also gather all nations, And bring them
  down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat And I will
  enter into judgment with them there On account of
  My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have
  scattered among the nations They have also
  divided up My land. NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 366-7

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of
  Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the
  rivers, and the valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD
  "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My
  fury, because you have borne the shame of the
  nations."
• 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD I have
  raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations
  that are around you shall bear their own shame.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 366-7

• 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of
  Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the
  rivers, and the valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD
  "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My
  fury, because you have borne the shame of the
  nations."
• 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD I have
  raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations
  that are around you shall bear their own shame.
• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• because you have borne the shame of the nations
• BECAUSE
• the nations are around you shall bear their own
  shame
• WHAT DID THE LORD DO? WHY?
• I raised My hand in an oath
• the nations around you shall bear their own
  shame

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 366

• 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of
  Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the
  rivers, and the valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD
  "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My
  fury, because you have borne the shame of the
  nations."
• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• because you have borne the shame of the nations
• READ PSALMS 1234
• 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scorn
  of those who are at ease, With the contempt of
  the proud.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 366

• 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of
  Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the
  rivers, and the valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD
  "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My
  fury, because you have borne the shame of the
  nations."
• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• because you have borne the shame of the nations
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
• READ EZEKIEL 3429
• 29 I will raise up for them a garden of renown,
  and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger
  in the land, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles
  anymore. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 367

• 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD I have
  raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations
  that are around you shall bear their own shame.
• WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
• I raised My hand in an oath
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• READ EZEKIEL 205
• 5 Thus says the Lord GOD On the day when I
  chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to the
  descendants of the house of Jacob, and made
  Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, I
  raised My hand in an oath to them, saying, 'I am
  the LORD your God.' NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 367

• 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD I have
  raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations
  that are around you shall bear their own shame.
• WHAT DID THE LORD DO? WHY?
• I raised My hand in an oath
• the nations around you shall bear their own
  shame
• READ JEREMIAH 259
• 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families
  of the north,' says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar
  the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring
  them against this land, against its inhabitants,
  and against these nations all around, and will
  utterly destroy them, and make them an
  astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual
  desolations.

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READ EZEKIEL 368-11

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall
  shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to
  My people Israel, for they are about to come.
• 9 For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to
  you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
• 10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house
  of Israel, all of it and the cities shall be
  inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
• 11 I will multiply upon you man and beast and
  they shall increase and bear young I will make
  you inhabited as in former times, and do better
  for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall
  know that I am the LORD.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 368-11

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall
  shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to
  My people Israel, for they are about to come.
• 9 For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to
  you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
• 10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house
  of Israel, all of it and the cities shall be
  inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
• 11 I will multiply upon you man and beast and
  they shall increase and bear young I will make
  you inhabited as in former times, and do better
  for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall
  know that I am the LORD.
• HOW WILL THE LORD BLESS ISRAEL? WHEN?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 368

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall
  shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to
  My people Israel, for they are about to come.
• HOW WILL THE LORD BLESS ISRAEL? WHEN?
• READ ISAIAH 42
• 2 In that day the Branch of the LORD shall be
  beautiful and glorious And the fruit of the
  earth shall be excellent and appealing For those
  of Israel who have escaped. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 276
• 6 Those who come He shall cause to take root in
  Jacob Israel shall blossom and bud, And fill the
  face of the world with fruit. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 369

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 9 For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to
  you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
• HOW WILL THE LORD BLESS ISRAEL? WHEN?
• READ JEREMIAH 3127-28
• 27 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD,
  that I will sow the house of Israel and the house
  of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of
  beast.
• 28 And it shall come to pass, that as I have
  watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to
  throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will
  watch over them to build and to plant, says the
  LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3610

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 4917-23
• 17 Your sons shall make haste Your destroyers
  and those who laid you waste Shall go away from
  you.
• 21 Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has
  begotten these for me, Since I have lost my
  children and am desolate, A captive, and
  wandering to and fro? And who has brought these
  up? There I was, left alone But these, where
  were they?
• 22 Thus says the Lord GOD Behold, I will lift
  My hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My
  standard for the peoples They shall bring your
  sons in their arms,
• And your daughters shall be carried on their
  shoulders
• 23 Kings shall be your foster fathers, And their
  queens your nursing mothers They shall bow down
  to you with their faces to the earth, And lick up
  the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I
  am the LORD, For they shall not be ashamed who
  wait for Me. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3610

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house
  of Israel, all of it and the cities shall be
  inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 5812
• 12 Those from among you Shall build the old
  waste places You shall raise up the foundations
  of many generations And you shall be called the
  Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets
  to Dwell In. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 614
• 4 They shall rebuild the old ruins, They shall
  raise up the former desolations, And they shall
  repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many
  generations. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3610

• 10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house
  of Israel, all of it and the cities shall be
  inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 3018
• 18 Thus says the LORD 'Behold, I will bring back
  the captivity of Jacob's tents, And have mercy on
  his dwelling places The city shall be built upon
  its own mound And the palace shall remain
  according to its own plan. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3610

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 10 I will multiply men upon you, all the house
  of Israel, all of it and the cities shall be
  inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?
• READ AMOS 911-12
• 11 On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of
  David, which has fallen down, And repair its
  damages I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild
  it as in the days of old
• 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom,
  And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,
  Says the LORD who does this thing. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3610

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?
• WHAT DID JAMES SAY?
• READ ACTS 1513-17
• 13 After they had become silent, James answered,
  saying, Men and brethren, listen to me
• 14 Simon has declared how God at the first
  visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people
  for His name.
• 15 And with this the words of the prophets
  agree, just as it is written
• 16 'After! this I will return And will rebuild
  the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down I
  will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up
• 17 So that the rest of mankind may seek the
  LORD,
• Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name,
  Says the LORD who does all these things.' NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3611

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 11 I will multiply upon you man and beast and
  they shall increase and bear young I will make
  you inhabited as in former times, and do better
  for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall
  know that I am the LORD.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?
• WHAT DID GOD DO FOR THEM IN THE BEGINNING?
• READ LEVITICUS 269
• 9 'I will look on you favorably and make you
  fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant
  with you. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3611

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 11 I will multiply upon you man and beast and
  they shall increase and bear young I will make
  you inhabited as in former times, and do better
  for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall
  know that I am the LORD.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?
• WHAT WAS THEIR FORMER STATUS?
• READ EZEKIEL 1655
• 55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters,
  return to their former state, and Samaria and her
  daughters return to their former state, then you
  and your daughters will return to your former
  state. NKJV

45
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3611

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 11 I will multiply upon you man and beast and
  they shall increase and bear young I will make
  you inhabited as in former times, and do better
  for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall
  know that I am the LORD.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?
• WHAT WAS THEIR FORMER STATUS?
• READ ZECHARIAH 108
• 8 I will whistle for them and gather them, For
  I will redeem them And they shall increase as
  they once increased. NKJV

46
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3611

• 11 I will multiply upon you man and beast and
  they shall increase and bear young I will make
  you inhabited as in former times, and do better
  for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall
  know that I am the LORD.
• REMEMBER WHAT THE LORD DID FOR JOB?
• READ JOB 4212-15
• 12 The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more
  than his beginning for he had 14,000 sheep,
  6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000
  female donkeys.
• 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.
• 14 He called the name of the first Jemimah, the
  name of the second Keziah, and the name of the
  third Keren-Happuch.
• 15 In all the land were found no women so
  beautiful as the daughters of Job and their
  father gave them aninheritance among their
  brothers. NKJV

47
READ EZEKIEL 3612-15

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My
  people Israel they shall take possession of you,
  and you shall be their inheritance no more shall
  you bereave them of children.
• 13 Thus says the Lord GOD Because they say to
  you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of
  children,'
• 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, nor
  bereave your nation anymore," says the Lord GOD.
• 15 Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the
  nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the
  peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation
  to stumble anymore," says the Lord GOD.'

48
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3612-15

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My
  people Israel they shall take possession of you,
  and you shall be their inheritance no more shall
  you bereave them of children.
• 13 Thus says the Lord GOD Because they say to
  you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of
  children,'
• 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, nor
  bereave your nation anymore," says the Lord GOD.
• 15 Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the
  nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the
  peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation
  to stumble anymore," says the Lord GOD.'
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
• WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

49
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3612

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My
  people Israel they shall take possession of you,
  and you shall be their inheritance no more shall
  you bereave them of children.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
• I will cause men to walk on you
• WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
• My people will again walk on the mountains of
  Israel?
• READ EZEKIEL 3427
• 26 I will make them and the places all around My
  hill a blessing and I will cause showers to come
  down in their season there shall be showers of
  blessing. NKJV

50
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3613-14

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 13 Thus says the Lord GOD Because they say to
  you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of
  children,'
• 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, nor
  bereave your nation anymore, says the Lord GOD.
• WHO SAID THIS? WHEN?
• 'You devour men and bereave your nation of
  children'
• READ NUMBERS 1332
• 32 They gave the children of Israel a bad report
  of the land which they had spied out, saying,
  The land through which we have gone as spies is
  a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the
  people whom we saw in it are men of great
  stature. NKJV

51
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3613-14

• BLESSING ON ISRAEL
• 13 Thus says the Lord GOD Because they say to
  you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of
  children,'
• 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, nor
  bereave your nation anymore, says the Lord GOD.
• HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
• you shall devour men no more
• nor bereave your nation anymore
• READ 2 KINGS 1725
• 25 And it was so, at the beginning of their
  dwelling there, that they did not fear the LORD
  therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which
  killed some of them.

52
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3615

• 15 Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the
  nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the
  peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation
  to stumble anymore, says the Lord GOD.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY? WHY?
• WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?
• READ PSALMS 8950-51
• 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of Your
  servants
• How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the
  many peoples,
• 51 With which Your enemies have reproached, O
  LORD, With which they have reproached the
  footsteps of Your anointed. NKJV

53
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3615

• 15 Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the
  nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the
  peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation
  to stumble anymore, says the Lord GOD.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 544
• 4 Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed
  Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to
  shame For you will forget the shame of your
  youth, And will not remember the reproach of your
  widowhood anymore.

54
READ EZEKIEL 3616-18

• THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
• 16 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me,
  saying
• 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt
  in their own land, they defiled it by their own
  ways and deeds to Me their way was like the
  uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.
  
• 18 Therefore I poured out My fury on them for
  the blood they had shed on the land, and for
  their idols with which they had defiled it.

55
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3616-18

• THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
• 16 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me,
  saying
• 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt
  in their own land, they defiled it by their own
  ways and deeds to Me their way was like the
  uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.
  
• 18 Therefore I poured out My fury on them for
  the blood they had shed on the land, and for
  their idols with which they had defiled it.
• HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?
• they defiled it by their own ways and deeds
• HOW DID THE LORD LIKEN THIS?
• like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary
  impurity
• HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS?

56
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3617

• 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt
  in their own land, they defiled it by their own
  ways and deeds to Me their way was like the
  uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.
  
• HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?
• they defiled it by their own ways and deeds
• READ PSALMS 10637-38
• 37 They sacrificed their sons and their
  daughters to demons.
• 38 And shed innocent blood, The blood of their
  sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the
  idols of Canaan And the land was polluted with
  blood. NKJV

57
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3617

• 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt
  in their own land, they defiled it by their own
  ways and deeds to Me their way was like the
  uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.
  
• HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?
• they defiled it by their own ways and deeds
• READ JEREMIAH 27
• 7 I brought you into a bountiful country, To eat
  its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered,
  you defiled My land And made My heritage an
  abomination. NKJV

58
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3617

• 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt
  in their own land, they defiled it by their own
  ways and deeds to Me their way was like the
  uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.
  
• HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?
• they defiled it by their own ways and deeds
• HOW DID THE LORD LIKEN THIS?
• like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary
  impurity
• READ LEVITICUS 122
• 2 .'If a woman has conceived, and borne a male
  child, then she shall be unclean seven days as
  in the days of her customary impurity she shall
  be unclean.

59
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3617

• 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt
  in their own land, they defiled it by their own
  ways and deeds to Me their way was like the
  uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.
  
• HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?
• they defiled it by their own ways and deeds
• HOW DID THE LORD LIKEN THIS?
• like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary
  impurity
• READ LEVITICUS 1519-24
• 19 If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge
  from her body is blood, she shall be set apart
  seven days and whoever touches her shall be
  unclean until evening. NKJV

60
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3618

• 18 Therefore I poured out My fury on them for
  the blood they had shed on the land, and for
  their idols with which they had defiled it.
• HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS?
• I poured out My fury on them
• for the blood they had shed on the land
• WHAT DID JOSIAH SAY?
• READ 2 KINGS 2213
• 13 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, for the
  people and for all Judah, concerning the words of
  this book that has been found for great is the
  wrath of the LORD that is aroused against us,
  because our fathers have not obeyed the words of
  this book, to do according to all that is written
  concerning us. NKJV

61
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3618

• 18 Therefore I poured out My fury on them for
  the blood they had shed on the land, and for
  their idols with which they had defiled it.
• HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS?
• I poured out My fury on them
• for the blood they had shed on the land
• WHAT DID JOSIAH SAY?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 3421
• 21 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for
  those who are left in Israel and Judah,
  concerning the words of the book that is found
  for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured
  out on us, because our fathers have not kept the
  word of the LORD, to do according to all that is
  written in this book. NKJV

62
READ EZEKIEL 3619-21

• THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
• 19 So I scattered them among the nations, and
  they were dispersed throughout the countries I
  judged them according to their ways and their
  deeds.
• 20 When they came to the nations, wherever they
  went, they profaned My holy name when they said
  of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and
  yet they have gone out of His land.'
• 21 But I had concern for My holy name, which the
  house of Israel had profaned among the nations
  wherever they went.

63
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3619-21

• THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
• 19 So I scattered them among the nations, and
  they were dispersed throughout the countries I
  judged them according to their ways and their
  deeds.
• 20 When they came to the nations, wherever they
  went, they profaned My holy name when they said
  of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and
  yet they have gone out of His land.'
• 21 But I had concern for My holy name, which the
  house of Israel had profaned among the nations
  wherever they went.
• HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEM?
• WHY?

64
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3619

• 19 So I scattered them among the nations, and
  they were dispersed throughout the countries I
  judged them according to their ways and their
  deeds.
• HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEM?
• DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2864
• 64 The LORD will scatter you among all peoples,
  from one end of the earth to the other, and there
  you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor
  your fathers have known wood and stone. NKJV

65
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3619

• DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL?
• READ LEVITICUS 1824-28
• 24 'Do not defile yourselves with any of these
  things for by all these the nations are defiled,
  which I am casting out before you.
• 25 For the land is defiled therefore I visit
  the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the
  land vomits out its inhabitants.
• 26 You shall therefore keep My statutes and My
  judgments, and shall not commit any of these
  abominations, either any of your own nation or
  any stranger who dwells among you
• 27 (for all these abominations the men of the
  land have done, who were before you, and thus the
  land is defiled),
• 28 lest the land vomit you out also when you
  defile it, as it vomited out the nations that
  were before you. NKJV

66
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3619

• 19 So I scattered them among the nations, and
  they were dispersed throughout the countries I
  judged them according to their ways and their
  deeds.
• HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEM?
• READ EZEKIEL 78
• 8 Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And
  spend My anger upon you I will judge you
  according to your ways, And I will repay you for
  all your abominations.
• READ EZEKIEL 2414
• 14 I, the LORD, have spoken it It shall come
  to pass, and I will do it I will not hold back,
  Nor will I spare, Nor will I relent According to
  your ways And according to your deeds They will
  judge you, Says the Lord GOD.

67
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3620

• 20 When they came to the nations, wherever they
  went, they profaned My holy name when they said
  of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and
  yet they have gone out of His land.'
• WHAT DID THE LORDS PEOPLE DO?
• they profaned My holy name
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
• READ LEVITICUS 1821
• 21 You shall not let any of your descendants
  pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you
  profane the name of your God I am the LORD. NKJV

68
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3620

• 20 When they came to the nations, wherever they
  went, they profaned My holy name when they said
  of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and
  yet they have gone out of His land.'
• WHAT DID THE LORDS PEOPLE DO?
• they profaned My holy name
• HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
• READ ISAIAH 524-5
• 4 My people went down at first Into Egypt to
  dwell there Then the Assyrian oppressed them
  without cause.
• 5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the
  LORD,
• My people are taken away for nothing? Those who
  rule over them Make them wail, says the LORD,
  And My name is blasphemed continually every
  day. NKJV

69
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3620

• 20 When they came to the nations, wherever they
  went, they profaned My holy name when they said
  of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and
  yet they have gone out of His land.'
• WHAT DID THE LORDS PEOPLE DO?
• they profaned My holy name
• HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
• READ JEREMIAH 3324
• 24 Have you not considered what these people
  have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the
  LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off'? Thus
  they have despised My people, as if they should
  no more be a nation before them. NKJV

70
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3620

• 20 When they came to the nations, wherever they
  went, they profaned My holy name when they said
  of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and
  yet they have gone out of His land.'
• WHAT DID THE LORDS PEOPLE DO?
• they profaned My holy name
• HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
• READ EZEKIEL 1319
• 19 Will you profane Me among My people for
  handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread,
  killing people who should not die, and keeping
  people alive who should not live, by your lying
  to My people who listen to lies? NKJV

71
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3620

• 20 When they came to the nations, wherever they
  went, they profaned My holy name when they said
  of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and
  yet they have gone out of His land.'
• WHAT DID THE LORDS PEOPLE DO?
• they profaned My holy name
• WHY WOULD THE LORD SPARE ANY OF THEM?
• READ EZEKIEL 1216
• 16 I will spare a few of their men from the
  sword, from famine, and from pestilence, that
  they may declare all their abominations among the
  Gentiles wherever they go. Then they shall know
  that I am the LORD. NKJV

72
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3620

• 20 When they came to the nations, wherever they
  went, they profaned My holy name when they said
  of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and
  yet they have gone out of His land.'
• WHAT DID THE LORDS PEOPLE DO?
• they profaned My holy name
• WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE JEWS?
• READ ROMANS 223-24
• 23 You who make your boast in the law, do you
  dishonor God through breaking the law?
• 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the
  Gentiles because of you, as it is written. NKJV

73
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3621

• 21 But I had concern for My holy name, which the
  house of Israel had profaned among the nations
  wherever they went.
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM?
• I had concern for My holy name
• Which the house of Israel had profaned
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 489-11
• 9 For My name's sake I will defer My anger, And
  for My praise I will restrain it from you, So
  that I do not cut you off.
• 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as
  silver I have tested you in the furnace of
  affliction.
• 11 For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do
  it For how should My name be profaned? And I
  will not give My glory to another. NKJV

74
READ EZEKIEL 3622-23

• THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
• 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus
  says the Lord GOD "I do not do this for your
  sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's
  sake, which you have profaned among the nations
  wherever you went.
• 23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has
  been profaned among the nations, which you have
  profaned in their midst and the nations shall
  know that I am the LORD," says the Lord GOD,
  "when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.

75
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3622-23

• THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
• 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus
  says the Lord GOD "I do not do this for your
  sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's
  sake, which you have profaned among the nations
  wherever you went.
• 23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has
  been profaned among the nations, which you have
  profaned in their midst and the nations shall
  know that I am the LORD," says the Lord GOD,
  "when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.
• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• for My holy name's sake
• I will sanctify My great name
• the nations shall know that I am the LORD

76
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3622

• THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
• 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus
  says the Lord GOD "I do not do this for your
  sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's
  sake, which you have profaned among the nations
  wherever you went.
• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• for My holy name's sake
• READ PSALMS 1068
• 8 He saved them for His name's sake, That He
  might make His mighty power known. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 3735
• 35 'I will defend this city, to save it For My
  own sake and for My servant David's sake. NKJV

77
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3622

• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• for My holy name's sake
• READ EZEKIEL 209
• 9 I acted for My name's sake, that it should not
  be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they
  were, in whose sight I had made Myself known to
  them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
  NKJV
• READ EZEKIEL 2044
• 44 You shall know that I am the LORD, when I
  have dealt with you for My name's sake, not
  according to your wicked ways nor according to
  your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the
  Lord GOD. NKJV

78
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3623

• 23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has
  been profaned among the nations, which you have
  profaned in their midst and the nations shall
  know that I am the LORD," says the Lord GOD,
  "when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.
• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• I will sanctify My great name
• the nations shall know that I am the LORD
• when I am hallowed in you before their eyes
• READ PSALMS 4610
• 10 Be still, and know that I am God I will be
  exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in
  the earth! NKJV

79
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3623

• 23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has
  been profaned among the nations, which you have
  profaned in their midst and the nations shall
  know that I am the LORD," says the Lord GOD,
  "when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.
• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• I will sanctify My great name
• the nations shall know that I am the LORD
• when I am hallowed in you before their eyes
• READ ISAIAH 516
• 16 The LORD of hosts shall be exalted in
  judgment,
• And God who is holy shall be hallowed in
  righteousness

80
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3623

• 23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has
  been profaned among the nations, which you have
  profaned in their midst and the nations shall
  know that I am the LORD," says the Lord GOD,
  "when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.
• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• I will sanctify My great name
• the nations shall know that I am the LORD
• when I am hallowed in you before their eyes
• WHO PROFANED THE NAME OF THE LORD?
• READ ISAIAH 3723
• 23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
• Against whom have you raised your voice, And
  lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One
  of Israel. NKJV

81
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3623

• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• I will sanctify My great name
• the nations shall know that I am the LORD
• when I am hallowed in you before their eyes
• READ EZEKIEL 2014
• 14 I acted for My name's sake, that it should
  not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose
  sight I had brought them out. NKJV
• READ EZEKIEL 2041
• 41 I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I
  bring you out from the peoples and gather you out
  of the countries where you have been scattered
  and I will be hallowed in you before the
  Gentiles. NKJV

82
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3623

• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• I will sanctify My great name
• the nations shall know that I am the LORD
• when I am hallowed in you before their eyes
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO SIDON?
• READ EZEKIEL 2822
• 22 Thus says the Lord GOD Behold, I am against
  you, O Sidon I will be glorified in your midst
  And they shall know that I am the LORD, When I
  execute judgments in her and am hallowed in her.
  NKJV

83
READ EZEKIEL 3624-26

• THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
• 24 For I will take you from among the nations,
  gather you out of all countries, and bring you
  into your own land.
• 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and
  you shall be clean I will cleanse you from all
  your filthiness and from all your idols.
• 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new
  spirit within you I will take the heart of stone
  out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

84
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3624-26

• THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
• 24 For I will take you from among the nations,
  gather you out of all countries, and bring you
  into your own land.
• 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and
  you shall be clean I will cleanse you from all
  your filthiness and from all your idols.
• 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new
  spirit within you I will take the heart of stone
  out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?

85
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3624

• THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
• 24 For I will take you from among the nations,
  gather you out of all countries, and bring you
  into your own land.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?
• READ ISAIAH 435-6
• 5 Fear not, for I am with you I will bring
  your descendants from the east, And gather you
  from the west
• 6 I will say to the north, 'Give them up! And
  to the south, 'Do not keep them back! Bring My
  sons from afar,
• And My daughters from the ends of the earth
  NKJV

86
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3625

• 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and
  you shall be clean I will cleanse you from all
  your filthiness and from all your idols.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SPRINKLING?
• READ LEVITICUS 1614-15
• 14 He shall take some of the blood of the bull
  and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat
  on the east side and before the mercy seat he
  shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger
  seven times
• 15 Then he shall kill the goat of the sin
  offering, which is for the people, bring its
  blood inside the veil, do with that blood as he
  did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it
  on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat

87
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3625

• 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and
  you shall be clean I will cleanse you from all
  your filthiness and from all your idols.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall
  be clean
• WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?
• READ PSALMS 512
• 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And
  cleanse me from my sin. NKJV
• READ PSALMS 517
• 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean
• Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. NKJV

88
QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3625

• 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and
  you shall be clean I will cleanse you from all
  your filthiness and from all your idols.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and
  from all your idols
• READ ZECHARIAH 132
• 2 It shall be in that day, says the LORD of
  hosts, that I will cut off the names of the
  idols from the land, and they shall no longer be
  remembered. I will cause the prophets and the
  unclean spirit to depart from the land.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3625

• 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and
  you shall be clean I will cleanse you from all
  your filthiness and from all your idols.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall
  be clean
• WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SPRINKLING?
• WHAT CAN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST DO?
• READ HEBREWS 913-14
• 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the
  ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean,
  sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,
• 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who
  through the eternal Spirit offered Himself
  without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from
  dead works to serve the living God? NKJV

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• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall
  be clean
• WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SPRINKLING?
• WHAT DID ANANIAS SAY TO SAUL?
• READ ACTS 2216
• 16 Why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized,
  and wash away your sins, calling on the name of
  the Lord.'
• WHAT DOES BAPTISM DO FOR YOU?
• READ HEBREWS 1022
• 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full
  assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
  from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
  with pure water.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3625

• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall
  be clean
• WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SPRINKLING?
• WHAT DID THE BLOOD OF CHRIST DO?
• READ EPHESIANS 525-27
• 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
  also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
• 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with
  the washing of water by the word,
• 27 that He might present her to Himself a
  glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or
  any such thing, but that she should be holy and
  without blemish. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3626

• 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new
  spirit within you I will take the heart of stone
  out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
  within you
• WHY A NEW HEART?
• WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?
• READ PSALMS 5110
• 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew
  a steadfast spirit within me. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3626

• 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new
  spirit within you I will take the heart of stone
  out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
  within you
• WHY A NEW HEART?
• WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY ABOUT THE JEWS?
• READ JEREMIAH 53
• 3 LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have
  stricken them, But they have not grieved You
  have consumed them, But they have refused to
  receive correction. They have made their faces
  harder than rock
• They have refused to return. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3626

• 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new
  spirit within you I will take the heart of stone
  out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
  within you
• WHY A NEW HEART?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH?
• READ JEREMIAH 247
• 7 I will give them a heart to know Me, that I
  am the LORD and they shall be My people, and I
  will be their God, for they shall return to Me
  with their whole heart.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3626

• 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new
  spirit within you I will take the heart of stone
  out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
  within you
• WHY A NEW HEART?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• READ EZEKIEL 1831
• 31 Cast away from you all the transgressions
  which you have committed, and get yourselves a
  new heart and a new spirit. For why should you
  die, O house of Israel?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 3626

• 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new
  spirit within you I will take the heart of stone
  out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
• I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
  within you
• WHY A NEW HEART?
• WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE CHURCH AT CORINTH?
• READ 2 CORINTHIANS 32-3
• 2 You are our epistle written in our hearts,
  known and read by all men
• 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ,
  ministere