Ezekiel - Softcover

Riddle, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191427315X ISBN 13: 9781914273155

Publisher: John Ritchie Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

For many Bible readers, Ezekiel is all about the valley of dry bones (Ezekiel 37:1-28) and the vision of God’s awesome chariot throne (Ezekiel 1:4-28, 10:1-22). In truth, Ezekiel is much more than that and there are many lessons to be learned from this book. Ezekiel received a very hard call from God, but we can learn that even in the most difficult of circumstances, God equips us to handle the responsibility that He has given us.

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John Riddle was born into a christian family in north London, saved as a boy of 13, and received into fellowship in New Barnet,Hertfordshire at the age of 15. Throughout his business life he was employed by shipping companies, latterly as a pension fund manager. On early retirement in 1989 he undertook part-time consultative work for some years. He travels widely, principally in the British Isles, conducting Bible Readings and ministering the Word of God and contributes to assembly periodicals

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Preface Unlike most previous publications in this series, this book is not the product of Bible Class discussions at Mill Lane Chapel. The notes on which the book is based were originally distributed to members of the assembly which meets at Belmont Hall, Harrow, West London. The distribution took place in connection with Monday evening meetings held there between October 2011 and October 2016. With this in mind, I must take the opportunity to express my deep appreciation of the warm welcome extended to me by the believers at Belmont Hall during these meetings, something, let it be said, that I have enjoyed over many years and on many occasions, and continue to do so. It has been nicely said of the ‘big three’ prophetic books in the Old Testament, that ‘while Isaiah was the poet, and Jeremiah the preacher, Ezekiel was the artist’. Ezekiel certainly paints pictures of glowing colour and graphic detail. He was, moreover, an actor as well as an artist, for he was not only commanded to state his God-given parables, but to act them out in the presence of the people. The same quotation (not surprisingly) is also to be found in the preface to Living with the Glory of the Lord – an excellent book dealing with Ezekiel’s prophecy, written by Malcolm Davis, and published by John Ritchie Ltd. Both Malcolm Davis and the present writer also heartily endorse the title (not to mention the contents!) of Charles Lee Feinberg’s work, The Prophecy of Ezekiel: the Glory of the LORD. During the course of my visits to Belmont Hall, Harrow, I was frequently accompanied by Mr. Ken Lloyd, late of Cheshunt and now ‘at home with the Lord’. Rather than complaining about the traffic during the homeward journey, we ‘chewed the cud’, after which, in the comfort of his home, brother Ken checked not a few of the ‘Ezekiel manuscripts’. The “memory of the just is blessed” (Prov. 10: 7).

Edition details

• Publisher: John Ritchie Ltd
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191427315X
• ISBN 13: 9781914273155
• Binding: Tankobon Softcover
• Number of pages: 584