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Ezekiel

Ezekiel 
Day 
Day 353

"The city has been captured"

Text: Ezekiel 33:21

DEPORTATION TO BABYLON

There were two Deportations to take note of before the final capture and fall of Jerusalem.

1. The first deportation took place in 605 BC.

a) King Jehoiakim was the ruler then.

b) Daniel and other youths from noble families were deported to Babylon.

2. The second deportation took place in 597 BC.

a) King Jehoiachin replaced Jehoiakim as the ruler.

b) Ezekiel was one of 10,000 people deported to Babylon.

THE CAPTURE OF BABYLON

The text here focuses on the capture of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was described as having been captured.

“And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity,
in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month,
that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me
and said, ‘The city has been captured!’
Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me
the evening before the man came who had escaped.
And He had opened my mouth;
so when he came to me in the morning,
my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.”
Ezekiel 33:21-22

1. King Zedekiah was the last formal ruler of Judah.

2. He rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, and he was finally executed.

3. News was brought to Ezekiel about the capture of Jerusalem.

THE HAND OF THE LORD UPON EZEKIEL

1. The Lord’s hand was on Ezekiel all this while.

2. Did Ezekiel know about the fall of Jerusalem?

a) Yes!

b) He had been prophesying about this all these 12 years of ministry.

c) The report of this man who had come from Jerusalem confirmed what Ezekiel had been saying.

d) God withheld the tongue of Ezekiel so that he could not speak until the actual fall of Jerusalem was reported to him.

e) Ezekiel could now speak to the people once again as God’s prophet.