Read Ezekiel 7.1-27 Ezekiel's prophecy of the end.
Ezekiel's three oracles draw upon the "Day of the LORD: traditions to announce the "end" of Israel (Am 5.18-20; 8.1-14; Isa 2.6-22; 13).
The "Day of the LORD" functioned originally as an announcement of God's defense of Israel, but various prophets reconfigured it as an announcement of God's punishment of Israel.
In verses 1-4 the first oracle announces the end of Israel.
End is drawn from Amos's prophecy against Bethel (Am 8.1-3), which includes the imagery of dead bodies scattered about the altar as in 6.1-7.
The four corners of the land indicates the complete destruction of the land and rehearses the four cardinal directions that underlie the symbolism of the four living creatures in ch. 1 (see Isa 11.12).
In verses 5-9 Ezekiel again employs the statement the end has come, but he shifts his language to that of the "Day of the LORD" traditions.
Comments or Questions...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment