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By the River Chebar: Historical, Literary, and Theological Studies in the Book of Ezekiel is unavailable, but you can change that!

To many readers, the book of Ezekiel is a hopeless riddle. We still find many features of the man and his message difficult and sometimes even shocking—if not offensive. The bizarre opening vision catches us off guard and tempts us to stop reading. However, if we persist, and if we meditate long and hard on individual utterances and sign actions, we will discover that despite the strangeness of...

3. Apart from common grace, the sentence of physical death hangs over all humanity.19 4. Survival does not mean our problems are solved. It is possible to live physically, but still to lack spiritual life, which is possible only through covenant relationship with God. 5. God’s grace is the only hope for a lost humanity. By nature destitute, this is the only solution for the human condition. 6. Covenant relationship with God is the highest privilege imaginable. 7. As the objects of God’s saving and
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