1) Like Ezekiel's exilic audience, we all tend to dismiss, or at least diminish, God's warnings about His righteous anger and judgment of sin. Do you agree? Why or why not?
2) Why do you think God would ask Ezekiel to communicate without the benefit of words? How do his theatrics amplify God's message?
3) If each act of Ezekiel's living parable begin with God's command to 'take', identify the three acts and explain what event each one represents.
4) In 5:5, God charges His people with not only moral failure but missional failure. What about 5:5 suggests they have failed in their mission to the world? Are there ways the Church today fails in similar ways?
5) Given the dire pronouncement in 5:8, what hope did God's people have that they might be spared from judgment? How can we be confident that we have been rescued from judgment? If we have been so rescued, how should we live accordingly? Be specific.
2) Why do you think God would ask Ezekiel to communicate without the benefit of words? How do his theatrics amplify God's message?
3) If each act of Ezekiel's living parable begin with God's command to 'take', identify the three acts and explain what event each one represents.
4) In 5:5, God charges His people with not only moral failure but missional failure. What about 5:5 suggests they have failed in their mission to the world? Are there ways the Church today fails in similar ways?
5) Given the dire pronouncement in 5:8, what hope did God's people have that they might be spared from judgment? How can we be confident that we have been rescued from judgment? If we have been so rescued, how should we live accordingly? Be specific.
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