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The Chronology of Ezekiel

The Years of Vision

Go directly to Chapter 40.

Chapter 1 - 7; the year is 592 B. C.

• THE DATE FALLS IN THE 30TH YEAR OF THE JUBILE CYCLE.
  [622-30=592 B.C.]
• THE DATE IS ALSO THE FIFTH YEAR OF KING JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY.
  SEE 2 KINGS 24:11-16
  [597-5=592 B.C.]
• IT IS THE FOURTH MONTH, AND THE FIFTH DAY OF THE MONTH.
  [THE 5TH OF TAMMUZ]
• SEVEN YEARS LATER THE TEMPLE WILL BE DESTROYED BY BABYLONIAN FORCES.
  [592-7= 585 B.C.]

Chapter 8 - 19; the year is 591 B. C.

• THE DATE IS THE SIXTH YEAR OF KING JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY.
  [597-6= 591 B.C.]
• IT IS THE SIXTH MONTH, AND THE FIFTH DAY OF THE MONTH.
  [THE 5TH OF ELUL]
• EZEKIEL, SITTING IN HIS HOUSE BEFORE THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL,
  RECEIVES A REVELATION FROM GOD AND IS INSTRUCTED ABOUT ISRAEL'S COMING DAY OF JUDGMENT.

Chapter 20 - 23; the year is 590 B. C.

• THE DATE IS THE SEVENTH YEAR OF KING JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY.
  [597-7= 590 B.C.]
• IT IS THE FIFTH MONTH, AND THE TENTH DAY OF THE MONTH.
  [THE 10TH OF AB]
• THE LORD REFUSES TO HEAR THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL WHO HYPOCRITICALLY MAKE PRAYERS TO HIM.
• EZEKIEL IS FURTHER INSTRUCTED CONCERNING ISRAEL'S SINS CALLING FOR OTHER JUDGMENT.

Chapter 24 - 25; the year is 588 B. C.

• THE DATE IS THE NINTH YEAR OF KING JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY.
  [597-9= 588 B.C.]
• IT IS THE TENTH MONTH, AND THE TENTH DAY OF THE MONTH.
  THIS IS A DAY OF FASTING...
  [THE 10TH OF TEBETH]
• ...UPON THIS DATE IN HISTORY NEBUCHADNEZZAR SET OUT FROM BABYLON TO LAY SIEGE AGAINST JERUSALEM AND JUDAH.
• EZEKIEL IS FURTHER INSTRUCTED CONCERNING "THE REBELLIOUS HOUSE" AND ABOUT "THE BLOODY CITY" OF JERUSALEM.
• HE IS INSTRUCTED TO PROPHESY JUDGMENT AGAINST THE AMMONITES, MOAB AND SEIR, EDOM, AND THE PHILISTINES.

Chapter 26 - 28; the year is 586 B. C.

• THE DATE IS THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF KING JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY.
  [597-11= 586 B.C.]
• IT IS THE FIRST MONTH, AND THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH. IT IS ROSH HODESH - THE NEW YEAR'S DAY SABBATH.
  [THE 1ST OF NISAN]
• THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER COMES ON THE 14TH DAY OF THE MONTH; BUT JERUSALEM WAS "BROKEN UP" ON THE 10TH.
  SEE 2 KINGS 25:2-7.
• EZEKIEL IS INSTRUCTED TO PROPHESY RUIN AGAINST THE CITY OF TYRE - WHICH NEBUCHADNEZZAR WILL BESIEGE - AS THE CITY WHICH HOPES TO BENEFIT FROM JERUSALEM'S FALL INTO CAPTIVITY.
• SIDON ALSO RECEIVES JUDGMENT ON THIS ACCOUNT.

Chapter 29:1-16
Chapter 29:17 through 30:19; the year is 587 B. C.

PROPHECIES CONCERNING EGYPT:

• THE DATE IS THE TENTH YEAR OF KING JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY.
  [597-10= 587 B.C.]
• IT IS THE TENTH MONTH, AND THE TWELFTH DAY OF THE MONTH. THE FAST OF TEBETH COMES ON THE 10TH DAY OF THE MONTH.
  [THE 12TH OF TEBETH]
• EZEKIEL IS INSTRUCTED TO PROPHESY 40 YEARS OF JUDGMENT AGAINST EGYPT. ISRAEL WAS FORBIDDEN TO RETURN TO ANY CAPTIVITY IN EGYPT BECAUSE THE EGYPTIANS ACT AS "BROKEN REEDS " TO ISRAEL.
  [THIS WOULD OCCUR, 587-40=537 B.C.]
• THE LAND OF EGYPT IS GIVEN TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
  THIS PROPHECY IS DATED IN THE 27TH YEAR (OF JEHOIACHIN), 1ST MONTH, 1ST DAY.
  [THIS WOULD BE, 597-27=570 B.C., NISAN 1.]

Chapter 30:20 through 31:1
Chapter 31:1-18
Chapter 32:1-16 - 32:17-32; the year is 586-5 B.C.

PROPHECIES OF BABYLON'S CONQUEST OF EGYPT:

• THE FIRST DATE IS THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF KING JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY.
  [597-11= 586 B.C.]
• IT IS THE FIRST MONTH, AND THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE MONTH. [THE 7TH OF NISAN]
• JERUSALEM WAS "BROKEN UP" ON THE 10TH OF NISAN.
  [THE 1ST OF SIVAN]
• THE SECOND DATE IS THE ELEVENTH YEAR, THIRD MONTH AND FIRST DAY.
• THE THIRD DATE IS THE TWELFTH YEAR, TWELFTH MONTH AND FIRST DAY.
  [597-12= 585 B.C.]
• IT IS ALMOST TWO YEARS AFTER JERUSALEM'S FALL.

Chapter 33 - 36; the year is 585 B. C.

PROPHECIES CONCERNING EZEKIEL'S AND ISRAEL'S CONDUCT

• CHAPTER 33:1-20
  INSTRUCTIONS TO EZEKIEL, TO BE A WATCHMAN TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
• CHAPTER 33:21
  THE DATE IS THE 12TH YEAR, THE TENTH MONTH AND THE FIFTH DAY.
  [THE 5TH OF TEBETH]
  ...THE CITY OF JERUSALEM HAS BEEN CAPTURED.
• CHAPTER 34 - PROPHECY AGAINST THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL.
• CHAPTER 35 - PROPHECY AGAINST MT. SEIR.
• CHAPTER 36 - PROPHECY AGAINST ISRAEL'S MOUNTAINS.
  THE LORD'S CONCLUDING WORDS TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL CONCERNING THE END OF ALL THINGS HE HAS PROMISED THEM.

Chapter 37; the year is POST 585 B. C.

THINGS CONCERNING "THE END"

• EZEKIEL IS SHOWN A VISION OF THE VALLEY FULL OF DRY BONES.
  THE PROPHET - THE "SON OF MAN" - IS INSTRUCTED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CONCERNING THEM. THE RESURRECTION.
• EZEKIEL IS INSTRUCTED ABOUT TWO STICKS; ONE FOR "JUDAH AND FOR THE SONS OF ISRAEL, HIS COMPANIONS" AND ANOTHER FOR EPHRAIM, "JOSEPH AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, HIS COMPANIONS."
• THE TWO STICKS ARE TO BE DRAWN BY THE PROPHET INTO A ONENESS IN HIS HAND. THE NATION IS REUNITED AS ONE PEOPLE.
• THE MEANING OF THIS ENACTED PARABLE IS DECLARED TO THE PROPHET AND TO EZEKIEL'S READERS. GOD, THE FATHER, WILL PERFORM HIS WORD.
• THE DIVIDED NATION SHALL BE MADE ONE AGAIN, WITH THE LORD'S KING IS ENTHRONED, WITH A NEW COVENANT, AND WITH THE SANCTUARY OF THE TEMPLE PLACED IN THEIR MIDST FOREVER MORE.

Chapter 38; the year is 585 B. C.

PROPHECY CONCERNING GOG'S DAY

• CHAPTER 38 FOLLOWS ALONG WITH THE PROPHECY OF THE PRECEDING CHAPTER CONCERNING "THE END OF ALL THINGS" FOR ISRAEL.
• EZEKIEL IS INSTRUCTED FURTHER TO PROPHECY AGAINST GOG, THE LAND OF MAGOG, AND THE PRINCE OF ROSH, MESHECH AND TUBAL.
• GOG'S INVASION OF THE LAND IS SCHEDULED FOR "THE LATTER YEARS" OF ISRAEL'S DWELLING IN THE LAND.
  THE INVASION COMES WHEN THE PEOPLE DWELL SECURELY.
• THIS IS THE EVENT WHICH HAS BEEN PROPHESIED SINCE ANCIENT TIMES TO COME UPON ISRAEL.
  IT IS MARKED BY THE OCCURRENCE OF A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE IN THE LAND.
  THE DAY ALSO IS REVEALED WITH THE FALLING OF STRANGE NATURAL PHENOMENA FROM THE HEAVENS.

Chapter 39; the year is 585 B. C.

PROPHECY CONCERNING GOG'S DEFEAT

• CHAPTER 39 PROPHESIES AGAINST GOG, AND DECLARES HIS DEFEAT.
  THE AFTERMATH OF THE INVASION AND BATTLE IS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL, SPEAKING OF THE CLEANSING OF THE LAND FROM THE BONES OF HIS DEFEATED ARMY.
• THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS ARE INVITED TO A SUPPER PREPARED BY THE LORD FOR THEIR CONSUMPTION..
• THE LORD DECLARES THE RETURN OF JACOB'S CAPTIVITY AND HIS PITY FOR THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, WHOM HE THEN REGATHERS - THE REMNANT OF HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE FROM AMONG THE NATIONS WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN SCATTERED

Vision of the Restored Kingdom

Chapter 40 - 48; the year is 572 B. C

• THIS VISION, AND ITS PROPHECY COMES TO EZEKIEL IN THE 25TH YEAR OF JEHOIACHIN'S (AND EZEKIEL'S) CAPTIVITY.
  THE DATE IS THE FIRST MONTH AND THE TENTH DAY.
• IT IS ALSO THE 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF JERUSALEM'S RUIN AND THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE.
  [597-25=572 B.C.; the year is 586-14=572 B.C., NISAN 10]
• NISAN 10 IS THE DAY WHEN THE LAMB IS CHOSEN for the Passover Feast on the 14th day of the month.