Ezekiel 8-11

Please note, this entry was originally scheduled for August 15.

Ezekiel was living in Babylon during the first captivity, and the Spirit of the Lord takes him in a vision to Jerusalem, and gives him a tour of the temple, and shows him the many ways that the rulers and people there are defiling that place, and following after false gods.  The Lord prophesies judgement upon all who had rejected Him, and sends an angel of judgement to kill many, but all who mourn over the wickedness in Jerusalem were marked and protected.

In Ezekiel 10:18 we’re told that the glory of the Lord departed from the temple, where He had placed His Name.

After all these things the Spirit returned Ezekiel to Babylon, and he told the exiles there all that he had seen and done.