Ezekiel Outline

I’m reading thru the Bible and your web site has been very helpful. I’m in Ezekiel now and I know you have commented a lot on chapters 38 & 39 as being yet to happen. How about the rest of the book? Are the earlier chapters past? Please explain how the book is broken down.

Q. I’m reading thru the Bible and your web site has been very helpful. I’m in Ezekiel now and I know you have commented a lot on chapters 38 & 39 as being yet to happen. How about the rest of the book? Are the earlier chapters past? Please explain how the book is broken down. Thank you very much for your time and talents being accessible on the internet.

A. Ezekiel was a priest taken hostage to Babylon before the fall of Jerusalem. While there he was called the the office of prophet.

Generally speaking, the first 33 chapters of his book consist of the Lord directing Ezekiel to explain His case for Israel’s destruction and His judgment of the surrounding nations, all of whom were conquered by Babylon.

After the fall of Jerusalem, mentioned in Ezekiel 33:21, the focus begins to shift to the long term future, skipping over the return after Babylon, known as the post-exilic period, and the First Coming, going all the way to the second re-gathering of the nation which began in 1948. Chapters 35-37 give an overview of the entire end times period, 38-39 describe the famous Gog-Magog battle still in our future, and 40-48 give us a detailed picture of the Millennial Temple and its operations, the re-distribution of land and relocation of the Holy City in the Kingdom Age.