Object lessons, imagery, visions….

 Object lessons, imagery, visions….

Ezekiel is filled with object lessons-mud bricks, exile’s baggage, etc..

Allegories-birds, bones, etc…

Visions -measuring the temple, glory, etc…

“The primary purpose of Ezekiel’s ministry was to restore God’s glory before Israel, who had rejected him before the watching nations.” ESV Archaeology Study Bible….

This all struck me yesterday as two people so needing God’s touch, answered prayer shared how He came into their lives in a personal way…

One, whose parents are elderly, needing much care, dreamed that

God said, “I got this” over  and over …helping her to again realize that she can indeed trust Him with the process…just this word of encouragement has lightened her load….

Another, spending the night in the hospital, enduring tortuous pain, was crying out to God for help, when in walked a nurse, carrying a Bible, sat down and proceeded to read psalm 91, sing songs, pray with my friend…with the other four staff working on the procedures that needed doing…

Personally, I have had those super special times when I knew God was speaking directly to me through a dream in the night or a word spoken…

I think of Mary, Jesus’ mother; Joseph, Jesus’ father; Joseph In the Old Testament; Daniel in the lions den; Gideon with his fleeces; Moses in the wilderness; Noah and the ark…to name a few…God sent his angels, gave plans, a burning bush…to give each  a  personal message…

God still works…speaking His life into ours…through His word, others, provisions, visions, etc…..and we all don’t get it the same, He works in our individual lives…so we mustn’t compare…He still wants to restore His glory…

Even in the New Testament, from the Old…

But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel: “‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. 

And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. 

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’ “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—

Acts 2:16-22

Thank YOU that You still use various means to speak to us…to comfort… to bless…