Ezekiel pt. 2

Question 1

Roughly ___ of the Bk. of Ezekiel is comprised of ______

Answer 1

Oracles of Divine Judgement

Question 2

Chapter 1 is different. Why?

Answer 2

No mention of GOD”s Anger or Judah’s immanent doom.

Question 3

What is unique and new in Ezekiel’s Vision?

Answer 3

His Steadfast and Systematic avoidance of any attempt to describe the PERSON of GOD

Question 4

Ezekiel is a __ of Israel

Answer 4

Watchman

Question 5

Two main points of Ezekiel’s message

Answer 5

Redemption and Responsibly

Question 6

If Ezekiel had only been commissioned to preach that Judah has simply worn out God’s patience with her sinfulness —

Answer 6

Ezekiel would have nothing more to say that the prophets of the 8th and 7th Centirues

Question 7

Ezekiel’s response to the peoples doubts

Answer 7

• Both individuals and communities will be judges

- God desires REPENTANCE not annihilation

Question 8

Ezekiel reverses the Mosaic Understanding of Justice

Answer 8

Does not believe in an “inherited guilt” (sins of the Father passed on to child) rather the Individuals role in attaining salvation

Question 9

Zerah Aakodesh

Answer 9

The Holy Seed

Question 10

Function of Ezekiel as Watchman

Answer 10

Responsible for communicating God’s words no matter what to the people

Question 11

What is the disastrous news in Ez 33:21

Answer 11

The City has Fallen. Hope of returning or short exile is gone

Question 12

Even in defeat and exile the survivors believed

Answer 12

that they would regain the Promised Land

Question 13

Am Haretz

Answer 13

People of the Land

Question 14

The fourth part of Ezekiel is found in chapters

Answer 14

33-48

Question 15

Dry bones story is analogous to

Answer 15

bringing the people back from exile so that they may live

Question 16

Ezekiel borrows elements from the ____ account in Gen ___ and well as the _____ account in Gen __

Answer 16

Priest Gen 1

Jahwistic Gen 2

Question 17

The Creation Stories in Gen 1 & 2 presents Ezekiel’s understanding of

Answer 17

God’s deliverance of Israel from Exile AND RE-CREATION

Question 18

God’s deliverance of Israel from Exile will be an act of ________________ on God’s part

Answer 18

totally underserved and unsolicited generosity and “hewed” (divine love”

Question 19

Before the New Creation occurs there will be one last ___

Answer 19

battle

Question 20

The final battle is

Answer 20

Israel defining herself against a mortal enemy – against GOG from the LAND OF MAGAG

Question 21

God is an archetype of what?

Answer 21

the standard opponent of YHWH

Question 22

With the battle against Gog foretold, and the victory of God guaranteed, Ezekiel shifts to an ________ vision

Answer 22

Eschatological

Question 23

In the New Creation, the Restored Temple will be the seat of the new _____ government and at the center will be the ______ line.

Answer 23

New Theocratic Government with the center being the Zadokite Line

Question 24

Earlier prophets like Amos, 1st Is. and Jeremiah criticized and rejected the efficacy of the _________

Answer 24

Levitical Sacrificial System and Priesthood because it had become corrupt

Question 25

Ezekiel takes a different approach, using the ______ priesthood, to use the cultic mosaic traditions

Answer 25

Zadokite

Question 26

Ezekiel foresees the return of God’s _____ to the Temple

Answer 26

KAVOD = Glory
Shekinah = Divine Indwelling

Question 27

Once fully restored and recreated, Israel will enter into and dwell in that ___, ___ ___, which was intended by God from the Orginal creation

Answer 27

Idyllic and Edenic Existence

Question 28

The Cycle of Salvation ______ –> _____ will be completed

Answer 28

Creation to Re-Creation