Enhance your listnening pleasure with Bill's slides to accompany his talk on Ezekiel at BV, 14/07/2013. Enjoy!

1. Be Reverent – Part 6
The book of Ezekiel

2. 8 ‘“But you, mountains of Israel, will produce
branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they
will soon come home. 9 I am concerned for you
and will look on you with favour; you will be
ploughed and sown, 10 and I will cause many
people to live on you – yes, all of Israel. The
towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

3. 11 I will increase the number of people and
animals living on you, and they will be fruitful
and become numerous. I will settle people on
you as in the past and will make you prosper
more than before. Then you will know that I am
the Lord.

4. 33 ‘“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: on the
day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle
your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt. 34 The
desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying
desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.

5. 35 They will say, ‘This land that was laid waste
has become like the garden of Eden; the cities
that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed,
are now fortified and inhabited.’ 36 Then the
nations around you that remain will know that I
the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed and
have replanted what was desolate. I the Lord
have spoken, and I will do it.”
Ezekiel 36: 8-11, 33-36

6. LAND

7. 3 ‘“If you follow my decrees and are careful to
obey my commands, 4 I will send you rain in its
season, and the ground will yield its crops and
the trees their fruit. 5 Your threshing will
continue until grape harvest and the grape
harvest will continue until planting, and you will
eat all the food you want and live in safety in
your land.
Leviticus 26: 3-5

8. 7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting
covenant between me and you and your
descendants after you for the generations to
come, to be your God and the God of your
descendants after you. 8 The whole land of
Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I
will give as an everlasting possession to you and
your descendants after you; and I will be their
God.’
Genesis 17: 7-8

9. 11 I will increase the number of people and
animals living on you, and they will be fruitful
and become numerous. I will settle people on
you as in the past and will make you prosper
more than before. Then you will know that I am
the Lord.
Ezekiel 36: 11

10. God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful
and increase in number…
Genesis 1: 28a

11. 35 They will say, ‘This land that was laid waste
has become like the garden of Eden; the cities
that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed,
are now fortified and inhabited.’ 36 Then the
nations around you that remain will know that I
the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed and
have replanted what was desolate. I the Lord
have spoken, and I will do it.”
Ezekiel 36: 35-36

13. Abundance

14. “There’s not enough to go
around”