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Old Testament · The prophets

Ezekiel, part 1

A priest in exile sees God's glory on wheels, far from the temple. Strange visions and acted-out warnings about why Jerusalem fell.

7 minEzekiel 1–33From BibleProject

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NextEzekiel, part 2

Where it meets Jesus

God's glory leaves the temple here, and goes with the exiles. The Gospels say that glory came back in a person (John 1:14).

In its own words

²⁶Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
²⁷I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
²⁸As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the LORD’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

Ezekiel 1:26–28, World English Bible. The whole chapter on Free Scripture ↗

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Ezekiel 1 and 18.

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