Daily Devotions
Ezekiel
"He spoke to the man clothed with linen"
Text: Ezekiel 10:2
ANOTHER VISION
Ezekiel was given another vision by the LORD. Ezekiel had learned from all these visions how to look and to ponder them. They were complex things to understand.
“And I looked,
and there in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim,
there appeared something like a sapphire stone,
having the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
Then He spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said,
‘Go in among the wheels, under the cherub,
fill your hands with coals of fire from among the cherubim,
and scatter them over the city.’ And he went in as I watched.”
Ezekiel 10:1-2
1. A firmament
a) Ezekiel saw a firmament above the head of the cherubim.
b) The word “firmament” may be understood as “the curve of the sky”.
2. A sapphire stone
a) In the firmament a sapphire stone emerged.
b) It looked like a throne.
3. God spoke from His throne.
a) He spoke to the man clothed in linen.
b) He was the angel-scribe mentioned in Ezekiel 9.
c) He had a different word for the angel-scribe this time round.
4. Fire from among the cherubim.
a) These were sacred coals of fire.
b) The cherubim were the guardians of these sacred coals.
5. The angel-scribe was commanded to take the sacred coals of fire.
a) These coals of fire were to be poured out on the city of Jerusalem.
b) These would represent the fire of judgment.
c) Ezekiel saw the fiery destruction of Jerusalem in a vision.
6. A historical reference to the fire that burned Jerusalem.
“He burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house;
all the houses of Jerusalem, that is,
all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.”
2 Kings 25:9
a) Fire burned down the house of the Lord.
b) It also burned down the king’s house.
c) And all the houses of Jerusalem.
d) All the houses of the great were burned with fire.