研究問題

生命讀經 Ezekiel

1. Introduction (1)

  1. Describe how the book of Ezekiel is parallel to the book of Revelation and how it is a miniature of the entire Bible.
  2. What is the significance of the date of Ezekiel's vision in chapter 1?

2. Introduction (2)

  1. What is the significance of the place where Ezekiel saw the visions and of the details related to Ezekiel's person?
  2. What were the conditions for seeing the visions?

3. The Wind, the Cloud, the Fire, and the Electrum

  1. What is the spiritual significance of the stormy wind and the cloud?
  2. What is the spiritual significance of the fire and the electrum?

4. The Wind, the Cloud, the Fire, and the Electrum Being a Christian's Spiritual Life Story

  1. Why is it important for us to realize that the experience of the wind, the cloud, the fire, and the electrum should be the spiritual history of every Christian? How is this experience related to being graced by the Lord?
  2. What is the issue of this experience?

5. The Four Living Creatures

  1. What do the four living creatures signify?
  2. What is the significance of the four living creatures bearing the appearance of a man and having four faces?

6. Eagle's Wings, Man's Hands, and Calf's Hoofs

  1. What is the significance of the eagle's wings and the man's hands?
  2. What is the significance of the calf's hoofs?

7. The Coordination of the Four Living Creatures (1)

  1. What is the way of the four living creatures' coordination? How does this apply to our service in the church, our ministry, and the meetings?
  2. What is the issue of the four living creatures' coordination?

8. The Coordination of the Four Living Creatures (2)

  1. What are the three reasons that the four living creatures need to coordinate?
  2. Regarding the coordination of the living creatures, what is the basis of coordination, the need of coordination, the prerequisites of coordination, the practical condition of coordination, and the result of coordination?

9. The High and Dreadful Wheels

  1. What do the high and dreadful wheels signify, and what do the details related to these wheels signify?
  2. What does it mean for us to have a great and dreadful wheel beside us in our Christian life and church life, and why is this crucial?

10. A Sky as Clear as the Terrible Crystal

  1. What does the sky as clear as terrible crystal signify? How is this matter related to our conscience?
  2. What is the significance of the details revealed after the mentioning of the clear sky?

11. The Throne Above the Clear Sky

  1. What does it mean practically to maintain a clear sky before the Lord?
  2. What is the spiritual significance of having a clear sky and being under the throne? Why is this the highest spiritual experience?

12. The Man on the Throne

  1. Why is Ezekiel 1 the deepest chapter in the Bible? How is this related to God's intention to have a man and to the man on the throne?
  2. What is the significance of the rainbow around the throne?

13. The Degradation of God's People

  1. What are the three stages of the enjoyment of Christ? In addition, what were the rights, privileges, and standing of the people of Israel?
  2. How are the conditions of the people of Israel in Ezekiel a picture of today's Christianity? What were the reasons for Israel's degradation?

14. God's Judgment Upon His People

  1. What was the basis, the means, and the result of God's judgment upon His people?
  2. How do we see God's mercy on His people in the book of Ezekiel?

15. God's Judgment Upon the Nations

  1. What is the significance of the seven representative nations that surrounded Israel?
  2. How does the matter of God's judgment apply in our subjective experience today?

16. God's Recovery of Life

  1. What are the first two things that God does in His recovery by life? What is the significance of each of the details related to God coming in Christ to be our Shepherd?
  2. What is the significance of God making a covenant of peace with His people?

17. The Outward and Inward Recovery by Life

  1. What is the significance of the insertion concerning the judgment on Edom in Ezekiel 35?
  2. What are the two aspects of the Lord's recovery by life? What is the significance of God giving His people a new heart and a new spirit and putting His Spirit within them?

18. The Dry Bones, the Two Sticks, and the Army

  1. What is the significance of the vision of the dry bones? How does this vision show the crucial importance of prophesying?
  2. What is the significance of the vision of two dry sticks being joined? In addition, how does Ezekiel 37 reveal the way of life?

19. The Vision of the Holy Building of God

  1. What is the significance of the time and place in which Ezekiel saw the vision of the holy building of God?
  2. What is the significance of the details related to the holy building of God covered in this message?

20. The Outer and Inner Courts

  1. What is the significance of the details related to the outer court?
  2. What is the significance of the details related to the inner court?

21. The Altar

  1. Why can we say that the altar, which signifies the cross, is the center of the universe? How is the death of Christ a release to God and a termination to man?
  2. What is the significance of the details related to the altar? What is the significance of one needing to pass through the altar in order to enter into the temple?

22. The Temple and the Side Chambers

  1. What is the significance of the details related to the temple?
  2. What is the significance of the details related to the side chambers, the latticed windows and palm trees, the space left, the open space, and the doors?

23. The Building at the Back, the Walls, the Incense Altar, the Holy Chambers, and the Boiling Places

  1. What is the significance of the building at the back of the temple and the details related to the walls?
  2. What is the significance of the details related to the incense altar, the holy chambers, and the boiling places?

24. The Return of God's Glory to the House

  1. Why did the glory of the Lord come back, and how does this relate to the situation among Christians today?
  2. What does it mean to be measured by God's building, and what is the law of the house?

25. The Priests and the Offerings

  1. What is the significance of the details related to the priests?
  2. What is the significance of the details related to the offerings?

26. The River Flowing from the House

  1. What are the factors which produce the river?
  2. What is the significance of the details related to the river flowing out of the house? In particular, what is the significance of the measuring of the flow of the river? How do all of these matters relate to our experience today?

27. The Holy Land and the Holy City

  1. What is the crucial significance of the recovery of the good land? Why is the recovery of the land needed in order to have the recovery of the building?
  2. How do we see a mingling of God and man and the oneness in the description of the holy city?