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Verse Ezekiel 12:23. _THE DAYS ARE AT HAND_] Far from _failing_ or
being _prolonged_, time is posting on, and the destruction threatened
is at the door....
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As in Ezekiel 7, the nearness of the judgment is foretold.
Ezekiel 12:22
THE LAND OF ISRAEL - is put generally for the land where the children
of Israel dwelt, whether at home, or in exile. There was...
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CHAPTER S 12-19
Signs, Messages, and Parables
_ 1. Signs given through the prophet (Ezekiel 12:1) _
2. The message of speedy judgment (Ezekiel 12:21)
3. The message against false prophets and prop...
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DISREGARD OF THE TRUE PROPHETS. One reason for ignoring the stern
message of Ezekiel is suggested by the popular saying that the days
keep stretching out but the doom is never fulfilled, so that there...
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ARE AT HAND. The fulfilment took place five years later.
EFFECT. word: i.e. the [fulfilled] word, meaning, or purpose....
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Judgment had been so often threatened and so often deferred that the
failure of prophecy to realize itself became a proverb. Too
superficial to apprehend the meaning of its postponement these
scoffers...
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Warning against despising of prophecy
The prophet felt that such threats as those just uttered (Ezekiel
12:1) were neglected and little thought of. People disposed of such
prophecies by saying that t...
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DISCOURSE: 1102
DEATH AND ETERNITY NEAR AT HAND
Ezekiel 12:23. _The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision_.
EXCEEDINGLY diversified were the ways by which God communicated his
mind to his...
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AND THE WORD, &C.— The latter part of the 22nd verse is spoken in
the person of infidels, who turn the grace of God into wantonness,
taking encouragement from his patience and long-suffering to despis...
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II. TWO POPULAR SAYINGS CORRECTED
12:21-28
TRANSLATION
(21) And the word OF the LORD came unto me, saying, (22) Son of man,
what is this proverb that your people have concerning the land of
Israel,...
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Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this
proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in
Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of
every...
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12:23 proverb (c-25) See ch. 16.44. accomplishment (d-39) Lit. 'word,'
'matter,' _ dabar_ . see Psalms 119:11 ....
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§ 4. FURTHER PROPHECIES OF ISRAEL'S GUILT AND APPROACHING PUNISHMENT
(EZEKIEL 12-19)
This is a somewhat miscellaneous group of prophecies intermediate in
date between the preceding (August-September,...
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ON PROPHECY, TRUE AND FALSE
After rebuking certain prevalent forms of contempt for prophecy
(Ezekiel 12:21), Ezekiel reproves the false prophets (Ezekiel 13:1)
and false prophetesses (Ezekiel 13:17) o...
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EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’
THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD
EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 12
*PROPHECY OF THE *EXILE – EZEKIEL 12:1-20
V1 Th
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(21-28) These verses contain two distinct messages from the Lord
(Ezekiel 12:21), both designed to meet the objection that warning
prophecies had been uttered now for a long time, and as they had not...
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THE EFFECT OF EVERY VISION. — The sense would be made clearer by
rendering “the accomplishment” of every vision....
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לָכֵ֞ן אֱמֹ֣ר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּֽה ־אָמַר֮
אֲדֹנָ֣י...
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PROPHECY AND ITS ABUSES
Ezekiel 12:21 - Ezekiel 14:11
THERE is perhaps nothing more perplexing to the student of Old
Testament history than the complicated phenomena which may be classed
under the ge...
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The prophet was next commanded to act in the sight of the people as an
exile going forth from his country, preparing "stuff for removing,"
and carrying it forth from place to place. He obeyed the comm...
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CHAPTER XII....
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Here is a third sermon of the Prophet; and it is to the same purport
as the former. It should seem, that it was become almost proverbial,
if judgments did not immediately follow the commission of sin,...
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Chapter 12 announces the fight and the capture of Zedekiah, who would
be carried to Babylon though he would. not see it. All the force of
Judah would be dispersed, and the land laid desolate; a small...
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TELL THEM THEREFORE,.... Plainly and boldly, with the greatest
assurance and confidence, as from God himself:
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, I WILL MAKE THIS PROVERB TO CEASE; by quickly
accomplishing the...
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Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb
to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but
say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every...
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_Son of man, what is that proverb?_ The saying become proverbial. _The
days are prolonged, and every vision faileth_ Words of the same import
with those that occur Ezekiel 12:27, and Ezekiel 11:3. Bot...
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Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God, I will make this proverb
to cease, making an end of its blasphemous mockery, AND THEY SHALL NO
MORE USE IT AS A PROVERB IN ISRAEL; BUT SAY UNTO THEM, THE...
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THE SIGN OF BREAD AND WATER...
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21-28 From that forbearance of God, which should have led them to
repent, the Jews hardened themselves in sin. It will not serve for an
excuse in speaking evil, to plead that it is a common saying. Th...
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TELL THEM; either who use the proverb, or are stumbled at it; tell the
one to convince, the other to instruct them. I WILL MAKE THIS PROVERB
TO CEASE: thus they abuse my patience, and affront my truth...
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“Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will make this
proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in
Israel.' But say to them, ‘The days are at hand and the word (i.e.
car...
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CONTENTS: Vision of the prophet as a sign. Full captivity near at
hand.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel.
CONCLUSION: Sinners often try to think their works are not evil
because sentence upon them is not ex...
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Ezekiel 12:3. _Son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing._ Bring out
thy goods ready packed up, and place the baggage before thy door. As
the captives on the Chebar would neither see nor hear the pr...
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_The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth._
PROPHECY A LIVING FORCE
Right in the midst of the history of Israel, when Divine purposes of
the highest moral and spiritual importance were being...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 12:1 The predictions of exile in this
chapter come during a time when the exile has already begun. Thus, the
chapter probably relates to the uncertain decade between 597 B.C. ...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 12:21 Apparently the delay in the
prophecy’s fulfillment allowed time for counter-prophecies to be
given. These false statements are answered here.
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(3.) THE FOOLISH PROVERB (Ezekiel 12:21)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The hearts of the Jerusalem people would evade any
fair application of the ominous action of Ezekiel, and he is incited
to aim a blow at the...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 12:1
THE WORD OF THE LORD, etc. This formula, so familiar in Isaiah and
Jeremiah, appears for the first time in Ezekiel, but occurs repeatedly
afterwards, especially in this chapte...
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CHAPTER 12.
THE VISION OF EZEKIEL'S TYPICAL REMOVING AS AN EXILE, AND ACCOMPANYING
INSTRUCTIONS.
Ezekiel 12:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_
Ezekiel 12:2. Son of man, thou dwellest i...
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The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, Son of man, you dwell
in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and they
do not see; they have ears to hear, and they do not hear: for...
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Ezekiel 12:25; Ezekiel 18:3; Ezekiel 7:10; Ezekiel 7:2; Ezekiel 7:5;...