Who is Ezekiel?

 Good morning everyone. God is good all the time, all the time God is good. TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!!!

   Who is Ezekiel?  When was he around? What did he do?  Was he a prophet?

Ezekiel, born and,raised in the land of Judah was preparing to become a priest in God's Temple when the Babylonians attacked  in 597 B.C. and carried him away along with 10,000 other captives (2 Kings 24:10-14).  The nation was at the edge of complete destruction.  Five years later, when Ezekiel was 30, which is the normal age for becoming a priest, God called him to be a prophet.

  During his first six years of ministering in the land of the Babylonians, Jeremiah was preaching to the Jews still in Judah and Daniel was serving in Nebuchadnezar's court.  The Jewish settlement of the exiles were located at the Kebar River which connected to the Euphrates in Babylonia.

  Ezekiel 1: 1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth ay, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. 2On the fifth of the month it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin-3 the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.  There the hand of the LORD was upon him.

  This is Ezekiel, who lived at the same time as Jeremiah and Daniel.  I was not aware of this and never really thought about it.  I hope you learned something new today as well.

  Tomorrow we'll go more into Ezekiel and see what is happening. Thank you for reading today. Love you all. 

In Christ's Love and Grace

Johnny