Ezekiel

TL; DR

Visions blaze. Glory departs. Bones rise. Heart softens. River flows. God returns.

Key Verse

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26, WEB

Key Truth

The same God who judges sin also triumphs over it with resurrection power.

Book Overview

Ezekiel is the book of visions and restoration. A priest-turned-prophet who ministers to Jewish exiles in Babylon through dramatic prophecies and symbolic actions. The book begins with Ezekiel's stunning vision of God's throne-chariot, establishing that the Lord's glory isn't confined to the Jerusalem temple. Through bizarre object lessons such as lying on his side for over a year, cooking with dung, cutting his hair with a sword, Ezekiel demonstrates why Jerusalem must fall. But the second half of the book shifts to hope: God will give His people new hearts of flesh to replace their hearts of stone, breathe life into dry bones, and dwell among them forever in a restored temple. The same God who judges sin also triumphs over it.

Pause and Reflect

Where do you see "dry bones" in you that need God's resurrection power?

How is God calling you to be a "watchman" who warns others with love?

Message Threads

Ezekiel sees what few ever do: God’s glory on the move, wheels within wheels, fire and light blazing across exile’s sky. The vision reminds us that God is not confined to temples or borders. He is present everywhere.

Ezekiel’s prophetic acts (strange, symbolic, unignorable,) reveal how seriously God takes sin. But they also prepare the way for a hope just as bold. The valley of dry bones isn’t just about a nation, it’s about what God can do with anything that looks dead (Ezekiel 37; Romans 6:4). The promise of a new heart and new spirit (Ezekiel 36:26) echoes in Jesus’ words to Nicodemus: “You must be born again” (John 3:3). And the water flowing from the temple (Ezekiel 47) becomes a flood of living water in John 7:38 and Revelation 22:1.

Ezekiel is also a watchman. His is a role not marked by ease, but by courage. His task, like ours, is to speak what’s true, even when it’s hard, because warning is a form of love. Invitation is a form of grace (2 Corinthians 5:20).

This book reminds us that judgment is not the end of God’s story. Restoration is. The same God who exposes what’s broken also promises to mend it again. And sometimes, the hardest places (where everything feels scattered or lost,) become the very ground where your resurrection begins.

Prayer

God of new hearts, thank You for the promise that You can bring life to what seems dead and hope to what feels hopeless. Give me a heart of flesh that responds to You, and use me to point others toward the restoration only You can bring. In Jesus’ name, I pray.

Ezekiel promises the return of God’s presence; Daniel shows how to live for that kingdom now, holding fast to the Son of Man whose reign never ends. Up next: Daniel.