Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Familiar Phrases

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1. Fill in the blanks: Ezekiel prophesied of Israel returned to the Lord, He would sprinkle them with clean water and they would be clean; "I will cleanse you from all your  --------- and from all your
--------."
 
 
2. God asked Ezekiel,  "Son of man, can these bones --------- ?"
 
 
3. When Ezekiel prophesied, "breath came into them [the slain], and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great -------- ."
 
 
 
1. "Filthiness.....idols" (Ezek. 36:25).
 
 
2. "Live" ( Ezek.37:3). The dead bones represented the nation of Israel dispersed  among the nations.
God's question involved whether Israel would be a live nation again.
 
 
3. "Army" (Ezek. 37:10). This represented a time in the future when Israel would become alive to God and filled with His spirit.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1. True or false?  The word of the Lord came to Ezekiel, saying , "Son of man, set your face against Magog, of the land of Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him."

2. Fill in the blanks: Ezekiel prophesied these words from God, "Woe to the   --------- of Israel who feed  --------!"

3. Ezekiel prophesied of Israel's shepherd, "I will establish one  shepherd over them, and he shall feed them---My servant  ---------."



1. False. "Set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog" (Ezek. 38:2).
 
2. "Shepherds......themselves" (Ezek. 34:2). Ezekiel condemned the priests of Israel (v. 3).
 
3. "David" (Ezek.34:23).

Monday, October 15, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1. Multiple choice: Over the king of what city did Ezekiel lament, "You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you"?  (a) Jerusalem; (b) Samaria; or (c) Tyre.

2. Fill in the blanks: Ezekiel lamented of the king of Tyre: "Your heart was lifted up  because of your 
------- ; You corrupted your  -------- for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you."


3. Ezekiel preached that  God had no desire for the wicked to die; rather, He wanted them to repent and live. "For why should you die, --------  -------- of   --------?"






1. (c) Tyre (Ezek. 28:12, 15).
 
 
2. "Beauty....wisdom" Ezek. 28: 17).
 
 
3. "O  house......Israel". (Ezek. 33: 11).

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1. Sentence completion: God instructed Ezekiel that each man is answerable for himself: "Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the father As well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins....."

2. God  said to Ezekiel concerning Jerusalem, "So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found..."

3. Fill in the blanks: Ezekiel wrote a parable of two sisters who "committed harlotry in Egypt... Their names:  --------  the elder and  ------ her sister."



1. "Shall die" (Ezek. 18:4).
 
 
2. "No one" (Ezek. 22:30).
 
 
3. "Oholah...Oholibah" (Ezek. 23:3,4).  "Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah," the capitals of the northern and southern kingdoms. The story is about the harlotry of both sisters and about the greater wickedness of the second sister who learned nothing from the fall of the first one.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: God told Ezekiel that Jerusalem would be destroyed . "Though these three men, 
-------- , ----------, and ----------, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness."

2. Sentence completion: Ezekiel, in his picture of Jerusalem as an unfaithful wife, said to them, "Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: 'Like mother...!

3. Fill in the blank: Ezekiel pictured Jerusalem's beginnings as an abandoned infant. God said to her,
"And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood,
---------!"



1. "Noah... Daniel... Job" (Ezek. 14:14).
 
 
2. "Like daughter". (Ezek. 16: 44).
 
 
3. "Live" (Ezek. 16:6).

Friday, October 12, 2012

When You Debate

English Standard Version
 
 
If a wise man has a argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.
 
 
Proverbs 29:9

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1. Sentence completion: God told Ezekiel that if the wicked man died in his iniquity without being warned so that he might be saved, "His blood I will..."

2. Fill in the blanks: When Ezekiel saw the vision of the cherubim and wheels in Jerusalem, "the
----------  of the  ----------departed from the threshold of the  -------- and stood over the cherubim".

3. As a sign to Israel, God told Ezekiel to "eat your bread with  -------, and drink your water with  ------ and anxiety."



1. "Require at your hand" (Ezek. 3:18).
 
 
2. "Glory...Lord...temple" (Ezek. 10:18).
 
 
3. "Quaking...trembling (Ezek. 12:18).