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| It was actually questionable during this time if their faith in God will survive. God called on Ezekiel to help the Jews understand that God is not centralized in one area but is present everywhere, and that God is a God of people and persons, not just of a nation-state (Israel). The Jews experienced a lot of change during this time period of their history. They went from worshiping in the temple to worshiping in synagogues. They went from being altar-centered to being book-centered (Torah). They went from being called Israelites to being called Jews. This helps us see the confusion these people felt after the exile. They just didn’t know which side was up! It wasn’t until this teaching from Ezekiel that the Jews understood that God is everywhere. God gave Ezekiel this vision in the hope that he would pass it on to the Jews that God can be worshiped all over the place and that God is a God of all people not just the Jews. Ezekiel saw two different visions. The wheel vision is part of the vision of the living creatures. He sees this contraption or vision move in all directions, which communicates to him that it can move in every which way. Ezekiel then realized that this was the appearance of the Lord, so he fell face down to the ground. After understanding that this vision was from God about where God can be, Ezekiel realized God was telling him that God is not a God that can be placed in a box, so to speak. WORKS CITED: Bontrager, Marion. An Introduction to Biblical Literature. Hesston College. New Revised Standard Version Reference Bible with the Apocrypha. Grand Rapids: Zondervan: 1993. |
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