Themes of Ezekiel
By Apostle John Eckhardt, www.impactnetwork.net
Confessions to Release the Power of the Lord!!
1. Establishment of an Everlasting Covenant
Ezekiel 16:60
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will
establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
2. The Rule of God Established over Israel.
Ezekiel 20:33
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm,
and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
3. The Coming of the Good Shepherd.
Ezekiel 34:10-12
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my
flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the
shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that
they may not be meat for them.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them
out.
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are
scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they
have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
4. Covenant of Peace (Shalom)
Ezekiel 34:23-25
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant
David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the
LORD have spoken it.
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease
out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
5. Salvation and Cleansing of Israel.
Ezekiel 36:25-30
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness,
and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take
away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall
keep my judgments, and do them.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and
I will be your God.
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will
increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive
no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
6. One Nation and One King (Israel United under Messiah)
Ezekiel 37:19-22
Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is
in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him,
even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine
hand.
And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel
from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and
bring them into their own land:
And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king
shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be
divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
7. Resurrection of Israel
Ezekiel 37:1-13
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and
set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the
open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD,
thou knowest.
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones,
hear the word of the LORD.
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you,
and ye shall live:
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with
skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold
a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered
them above: but there was no breath in them.
Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the
wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon
these slain, that they may live.
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and
stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold,
they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people,
I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into
the land of Israel.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people,
and brought you up out of your graves,
8. David (Jesus the Greater David) as King over Israel, and God’s Sanctuary in
their midst.
Ezekiel 37:24-28
And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they
shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your
fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their
children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant
with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the
midst of them for evermore.
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my
people.
And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall
be in the midst of them for evermore.
9. The Messianic Temple
Ezekiel 41:1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits
broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the
tabernacle.
10. The River of Life
Ezekiel 47:1-8
Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out
from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood
toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at
the south side of the altar.
Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way
without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out
waters on the right side.
And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a
thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to
the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the
loins.
Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the
waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused
me to return to the brink of the river.
Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the
one side and on the other.
Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into
the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be
healed.
Ezekiel sees the establishment of the rule of God (the Kingdom) over Israel through
judgment (for covenant violations), establishment of the New Covenant (Covenant of
Peace), resurrection from sin/death, and outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God promised to
establish his temple (sanctuary, dwelling place) among them, and the result would be the
river of life flowing to the nations (Kingdom age, the Church).
This would all be accomplished through Messiah, the greater David. Israel would no
longer be divided, but united under Messiah. This is Israel’s salvation and restoration
under Christ, which occurred in the first century with the establishment of the church.
Christ came as the Good Shepherd to gather the lost sheep of Israel. This was his
mission, and the mission of the twelve he sent.
Ezekiel’s temple (Ezekiel 40-47) is the Heavenly Temple seen in Revelation before its
transformation into the New Jerusalem (which was more like the garden of Eden).
Chapter 47 of Ezekiel refers to the New Jerusalem.
Rev. 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out
of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Rev. 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the
tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and
the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations.
What Ezekial sees is not an earthly temple, but a heavenly temple, that was at hand
when John received the Revelation. This is not some future Millennial temple on
earth, but a heavenly, eternal temple, that releases water from generation to
generation.
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