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Properly understood, this mysterious book with its obscure images offers profound comfort to us today. Filled with both an indictment of sin and promise for God’s people, it can help us to live, like the ancient Israelites during the Babylonian captivity, as exiles in the foreign country of this world, with endurance and hope. Ezekiel helps readers learn how the message of Ezekiel can have the...

people as though it were not serious, who said “Peace, peace” when there was no peace (Jer. 8:10–11), he was certainly not thinking of his younger contemporary, Ezekiel. The third theme of the book grows out of the first two: the inescapable coming of judgment. That judgment will come first of all on Judah and Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be made a ruin and a reproach among the nations. Its destruction will be almost total and its people will be scattered to the four winds (Ezek. 5). It is literally
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