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The Message of Ezekiel: A New Heart and a New Spirit is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ezekiel comes to us as a stranger from a distant time and land. Who is this priest who, on his thirtieth birthday, has a dazzling vision of God on a wheeled throne? Who is this odd prophet who engages in outlandish street theater and speaks for God on international affairs? Who is this seer who paints murals of apocalyptic doom and then of a restored temple bursting with emblems of paradise? Are...

just an occasionally disobedient child, or a sporadically flirtatious wife. They had shown a persistent, wilful and incorrigible determination to disregard the covenant requirements of Yahweh and an unstoppable downward drift towards, and sinking below, the levels of wickedness to be found among the non-covenant nations. The problem lay not just in their behaviour, but in the source of their behaviour—the attitudes and mentality that characterized them. In short, the problem was in their ‘heart’
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