11/15/2025 – Week 3 of 13 – Ezekiel study – Chapters 8 – 11 / Nov 1st thru Jan 24th / Introduction – See 10/14/2025 post / Post 2 of 2 – Questions for Personal Reflection or Group Discussion
This week, I am going in reverse order. I will post in reverse order, questions for week 8 first, then, hopefully by end of day I will post 1 of 2, excerpts from Warren Wiersbe’s “Be Reverent – OT Ezekiel”. Again, I will post my answers to these questions later in the week. As I recall noting in the introduction on 10/14/2025, if you pick up another Ezekiel commentary, such as John MacArthur or J. Vernon McGee, it will only embellish our fellowship. Right now, I am still a party of one, but I will march on, God willing through our conclusion of this book.
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No cherry picking this week, I am going to include and post on all of Wiersbe’s questions! haha. I don’t know how I can answer these and not reflect and pray on the state of our world today and our mission to His truth!
- Israel’s sin caused God’s glory to depart from the temple. How does our sin affect God’s glory and presence with us?
- Describe a time in your life when, like Ezekiel, you needed a refresher of God’s original call?
- What comes to your mind and when you think of God’s jealousy?
- In what ways today do we ask God’s glory to abide amid the false idols we worship?
- What impression of God do you get from the fact that He gave His people many opportunities to change their ways, but finally unleashed the terrible consequences of their sin?
- If God were to judge your nation, do you think He would protect the devoted Christians from the suffering? Why or why not?
- Wiersbe writes, “Often in Scripture you find God sending judgment, not because unbelievers have sinned, but because His own people have disobeyed His law!” Where do you see this truth lived out in our world today?
- There were many false prophets in Ezekiel’s day. What are some of the godless philosophies or worldviews that you see around you today?
- God Himself was the the temple for the exiles in Babylon. How is God a temple for us today?
- How do you envision what it will be like when God’s glory returns at the second coming of Christ?
- What do you think it was like for Ezekiel to hear that God’s judgment of destruction had begun in Jerusalem?
Soli Deo Gloria!
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1. Israel’s sin caused God’s glory to depart from the temple. How does our sin affect God’s glory and presence with us?
As believers, the indwelling Holy Spirit will not depart from us, but He will go silent I suspect.. And that should put the fear of the LORD in us!
2. Describe a time in your life when, like Ezekiel, you needed a refresher of God’s original call?
At the age of 18, when I lived with a girl friend outside of marriage, a mortal sin.
3. What comes to your mind and when you think of God’s jealousy?
God’s unfathomable love. Jealousy and love go together.
4. In what ways today do we ask God’s glory to abide amid the false idols we worship?
It is a tough one, but our families can be an idol. So, we can ask God’s glory to abide in the midst of that idol.
5. What impression of God do you get from the fact that He gave His people many opportunities to change their ways, but finally unleashed the terrible consequences of their sin?
Check out all the Bible verses on purging the evil within the church. It is a call to cast the sinner out with the prayer they will return repentant after being delivered to the Devil.
1 Corinithians 5: 9-13 is a key verse that connects many of these shorter verses.
https://www.openbible.info/topics/putting_sinners_out_of_the_church
6. If God were to judge your nation, do you think He would protect the devoted Christians from the suffering? Why or why not?
Our LORD is sovereign over all! His essence and love is unfathomable to us. So, we see repeated examples in history where he does not protect devoted Christians within a disobedient nation. In recent history, was Dietrich Bonhoeffer protected from the judgment of the horrific Nazi evil within his beloved country of Germany! He was put to death by the Nazis just a couple of weeks before the end of the war, doing everything in his power to overturn the Nazi regime.
7. Wiersbe writes, “Often in Scripture you find God sending judgment, not because unbelievers have sinned, but because His own people have disobeyed His law!” Where do you see this truth lived out in our world today?
Whoa! In today’s world, we could cite volumes of evidence on this. How about churches with Christian labels that sanction the deluded insane woke agenda of the world: abortion; sexual mutiliation of children,; christian churches around the world that host Muslim worship,….
8. There were many false prophets in Ezekiel’s day. What are some of the godless philosophies or worldviews that you see around you today?
Syncretism is rampant today in extreme, a blending of totally contradictory christian and pagan worldviews. The SBC Baptist convention a few years ago voted in the majority to accept Black Lives Matter doctrine as an appropriate “secondary” support to God’s Word. BLM is a pure doctrine of hate, they are minions of the Devil of himself.
9. God Himself was the the temple for the exiles in Babylon. How is God a temple for us today?
As believing Christians that have repented and accepted Yeshua (Jesus) the Christ as our Lord and Savior, all in!: We have an indwelling Holy Spirit within us! Is this not a temple of God within us?
10. How do you envision what it will be like when God’s glory returns at the second coming of Christ?
Whatever I envision, It would be pathetically weak compared to what it actually be like.
11. What do you think it was like for Ezekiel to hear that God’s judgment of destruction had begun in Jerusalem?
It broke his heart! But guess what?: He trusted and obeyed His Lord!