Book of Ezekiel Themes

In Ezekiel, the House of Israel betrays God by (metaphorically) cheating on him with other gods: Egyptian gods, Assyrian gods, Babylonian gods… pretty much whoever's around. But while the House o...

Although Ezekiel is a pretty wrath-intensive book, it also has compassion and forgiveness in evidence. God eventually promises that he'll be a kind shepherd who will lead his people out of darkness...

Ezekiel's God has big plans for Israel's future—well, fairly big plans. They're not quite the visions of cosmic peace that Isaiah has, but they're still pretty good. Ezekiel envisions a time wher...

Ezekiel's God is really big on judgment—it's his most essential, defining jam. Since the people keep disobeying his laws and pursuing other gods, God decides to hit them with wave after wave of j...

In Ezekiel, human power's no match for divine power, which totally crushes it. All the human rulers, from the Kings of Judah to the King of Tyre to the Pharaoh of Egypt have to deal with God's wrat...

Ezekiel seems to have access to a totally different realm of reality. He has mystical visions. He's magically transported in an instant from Babylon to Jerusalem and back. He remains immobilized fo...