01/17/2026 – Week 12 of 13 – Ezekiel study (Nov 1st thru Jan. 24th) – Chapters 36 – 37 / Post 2 of 2 // Questions for Group Discussion and Fellowship included below.
I would encourage y’all to answer and/or share what is on your heart…. I completed my responses to the ten questions below in “comments”. To reach “comments”, one has to be logged on. Then select “view” and you will see the comment. Of course, you can create your own comment or even post a comment to someone else’s comment and it will be stringed together. If someone posts a comment to your comment, you will get a notifying email, even if it occurs years after your post. To me, that is one more potential advantage to blog fellowships, besides being potentially global.
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These questions for Personal Reflection or Group Discussion in Wiersbe’s book can be found on pages 212 – 213:
- How do you respond to the fact that there are passages, such as the one in this chapter, upon which even the most knowledgeable scholars don’t agree.
- If you had to give one reason why end-time prophecies are so difficult what would that reason be?
- For what reasons is it important to study Scripture passages that are difficult, even impossible, to understand definitively.
- Names some reasons that you think God gave us details about the end times beyond the fact that He is victorious.
- What event’s have you seen that cause you to believe the stage is being set for the end-time prophecies of Ezekiel.
- In the end, when God defeats all the forces of the earth, everyone will know that He is the “only true and living God.” Describe a world where everyone knows that.
- How do you interpret prophecies that were written in ancient times but describe the future? For instance, how do you interpret the weapons of battle: bows, clubs, and spears?
- What kinds of reasoning do you think keep Satan believing that he has a chance to defeat God in the end?
- What do you fear most about the war Ezekiel describes? (If you don’t fear it, talk about why.)
- Knowing what Ezekiel tells us about the end of the world, what should we do to be ready?
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Thoughts? Reflections? Questions? Prayer.
Questions for fellowship generation, the lifelong sanctification process:
- What does the text reveal about God’s character?
- How has this reading generated prayer for you and/or us?
- What themes stand out to you in this bible study?
- How does our reading fit into the bigger picture (creation, the fall, restoration, etc.)?
- What verse(s) jumped out at you like never before? Is it explainable at this point?
- Do you have any questions you would like to put before the group as to how to interpret any particular verse(s) in our reading. Let scripture testify to scripture: Share with us where you sense contradiction between passages elsewhere.
- What did you find convicting and inspiring at the same time? Share with us how the Spirit of God is working within you as a messenger, both within and outside of our fellowship group.
- Share with the group how our study is calling or confirming to you a new mission to glorify God in our times.
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1. How do you respond to the fact that there are passages, such as the one in this chapter, upon which even the most knowledgeable scholars don’t agree.
– see Post #1 of 2 under the “Arguments from Silence” section. A brief excerpt – “This fallacious argument assumes that every passage is utterly comprehensive in its description. If this same logic were applied to the gospels, one would conclude that they are all different stories.”
2. If you had to give one reason why end-time prophecies are so difficult what would that reason be? The Lord is unfathomable to us. To use a weak analogy, it all fits together, past, present and future like a sublimely beautiful patchwork quilt, but we see it as an indistinguishable hodgpodge.
3 For what reasons is it important to study Scripture passages that are difficult, even impossible, to understand definitively. For example, in this chapter, is it insignificant whether we see the AntiChrist coming from humanist worldview Europe or the Islamic Middle East. We ignore it at our own peril, as Joel Richardson points out in his book. (See post 1 of 1)
4. Names some reasons that you think God gave us details about the end times beyond the fact that He is victorious.
-Again, using the example above: So that we can appropriately love Muslims (future Christians) but hate the religion of Islam, recognizing it as a repetitive tool for the devil.
5. What event’s have you seen that cause you to believe the stage is being set for the end-time prophecies of Ezekiel.
– In the end, when God defeats all the forces of the earth, everyone will know that He is the “only true and living God.” Describe a world where everyone knows that.
6. In the end, when God defeats all the forces of the earth, everyone will know that He is the “only true and living God.” Describe a world where everyone knows that.
– Heaven and Hell – post millennial kingdom. Perhaps there is an argument here: Maybe there will be those in hell that will be lost in a total fog, much as they were here in this world. Maybe that would be a lesser suffering “hell”. But total separation from God is a horrific thought any way you slice it, even if it were momentary, which it isn’t. What the world doesn’t consider is even evil pagans experienced some common grace in this life. Have y’all heard this expression: “Heaven without Jesus would be Hell.”
7. How do you interpret prophecies that were written in ancient times but describe the future? For instance, how do you interpret the weapons of battle: bows, clubs, and spears?
– Like never before, or I would submit back to the flood, that we have never seen global evil like this in human history: “Calling good as “evil”, and “evil” as good. The generation that has gone before us, the greatest generation that defeated the horrific evil of Hitler and Nazi Germany, would be utterly flabbergasted if they saw today’s world.
8. What kinds of reasoning do you think keep Satan believing that he has a chance to defeat God in the end?
The devil’s pride is incomprehensible just as God’s holiness and unfathomable agape love is incomprehensible on the opposite sprecturm, “as far as east from west”.
Check out this article – link below:
https://johnnel.com/2016/12/12/satan-thought-he-could-defeat-god/
9. What do you fear most about the war Ezekiel describes? (If you don’t fear it, talk about why.)
“The Lord’s deepest desire is for our peace and joy. We can’t lose, because God can’t lose! The worst suffering in this world is nothing compared to eternity with Jesus Christ.
10. Knowing what Ezekiel tells us about the end of the world, what should we do to be ready? Immerse ourselves in His Word and in prayer as we reach out to lost souls – The Great Commission.
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