The document summarizes key events in the book of Ezekiel, a prophet during the Babylonian exile of the Israelites. It describes Ezekiel being taken captive to Babylon in 597 BC and being called by God to become a prophet in 593 BC. As a prophet, Ezekiel delivered oracles of doom against Jerusalem from 593-588 BC as the city was being besieged and destroyed in 587 BC for their unfaithfulness. After news of Jerusalem's destruction reached Ezekiel in 585 BC, he delivered oracles of hope from 585-573 BC to the exiles in Babylon.
10. 15 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 ‘Son of
man, how is the wood of a vine different from
that of a branch from any of the trees in the
forest? 3 Is wood ever taken from it to make
anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to
hang things on? 4 And after it is thrown on the
fire as fuel and the fire burns both ends and
chars the middle, is it then useful for anything?
5 If it was not useful for anything when it was
whole, how much less can it be made into
something useful when the fire has burned it
and it is charred?
11. 6 ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
as I have given the wood of the vine among the
trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I
treat the people living in Jerusalem. 7 I will set
my face against them. Although they have come
out of the fire, the fire will yet consume them.
And when I set my face against them, you will
know that I am the Lord. 8 I will make the land
desolate because they have been unfaithful,
declares the Sovereign Lord.’
Ezekiel 15
12. ‘“I the Lord have spoken. The time has come for
me to act. I will not hold back; I will not have
pity, nor will I relent. You will be judged
according to your conduct and your actions,
declares the Sovereign Lord.”’
Ezekiel 24: 14
15. 21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth
month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped
from Jerusalem came to me and said, ‘The city
has fallen!’ 22 Now the evening before the man
arrived, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he
opened my mouth before the man came to me in
the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was
no longer silent.
Ezekiel 33: 21-22
17. 15 See, I set before you today life and
prosperity, death and destruction. 16 For I
command you today to love the Lord your
God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep
his commands, decrees and laws; then you will
live and increase, and the Lord your God will
bless you in the land you are entering to
possess.
18. 17 But if your heart turns away and you are
not obedient, and if you are drawn away to
bow down to other gods and worship
them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will
certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in
the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter
and possess.
Deuteronomy 30: 15-18
20. 24 ‘Therefore everyone who hears these words of
mine and puts them into practice is like a wise
man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain
came down, the streams rose, and the winds
blew and beat against that house; yet it did not
fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26
But everyone who hears these words of mine and
does not put them into practice is like a foolish
man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain
came down, the streams rose, and the winds
blew and beat against that house, and it fell with
a great crash.’
Matthew 7: 24-27
