Prophetic Actions: Speak louder than words?

Ezekiel 1-10• Uppercrust exilee• Merkavah Mysticism: wheels,

Gospellers faces?, burnished bronze, crystal, lightning

• Eat honey scroll• Flint face: speak or die• Actions:

– Seven days stunned– Bound and speechless: 390/40,

Ezekiel bread– Play war– Sword haircut: fire, scatter, hack– Clap and stamp– Dig through wall– Tremble while eating/drinking

• Arrows of famine/divine revenge• Defile altars

• Bald faces, sackcloth• Abomination: Tammuz, idols, Kidron

Valley• Mark of protection (vs. beast), Cain• Cherubim/SeraphimExiles

abandoned? Control future!• Woe to false prophets• Idols set up in hearts• No hope- useless vines• Eagle & 2 vines => cedar for all• God faithful for God’s sake• “Just parables?”• Reversals: meat in a pot

– Grapes & teeth on edge– Heart of stone– Delay of vision– Paying prostitute

Ezekiel 11-48• Polished sword pierces thigh:

vengeance or refinement?• Forked road with signs• Graphic abomination and conquering:

two tents• No mourning• Punishing the rods: Moab and Ammon• Destroying idols: Tyre, Sidon, Egypt,

Ethiopia– Danel– “the Nile is mine”– Assyria, Elam as analogues: fallen cedar,

place in Pit

• Prophet/priest as religious entertainment?

• Shepherds eating the sheep and their forage…

• Mt. Seir (Edom & Esau)- punishment for rejoicing

• Sanctify my Name- prophesy to the Land

• Kidron: dry bones & breath• Joining sticks• Gog Magog• Prophesy to birds: dinner time• New Temple, Recreate worship

– Dimensions; palace missing– Zadok > Abiathar, Levites butchers– Nazirite priests– Princes alongside people– Water of life and expansion of

land

For next week…

• Conceive, in 500 or fewer words, of a prophetic deed that could be done in a church service and describe how it might embody a call to repentance.

• Read Daniel and Isaiah 40-65, paying careful attention to passages describing God’s servant and idols, and excerpt from A Grief Observed.