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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...

service for God. The Lord was teaching him that to be really effective for God in our Christian lives, his Word has to become a part of us (Job 23:12). For seven days Ezekiel nursed his anger, until God came and spoke to him again in what was to be the fourth commission (3:16–21).18 Once again Ezekiel is merely the channel through which God’s Word comes: the expression, ‘The word of the Lord came to me’ (3:16; cf. 1:3) is the second of fifty occurrences in the book. There comes
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