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Ezekiel's name means "God strengthens." Every time the prophet's name was mentioned, God's people were assured of his help and reminded of his promise to "strengthen the weak." Ezekiel lived in times of great political turmoil and witnessed the final collapse of Judah to the Babylonian empire. His total, unquestioning willingness to do God's will, often at great cost to himself, during the long...

than any other, makes me admire this man more than I can adequately express. Ezekiel often comes across as a bland, unsympathetic figure without any of the character traits of, say, his contemporary (and mentor?) Jeremiah. But this is too superficial a view. Ezekiel’s greatness emerges in his total, unquestioning willingness to do God’s will—no matter what the cost! He is an example of total consecration to the work of God. Christian workers everywhere will have cause to bow in admiration of this
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