Ezekiel

I. Ezekiel's Call Experience (1:1-3:27)

A. Call vision (1:1-3:15)
B. Ezekiel to be a watchman (3:16-21)
C. God not allow Ezekiel to speak (3:22-27)

II. Symbolic Actions (4:1-5:17)

A. Lying down facing a map (4:1-8)
B. Eating siege rations cooked on cow's dung (4:9-17)
C. Cutting off hair and destroying it (5:1-17)

III. Disaster is Certain and Near (6:1-7:27)

IV. Vision of Jerusalem (8:1-11:25)

A. Idolatry in Temple (8:1-18)
B. Unfaithful in Jerusalem are killed (9:1-11)
C. Actions of the cherubim (10:1-22)
D. Exile and restoration announced (11:1-21)
E. Glory of God leaves Jerusalem (11:22-25)

V. Symbolic Actions (12:1-20)

A. Digging through wall of his house (12:1-16)
B. Eating in fear (12:17-20)

VI. Prophecy Concerning Israel (12:21-24:27)

A. Judgment is very near (12:21-28)
B. Against false prophets (13:1-23)
C. Against idolatry (14:1-8)
D. Against false prophets (14:9-11)
E. Even Noah, Dan`el and Job could not save Jerusalem (14:12-20)
F. Remnant will survive (14:21-23)
G. Parables (15:1-17:24)

1. Useless vine (15:1-8)
2. God's faithless wife (16:1-63)
3. Two eagles and the cedar (17:1-24)

H. Individual responsibility (18:1-32)
I. Dirge for kings of Judah (19:1-14)
J. Israel's sin history (20:1-44)
K. God's sword (20:45-21:32)

1. God's fire and sword will strike Jerusalem (20:45-21:7)
2. God's sword is prepared (21:8-17)
3. King of Babylon led by God to Jerusalem (21:18-24)
4. Judgment (21:25-27)
5. God's sword strikes Ammon (21:28-32)

L. Jerusalem, the bloody city (22:1-16)
M. God's smelter (22:17-22)
N. All in Jerusalem have sinned (22:23-31)
O. Parables (23:1-24:14)

1. Oholah and Oholibah (23:1-49)
2. Cooking pot (24:1-14)

P. Death of Ezekiel's wife (24:15-27)

VII. Prophecy Concerning Foreign Nations (25:1-32:32)

A. Ammon (25:1-7)
B. Moab (25:8-11)
C. Edom (25:12-14)
D. Philistia (25:15-17)
E. Tyre (26:1-28:19)
F. Sidon (28:20-23)
G. For Israel's salvation (28:24-26)
H. Egypt (29:1-32:32)

VIII. Salvation for Israel (33:1-39:29)

A. Ezekiel, the watchman (33:1-9)
B. Call to repent (33:10-20)
C. Jerusalem falls and God allows Ezekiel to speak (33:21-22)
D. Trust only in God (33:23-33)
E. Work of the Good Shepherd (34:1-31)

1. Prophecy against bad shepherds (34:1-10)
2. God will shepherd his flock (34:11-16)
3. God will judge sheep (34:17-22)
4. God will care for His flock (34:23-31)

F. Prophecy against Mount Seir (35L1-15)
G. Restoration of Israel (36:1-38)
H. Vision of dry bones (37:1-14)
I. Symbolic action of the two sticks (37:15-28)
J. Destruction of Gog and restoration of Israel (38:1-39:29)

IX. New Temple in the New Land (40:1-48:35)

A. Vision of the new Temple (40:1-42:20)
B. Glory of God returns to Temple (43:1-5)
C. Call to be holy (43:6-9)
D. Further descriptions of Temple and altar (43:10-17)
E. Renewed worship (43:18-27)
F. Laws regarding new Temple (44:1-46:24)

1. Using outer gate (44:1-3)
2. Behavior and responsibilities of Levites and priests (44:4-31)
3. A portion of the land for God's use (45:1-8)
4. Rules must not oppress poor (45:9)
5. Proper weights (45:10-12)
6. Royal house's participation in worship (45:13-46:18)
7. Areas for preparation of sacrifices (46:19-24)

G. River of life flows from Temple (47:1-12)
H. Boundaries and allocation of new land (47:13-48:35)