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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...

reassuring his people that his covenant with them was sure. Accompanied as it was by a vision of God’s glory, in almost the same way as Isaiah’s call had been 150 years earlier (Isa. 6), it was a remarkable demonstration that not even their sin can destroy his sovereign rule. It is quite possible that Ezekiel had heard of Jeremiah’s words describing the nature of a true prophet as opposed to a false one. The hallmark of a true prophet was that he had stood before the Lord of glory in the midst of
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