Transcript EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX PROPHET - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)? ESTHER (485-465BC)? NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE BELSHAZZAR CYRUS BABYLON DESTROYED DARIUS (605-562BC)? (597-586BC)? (586BC)? (541-523BC)? (559-529BC)? (536BC)? (511-475BC)?

EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
PROPHET - DATE
JONAH
(825-785BC)?
JOEL
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HOSEA
(785-725BC)?
MICAH
(785-710BC)?
AMOS
(784BC)?
ISAIAH
(701-681BC)?
NAHUM
(700BC)?
ZEPHANIAH
(630BC)?
JEREMIAH
(629-588BC)?
DANIEL
(606-534BC)?
HABAKKUK
(598BC)?
EZEKIEL
(597-573BC)?
OBADIAH
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EZRA
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HAGGAI
(532-512BC)?
ZECHARIAH
(520-475BC)?
ESTHER
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NEHEMIAH
(465-424BC)?
MALACHI
(420-397BC)?
KING / EVENT - DATE
TIGLATH-PILESER
(745-727BC)?
HEZEKIAH (JUDAH)
(726-698BC)?
SHALMANESER
(727-722BC)?
ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)?
SENNACHERIB
(705-681BC)?
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH)
JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE
BELSHAZZAR
CYRUS
BABYLON DESTROYED
DARIUS
(605-562BC)?
(597-586BC)?
(586BC)?
(541-523BC)?
(559-529BC)?
(536BC)?
(511-475BC)?
OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
BLESSING OF ISRAEL
V. 1-15
RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
V. 16-38
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:1-3
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
1
And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains
of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the LORD!
2
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because the enemy has
said of you, 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our
possession,’
3
therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD: "Because they made you desolate and swallowed
you up on every side, so that you became the possession
of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the
lips of talkers and slandered by the people" —
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:1-3
1
And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains
of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the LORD!
2
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because the enemy has
said of you: 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our
possession,’
3
therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD: "Because they made you desolate and swallowed
you up on every side, so that you became the possession
of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the
lips of talkers and slandered by the people"
WHO IS THE LORD SPEAKING TO?
WHY?
'O mountains of Israel’
WHO SAID THIS?
'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession’
WHO DID THIS TO ISRAEL?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:1
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
1
And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains
of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the LORD!
WHO IS THE LORD SPEAKING TO?
'O mountains of Israel’
WHY?
READ:
EZEKIEL 6:2-3
2
Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of
Israel, and prophesy against them,
3
and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the
mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys:
‘Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will
destroy your high places.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:1
1
And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains
of Israel, and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the LORD!
WHO IS THE LORD SPEAKING TO?
'O mountains of Israel’
WHY?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY HE WOULD DO?
WAS THIS CONCERNING ISRAEL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 17:22
22
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I will take also one of the
highest branches of the high cedar and set it out. I will
crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender
one, and will plant it on a high and prominent mountain.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:2
2
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because the enemy has
said of you: 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our
possession,’
WHO SAID THIS?
'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession’
AMMONITES?
READ:
EZEKIEL 25:3
3
Say to the Ammonites, 'Hear the word of the Lord
GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD: Because you said: 'Aha!'
against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against
the land of Israel when it was desolate, and against the
house of Judah when they went into captivity’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:2
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
2
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because the enemy has
said of you: 'Aha! The ancient heights have become our
possession,’
WHO SAID THIS?
'Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession’
MOUNT SEIR? EDOM?
READ:
EZEKIEL 35:10-11
10
Because you have said, 'These two nations and
these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess
them,' although the LORD was there,
11
therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, ‘I will do
according to your anger and according to the envy which
you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make
Myself known among them when I judge you.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:3
3
therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD: ’Because they made you desolate and swallowed
you up on every side, so that you became the possession
of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the
lips of talkers and slandered by the people’
WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
WHO DID THIS TO ISRAEL?
ISRAEL?
WHY?
READ
PSALMS 44:13-14
13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn
and a derision to those all around us.
14
You make us a byword among the nations, A
shaking of the head among the peoples.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:3
3
therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD: ’Because they made you desolate and swallowed
you up on every side, so that you became the possession
of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the
lips of talkers and slandered by the people’
WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
ISRAEL?
DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 28:36-37
36
The LORD will bring you and the king whom you
set over you to a nation which neither you nor your
fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods
— wood and stone.
37
And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb,
and a byword among all nations where the LORD will
drive you. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:3
3
therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD: ‘Because they made you desolate and swallowed
you up on every side, so that you became the possession
of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the
lips of talkers and slandered by the people’
WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
ISRAEL?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
ISAIAH 42:14-15
14
I have held My peace a long time, I have been still
and restrained Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in
labor, I will pant and gasp at once.
15
I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up
all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And
I will dry up the pools.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:3
3
therefore prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD: ‘Because they made you desolate and swallowed
you up on every side, so that you became the possession
of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the
lips of talkers and slandered by the people’
WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
ISRAEL?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
JEREMIAH 24:9-10
9
I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms
of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a
byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall
drive them.
10
I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence
among them, till they are consumed from the land that I
gave to them and their fathers.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:3
3
therefore prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord
GOD: ’Because they made you desolate and swallowed
you up on every side, so that you became the possession
of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the
lips of talkers and slandered by the people’
WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
ISRAEL?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ :
LAMENTATIONS 2:16
16
All your enemies have opened their mouth against
you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, ‘We have
swallowed her up! Surely this is the day we have waited
for; We have found it, we have seen it!’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:3
3
therefore prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord
GOD: ’Because they made you desolate and swallowed
you up on every side, so that you became the possession
of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the
lips of talkers and slandered by the people’
WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
ISRAEL?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EDOM?
READ:
OBADIAH 13
13
You should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should not have
gazed on their affliction In the day of their calamity, Nor
laid hands on their substance In the day of their calamity.
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:4-5
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
4
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the
mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate
wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which
became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations
all around —
5
therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I have
spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the
nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to
themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and
spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.'
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:4-5
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
4
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the
mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate
wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which
became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations
all around —
5
therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I have
spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the
nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to
themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and
spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.'
WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:4
4
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the
mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate
wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which
became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations
all around —
WHO IS THE LORD TALKING TO?
‘O mountains of Israel’
READ:
EZEKIEL 6:3
3
Say: 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to
the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: ‘Indeed I, even
I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your
high places.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:4
4
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the
mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate
wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which
became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations
all around —
WHAT HAPPENED TO ISRAEL?
‘became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations’
WHAT WERE THE PEOPLE SAYING?
READ:
EZEKIEL 33:24
24
Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the
land of Israel are saying: 'Abraham was only one, and he
inherited the land. But we are many; the land has been
given to us as a possession.' NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:5
5
therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I have
spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the
nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to
themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and
spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
‘I have spoken in My burning jealousy against them’
BECAUSE:
‘they gave My land to themselves as a possession’
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:5
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
‘I have spoken in My burning jealousy against them’
BECAUSE:
‘they gave My land to themselves as a possession’
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
READ:
JEREMIAH 2:26-27
26
As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, So is
the house of Israel ashamed; They and their kings and
their princes, and their priests and their prophets, NKJV
27
Saying to a tree, 'You are my father,‘ And to a
stone, 'You gave birth to me.‘ For they have turned their
back to Me, and not their face. But in the time of their
trouble They will say: 'Arise and save us.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:5
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
‘I have spoken in My burning jealousy against them’
BECAUSE:
‘they gave My land to themselves as a possession’
READ:
JEREMIAH 25:31
31
‘A noise will come to the ends of the earth: For the
LORD has a controversy with the nations; He will plead
His case with all flesh. He will give those who are wicked
to the sword,' says the LORD. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:5
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
‘I have spoken in My burning jealousy against them’
BECAUSE:
‘they gave My land to themselves as a possession’
READ:
JEREMIAH 50:11-12
11
Because you were glad, because you rejoiced,
You destroyers of My heritage, Because you have grown
fat like a heifer threshing grain, And you bellow like bulls,
12
Your mother shall be deeply ashamed; She who
bore you shall be ashamed. Behold, the least of the
nations shall be a wilderness, A dry land and a desert.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:5
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
‘I have spoken in My burning jealousy against them’
BECAUSE:
‘they gave My land to themselves as a possession’
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
READ:
EZEKIEL 25:12-14
12
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because of what Edom
did against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and
has greatly offended by avenging itself on them,’
14
I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My
people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My
anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My
vengeance,’ says the Lord GOD.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:5
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
‘I have spoken in My burning jealousy against them’
BECAUSE:
‘they gave My land to themselves as a possession’
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
READ:
EZEKIEL 33:28-29
28
‘I will make the land most desolate, her arrogant
strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be
so desolate that no one will pass through.’
29
‘Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
have made the land most desolate because of all their
abominations which they have committed.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:5
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
‘I have spoken in My burning jealousy against them’
BECAUSE:
‘they gave My land to themselves as a possession’
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
READ:
EZEKIEL 35:14-15
14
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘The whole earth will
rejoice when I make you desolate.
15
As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the
house of Israel was desolate, So I will do to you; you
shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom all of it! Then they shall know that I am the LORD.' NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:5
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE NATIONS?
‘I have spoken in My burning jealousy against them’
BECAUSE:
‘they gave My land to themselves as a possession’
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
READ:
JOEL 3:2
2
I will also gather all nations, And bring them down
to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into
judgment with them there On account of My people, My
heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the
nations; They have also divided up My land. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:6-7
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
6
Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel,
and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the
valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have
spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have
borne the shame of the nations."
7
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I have raised
My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are
around you shall bear their own shame.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:6-7
6
Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel,
and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the
valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have
spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have
borne the shame of the nations."
7
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I have raised
My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are
around you shall bear their own shame.
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘because you have borne the shame of the nations’
BECAUSE:
‘the nations are around you shall bear their own shame’
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
‘I raised My hand in an oath’
‘the nations around you shall bear their own shame’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:6
6
Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel,
and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the
valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have
spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have
borne the shame of the nations."
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘because you have borne the shame of the nations’
READ:
PSALMS 123:4
4
Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scorn of
those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:6
6
Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel,
and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the
valleys, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have
spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have
borne the shame of the nations."
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘because you have borne the shame of the nations’
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 34:29
29
I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and
they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the
land, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:7
7
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I have raised
My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are
around you shall bear their own shame.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
‘I raised My hand in an oath’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:5
5
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘On the day when I chose
Israel and raised My hand in an oath to the descendants
of the house of Jacob, and made Myself known to them
in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in an oath to them,
saying, 'I am the LORD your God.' NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:7
7
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I have raised
My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are
around you shall bear their own shame.
WHAT DID THE LORD DO?
WHY?
‘I raised My hand in an oath’
‘the nations around you shall bear their own shame’
READ:
JEREMIAH 25:9
9
‘Behold, I will send and take all the families of the
north,' says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this
land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all
around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an
astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:8-11
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
8
But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot
forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people
Israel, for they are about to come.
9
For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and
you shall be tilled and sown.
10
I will multiply men upon you, all the house of
Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the
ruins rebuilt.
11
I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they
shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited
as in former times, and do better for you than at your
beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:8-11
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
8
But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot
forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people
Israel, for they are about to come.
9
For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and
you shall be tilled and sown.
10
I will multiply men upon you, all the house of
Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the
ruins rebuilt.
11
I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they
shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited
as in former times, and do better for you than at your
beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
HOW WILL THE LORD BLESS ISRAEL?
WHEN?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:8
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
8
But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot
forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people
Israel, for they are about to come.
HOW WILL THE LORD BLESS ISRAEL?
WHEN?
READ:
ISAIAH 4:2
2
In that day the Branch of the LORD shall be
beautiful and glorious; And the fruit of the earth shall be
excellent and appealing For those of Israel who have
escaped.
NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 27:6
6
Those who come He shall cause to take root in
Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, And fill the face of
the world with fruit.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:9
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
9
For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and
you shall be tilled and sown.
HOW WILL THE LORD BLESS ISRAEL?
WHEN?
READ:
JEREMIAH 31:27-28
27
Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I
will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with
the seed of man and the seed of beast.
28
And it shall come to pass, that as I have watched
over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to
destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build
and to plant, says the LORD. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:10
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 49:17-23
17
‘Your sons shall make haste; Your destroyers and
those who laid you waste Shall go away from you.
21
Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has begotten
these for me, Since I have lost my children and am
desolate, A captive, and wandering to and fro? And who
has brought these up? There I was, left alone; But these,
where were they?’
22
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I will lift My
hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My standard
for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their arms,
And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
23
Kings shall be your foster fathers, And their
queens your nursing mothers; They shall bow down to
you with their faces to the earth, And lick up the dust of
your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD, For
they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:10
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
10
I will multiply men upon you, all the house of
Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the
ruins rebuilt.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 58:12
12
Those from among you Shall build the old waste
places; You shall raise up the foundations of many
generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the
Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 61:4
4
They shall rebuild the old ruins, They shall raise up
the former desolations, And they shall repair the ruined
cities, The desolations of many generations.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:10
10
I will multiply men upon you, all the house of
Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the
ruins rebuilt.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
JEREMIAH 30:18
18
Thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will bring back the
captivity of Jacob's tents, And have mercy on his
dwelling places; The city shall be built upon its own
mound; And the palace shall remain according to its own
plan. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:10
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
10
I will multiply men upon you, all the house of
Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the
ruins rebuilt.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
AMOS 9:11-12
11
On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David,
which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will
raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12
That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And
all the Gentiles who are called by My name, Says the
LORD who does this thing. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:10
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHAT DID JAMES SAY?
READ:
ACTS 15:13-17
13
After they had become silent, James answered,
saying, ‘Men and brethren, listen to me:
14
Simon has declared how God at the first visited the
Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name.
15
And with this the words of the prophets agree, just
as it is written:
16
'After! this I will return And will rebuild the
tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild
its ruins, And I will set it up;
17
So that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD,
Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, Says
the LORD who does all these things.'
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:11
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
11
I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they
shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited
as in former times, and do better for you than at your
beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHAT DID GOD DO FOR THEM IN THE BEGINNING?
READ:
LEVITICUS 26:9
9
'I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful,
multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:11
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
11
I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they
shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited
as in former times, and do better for you than at your
beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHAT WAS THEIR FORMER STATUS?
READ:
EZEKIEL 16:55
55
‘When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters,
return to their former state, and Samaria and her
daughters return to their former state, then you and your
daughters will return to your former state.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:11
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
11
I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they
shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited
as in former times, and do better for you than at your
beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
WHAT WAS THEIR FORMER STATUS?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 10:8
8
‘I will whistle for them and gather them, For I will
redeem them; And they shall increase as they once
increased.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:11
11
I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they
shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited
as in former times, and do better for you than at your
beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
REMEMBER WHAT THE LORD DID FOR JOB?
READ:
JOB 42:12-15
12
The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than
his beginning; for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels,
1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
13
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
14
He called the name of the first Jemimah, the name
of the second Keziah, and the name of the third KerenHappuch.
15
In all the land were found no women so beautiful
as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them
aninheritance among their brothers. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:12-15
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
12
Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people
Israel; they shall take possession of you, and you shall
be their inheritance; no more shall you bereave them of
children.’
13
Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because they say to
you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of
children,'
14
therefore you shall devour men no more, nor
bereave your nation anymore," says the Lord GOD.
15
Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations
anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore,
nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore,"
says the Lord GOD.'
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:12-15
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
12
Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people
Israel; they shall take possession of you, and you shall
be their inheritance; no more shall you bereave them of
children.’
13
Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because they say to
you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of
children,'
14
therefore you shall devour men no more, nor
bereave your nation anymore," says the Lord GOD.
15
Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations
anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore,
nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore,"
says the Lord GOD.'
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:12
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
12
Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people
Israel; they shall take possession of you, and you shall
be their inheritance; no more shall you bereave them of
children.’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘I will cause men to walk on you’
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
My people will again walk on the mountains of Israel?
READ:
EZEKIEL 34:27
26
I will make them and the places all around My hill a
blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their
season; there shall be showers of blessing. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:13-14
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
13
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because they say to
you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of
children,'
14
therefore you shall devour men no more, nor
bereave your nation anymore,’ says the Lord GOD.
WHO SAID THIS? WHEN?
'You devour men and bereave your nation of children'
READ:
NUMBERS 13:32
32
They gave the children of Israel a bad report of the
land which they had spied out, saying, ‘The land through
which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its
inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are
men of great stature.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:13-14
BLESSING ON ISRAEL
13
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Because they say to
you, 'You devour men and bereave your nation of
children,'
14
therefore you shall devour men no more, nor
bereave your nation anymore,’ says the Lord GOD.
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND?
‘you shall devour men no more’
‘nor bereave your nation anymore’
READ:
2 KINGS 17:25
25
And it was so, at the beginning of their dwelling
there, that they did not fear the LORD; therefore the
LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:15
15
Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations
anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore,
nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore,’
says the Lord GOD.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
WHY?
WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?
READ:
PSALMS 89:50-51
50
‘Remember, Lord, the reproach of Your servants —
How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many
peoples,’
51
‘With which Your enemies have reproached, O
LORD, With which they have reproached the footsteps of
Your anointed.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:15
15
Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations
anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore,
nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore,’
says the Lord GOD.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 54:4
4
‘Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither
be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you
will forget the shame of your youth, And will not
remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.’
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:16-18
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
16
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me,
saying:
17
‘Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their
own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to
Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her
customary impurity.
18
Therefore I poured out My fury on them for the
blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols with
which they had defiled it.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:16-18
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
16
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me,
saying:
17
‘Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their
own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to
Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her
customary impurity.
18
Therefore I poured out My fury on them for the
blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols with
which they had defiled it.
HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?
‘they defiled it by their own ways and deeds’
HOW DID THE LORD LIKEN THIS?
‘like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity’
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:17
17
‘Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their
own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to
Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her
customary impurity.
HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?
‘they defiled it by their own ways and deeds’
READ:
PSALMS 106:37-38
37
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to
demons.
38
And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons
and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of
Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:17
17
‘Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their
own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to
Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her
customary impurity.
HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?
‘they defiled it by their own ways and deeds’
READ:
JEREMIAH 2:7
7
I brought you into a bountiful country, To eat its
fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled
My land And made My heritage an abomination. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:17
17
‘Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their
own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to
Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her
customary impurity.
HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?
‘they defiled it by their own ways and deeds’
HOW DID THE LORD LIKEN THIS?
‘like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity’
READ:
LEVITICUS 12:2
2
….'If a woman has conceived, and borne a male
child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the
days of her customary impurity she shall be unclean.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:17
17
‘Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their
own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to
Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her
customary impurity.
HOW DID ISRAEL DEFILE THEIR LAND?
‘they defiled it by their own ways and deeds’
HOW DID THE LORD LIKEN THIS?
‘like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity’
READ:
LEVITICUS 15:19-24
19
If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge
from her body is blood, she shall be set apart seven
days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until
evening.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:18
18
Therefore I poured out My fury on them for the
blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols with
which they had defiled it.
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS?
‘I poured out My fury on them ‘
‘for the blood they had shed on the land’
WHAT DID JOSIAH SAY?
READ:
2 KINGS 22:13
13
‘Go, inquire of the LORD for me, for the people and
for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has
been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is
aroused against us, because our fathers have not obeyed
the words of this book, to do according to all that is
written concerning us.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:18
18
Therefore I poured out My fury on them for the
blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols with
which they had defiled it.
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THIS?
‘I poured out My fury on them ‘
‘for the blood they had shed on the land’
WHAT DID JOSIAH SAY?
READ:
2 CHRONICLES 34:21
21
‘Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who
are left in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the
book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that
is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept
the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is
written in this book.’
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:19-21
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
19
So I scattered them among the nations, and they
were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them
according to their ways and their deeds.
20
When they came to the nations, wherever they
went, they profaned My holy name — when they said of
them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they
have gone out of His land.'
21
But I had concern for My holy name, which the
house of Israel had profaned among the nations
wherever they went.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:19-21
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
19
So I scattered them among the nations, and they
were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them
according to their ways and their deeds.
20
When they came to the nations, wherever they
went, they profaned My holy name — when they said of
them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they
have gone out of His land.'
21
But I had concern for My holy name, which the
house of Israel had profaned among the nations
wherever they went.
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEM?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:19
19
So I scattered them among the nations, and they
were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them
according to their ways and their deeds.
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEM?
DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL?
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 28:64
64
The LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from
one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall
serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers
have known — wood and stone.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:19
DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL?
READ:
LEVITICUS 18:24-28
24
'Do not defile yourselves with any of these things;
for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting
out before you.
25
For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the
punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits
out its inhabitants.
26
You shall therefore keep My statutes and My
judgments, and shall not commit any of these
abominations, either any of your own nation or any
stranger who dwells among you
27
(for all these abominations the men of the land
have done, who were before you, and thus the land is
defiled),
28
lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it,
as it vomited out the nations that were before you. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:19
19
So I scattered them among the nations, and they
were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them
according to their ways and their deeds.
HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO THEM?
READ:
EZEKIEL 7:8
8
Now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, And
spend My anger upon you; I will judge you according to
your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.
READ:
EZEKIEL 24:14
14
‘I, the LORD, have spoken it; It shall come to pass,
and I will do it; I will not hold back, Nor will I spare, Nor
will I relent; According to your ways And according to
your deeds They will judge you,’ Says the Lord GOD.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:20
20
When they came to the nations, wherever they
went, they profaned My holy name — when they said of
them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they
have gone out of His land.'
WHAT DID THE LORD’S PEOPLE DO?
‘they profaned My holy name’
WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
READ:
LEVITICUS 18:21
21
You shall not let any of your descendants pass
through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the
name of your God: I am the LORD.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:20
20
When they came to the nations, wherever they
went, they profaned My holy name — when they said of
them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they
have gone out of His land.'
WHAT DID THE LORD’S PEOPLE DO?
‘they profaned My holy name’
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
READ:
ISAIAH 52:4-5
4
‘My people went down at first Into Egypt to dwell
there; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5
Now therefore, what have I here,’ says the LORD,
‘My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule
over them Make them wail,’ says the LORD, ‘And My
name is blasphemed continually every day.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:20
20
When they came to the nations, wherever they
went, they profaned My holy name — when they said of
them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they
have gone out of His land.'
WHAT DID THE LORD’S PEOPLE DO?
‘they profaned My holy name’
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
READ:
JEREMIAH 33:24
24
Have you not considered what these people have
spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD has
chosen, He has also cast them off'? Thus they have
despised My people, as if they should no more be a
nation before them.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:20
20
When they came to the nations, wherever they
went, they profaned My holy name — when they said of
them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they
have gone out of His land.'
WHAT DID THE LORD’S PEOPLE DO?
‘they profaned My holy name’
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
READ:
EZEKIEL 13:19
19
Will you profane Me among My people for handfuls
of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who
should not die, and keeping people alive who should not
live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies? NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:20
20
When they came to the nations, wherever they
went, they profaned My holy name — when they said of
them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they
have gone out of His land.'
WHAT DID THE LORD’S PEOPLE DO?
‘they profaned My holy name’
WHY WOULD THE LORD SPARE ANY OF THEM?
READ:
EZEKIEL 12:16
16
‘I will spare a few of their men from the sword,
from famine, and from pestilence, that they may declare
all their abominations among the Gentiles wherever they
go. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:20
20
When they came to the nations, wherever they
went, they profaned My holy name — when they said of
them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they
have gone out of His land.'
WHAT DID THE LORD’S PEOPLE DO?
‘they profaned My holy name’
WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE JEWS?
READ:
ROMANS 2:23-24
23
You who make your boast in the law, do you
dishonor God through breaking the law?
24
For ‘the name of God is blasphemed among the
Gentiles because of you,’ as it is written.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:21
21
But I had concern for My holy name, which the
house of Israel had profaned among the nations
wherever they went.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THEM?
‘I had concern for My holy name’
‘Which the house of Israel had profaned’
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 48:9-11
9
‘For My name's sake I will defer My anger, And for
My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut
you off.‘
10
‘Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have
tested you in the furnace of affliction.’
11
‘For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For
how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My
glory to another.’ NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:22-23
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
22
Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the
Lord GOD: "I do not do this for your sake, O house of
Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have
profaned among the nations wherever you went.
23
And I will sanctify My great name, which has been
profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in
their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the
LORD," says the Lord GOD, "when I am hallowed in you
before their eyes.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:22-23
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
22
Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the
Lord GOD: "I do not do this for your sake, O house of
Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have
profaned among the nations wherever you went.
23
And I will sanctify My great name, which has been
profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in
their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the
LORD," says the Lord GOD, "when I am hallowed in you
before their eyes.
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘for My holy name's sake’
‘I will sanctify My great name’
‘the nations shall know that I am the LORD’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:22
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
22
Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the
Lord GOD: "I do not do this for your sake, O house of
Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have
profaned among the nations wherever you went.
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘for My holy name's sake’
READ:
PSALMS 106:8
8
He saved them for His name's sake, That He might
make His mighty power known.
NKJV
READ:
ISAIAH 37:35
35
'I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake
and for My servant David's sake.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:22
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘for My holy name's sake’
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:9
9
I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be
profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were, in
whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to bring
them out of the land of Egypt. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:44
44
‘You shall know that I am the LORD, when I have
dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to your
wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O
house of Israel,’ says the Lord GOD. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:23
23
And I will sanctify My great name, which has been
profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in
their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the
LORD," says the Lord GOD, "when I am hallowed in you
before their eyes.
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘I will sanctify My great name’
‘the nations shall know that I am the LORD
when I am hallowed in you before their eyes’
READ:
PSALMS 46:10
10
‘Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted
among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:23
23
And I will sanctify My great name, which has been
profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in
their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the
LORD," says the Lord GOD, "when I am hallowed in you
before their eyes.
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘I will sanctify My great name’
‘the nations shall know that I am the LORD
when I am hallowed in you before their eyes’
READ:
ISAIAH 5:16
16
‘The LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment,
And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:23
23
And I will sanctify My great name, which has been
profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in
their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the
LORD," says the Lord GOD, "when I am hallowed in you
before their eyes.
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘I will sanctify My great name’
‘the nations shall know that I am the LORD
when I am hallowed in you before their eyes’
WHO PROFANED THE NAME OF THE LORD?
READ:
ISAIAH 37:23
23
‘Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up
your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:23
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘I will sanctify My great name’
‘the nations shall know that I am the LORD
when I am hallowed in you before their eyes’
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:14
14
I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be
profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had
brought them out. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:41
41
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring
you out from the peoples and gather you out of the
countries where you have been scattered; and I will be
hallowed in you before the Gentiles. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:23
WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
‘I will sanctify My great name’
‘the nations shall know that I am the LORD
when I am hallowed in you before their eyes’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO SIDON?
READ:
EZEKIEL 28:22
22
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I am against
you, O Sidon; I will be glorified in your midst; And they
shall know that I am the LORD, When I execute
judgments in her and am hallowed in her. `NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:24-26
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
24
For I will take you from among the nations, gather
you out of all countries, and bring you into your own
land.
25
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you
shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness
and from all your idols.
26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh
and give you a heart of flesh.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:24-26
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
24
For I will take you from among the nations, gather
you out of all countries, and bring you into your own
land.
25
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you
shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness
and from all your idols.
26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh
and give you a heart of flesh.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:24
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
24
For I will take you from among the nations, gather
you out of all countries, and bring you into your own
land.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHY?
READ:
ISAIAH 43:5-6
5
‘Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your
descendants from the east, And gather you from the
west;
6
I will say to the north, 'Give them up!‘ And to the
south, 'Do not keep them back!‘ Bring My sons from afar,
And My daughters from the ends of the earth’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:25
25
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you
shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness
and from all your idols.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SPRINKLING?
READ:
LEVITICUS 16:14-15
14
He shall take some of the blood of the bull and
sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east
side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of
the blood with his finger seven times
15
Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which
is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do with
that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and
sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:25
25
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you
shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness
and from all your idols.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
‘I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean’
WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?
READ:
PSALMS 51:2
2
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse
me from my sin. NKJV
READ:
PSALMS 51:7
7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:25
25
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you
shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness
and from all your idols.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
‘I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols’
READ:
ZECHARIAH 13:2
2
‘It shall be in that day,’ says the LORD of hosts,
‘that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land,
and they shall no longer be remembered. I will cause the
prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:25
25
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you
shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness
and from all your idols.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
‘I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean’
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SPRINKLING?
WHAT CAN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST DO?
READ:
HEBREWS 9:13-14
13
For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of
a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the
purifying of the flesh,
14
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to
God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve
the living God?
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:25
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
‘I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean’
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SPRINKLING?
WHAT DID ANANIAS SAY TO SAUL?
READ:
ACTS 22:16
16
‘Why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and
wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'
WHAT DOES BAPTISM DO FOR YOU?
READ:
HEBREWS 10:22
22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance
of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:25
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
‘I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean’
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SPRINKLING?
WHAT DID THE BLOOD OF CHRIST DO?
READ:
EPHESIANS 5:25-27
25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also
loved the church and gave Himself for her,
26
that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the
washing of water by the word,
27
that He might present her to Himself a glorious
church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but
that she should be holy and without blemish.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:26
26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh
and give you a heart of flesh.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you
WHY A NEW HEART?
WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY?
READ:
PSALMS 51:10
10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a
steadfast spirit within me. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:26
26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh
and give you a heart of flesh.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you
WHY A NEW HEART?
WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY ABOUT THE JEWS?
READ:
JEREMIAH 5:3
3
LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have
stricken them, But they have not grieved; You have
consumed them, But they have refused to receive
correction. They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:26
26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh
and give you a heart of flesh.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you
WHY A NEW HEART?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO JEREMIAH?
READ:
JEREMIAH 24:7
7
‘I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the
LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their
God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:26
26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh
and give you a heart of flesh.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you
WHY A NEW HEART?
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 18:31
31
‘Cast away from you all the transgressions which
you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and
a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:26
26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh
and give you a heart of flesh.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you
WHY A NEW HEART?
WHAT DID PAUL SAY TO THE CHURCH AT CORINTH?
READ:
2 CORINTHIANS 3:2-3
2
You are our epistle written in our hearts, known
and read by all men;
3
clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by
us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God,
not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of
the heart.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:27-29
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
27
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to
walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and
do them.
28
Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
29
I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will
call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine
upon you.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:27-29
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
27
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to
walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and
do them.
28
Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
29
I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will
call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine
upon you.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘I will put My Spirit within you’
‘you shall be My people and I will be your God’
‘I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses’
‘I will call for the grain and multiply it’
‘and bring no famine upon you’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:27
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
27
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to
walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and
do them.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
‘I will put My Spirit within you’
READ:
ISAIAH 44:3
3
‘I will pour water on him who is thirsty, And floods
on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your
descendants, And My blessing on your offspring;’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:27
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
27
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to
walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and
do them.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
‘I will put My Spirit within you’
READ:
JEREMIAH 32:39-40
39
I will give them one heart and one way, that they
may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their
children after them.
40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that
I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put
My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from
Me. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:27
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
27
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to
walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and
do them.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
‘I will put My Spirit within you’
READ:
EZEKIEL 11:19-20
19
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit
within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh,
and give them a heart of flesh,
20
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My
judgments and do them; and they shall be My people,
and I will be their God. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:27
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
27
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to
walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and
do them.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
‘I will put My Spirit within you’
READ:
JOEL 2:29
29
And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days. NKJV
SEE: ACTS 2:18
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:27
27
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to
walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and
do them.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO?
‘I will put My Spirit within you’
WHAT DID JESUS SAY TO CORNELIUS?
READ:
JOHN 3:5
5
Jesus answered, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot
enter the kingdom of God.’
NKJV
WHAT DID PAUL SAY?
READ:
1 THESSALONIANS 4:8
8
He who rejects this does not reject man, but God,
who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:28
28
Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘you shall be My people and I will be your God’
22
READ:
JEREMIAH 30:22
'You shall be My people and I will be your God'
READ:
JEREMIAH 31:33
33
‘This is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days,’ says the LORD: ‘I will
put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and
I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:28
28
Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘you shall be My people and I will be your God’
READ:
EZEKIEL 14:11
11
‘The house of Israel may no longer stray from Me,
nor be profaned anymore with all their transgressions,
but that they may be My people and I may be their God,’
says the Lord GOD.
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 34:24
24
‘I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant
David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:28
28
Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘you shall be My people and I will be your God’
READ:
2 CORINTHIANS 6:16-18
16
What agreement has the temple of God with idols?
For you are the temple of the living God. As God has
said: ‘I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be
their God, And they shall be My people.;
17
Therefore ‘Come out from among them And be
separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.’
18
'I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons
and daughters,’ Says the LORD Almighty. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:29
29
I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will
call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine
upon you.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses’
HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE?
READ:
MATTHEW 1:21
21
‘She will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His
name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.’
READ:
ROMANS 11:26-27
6
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
‘The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn
away ungodliness from Jacob;
27
For this is My covenant with them, When I take
away their sins.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:29
29
I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will
call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine
upon you.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘I will call for the grain and multiply it’
‘and bring no famine upon you’
READ:
HOSEA 2:21-22
21
‘It shall come to pass in that day that I will answer,’
says the LORD; ‘I will answer the heavens, And they shall
answer the earth.
22
The earth shall answer With grain, With new wine,
and with oil; They shall answer Jezreel.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:29
29
I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will
call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine
upon you.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘I will call for the grain and multiply it’
‘and bring no famine upon you’
READ:
ZECHARIAH 8:12
12
'For the seed shall be prosperous, The vine shall
give its fruit, The ground shall give her increase, And the
heavens shall give their dew: I will cause the remnant of
this people To possess all these.’ NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:30-32
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
30
And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the
increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear
the reproach of famine among the nations.
31
Then you will remember your evil ways and your
deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves
in your own sight, for your iniquities and your
abominations.
32
Not for your sake do I do this," says the Lord GOD,
‘let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for
your own ways, O house of Israel!’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:30-32
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
30
And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the
increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear
the reproach of famine among the nations.
31
Then you will remember your evil ways and your
deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves
in your own sight, for your iniquities and your
abominations.
32
Not for your sake do I do this,’ says the Lord GOD,
‘let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for
your own ways, O house of Israel!’
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
WHEN?
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:30
30
And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the
increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear
the reproach of famine among the nations.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
WHEN?
IS THIS PROMISE CONDITIONAL?
READ:
LEVITICUS 26:3-5
3
'If you walk in My statutes and keep My
commandments, and perform them,
4
then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall
yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield
their fruit.
5
Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage,
and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall
eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:30
30
And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the
increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear
the reproach of famine among the nations.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
WHEN?
IS THIS PROMISE CONDITIONAL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 34:13-14
13
I will bring them out from the peoples and gather
them from the countries, and will bring them to their own
land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the
valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country.
14
I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall
be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie
down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the
mountains of Israel.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:31
31
Then you will remember your evil ways and your
deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves
in your own sight, for your iniquities and your
abominations.
WHAT WILL THE LORD ISRAEL REMEMBER? WHEN?
READ:
EZEKIEL 6:9
9
Those of you who escape will remember Me among
the nations where they are carried captive, because I was
crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed
from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after
their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which
they committed in all their abominations.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:31
31
Then you will remember your evil ways and your
deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves
in your own sight, for your iniquities and your
abominations.
WHAT WILL THE LORD ISRAEL REMEMBER? WHEN?
READ:
EZEKIEL 16:61-63
61
‘You will remember your ways and be ashamed,
when you receive your older and your younger sisters;
for I will give them to you for daughters, but not because
of My covenant with you.
62
I will establish My covenant with you. Then you
shall know that I am the LORD,
63
that you may remember and be ashamed, and
never open your mouth anymore because of your shame,
when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,’
says the Lord GOD. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:31
31
Then you will remember your evil ways and your
deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves
in your own sight, for your iniquities and your
abominations.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
WHEN?
IS THIS PROMISE CONDITIONAL?
READ:
JEREMIAH 33:8-9
8
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which
they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their
iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they
have transgressed against Me.
9
Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and
an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear
all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble
for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide
for it.'
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:31
31
Then you will remember your evil ways and your
deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves
in your own sight, for your iniquities and your
abominations.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
WHEN?
IS THIS PROMISE CONDITIONAL?
READ:
ZECHARIAH 12:10
10
‘I will pour on the house of David and on the
inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and
supplication; then they will look on Me whom they
pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for
his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a
firstborn.’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:32
32
Not for your sake do I do this,’ says the Lord GOD,
‘let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for
your own ways, O house of Israel!’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
‘Not for your sake do I do this’
READ:
DEUTERONOMY 9:5-6
5
It is not because of your righteousness or the
uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their
land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that
the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and
that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to
your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6
Therefore understand that the LORD your God is
not giving you this good land to possess because of your
righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:33-36
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
33
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘On the day that I cleanse
you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell
in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.
34
The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying
desolate in the sight of all who pass by.
35
So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has
become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted,
desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and
inhabited.'
36
Then the nations which are left all around you shall
know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and
planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it,
and I will do it.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:33-36
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
33
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘On the day that I cleanse
you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell
in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.
34
The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying
desolate in the sight of all who pass by.
35
So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has
become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted,
desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and
inhabited.'
36
Then the nations which are left all around you shall
know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and
planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it,
and I will do it.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:33-34
33
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘On the day that I cleanse
you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell
in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.
34
The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying
desolate in the sight of all who pass by.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
HOW WILL THE LORD CLEANSE ISRAEL?
WHAT DID THE LEVITICAL PRIEST DO?
READ:
LEVITICUS 16:30
30
On that day the priest shall make atonement for
you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your
sins before the LORD.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:33-34
33
Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘On the day that I cleanse
you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell
in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.
34
The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying
desolate in the sight of all who pass by.
WHAT WILL THE LORD DO FOR ISRAEL?
HOW WILL THE LORD CLEANSE ISRAEL?
IN CHRIST JESUS?
READ:
ISAIAH 49:8-9
8
Thus says the LORD: ‘In an acceptable time I have
heard You, And in the day of salvation I have helped You;
I will preserve You and give You As a covenant to the
people, To restore the earth, To cause them to inherit the
desolate heritages;’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:35
35
So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has
become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted,
desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and
inhabited.'
36
Then the nations which are left all around you shall
know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and
planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it,
and I will do it.’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:35
35
So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has
become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted,
desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and
inhabited.'
WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE SAY?
'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden’
READ:
GENESIS 2:8
2
The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden,
and there He put the man whom He had formed. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:35
35
So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has
become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted,
desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and
inhabited.'
WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE SAY?
'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
ISAIAH 51:3
3
The LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her
waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and
gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice
of melody. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:35
35
So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has
become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted,
desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and
inhabited.'
WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE SAY?
'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 28:13
13
You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every
precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz,
and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire,
turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of
your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day
you were created. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:35
35
So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has
become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted,
desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and
inhabited.'
WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE SAY?
'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
EZEKIEL 31:8-9
8
‘The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it;
The fir trees were not like its boughs, And the chestnut
trees were not like its branches; No tree in the garden of
God was like it in beauty.
9
I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches, So
that all the trees of Eden envied it, That were in the
garden of God.'
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:35
35
So they will say, 'This land that was desolate has
become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted,
desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and
inhabited.'
WHAT WILL THE PEOPLE SAY?
'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden’
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
READ:
AMOS 9:14-15
14
‘I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15
I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall
they be pulled up From the land I have given them,’
Says the LORD your God.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:36
36
Then the nations which are left all around you shall
know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and
planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it,
and I will do it.’
WHAT WILL THE GENTILE NATIONS KNOW?
I, the LORD,
have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate.
I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.’
READ:
NUMBERS 23:19
19
‘God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of
man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not
do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:36
36
Then the nations which are left all around you shall
know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and
planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it,
and I will do it.’
WHAT WILL THE GENTILE NATIONS KNOW?
I, the LORD,
have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate.
I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.’
READ:
JEREMIAH 42:10
10
'If you will still remain in this land, then I will build
you and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not
pluck you up. For I relent concerning the disaster that I
have brought upon you.’ NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 36:37-38
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
37
Thus says the Lord GOD:’I will also let the house
of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase
their men like a flock.
38
Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock
at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities
be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I
am the LORD.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:37-38
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
37
Thus says the Lord GOD: ’I will also let the house
of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase
their men like a flock.
38
Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock
at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities
be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know
that I am the LORD.’
NKJV
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
’I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me’
‘I will increase their men like a flock’
‘ the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men’
‘they shall know that I am the LORD’
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:37
37
Thus says the Lord GOD: ’I will also let the house
of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase
their men like a flock.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
’I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me’
READ:
EZEKIEL 14:2-3
3
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in
their hearts, and put before them that which causes them
to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of
at all by them?
NKJV
READ:
EZEKIEL 20:3
3
Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say
to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Have you come to
inquire of Me? As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I will not be
inquired of by you.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:37
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
’I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me’
READ:
DANIEL 9:3-7
3
I set my face toward the Lord God to make request
by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and
ashes.
4
I prayed to the LORD my God, and made
confession, and said, ‘O Lord, great and awesome God,
who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love
Him, and with those who keep His commandments,
5
we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have
done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your
precepts and Your judgments.
6
Neither have we heeded Your servants the
prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our
princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:37
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
’I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me’
READ:
DANIEL 9:20-23
20
While I was speaking, praying, and confessing my
sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my
supplication before the LORD my God for the holy
mountain of my God,
21
Yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man
Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning,
being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of
the evening offering.
22
And he informed me, and talked with me, and said,
‘O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you skill to
understand.
23
At the beginning of your supplications the
command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you
are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and
understand the vision:’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:37
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
’I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me’
READ:
PSALMS 102:17-22
17
He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, And
shall not despise their prayer.
18
This will be written for the generation to come,
That a people yet to be created may praise the LORD.
19
For He looked down from the height of His
sanctuary; From heaven the LORD viewed the earth,
20
To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release
those appointed to death,
21
To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, And His
praise in Jerusalem,
22
When the peoples are gathered together, And the
kingdoms, to serve the LORD. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:37
37
Thus says the Lord GOD: ’I will also let the house
of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase
their men like a flock.
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
’I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me’
READ:
JEREMIAH 29:12-13
12
You will call upon Me and go and pray to Me,
and I will listen to you.
13
You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for
Me with all your heart.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:37
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
’I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me’
READ:
ZECHARIAH 10:6
6
‘I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will
save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back,
Because I have mercy on them. They shall be as though I
had not cast them aside; For I am the LORD their God,
And I will hear them.’
NKJV
READ:
ZECHARIAH 13:9
9
‘I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will
refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is
tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them.
I will say, 'This is My people’; And each one will say, 'The
LORD is my God’ NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:37
WHAT DID THE LORD SAY?
‘I will increase their men like a flock’.
READ:
EZEKIEL 34:23-31
23
I will establish one shepherd over them, and he
shall feed them — My servant David. He shall feed them
and be their shepherd.
24
And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant
David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.
25
‘I will make a covenant of peace with them, and
cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will
dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
30
They shall know that I, the LORD their God, am
with them, and they, the house of Israel, are My people,’
says the Lord GOD.
31
‘You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are
men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord GOD.
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:38
THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
37
Thus says the Lord GOD: ’I will also let the house
of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase
their men like a flock.
38
Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock
at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities
be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know
that I am the LORD.’
NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:38
38
Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock
at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities
be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know
that I am the LORD.’
NKJV
WHAT WILL ISRAEL BE LIKE?
‘Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices’
WHAT DID SOLOMON DO?
READ:
1 KINGS 8:63
63
Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings,
which he offered to the LORD, 22,000 bulls and 120,000
sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated
the house of the LORD. NKJV
QUESTIONS:
EZEKIEL 36:38
38
Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock
at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities
be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know
that I am the LORD.’
NKJV
WHAT WILL ISRAEL BE LIKE?
‘Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices’
WHAT DID JOSIAH DO?
READ:
2 CHRONICLES 35:7
7
Josiah gave the lay people lambs and young goats
from the flock, all for Passover offerings for all who were
present, to the number of 30,000, as well as 3,000 cattle;
these were from the king's possessions. NKJV