Ezekiel

Covers Ezekiel 4

Ezekiel's readiness to obey God's strange and uncomfortable sign-acts in chapter 4 — lying on his side for 390 days, eating siege rations — raising only the gentlest objection, as a challenge to our own instinct to find excuses when God calls us to hard things.

Covers Ezekiel 6

Why it matters to agree with God's Word about sin even when culture celebrates it — using Ezekiel 6's exiles coming to loathe their own evils to trace how small, consequence-free indulgences erode faith and turn the heart away from God entirely.

Covers Ezekiel 8

Ezekiel's vision of idolatry filling the Jerusalem temple at every level of society — and a push back against the false dichotomy of an Old Testament God of wrath versus a New Testament God of grace, since judgment is always meant to lead people away from judgment.

Covers Ezekiel 9

The mercy within God's wrath in Ezekiel 9 — the man in linen marking those who grieve over the city's abominations so they are spared, showing a God who actively protects the innocent rather than one who revels in judgment.

Covers Ezekiel 12

The exiles in Ezekiel 12 dismissing God's word as empty talk even while living out the very judgment He warned of — read alongside 2 Peter 3 as a warning that God's patience is mercy, not impotence, and will not delay forever.

Covers Ezekiel 14

The elders of Ezekiel 14 seeking God while clinging to their idols — wanting His power without His lordship — as evidence of the spiritual reality even rebels instinctively recognize when crisis strips away their sense of control.

Covers Ezekiel 16

Why Ezekiel 16's deliberately shocking imagery of an adulterous wife captures Israel's idolatry so precisely — and how it reveals a God who lavished blessing on an undeserving people and sought again and again to turn them back rather than judge.

Covers Ezekiel 18

If Ezekiel 18 says God will not punish one person for another's sin, how can Jesus bear our sin on the cross? Working through the atonement in terms of debt — Jesus accumulating human death of His own that He can then choose to spend covering ours.

Covers Ezekiel 23

Ezekiel 23's deliberately obscene imagery of Israel's idolatry barely registers as shocking by today's standards — a convicting measure of how far the culture has drifted from God, and of the pull to blend in rather than stand out for Him.

Covers Ezekiel 28

Arguing the king of Tyre in Ezekiel 28 is neither Satan nor merely the human ruler but a third figure — the god of Tyre, one of the divine council members set over the nations at Babel, judged like the gods of Psalm 82 for overstepping into God's domain.

Covers Ezekiel 29

Pharaoh cast as Leviathan, the sea-dragon of chaos opposing God's ordered creation, in Ezekiel 29 — tracing the imagery from the Exodus through Egypt's role as enemy of God's people, and the surprising mercy of Egypt's promised restoration.

Covers Ezekiel 36 · Colossians 2

Why God's promise in Ezekiel 36 to restore Israel for the sake of His own name, not their faithfulness, is far more assuring than it first sounds — the same ground of assurance believers have in Christ rather than in their own performance, per Colossians 2.

Covers Ezekiel 40-48

Wrestling with how to read Ezekiel's detailed temple vision in chapters 40-48 — the problems a literal interpretation creates (reinstated sacrifices, a non-Messianic prince) and the case, drawn from Michael Heiser, for reading it as figurative.