Tag Archives: Encouragement

When we realize we are having a personal encounter with our Creator – a loving, pure, and holy God – something deep inside of us instantly recognizes our own unworthiness and human limitation.  Like the apostle Peter, at the moment he realized who Jesus really was, we too may say, “Go away from me, Lord,Continue reading “The Forgiveness of Sins – Ezekiel 18”

Almost six hundred years before the coming of Christ, the ancient Kingdom of Judah was nearing its end.  It was about to go on hiatus, until the coming of the Messiah. Most of what was left of Judah’s kings and people were now in exile in Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon.  The good land they left behind, hereafterContinue reading “A Samaritan Sister – Ezekiel 16”

The land of Israel has historically been blessed with an abundance of grapevines.  As with the olive trees of that land, most people were well acquainted with the grapevine’s basic requirements of planting and tending for good fruit-bearing.  In His word, the Lord frequently refers to the people of Israel as grapevine branches connected toContinue reading “Through the Grapevine – Ezekiel 15”

God is always fair, good, and loving. And because of His goodness, His mercies toward us never fail. 18 And I will be a father to you,And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”Says the Lord Almighty. 2 Corinthians 6:18 (NASB) Some of us have lived our lives believing that God is unfair and punishing, oftenContinue reading “A Fair Judgment – Ezekiel 14”

There is something eternally special about the Mount of Olives.  It seems to be a sanctified port of entry, and exit, for God’s divine transitions between heaven and earth. Also known as Mount Olivet, it is more like a hill that sits directly east of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, looking upon it in peacefulContinue reading “The Mount of Olives – Ezekiel 11”

Light cannot co-exist with darkness – there must be separation.  But if we find ourselves alone in darkness, God has left the door open, if we wish a reconciliation and a return to His light. Despite many decades of warnings from the Lord’s prophets right up to the time of Ezekiel, the Temple leaders andContinue reading “A Tenderized Heart – Ezekiel 11”

In the prophet Ezekiel’s divine vision that came to him while in exile in Babylon, he was carried back to Jerusalem in the spirit to see the many forms of idol worship being carried out in the Lord’s temple.  The worship of these false gods and idols by those who were supposed to be leadingContinue reading “Freeing Legion – Ezekiel 8”

While in Babylon, the prophet Ezekiel was shown a vision of the temple back in Jerusalem.  In it, the religious leaders of the day had abandoned worship of the Lord, who had brought them out of Egypt and planted them in their good land.  Instead, they were worshiping a host of idols, mere created things,Continue reading “Walking in the Light – Ezekiel 8”

At the time of Ezekiel’s call to be a prophet to the exiled people of Judah, he was located with them along the banks of the Kebar, a canal located about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of the city of Babylon.  At around the same time, the prophet Jeremiah was ministering to those who hadContinue reading “Identified Flying Objects – Ezekiel 1”

The Old Testament book of Ezekiel tells us that God’s heavenly throne does not sit in a fixed location.  It actually moves around over the earth and through the heavens, resting upon a mobile platform.  This platform, transparent in nature with the appearance of gleaming crystal, is supported by four sets of perpendicularly-rotating wheels, eachContinue reading “God is Always Working – Ezekiel 1”