Season 1
God tells Ezekiel than an unique evil is coming agains the land of Judah. What is this unique evil? Then we find that God has a unique name - Jehovah Makkah - the God who strikes. What is that about?
Ezekiel is told to speak to the mountains, the valleys and the watercourses. What is that all about?
The Lord tells Jeremiah to shave with a sword, then weigh his hair, divide it into thirds, and then attack one third of it with his sword. Ezekiel seems to be asked to do many strange things. Why is he doing this, and what does it mean?
Ezekiel is told by the Lord to build a model city of the Lord and symbolically lay siege to it. Then he is bound and told to lay on his left side for 390 days for the years of the sins of Israel, and to lay on his right side 40 days for the years of the sins of Judah. What do these numbers mean? And why is God wanting him to do this?
Having been given (in a vision) a double-sided scroll to eat, Ezekiel is told to fill his bowels and to prophecy. He is then sent to the house of Israel, just as the apostles were sent in the NT. But what is he to say?
As Ezekiel's weird vision continues, he is called by God to speak for him, and as part of that is given a scroll with writing on the inside as normal, but also on the outside. Then weirdly he is told to eat the scroll and "fill his bowels." What is this about bowels? And why does he have to eat a scroll?
Ezekiel is a Prophet that we meet after he has already been taken away by the Babylonians, but while Jerusalem is still intact. In this first chapter he sees strange visions by the river Chebar in Babylonia - things that we see again later in the book of Revelation.
In the last chapter of Lamentations the numerical pattern in the literature continues, but this time we find Jeremiah changes the content... and prays one of the saddest prayers of all time for those around him. I wonder what would happen if we carried such a big heart for others too?
It's a good thing Jeremiah used poetic language to describe the horrors he witnessed, because children reading the Bible won't grasp the fullness of how bad it was. In this chapter, Jeremiah describes through another beautiful Hebrew acrostic poem, the worst sights he had even seen.
"I am the man who has seen affliction..." says Jeremiah in this third chapter which describes his own personal suffering and affliction. Anyone want to swap places with Jeremiah? Despite its sadness this particular chapters holds a special place of affection in my (David's) heart.