Ezekiel

Ezekiel 45-48

January 4, 2017 • Raul Ries

Welcome to CC Golden Springs! Ezekiel had some of the greatest visions of glory in all the Word of God. His ministry opens with a heavenly vision of God and closes with an earthly vision of God. The previous section focused on the temple in the Millennium. Now the final promises to Israel are fulfilled as in that “district” all the government and worship of Christ will be centered. In the great words of J. Hudson Taylor, “There is a living God. He has spoken in the Bible. He means what he says and will do all he has promised.”

Ezekiel 40-44

December 28, 2016 • Raul Ries

Welcome to CC Golden Springs! This is a good time to pause and ask, “Is there any real future for the Jews? Are they still held captive with Ezekiel in Babylon?” They have heard some very bad news. Gog and Magog would bring mass destruction before God would give miraculous victory. What would become of them? The answer is a future filled with glorious unity and worship. The nation of Israel will survive to see—a new Jerusalem, a new temple and a far greater glory than they have ever known before. These chapters focus on that temple. Get ready for an amazing study coupled with graphic arts to help explain.

Ezekiel 38-39

December 21, 2016 • Raul Ries

Welcome to CC Golden Springs! Although the average Christian today may not thoroughly understand Ezekiel, most likely they have heard something about the invasion of Israel by the massive armies of Gog and Magog from the north. Pastor Raul’s treatment of this section is broad, deep and detailed. The listener is left dazzled, as God Himself brings a crushing victory for Israel—radically turning the course of mankind’s last 7 years on earth. The gravity of Israel’s place amidst global events in these last days cannot be overstated. This is a study you do not want to miss!

Ezekiel 37

December 14, 2016 • Raul Ries

Welcome to CC Golden Springs online! Before us is the vision of “the valley of dry bones.” Verse 11 gives us the understanding. “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!” Here God gives all Jews the hope of Israel one day being revived and united as a nation. It happened on May 14, 1948. The time is coming when the true David—Jesus Christ, will rule among them fulfilling all God’s promises to Israel in His kingdom age on earth.

Ezekiel 36

November 30, 2016 • Raul Ries

Welcome to CCGS Online! This section speaks concerning the future re-gathering of the Jews back to their land. Over and over we read, “Thus says the Lord God” as He pours forth one detail after the next concerning the future of Israel. The literal fulfillment of these prophesies in our day is astonishing. What became a desert wasteland of ruins has now become like the Garden of Eden. Since 1948, millions of Jews have come from all corners of the earth, to in turn affect millions around the world—exporting fruit, flowers, produce and more from their abundance.

Ezekiel 34-35

November 23, 2016 • Raul Ries

Welcome to CC Diamond Bar! The watchman would warn the people in time of danger. Israel’s leaders were to go beyond that and shepherd them at all times. They were to feed, lead and protect them. Here rebuked for selfish exploitation, they have left God’s people to be scattered among the nations. Note the “I will” statements as the Lord promises to bring them back to their land with “showers of blessing.” This is the heart of our God being revealed in Ezekiel. David understood this when he wrote, “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

Ezekiel 32-33

November 9, 2016 • Raul Ries

God gives Pharaoh final details of how he will be conquered and go down to the Pit—joining the God rejecting nations of Assyria, Elam, Meshech, Tubal and Edom in “hell.” They taunt him—revealing a conscious existence in a fixed destiny beyond death. Chapter 33 provides God’s instructions for national repentance, and is, thus, the transition from all the judgments against Jerusalem and the nations up to this point—preparing the way for all the prophesies concerning Israel’s bright future and restoration to the land in the remainder of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 29-31

October 26, 2016 • Raul Ries

These chapters focus on Egypt, the nation the Jews had been trusting in instead of the Lord. This is one of the many reasons God was using Nebuchadnezzar to judge Judah in captivity. Pharaoh was calling himself a god and thinking he was indestructible while corrupting all of his allies with his idolatry. God reveals He will crush Pharaoh, all of Egypt and they would never be a world power again. He will do this to one monumental end—that the nations may know He is Lord. Is our nation exempt from all this?

Ezekiel 26-28

October 19, 2016 • Raul Ries

One of the best ways to prove the Bible true is fulfilled prophecy. In 586 BC God declared Tyre—the great commercial center of the Mediterranean—would be destroyed with nothing left but bare scraped rock. Having retreated to a ½ mile offshore island fortress, it was all annihilated in 332 BC when Alexander the Great “scraped” the “dust” and rubble of the city down to bare “rock”—threw it into the sea, forming a causeway across which he sent his unstoppable conquering armies. Also included here, is the astonishing account of Satan’s fall in heaven.

Ezekiel 22-25

October 12, 2016 • Raul Ries

Because the Jewish nation was wed to Jehovah, their unrepentant idolatry was spiritual adultery in the eyes of God. For this reason He brought judgment upon them. The Lord had already judged the northern kingdom for the same thing through Assyria—taking them into captivity. In the face of such a strong message, Judah had the dangerous attitude—they could continue in their sin and that would never happen to them. Having ignored God’s warnings, abused His patience and grace—judgment came and Jerusalem finally fell to Babylon in chapter 24.

Ezekiel 20-21

October 5, 2016 • Raul Ries

Many people are familiar with the great Exodus of the Children of Israel out of Egypt. Few, however, seem to realize just how close the Israelite's came to being judged by God for their idolatry while still in Egypt. God brought them out—but He says, “I acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles.” This pattern continued through the wilderness, in the Promised Land and all the way to Babylonian captivity. If we do not glorify Him by obeying His commandments, we must glorify Him by submitting to His chastening.

Ezekiel 17-19

September 28, 2016 • Raul Ries

There is something about the human heart that blind to its own faults and sin, wants to accuse God of being unfair when he breaks forth in judgment. The Jews were trying to say the only reason they were being judged is because their fathers had sinned and now they had to pay for it. But God does not do that, nor does He take any pleasure in sending judgment. He judges individuals—regardless of what their fathers have done. His solution for them is “a new heart and a new Spirit”—available to all in Jesus Christ.

Ezekiel 14-16

September 21, 2016 • Raul Ries

Israel is often pictured as a vine in Scripture. Vines are good for only two things: bearing fruit or burning. This is do to the soft nature of vine wood—it cannot be used to build anything. Because they refused to let go of the sin in their hearts, this was the condition of God’s people in Ezekiel’s day. Beyond useless, they were so corrupt the Lord likened them to adulterous wife who had broken the marriage covenant and a prostitute who actual paid paid others to sin with her. Yet even this did not move them.

Ezekiel 13

September 14, 2016 • Raul Ries

Ezekiel preaches against the dangerous deceptive false prophets. The people have refused to listen to the Lord, get right with Him and ready to go into captivity. The judgment of God is now imminent. The message from these phony’s was be at peace because God had no intention of dealing with their sin. This only made the coming judgment worse, as the false peace left the people in a state where they felt they had no need to repent. Having confidence in in our feelings is not the same as having confidence in God.

Ezekiel 10-12

September 7, 2016 • Raul Ries

God’s presence leaves the temple because He will not share His glory with idols. As judgment is coming, the glory of the Lord officially departed. With the Jerusalem visions over, Ezekiel gives two more action sermons to those around him who wrongly believe their captivity will end soon. Acting out the coming departure of Jerusalem into captivity by morning & King Zedekiah’s futile effort to escape the hand of Nebuchadnezzar by night—thus warning his fellow captives they are going to be in Babylon for years to come.

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