Category: Expository Notes on Ezekiel
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Forty-Eight, Jehovah Shammah
By H A Ironside Part IV, The Coming Glory (Chapters 40-48) Ere the wondrous vision faded away our prophet saw the land far extended, as Isaiah 33:17 tells us, “Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty: they shall behold the land of far distances” (A. V., margin). “Now these are the names…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Forty-Seven, The Life-Giving River
By H A Ironside Part IV, The Coming Glory (Chapters 40-48) “And he brought me back unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward (for the forefront of the house was toward the east); and the waters came down from…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Forty-Six, Regulations For Special Offerings
By H A Ironside Part IV, The Coming Glory (Chapters 40-48) As we come to this chapter that deals with the sanctuary itself and the offerings which the prophet saw in vision as re-established, we note the special place given to the day of the new moon and the Sabbath. “Thus…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Forty-Five, Jehovah’s Appointments
By H A Ironside Part IV, The Coming Glory (Chapters 40-48) This chapter deals particularly with the apportionment of the land for the Lord, His priests the Levites and the people, all in connection with the site of the sanctuary and its court. It is an ideal picture of Jehovah dwelling…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Forty-Four, Ordinances For The Priests
By H A Ironside Part IV, The Coming Glory (Chapters 40-48) The chief theme of this chapter is that of the regulations under which the priests of Jehovah were to serve in His temple. In these we may see, in the main, a repetition of instruction given by Moses long before,…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Forty-Three, The Return of the Glory
By H A Ironside Part IV, The Coming Glory (Chapters 40-48) In earlier chapters we have seen how the Shekinah Glory, the uncreated light that rested above the mercy-seat, moved slowly from the temple of Solomon, rising from its place between the cherubim, passing on to the door of the temple,…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Forty-Two, The Many Mansions Of The Father’s House
By H A Ironside Part IV, The Coming Glory (Chapters 40-48) This chapter takes up, more particularly, the arrangements for the comfort of the priests of the Lord, the chambers or abodes where those who served might find accommodations during their stay at the temple. These, as we have seen, are…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Forty-One, The Sanctuary Of Jehovah
By H A Ironside Part IV, The Coming Glory (Chapters 40-48) The man with the measuring reed now proceeds to direct the prophet’s attention particularly to the sanctuary itself, which according to the description given would be a most magnificent building, and yet differing in many respects from the temple which…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Forty, The Vision From The Mountain-Top
By H A Ironside Part IV, The Coming Glory (Chapters 40-48) A careful comparison of this new portion of our book with Revelation 21:9—22:5 will give us a better understanding of the true character of the chapter now before us. In the book of The Revelation the climax is reached when the holy…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirty-Nine, The Doom Of Israel’s Enemy
By H A Ironside Part III, The Moral Condition Of Israel Exposed, And The Promise Of A Future Restoration To God And To Their Land (Chapters 33-39) Doubtless when the leader of the northern confederacy orders his armies to press on to the land of Palestine in the last days he…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirty-Eight, A Vast Northern Confederacy Of Israel’s Enemies
By H A Ironside Part III, The Moral Condition Of Israel Exposed, And The Promise Of A Future Restoration To God And To Their Land (Chapters 33-39) Chapters 38 and 39 really form one complete prophecy and have to do with a vast confederation of nations from north of the Black…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirty-Seven, The Valley Of Dry Bones
By H A Ironside Part III, The Moral Condition Of Israel Exposed, And The Promise Of A Future Restoration To God And To Their Land (Chapters 33-39) This vision brings before us the spiritual condition of Israel nationally during all the long centuries of the dispersion. Having turned away from God…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirty-Six, Born Of Water And Of The Spirit
By H A Ironside Part III, The Moral Condition Of Israel Exposed, And The Promise Of A Future Restoration To God And To Their Land (Chapters 33-39) We have seen already that Israel’s glorious future as a nation settled in the land of Palestine under Messiah’s beneficent and righteous rule, depends…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirty-Five, The Doom Of Edom
By H A Ironside Part III, The Moral Condition Of Israel Exposed, And The Promise Of A Future Restoration To God And To Their Land (Chapters 33-39) Under divine direction Ezekiel now turns to deliver a message against Mount Seir and the land of Edom. Mount Seir is definitely identified with…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirty-Four, The True Shepherd Of Israel Contrasted With The False
By H A Ironside Part III, The Moral Condition Of Israel Exposed, And The Promise Of A Future Restoration To God And To Their Land (Chapters 33-39) The present chapter contains Jehovah’s invective against the unworthy and selfish shepherds of Israel, whose one great concern was to take advantage of every…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirty-Three, The Divine Government, And Man’s Responsibility
By H A Ironside Part III, The Moral Condition Of Israel Exposed, And The Promise Of A Future Restoration To God And To Their Land (Chapters 33-39) No attentive reader can fail to notice the similarity between this chapter and portions of chapter 3 and all of chapter 18. One might…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirty-Two, Jehovah’s Lamentations Over Egypt
By H A Ironside Part II, Prophecies Relating To Seven Nations With Whom Israel Had Close Relationship Or Providential Dealings (Chapters 25-32) God’s judgments are reserved for individuals and nations which refuse to acknowledge His authority. As of old He sent message after message to Pharaoh through Moses, only to have…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirty-One, Assyria’s Pride and Fall
By H A Ironside Part II, Prophecies Relating To Seven Nations With Whom Israel Had Close Relationship Or Providential Dealings (Chapters 25-32) In this chapter God, through His prophet, in a message given about two months later than the previous predictions, directs the attention of Pharaoh and his people to the…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirty, Details Of Egypt’s Judgment
By H A Ironside Part II, Prophecies Relating To Seven Nations With Whom Israel Had Close Relationship Or Providential Dealings (chapters 25-32) In this chapter the prophet continues to declare the word of the Lord concerning the judgments which were to come upon Egypt, all of which were fulfilled in due…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty-Nine, Judgment On Egypt
By H A Ironside Part II, Prophecies Relating To Seven Nations With Whom Israel Had Close Relationship Or Providential Dealings (chapters 25-32) From the days when the dynasty of the Pharaohs who were friendly to Joseph and his brethren ended, and another king arose who knew not Joseph: that is, a…