Category: Expository Notes on Ezekiel
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty-Eight,The Supernatural Ruler of Tyre
By H A Ironside Part II, Prophecies Relating To Seven Nations With Whom Israel Had Close Relationship Or Providential Dealings (chapters 25-32) As we read this chapter carefully it is very evident that two personalities come into view: first the literal prince of Tyre, the one who actually sat on the…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty-Seven, The Doom of Tyre, Continued
By H A Ironside Part II, Prophecies Relating To Seven Nations With Whom Israel Had Close Relationship Or Providential Dealings (chapters 25-32) With great detail the prophet continues to describe the doom which was to come upon Tyre because of the people’s attitude of self-satisfaction and independence of God, which led…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty-Six, God’s Judgment On Tyre
By H A Ironside Part II, Prophecies Relating To Seven Nations With Whom Israel Had Close Relationship Or Providential Dealings (chapters 25-32) The city of Tyre at the time of Jerusalem’s siege was still a great and prominent commercial metropolis. Its ships visited every port of the then known world, carrying…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty-Five, Judgements On The Surrounding Nations
By H A Ironside Part II, Prophecies Relating To Seven Nations With Whom Israel Had Close Relationship Or Providential Dealings (chapters 25-32) In 1 Peter 4:17 we read, “For the time is come for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty-Four, The Death Of The Prophet’s Wife, A Sign To Israel
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 17-24) The prophecies recorded in the last four chapters seem all to have been delivered in the seventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity (20:1). The message of chapter 24 is dated on the tenth day of the tenth month of…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty-Three, The Apostasy Of Israel And Judah
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 17-24) In this lengthy chapter God once more goes over the ground of His controversy with Israel and Judah, picturing them as two sisters whom He brought up out of the land of Egypt and charged to be faithful to…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty-Two, The Bloody and Defiled City
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 17-24) When God set His name at Jerusalem and appointed it to be the capital of Immanuel’s land, He called it “the Holy City.” Such it had been in former days when His people gathered there to worship in His…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty-one, The Parting O The Ways
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 17-24) In God’s dealings, both with individuals and with nations, He first instructs, then admonishes if they turn away from His word. Where repentance is manifested He delights to pour out blessing, but where instructions and pleadings are met with…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty, Jehovah’s Faithfulness and Israel’s Unfaithfulness
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 17-24) Beginning with the first verse of this twentieth chapter and continuing through chapter 23, we have a series of prophecies which bear the general date of the seventh year of the captivity. The first one was delivered on the…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Nineteen, The Fallen Prince Of Judah
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 17-24) This chapter brings the present series to an end. In it God shows why the promises made to Judah of old seemed to fail of fulfilment. These had been predicated on the obedience of the people. But both they…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Eighteen, Principles Of The Divine Government
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 17-24) There are certain great principles that run throughout Scripture. Of these, two are outstanding: namely, grace and government. In every dispensation all who have ever been saved were saved by God’s free grace. Grace is not only unmerited favor,…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Seventeen, The Eagles, The Cedar, and the Vine
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 17-24) Again we find God speaking to the people, through His servant, in parable form. The first part of the parable refers to Nebuchadnezzar’s former onslaught upon Palestine and the captivity of the king of Judah. “And the word of…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Sixteen, Israel Favored Of God But Faithless.
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 9-16) This lengthy chapter, in the very nature of things, could not very well have been divided inasmuch as it gives a complete outline of God’s ways with Israel from the very beginning, and their ungrateful response to His loving-kindness.…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Fifteen, Israel An Unfruitful Vine
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 9-16) As every Bible student knows, there are different plants or trees used in the Scriptures as types or symbols of the nation of Israel, God’s earthly people. Four of these are brought together in the parable of Jotham, as…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter fourteen, Too Late For Intercession
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 9-16) We are told in the book of Proverbs that if men refuse to heed the voice of God when He speaks in grace, calling to repentance, the day will come when they shall call on Him for mercy and…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Thirteen, Lying Prophets Rebuked
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 9-16) At the time when these providential judgments were being meted out to Israel, already there were not wanting false prophets who dared to declare that Ezekiel’s predictions were the ravings of an ill-natured pessimist, and that the hour of…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Twelve, Jerusalem’s Destruction Impending
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 9-16) In chapters 12 to 16 we have another series of prophetic messages, all having to do with the predicted destruction of Jerusalem, and the captivity of the people of Judah. Though so long-suffering, God could no longer condone the…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Eleven, The End of the vision
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 9-16) The eleventh chapter gives us the last part of the remarkable vision which came to Ezekiel in the sixth year, as mentioned in 8:11. The prophet still speaks of what he saw when, by the Spirit, he was given…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Ten, The Divine Chariot Reappears
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 9-16) This tenth chapter gives a continuation of the vision, the first part of which is recorded in chapter 9. The man clothed with linen who had the inkhorn by his side is still before us and acts as the…
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Expository Notes on Ezekiel, Chapter Nine, The Man With the Inkhorn
By H A Ironside Part I, Prophecies Relating To Israel (chapters 9-16) It is a mark of grace working in the soul when one is characterized by a holy horror of surrounding sin and uncleanness. By this is not meant a “Stand by thyself, for I am holier than thou,” attitude,…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 