Ezekiel
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What were Second Temple Jews really waiting for? Not escape to heaven—but for God to return, restore justice, and end the exile that never truly ended. Their hope wasn’t abstract—it was political, physical, and deeply theological. And it still speaks today. This essay explores how that ancient longing shapes a richer, more grounded faith for…
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Bible authors try to communicate deep spiritual truths to us by using very common illustrations of life; familiar things like a ‘sower’, ‘vine’, a ‘fig tree’, a ‘vineyard and its workers, and many more that will try to show us an analogous relationship to spiritual truths. The 33rd chapter of Ezekiel uses a very common…
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Chapters 38 and 39 of the Book of Ezekiel depict God’s final defeat of evil among the nations which gets personified by a ruler who’s named Gog from the land of Magog. Now this name is derived from a genealogy of ancient kingdoms and lands from Genesis chapter 10. And it referred to powerful nations…