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The Preaching of Ezekiel
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As a preacher Ezekiel stands in somewhat natural sequence to Jeremiah. The two prophets are contrasted in temperament and qualification, yet the younger fitly supplemented what the elder achieved. Jeremiah was the prophet of the destruction of Jerusalem and the reconstitution of Israel's inner religious life. The old conception of Jehovah as a national deity, the patron of Judah's state and ruling in Zion which he would never suffer to be captured (as the oracles of Isaiah had led the people to believe), was to suffer in the days of Jeremiah a rude shock. The city was to be destroyed and the external bases of Hebrew religion were to be swept away. In place of a religion which was circumscribed by the limitations of an ancient local habitation and kingdom there was to succeed a religion that rested upon eternal spiritual grounds, a heart sincerely repentant of all the disloyalty and evil practices of the past, a spirit cleansed from evil and obedient to a new and Divine law of life.
We may consider Ezekiel's message under three divisions-
I. God and His Holiness.
II. The Nation and its Sinfulness.
III. The Individual and his Responsibility.