Book of Ezekiel bible study chapters 30 through 39

 

            Here is the next group of ten chapters from the book of Ezekiel, chapters 30 through 39, which contain more prophecies of judgment and other things, and even a vision later in the chapter and some end times prophecies, especially the last two chapters 38 and 39, which prophesy the war of Gog and Magog which many believe will happen early in the tribulation period. There are also messages telling the watchman to warn the people and promises of a true shepherd. This bible study is a follow up on the earlier bible study, which had chapters 21 through 29, a link to it is here

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In Ezekiel chapter 30 then there are prophecies of judgment all around, but especially against Egypt more than anywhere else, many at the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, whose hand will be strengthened

(Ezekiel 30:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 30:2)  "Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Wail, 'Alas for the day!'

 

(Ezekiel 30:3)  For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

 

(Ezekiel 30:4)  A sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Cush, when the slain fall in Egypt, and her wealth is carried away, and her foundations are torn down.

 

(Ezekiel 30:5)  Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya, and the people of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

 

(Ezekiel 30:6)  "Thus says the LORD: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 30:7)  And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries, and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

 

(Ezekiel 30:8)  Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.

 

(Ezekiel 30:9)  "On that day messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting people of Cush, and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt's doom; for, behold, it comes!

 

(Ezekiel 30:10)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

 

(Ezekiel 30:11)  He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

 

(Ezekiel 30:12)  And I will dry up the Nile and will sell the land into the hand of evildoers; I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it, by the hand of foreigners; I am the LORD; I have spoken.

 

(Ezekiel 30:13)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis; there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt; so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

 

(Ezekiel 30:14)  I will make Pathros a desolation and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments on Thebes.

 

(Ezekiel 30:15)  And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the multitude of Thebes.

 

(Ezekiel 30:16)  And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and Memphis shall face enemies by day.

 

(Ezekiel 30:17)  The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.

 

(Ezekiel 30:18)  At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt, and her proud might shall come to an end in her; she shall be covered by a cloud, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

 

(Ezekiel 30:19)  Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

 

(Ezekiel 30:20)  In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 30:21)  "Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.

 

(Ezekiel 30:22)  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.

 

(Ezekiel 30:23)  I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.

 

(Ezekiel 30:24)  And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him like a man mortally wounded.

 

(Ezekiel 30:25)  I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.

 

(Ezekiel 30:26)  And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 31 Ezekiel then has to send a prophecy, a story like this one to the king (pharaoh) of Egypt who is being compared to Assyria and a big tree, and also is a prophecy of the  coming judgment with the tree being cut down and that is eqivilant to the land’s devastation, this being done to punish pride and other wrongs that Egypt had committed.

(Ezekiel 31:1)  In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 31:2)  "Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: "Whom are you like in your greatness?

 

(Ezekiel 31:3)  Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds.

 

(Ezekiel 31:4)  The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow around the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the field.

 

(Ezekiel 31:5)  So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long from abundant water in its shoots.

 

(Ezekiel 31:6)  All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.

 

(Ezekiel 31:7)  It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.

 

(Ezekiel 31:8)  The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty.

 

(Ezekiel 31:9)  I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.

 

(Ezekiel 31:10)  "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,

 

(Ezekiel 31:11)  I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.

 

(Ezekiel 31:12)  Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.

 

(Ezekiel 31:13)  On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field.

 

(Ezekiel 31:14)  All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man, with those who go down to the pit.

 

(Ezekiel 31:15)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day the cedar went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

 

(Ezekiel 31:16)  I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.

 

(Ezekiel 31:17)  They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations.

 

(Ezekiel 31:18)  "Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. "This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD."

 

Chapter 32 of Ezekiel at the request of God, then raises up a prayer and a lamentation for Egypt on whom prophesied judgment will fall and other nations like Edom are also spoken of

(Ezekiel 32:1)  In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 32:2)  "Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: "You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.

 

(Ezekiel 32:3)  Thus says the Lord GOD: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.

 

(Ezekiel 32:4)  And I will cast you on the ground; on the open field I will fling you, and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you, and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.

 

(Eze 32:5)  I will strew your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass.

 

(Ezekiel 32:6)  I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood, and the ravines will be full of you.

 

(Ezekiel 32:7)  When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

 

(Ezekiel 32:8)  All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness on your land, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 32:9)  "I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.

 

(Ezekiel 32:10)  I will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when I brandish my sword before them. They shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.

 

(Ezekiel 32:11)  "For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

 

(Ezekiel 32:12)  I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.

 

(Ezekiel 32:13)  I will destroy all its beasts from beside many waters; and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore, nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

 

(Ezekiel 32:14)  Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 32:15)  When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and when the land is desolate of all that fills it, when I strike down all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 32:16)  This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD."

 

(Ezekiel 32:17)  In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 32:18)  "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:

 

(Ezekiel 32:19)  'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.'

 

(Ezekiel 32:20)  They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes.

 

(Ezekiel 32:21)  The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: 'They have come down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.'

 

(Ezekiel 32:22)  "Assyria is there, and all her company, its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,

 

(Ezekiel 32:23)  whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.

 

(Ezekiel 32:24)  "Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

 

(Ezekiel 32:25)  They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.

 

(Ezekiel 32:26)  "Meshech-Tubal is there, and all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread their terror in the land of the living.

 

(Ezekiel 32:27)  And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living.

 

(Ezekiel 32:28)  But as for you, you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.

 

(Ezekiel 32:29)  "Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.

 

(Ezekiel 32:30)  "The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, for all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

 

(Ezekiel 32:31)  "When Pharaoh sees them, he will be comforted for all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 32:32)  For I spread terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 33 the duties, expectations and the consequences of doing them are explained to the watchman and prophet, and then Israel (Judah) is taken to task over her evil doings, and judgments for them are prophesied for them

(Ezekiel 33:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 33:2)  "Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman,

 

(Ezekiel 33:3)  and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people,

 

(Ezekiel 33:4)  then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

 

(Ezekiel 33:5)  He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life.

 

(Ezekiel 33:6)  But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.

 

(Ezekiel 33:7)  "So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.

 

(Ezekiel 33:8)  If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

 

(Ezekiel 33:9)  But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.

 

(Ezekiel 33:10)  "And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: 'Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live?'

 

(Ezekiel 33:11)  Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

 

(Ezekiel 33:12)  "And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.

 

(Ezekiel 33:13)  Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.

 

(Ezekiel 33:14)  Again, though I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,

 

(Ezekiel 33:15)  if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

 

(Ezekiel 33:16)  None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.

 

(Ezekiel 33:17)  "Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not just,' when it is their own way that is not just.

 

(Ezekiel 33:18)  When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.

 

(Ezekiel 33:19)  And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this.

 

(Ezekiel 33:20)  Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."

 

(Ezekiel 33:21)  In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has been struck down."

 

(Ezekiel 33:22)  Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

 

(Ezekiel 33:23)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 33:24)  "Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, 'Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.'

 

(Ezekiel 33:25)  Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

 

(Ezekiel 33:26)  You rely on the sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land?

 

(Ezekiel 33:27)  Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.

 

(Ezekiel 33:28)  And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.

 

(Ezekiel 33:29)  Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.

 

(Ezekiel 33:30)  "As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, 'Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.'

 

(Ezekiel 33:31)  And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

 

(Ezekiel 33:32)  And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.

 

(Ezekiel 33:33)  When this comes--and come it will!--then they will know that a prophet has been among them."

 

Ezekiel chapter 34 is the chapter with stories of the sheep (people of Israel) and their shepherds (rabbis) with bad shepherds (false teachers) and the Lord promises to set up a really good shepherd over them (Himself actually) and bless them abundantly (could this be Jesus?- only God knows, but good chance it is)

(Ezekiel 34:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 34:2)  "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?

 

(Ezekiel 34:3)  You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.

 

(Ezekiel 34:4)  The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

 

(Ezekiel 34:5)  So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts.

 

(Ezekiel 34:6)  My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.

 

(Ezekiel 34:7)  "Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

 

(Ezekiel 34:8)  As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,

 

(Ezekiel 34:9)  therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

 

(Ezekiel 34:10)  Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.

 

(Ezekiel 34:11)  "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.

 

(Ezekiel 34:12)  As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.

 

(Ezekiel 34:13)  And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

 

(Ezekiel 34:14)  I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.

 

(Ezekiel 34:15)  I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 34:16)  I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

 

(Ezekiel 34:17)  "As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.

 

(Ezekiel 34:18)  Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet?

 

(Ezekiel 34:19)  And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

 

(Ezekiel 34:20)  "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

 

(Ezekiel 34:21)  Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,

 

(Ezekiel 34:22)  I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.

 

(Ezekiel 34:23)  And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.

 

(Ezekiel 34:24)  And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the LORD; I have spoken.

 

(Ezekiel 34:25)  "I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

 

(Ezekiel 34:26)  And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.

 

(Ezekiel 34:27)  And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

 

(Ezekiel 34:28)  They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.

 

(Ezekiel 34:29)  And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.

 

(Ezekiel 34:30)  And they shall know that I am the LORD their God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 34:31)  And you are my sheep, human sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the Lord GOD."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 35 then Ezekiel is ordered to prophesy against Mount Seir for all the wrongs that they have committed, especially rejoicing over Israel’s downfall, prophesying judgment and desolation for them

(Ezekiel 35:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 35:2)  "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

 

(Ezekiel 35:3)  and say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.

 

(Ezekiel 35:4)  I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 35:5)  Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,

 

(Ezekiel 35:6)  therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.

 

(Ezekiel 35:7)  I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it all who come and go.

 

(Ezekiel 35:8)  And I will fill its mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall.

 

(Ezekiel 35:9)  I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 35:10)  "Because you said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them'--although the LORD was there--

 

(Ezekiel 35:11)  therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.

 

(Ezekiel 35:12)  And you shall know that I am the LORD. "I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.'

 

(Ezekiel 35:13)  And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.

 

(Ezekiel 35:14)  Thus says the Lord GOD: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

 

(Ezekiel 35:15)  As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

 

In Ezekiel chapter 36 Ezekiel is to prophesy to the mountains of Israel to make themselves ready to grow trees and fruit to support the soon to be returning Israelites, who are coming back to the promised land from exile, for whom the Lord says that He will restore their desolate lands

(Ezekiel 36:1)  "And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 36:2)  Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the enemy said of you, 'Aha!' and, 'The ancient heights have become our possession,'

 

(Ezekiel 36:3)  therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,

 

(Ezekiel 36:4)  therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,

 

(Ezekiel 36:5)  therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.

 

(Ezekiel 36:6)  Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.

 

(Ezekiel 36:7)  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.

 

(Ezekiel 36:8)  "But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home.

 

(Ezekiel 36:9)  For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

 

(Ezekiel 36:10)  And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.

 

(Ezekiel 36:11)  And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 36:12)  I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.

 

(Ezekiel 36:13)  Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'

 

(Ezekiel 36:14)  therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 36:15)  And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."

 

(Ezekiel 36:16)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 36:17)  "Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.

 

(Ezekiel 36:18)  So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.

 

(Ezekiel 36:19)  I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.

 

(Ezekiel 36:20)  But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'

 

(Ezekiel 36:21)  But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.

 

(Ezekiel 36:22)  "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.

 

(Ezekiel 36:23)  And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

 

(Ezekiel 36:24)  I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.

 

(Ezekiel 36:25)  I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

 

(Ezekiel 36:26)  And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

 

(Ezekiel 36:27)  And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

 

(Ezekiel 36:28)  You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

 

(Ezekiel 36:29)  And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you.

 

(Ezekiel 36:30)  I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

 

(Ezekiel 36:31)  Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.

 

(Ezekiel 36:32)  It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

 

(Ezekiel 36:33)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.

 

(Ezekiel 36:34)  And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.

 

(Ezekiel 36:35)  And they will say, 'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.'

 

(Ezekiel 36:36)  Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.

 

(Ezekiel 36:37)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.

 

(Ezekiel 36:38)  Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 37 is the prophecy of the dry bones, Ezekiel to make prophecies and God to act to bring them all back to life which really is another prophecy of the restoration and sanctification of Israel

(Ezekiel 37:1)  The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.

 

(Ezekiel 37:2)  And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry.

 

(Ezekiel 37:3)  And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord GOD, you know."

 

(Ezekiel 37:4)  Then he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 37:5)  Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.

 

(Ezekiel 37:6)  And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the LORD."

 

(Ezekiel 37:7)  So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

 

(Ezekiel 37:8)  And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them.

 

(Ezekiel 37:9)  Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live."

 

(Ezekiel 37:10)  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

 

(Ezekiel 37:11)  Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.'

 

(Ezekiel 37:12)  Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.

 

(Ezekiel 37:13)  And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.

 

(Ezekiel 37:14)  And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD."

 

(Ezekiel 37:15)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 37:16)  "Son of man, take a stick and write on it, 'For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.'

 

(Ezekiel 37:17)  And join them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

 

(Ezekiel 37:18)  And when your people say to you, 'Will you not tell us what you mean by these?'

 

(Ezekiel 37:19)  say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.

 

(Ezekiel 37:20)  When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes,

 

(Ezekiel 37:21)  then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.

 

(Ezekiel 37:22)  And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.

 

(Ezekiel 37:23)  They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

 

(Ezekiel 37:24)  "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.

 

(Ezekiel 37:25)  They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.

 

(Ezekiel 37:26)  I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

 

(Ezekiel 37:27)  My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

 

(Ezekiel 37:28)  Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 38 Ezekiel is ordered to prophesy against Gog and Magog, which indeed could very easily be an end times prophecy possibly of a war to happen at the beginning of the seven year tribulation period as some modern day prophets suggest will happen

(Ezekiel 38:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 38:2)  "Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him

 

(Ezekiel 38:3)  and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

 

(Ezekiel 38:4)  And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords.

 

(Ezekiel 38:5)  Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

 

(Ezekiel 38:6)  Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes--many peoples are with you.

 

(Ezekiel 38:7)  "Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

 

(Ezekiel 38:8)  After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them.

 

(Ezekiel 38:9)  You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

 

(Ezekiel 38:10)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme

 

(Ezekiel 38:11)  and say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,'

 

(Ezekiel 38:12)  to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.

 

(Ezekiel 38:13)  Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, 'Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?'

 

(Ezekiel 38:14)  "Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it?

 

(Ezekiel 38:15)  You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army.

 

(Ezekiel 38:16)  You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

 

(Ezekiel 38:17)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

 

(Ezekiel 38:18)  But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, my wrath will be roused in my anger.

 

(Ezekiel 38:19)  For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

 

(Ezekiel 38:20)  The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.

 

(Ezekiel 38:21)  I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Lord GOD. Every man's sword will be against his brother.

 

(Ezekiel 38:22)  With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.

 

(Ezekiel 38:23)  So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

 

Chapter 39 of Ezekiel continues this prophecy against Gog and Magog, which many consider an early tribulation war even, end times, and then the Lord promises to really pour the spirit out on Israel and others in the area won’t be ignored in this outpouring, either.

(Ezekiel 39:1)  "And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

 

(Ezekiel 39:2)  And I will turn you about and drive you forward, and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel.

 

(Ezekiel 39:3)  Then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand.

 

(Ezekiel 39:4)  You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

 

(Ezekiel 39:5)  You shall fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 39:6)  I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 39:7)  "And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

 

(Ezekiel 39:8)  Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord GOD. That is the day of which I have spoken.

 

(Ezekiel 39:9)  "Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years,

 

(Ezekiel 39:10)  so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 39:11)  "On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.

 

(Ezekiel 39:12)  For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.

 

(Ezekiel 39:13)  All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that I show my glory, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 39:14)  They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make their search.

 

(Ezekiel 39:15)  And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.

 

(Ezekiel 39:16)  (Hamonah is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

 

(Ezekiel 39:17)  "As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field, 'Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.

 

(Ezekiel 39:18)  You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth--of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

 

(Ezekiel 39:19)  And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you.

 

(Ezekiel 39:20)  And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,' declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 39:21)  "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.

 

(Ezekiel 39:22)  The house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day forward.

 

(Ezekiel 39:23)  And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

 

(Ezekiel 39:24)  I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.

 

(Ezekiel 39:25)  "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.

 

(Ezekiel 39:26)  They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid,

 

(Ezekiel 39:27)  when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.

 

(Ezekiel 39:28)  Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.

 

(Ezekiel 39:29)  And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD."

Here is a link to a bible study of the final nine chapters of Ezekiel, chapters 40 through 48 which describes some temple and such in detail by visions that Ezekiel was getting- I sense this is end times related too, as well

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/book-of-ezekiel-bibe-study-chapters-40-through-48/10200838713903727

 

Ezekiel is a prophet of the Lord during the captivity of Judah in Babylon who was blessed with many visions and a very key mission to the scattered to get them to repent and return to God. He was blessed with these visions and given a powerful message to give to the children of Israel/Judah of God’s love and desire for people to repent of their sins. The message then given by Ezekiel urging people to repent of and turn from their evil ways still rings very true today much, much later than the writing of this prophetic book , for then God will fulfill promises and also send His son Jesus to die for our sins, taking our own death for us, that we deserved to die, and doing it willingly and in love, wanting a love relationship restored and had with both Him and the Father in heaven. There is nothing like a relationship with God, either, nothing can ever be compared to it at all. I am now including a prayer which you can say and invite Jesus in your hearts to begin this wonderful love relationship or even to come back to it if you have drifted away. God is very merciful to those who repent and turn back to Him. Please pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours