Ezekiel - YHWH will strengthen
Eze 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of Elohim.
Eze 1:2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
#1 Do the dates that open chapters represent a deeper meaning?
#2 Who is king Jehoiachin? [YHWH will establish]
As we read we fill in the meaning of the names as they often reveal a deeper meaning...
Eze 1:3 The word of YHWH came expressly unto Ezekiel, [YHWH will strenthen], the priest, the son of Buzi, [disrespect], in the land of the Chaldeans, [wise/astrologer] by the river Chebar, [length, great while, long ago] ; and the hand of YHWH was there upon him.
Trying to find the best way to include our studies with the verses...I will attempt here to just put parts in black brackets...and questions as above, numbering them and giving them a separate line.
Eze 1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, [possibly polished metal or bronze], out of the midst of the fire.
#4 What significance does coming out of the north have?
Eze 1:5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
Eze 1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
Eze 1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
Eze 1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Eze 1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. [there are other verses that I note through out like in Eze 46 where it is important to not turn around but to go straight, also in the story about Lot's wife]
Eze 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. [we are noticing lately that the left side is the 'wrong' side or bad side, and the right side is the choosen side], [the four faces referenced in Rev 4:7].
Eze 1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Eze 1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
Eze 1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
[Lamps of fire Dan 10:6, Rev 4:5, and the father of pride shown to copy this in Job 41:19]
Eze 1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Eze 1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
#5 What is the "wheel"?
Eze 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl, [topaz?]: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
Eze 1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
Eze 1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
Eze 1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Eze 1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Eze 1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Eze 1:22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible, [frightening], crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
Eze 1:23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
Eze 1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great [abundant] waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host, [army]: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Eze 1:25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. [even these had to let down their wings, to be quiet to hear the voice of YHWH].
Eze 1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Eze 1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. [no wonder He uses the sun to represent His likeness].
Eze 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, [rainbow], so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of YHWH. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
Lots of symbolism. lots of questions. Father please reveal to us the meaning of Your words.
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