📙 Ezekiel – Visions of Glory and Restoration

Written by Ezekiel

Introduction

Ezekiel is one of the most visually spectacular and spiritually demanding books in all of Scripture. Written by the priest-prophet Ezekiel during the Babylonian exile, it opens with one of the most astonishing visions ever recorded — a whirlwind, fire, four living creatures, wheels within wheels, and the overwhelming glory of God appearing to a man sitting by the Chebar canal in a foreign land. From that thunderous beginning, the book moves through searing judgment, dramatic prophetic acts, oracles against nations, and ultimately to a breathtaking vision of restoration — a new temple, a new land, and the return of God’s glory to dwell with His people forever.

Ezekiel is a book of extremes. The darkness of judgment is as deep as anywhere in Scripture. The brightness of the restoration vision is as high as anywhere in Scripture. And in between — the valley of dry bones, one of the most powerful resurrection images in the entire Bible, where God asks His prophet: “Can these bones live?” The answer, then and always, is yes.

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

— Ezekiel 36:26

This is a book that refuses to let God be small. His glory fills every page — in judgment, in grief, in restoration, in promise. Ezekiel saw what few humans have ever seen, and he wrote it down so we would never forget: God is not absent. God is not defeated. God is coming back.

Chapters in Ezekiel

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